left the bedroom. She figured that it was either brewing up some trouble for her or had finally given in. Either way, she would take whatever it was going to throw at her. They were going to have to lay some ground rules, and one of them was that the furniture would be uncovered.
Drew could hear the crunch of the leaves under her feet. The smell of autumn was all around and even for New Orleans there was an eerie magical air about her surroundings. There was a man holding her hand though he had the same face of the man that she had danced in the ballroom with, there was something different about his eyes… something evil in the way they watched her. They were walking through a wooded area, only she wasn’t herself. She didn’t feel right. Her hands were much darker and were splattered with blood. Her heart even felt colder if that was possible. She could feel someone staring at them, almost surrounding them, and it made her smirk. She was jealous of whoever was watching them somehow, and it made her very happy to know that holding the man’s hand was making their watcher very angry. Their watcher was no longer of this world, and there was nothing it could do about it anymore.
When Drew woke she was in complete darkness and covered in sweat. She must have been completely exhausted to have slept until night time. When she pulled her phone out of her pocket she realized it was almost midnight. She sat up and a cold chill made her shiver, shaking off the meaningless dream that she had just had. She used her phone as a night light to find a light switch in the living room.
As she searched for the light switch she swore that she saw something pass in front of the light that was beaming from her phone. It made her stop dead in her tracks. Shedidn’t know why the thought of actually seeing whatever it was that was living (if you wanted to call it that) with her seriously creeped her out.
“Hello?” She said. “I know that you are there. I would really appreciate it though if you wouldn’t show yourself. Talk to me, move the furniture around, make the lights go off and on if you want to just please don’t make yourself appear all of a sudden.”
She started walking again when she got no response and finally found the light switch. It made her feel a little better once the light was on. She decided that it was finally time to get that bath in and to get moved into her bedroom. First, that diet coke that was probably now exploded in the freezer was calling her name.
As she flipped the light on in the kitchen she remembered that she had left the water running in the pool earlier that afternoon.
“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!” She said as she ran to the freezer. She took the frozen yet somehow still whole soda out of the freezer and put it in the sink, then took off running through the house towards the back door.
She almost tripped and fell on her face as she reached the back sitting room then ran out through the patio doors. The pool was definitely full. It hadn’t been that way for very long though, which was good. It looked absolutely beautiful. There were lights shining at the bottom of the pool that made the entire thing glow. She almost forgot to turn the water off again as she was mesmerized from the sight. The trees that surrounded the fence made peculiar shadows that reminded her of dancers bowing over and over again as if they had just put on the show of their life. She was half expecting to see roses thrown any minute.
She couldn’t believe that she had her own swimming pool. She had her own castle. She had her own everything. Yet she still felt like there was something missing. Of course, there always had been hadn’t there? She walked over to turn off the water then jumped in.
“Holy shit!” She screamed as she shot up out of the water. “That shit is freaking cold!”
She jumped back out about as quickly as she had jumped in. Somehow the shadows looked like they were shaking from laughter now, if that was possible. It was definitely time for a hot bath. She shivered her way into the bedroom that she had claimed