Hush little baby don't say a word......

The darkness was swallowing me whole. Everywhere I looked there it was, taunting me. I’m always running from the dark, hiding in the light. Never for long, soon the light is swollen and I’m running once again.

I awoke to the sound of voices running through my head. There were so many people crying out for help, screaming out their pain. Sweat began to roll down my forehead and my skin felt like an open flame was seeping in. I couldn’t control my breathing it was jagged and was ripping through my chest like angry bees. The pain was indescribable like blades were slicing through my skin digging deeper and deeper. Just when the pain reaches it’s peak it stops. Just like that the voices are gone. I’m left to wonder why. Every night I have nightmares of being chased by a cloud of darkness that devours all the light around me, then I wake up gasping for air and suffering the same pain over and over. I’ve asked for help and all the doctors ever say to parents us ’She needs a shrink’. They never take me seriously, to them I’m just losing my mind, well I’m not.

“It’s time to get up Kati you’ll be late for school!” My mother didn’t trust an alarm clock to wake me. She had to do it herself.

It didn’t matter, like the doctors she thought I was crazy I began to get out of bed when I felt A hand cover my mouth. I began to freak out and with all my strength I tried to pull away. I couldn’t break their grip. It was like fighting steel when you’re only cardboard.

“Why, hello Kati it’s nice to finally meet you.”

His voice was like a snake’s slither. It was slimy and disgusting. His lips were pressed against my ear and I could feel them move as he spoke.

“Now that I’ve found you, you won’t be able to run. Not ever again. There’s no where to hide, how does it feel to be caught?”

I tried to scream but his hand only muffled the sound.

“Oh, don’t you want to join the voices. You know the ones, the visit you every morning.”

I kept trying to break his grip but I just couldn’t, My hands tried to search but they found no body.

“Hush little baby don’t say a word...”

Though I pulled them back open my eyes were shutting. They wouldn’t stay open. Soon the darkness took over and I couldn’t feel, see, or hear. It was like I was floating in the middle of a pound. Only there was no water, my skin felt wet like it was liquid against my bones. My eyes began to sink in like some one was pulling them from behind me. I began to scream out, but I heard no sound. A warm trickling liquid began to pour down my cheeks. It stung like acid. In a split it felt like needles were seeping into my body. The needles kept getting bigger and bigger; my skin split. Like a coin being tossed into a wishing well; only my skin didn’t calm like the water would it stayed open. Finally something large landed at my center crushing everything beneath it like I was glass.

I wasn’t dead though I could hear heavy breathing beside me. I could feel it leaking into my ear it didn’t feel like air, instead it felt moist. Though I couldn’t see I knew hands were tracing my body, I could feel them.

“She’ll live, but another fall like that will be the death of her. Mrs. Jones do you know why your daughter was on the roof?”

“No. She was screaming ‘let me go’ and ‘I’m going to get away.’ then she just fell face first.”

“She’s lucky the tree caught her. If she had hit the ground we wouldn’t be talking right now.”

“ I know this is hard for you Mrs. Jones but I need you to sign these forms allowing us to place her in our mental ward. She needs help her file shows that this isn’t the first time we’ve recommended she seek help. Do it for your daughter.”

“All right.”

The sound of a pen scratching paper followed my mother’s voice.

Then I felt her hand brush against my face.

“ Everything will be all right Kati...I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Then she was gone. I expected silence but the ’good doctor’ began to speak...Maybe I did need help....

“There, there Kati. (His voice became darker like.) Hush little baby don’t say a word...”

I began to scream and jump from the bed; several hands began to push me back down.

“NO!” I screamed, but it was too late. A gentle tug on my skin of a needle entering my flesh let the darkness swallowed me whole.