Was It Just A Dream

• Katie Mccullough, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2019

I was lying in bed looking at the dark night sky through my open window, which was sending a nice, cold, steady breeze into my room that gently caressed my face. I slowly closed my eyes and then I heard the floorboards in my room slowly creak... creak... creak, I felt a quick, shiver down my spine, it sounded as though someone was slowly walking towards my bed...but I live alone.
I started to get really worried about the noises I kept hearing, but convinced myself that I was just hearing things.... it’s an old house...it’s just my imagination, I said to myself. So I slowly opened my eyes expecting to see absolutely nothing, maybe one of my friends trying to scare me...but what I saw was much, much worse. When I opened my eyes I saw a gruesome, bloody, terrifying witch and I screamed louder than I ever thought I could, as I did so, that terrible creature in front of me started to laugh, louder, and louder. then I screamed so loud that I woke myself up. I woke up, sweating and crying a little. I started looking round my room for that awful witch. I then calmed myself a little saying, it was just a dream, a nightmare to be more accurate. I rolled on my side and grabbed my phone, 2:05AM, I unlocked my phone to my kitty cat wallpaper and decided that it was a little outdated. so I went into my camera roll to find a better photo. I saw a new photo in my camera roll. At first I thought I probably just don't remember taking it, but to my dismay when I clicked on the new photo, it was of me...sleeping. I then felt a presence behind me. I quickly rolled over to see that horrible witch creature by my side then I quickly closed my eyes thinking there's nothing I can do, this thing is going to kill me, then nothing happened. When I opened my eyes I was in hospital, were I later discovered I had been in a coma for 6 months but the worst part was that I didn’t know if what I experienced was a dream in my coma or if that was the reason I was in a coma…but I soon got my answer when I kept waking up in the hospital after similar dreams. but then one day it was different instead of me sleeping in the picture, it was of me dead....and then I didn't ever wake up again. how I’m telling this story you can decide, but one things for shore I really did die.