The Fool

It was a dreary night; I lay in bed defeated but awake. I stare at the ceiling not blinking once. It begins to spin. I see stars revolving around me; it looks beautiful. To witness the cosmos in your own room makes you question reality.

“Are we alone?” I think aloud.

That question is not answered, just consumed by the silent darkness of my room.

I continue to stare at the galaxy on my ceiling. I begin to feel uneasy; something feels off now. Something is watching me. But what is it? The cosmos disappears as I suddenly hear a knock on my bedroom door.

A chill runs down my spine.

“Who’s there?” I ask.

Silence.

I get up and off my bed, as my feet touch the floor, I hear a loud smash coming from my living room. I grab my bat from under the bed and I quietly sneak to my bedroom door; and quietly open it. A gust of cold wind is felt as the door opens wider and wider. I slowly sneak to the stairs and quietly go down them into the living room.

The moonlight illuminates my living room, and to what I see; everything is in place, nothing broken, nothing shattered, clean.

I stand there bewildered for a few seconds.

“Was I dreaming?” I ask myself.

As soon as I ask that question, I feel something breath on my neck. I quickly turn around to find myself staring at, nothing.

“What the hell is going on here?”

My head starts to hurt. I begin to hear crying all around me as my surrounding start to spin.

“What is happening?” I’m starting to cry.

“Is this even real?”

“Am I dreaming?”

“What the fuck is going on!?”

I fall on my knees, tears streaming down my face. The crying gets louder and louder.

“Stop, please stop crying. I didn’t mean it.”

I feel something grab by my hair and force me up.

My eyes meet with some creature with a face distorting and contorting.

“YOU HURT ME DADDY…” It says with a terrifying child-like voice.

“Honey, no! I-I didn’t mean to hurt you, I’m sorry…”

“YOU KILLED ME LIKE YOU KILLED MOMMY…”

I hear so many screams.

“I didn’t mean it…”

Children start laughing.

“WHY DID YOU KILL ME AND MOMMY, DADDY?”

“I DIDN’T MEAN I-”

Something pierces through my back. Everything stops. Everything goes silent, my vision goes blurry.

“daddy… why did you do it daddy?”

“I’m sorry honey…”

Blood pours all over the floor.

“I’m sorry honey… I was a terrible father…”

“I’m… so… so… sorry…”

Everything goes black.