It was raining outside. The sound of the rain was quite nice to hear when you're trying to sleep..
I was studying in my room, I had an exam next week. I wanted to sleep but I haven't studied anything at all. But since it's next week, it might be fine if I slept for today, right?..
My mind was slowly pulling me towards procrastination, and I didn't want anything but to sleep that night.
And then, a lighting struck a tree just outside the window of my house.
I was quite startled, but why did it have to strike so near and so loud!? Now, I can't fall asleep anymore. To make matters worse, this scenario was similar to the one I've read in a book yesterday.
"A boy was sitting alone in his room silently, but then a loud thunder struck a tree near the house, just outside his window... And then a ghost appeared! The ghost devoured the boy whole and then he was never found again... Not even a trace of his body was left."
I sighed, recalling the contexts of that horror book, it was pretty similar to this one. But luckily nothing seemed to be happening.. yet.
Then out of nowhere, a pair of green eyes suddenly appeared from the corner of the room that was in darkness..
"Ahh, what the hell!?"
I was jumping out of fear this time, I'm not going to die this way, right!? Wait, wait.. in situations like these, what am I supposed to do? I tried to think...
Oh, Right!
"I just run away and as far as I can!"
I tried to run out of my room and open the door but it was locked, so I tried to unlock it but... The door didn't budge.
"Shit! I don't remember the door being like this!"
I tried to jump out of the window after I realized the door was a no-go. But then, I heard a voice from behind.
...it was the sound of a cat. But I have read a few more horror books and it's said that they could also change forms. I wasn't going to be fooled by such tricks..
The cat only watched as I was struggling and trying to run away, as if it knew that I could never run away from the start.
I tried jumping out of the window but it seems like.. something foreign is preventing me from doing it. I couldn't touch the window, as if there was an invisible wall in front of it..
I was panicking, I couldn't think straight at all.
How could I? I'm literally in life danger!
Then I looked at the cat, it had green eyes and it's skin was dark.
I tried getting as far away as possible from it until I hit the wall.
The cat slowly came towards me, staring at me like a prey...
But then I had an idea. Wait, wait, I'm just going to die to a cat? No way, I'm not going to die to a stupid cat!
I was ready to kill it the moment it tried taking action... But then, it changed forms!
And it looked exactly as the ghost the book described to be!
"It has humanoid features with 3 hands and 1 leg. It's facial features were void without any eyes, ears and nose. It looks like a human that died while being in some sort of experiment.."
My entire body froze in fear, the earlier hope I had about killing the cat were gone. It was clear at this point that I was going to die...
Maybe I should've killed it when it was still a cat?
As I was thinking about my choices and reflecting, the ghost's mouth opened..
Ah, that thing looks like it's going to be painful...
Then my brain alerted me to dodge!
Why did I gave up on my life just like that!? Even if it was only for a moment, I was ready to give up on my life.
As I dodged the ghost and avoided getting eaten, it came at me right after. This time, I grabbed an exam book just near me and hit the ghost using it.
I didn't expect much of a result from it but right now I was doing anything to survive, I couldn't calm down and my mind was blank, my heart was beating rapidly.
It's fine if I die here but... I'm definitely not going to die getting eaten by that thing! It looks too painful!
The ghost was surprisingly weak, even though I only hit it with a book, it was knocked back quite far. Well, just about 3 steps far.