The Dream Of The Long Dark Hallway

The Dream of The Long Dark Hallway

By Kassie Peterson.

The love of my life is in the hospital, I live in a rentel house with him and my other roommate but after the situation me and my roommate moved back in with my parents. We get along that is until the nightmare started. The night mares started out like this, I was running in a dark endless hallway with my lover and our roommate, the roommate would get killed first but we would just keep running. Until someone thrue a knife. He would just collapse. I would hold him to my arms and cry, when his last words came which were I..love..you. Came a bell would ring and the dream would end with a clock reaching closer and closer to twelve o’clock.

When I would wake up and it would be the exact same time as the dream, when I woke up I screamed and then started to cry. I looked at the clock each and every night the dream happen. Then Zia walked into my room, and he just laid with me trying to calm me down or just fell asleep.

One day we were getting ready for work when there was a knock on the door, and Zia opened the door. And there stood in the young man in his early twenties, this man had blood red hair and dark navy blue eyes. But when Zia greeted him at the door I couldn't help but notice that this man had somewhat of a twisted smile. It wasn’t what a normal person's smile looked like this smile looked almost sinister but is was sweet looking at the same time.

But when Zia offered to have the man come inside is when my stomach knotted. His smile went sinister, but not that sweet sinister like I mentioned before, the little sweetness that was left in his smile was gone, that's when I should have seen it thats when I should have said get out but I just brushed it off like it was nothing, I was so stupid, I wouldn’t be in this situation if I had Just told the man to leave. When he came in he and Zia sat at the table, because he had gotten our flyer looking for a roommate, and he wanted to know it if he could be the new roommate.

We all agreed that he could be the new roommate. Zia showed him the room that he would be staying in which was Zia’s old room and we moved Zia into my room with me. We put his dresser next to mine and we gave his bed to the new guy after we washed his sheets. The first few nights the  nightmares didn’t come back for a while  and that put me on relief but that feeling didn’t last long, about a week after the new guy Jeffrey fully moved in the nightmares started coming back. Coming closer and closer to twelve O’clock and me waking up more terrified with each night. It seemed that each night was more terrifying than the next. When the clock reached twelve O’clock was the worst night out of all of them. After the clock rang twelve I didn’t awake right away after Zia died I blacked out a little and then I appear into a dark room that was only lit by the blueness of the night and the whiteness of the moon and the stars.  There was the sound of chains and then a small creaking of the door opening and closing then I saw him the dead eyes of Zia and Jeffrey he was standing in the doorway watching me with his long blood red hair draped over one of his navy blue eyes and his sinister smile. And that is when I woke up. But something was different, Zia wasn’t in the bed with me, no one was, when I screamed awake no one was there to comfort me. But then I heard the creaking of the door open and that's when I got really scared because Jeffrey was the one in my room.  Shhh it alright you’ll be okay. He said walking towards me.

NO GET AWAY. I screamed out shaking in fear, after that dream I was not going to let him get near me. But then I realised the blood stains all over his face, they were very faint but I could still tell that they were there. But then I realised that the color of his hair was red.  What do you color your hair with. I said in a trembling but concerned voice, but once he answered I regret asking in the first place. He told me he dies his hair with the Blood of his victims that had the same dream as the one in the long dark hallway. Your lover and you have had the same dream all along. He said in a sinister laugh, he was gone first your next. He added.

I had to do something fast, I had to get out, I had to save Zia, I just had to do something to help. I threw pillows, anything and everything I could get my hands on that was heavy enough to throw, I threw.

When  I ran out of stuff to throw I screamed, for my other roommate Max who came running in from his room, as quickly and quietly as he could. When he came to the closed door of my room I noticed that the lock on the door was turned right indicating that the door was locked. When he tried to kick the door down, and failed he ran to the front where there was a window that was above my bed grabbed a rock and threw it at the window, at first there was only a small crack but after the third time throwing the rock the window finally had a hole in it.

I was still kicking and punching at Jeffory when this happened and I didn’t notice the window was broken and weak  I went to Lean against it and just give up to just let him kill me. But  I fell threw the window landing on my butt, Max quickly helped me up and ran to the neighbors josh's house and banged on the door. When his parents finally answered they knew something was up and let us in right away. They led me to the phone where  I dialed 911, when the line had its first ring someone answered there was a 911 what's your emergency.

I answered that with a shaky voice that could barely make out, there is someone in my house, my boyfriend is in the house, the man said something about that he was gone and  I was next, my address is 9710, at Walker Drive Southeast Salem Oregon 97203. When I was finished saying that I scouted the house to see if I can spot Jeffory or if I could see if Zia was still somehow alive or where he’s at, then the next thing I knew there was a voice saying Mam it will be alright there the police and the paramedics are on there way just stay on the line and I will talk you thru this and we will get your boyfriend safe. I stayed on the line I had no other choice, they asked me to describe what the man looked like and I told them that the man had blood red hair and navy blue eyes, his face was narrow and long and he had a scar on his left arm. That's when the police and the three ambulances showed up.

The first thing they saw was the broken window that was in front of my room two of the police investigated the window, while another two went into the house that was unlocked and the last one went to the neighbors with the lights on which was Josh's house came over to tell us what is going on. There was a signal of static coming from the microphone on the policeoffecers belt.  “Cckkk there is a man in the second room from the bathroom, crawling on the ground growling and a teen boy on a bloodstained bed tied up with blood coming from his shoulder, over”

I that is when I lost it I was sobbing into Max’s shoulder when the static came again. “Ckkk the boy seemed to be breathing he seems to be saying something. Boy say that again but this time louder, SAVE….THE….GIRL”

He’s alive I whispered to myself, “kid there's no girl in the house there's a broken window in the master but there's no girl here. What does this girl go by”

There was a long silence but there was a break, Sapphire. I call her Sapphire, her real name is Daniella may, she is the gem of my world.

ZIA IT'S ME I’M ALRIGHT, I LOVE YOU, I PROMISE THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. I yelled into the police's speaker,

In the next five minutes the paramedics went inside and came back with my lover and the police came out with Jeffory.  We have been looking for you for a while now you caused a lot of trouble you know that kid. Said the police as Jeffrey was squirming in the cuffs that they put him in. I watched them take Zia away from me, the tears were coming back, I was in the ambulance with Zia and Max was at home cleaning up the house. I watched the street roll away but it took for ever to loose sight of the house I still call home, even with the bad things that happened I still love that house. They took Zia to the hospital and I stayed the night. Max brought in clothes for me and I changed I didn’t want to leave Zia he was my everything, I loved him. After the third day Zia woke up from the coma that he was in and the first thing he saw was me looking like a mess I hadn’t slept in three days. The first things he said was Sapphire go home you need to rest. Like I said before I am home and the Love of my life is in the hospital.