From Within

Attic Survivors

Okay, so this is majorly long and pretty vivid so it’s going to be pretty freaking long.

                First of all, we were at school, but the dream version of my school is consistently different than the real thing, but the differences are same in my dreams. Ya know what I mean? So, I was standing in the lunch line with my friends Alexis and Erica. There was something wrong with the computers so we had to go through the line like three times. By the third time I’d lost some part of my memory and couldn’t remember my number for the life of me. The lady was nice about it and I kept apologizing, but I could tell she was pissed off.

                Eventually I just gave up and decided since I had plenty of money with me I would just buy something from the vending machines. So, I left the cafeteria and walked to the high school entrance of our school. There were all these book shelves stalked with new books with glossy covers and white pages. They looked like they’d never been touched. On the wall opposite of the door there was a huge shelf of candy.

                I wanted a king sized Kit-Kat bar, but I couldn’t understand how much it cost. The price sticker said “11 7.38” so these two guys, who apparently understood, were trying to tell me how much it cost. Of course, it wasn’t any less confusing. One guy was nice about it and didn’t seem very interested, but the other guy was being a jerk and making me feel stupid.

                There was this crazy noise like a hoard of zombies about to attack. I didn’t realize until then that everyone knew they were coming. Apparently the apocalypse had been spreading and the infection finally caught up with us. I was uncharacteristically terrified, so I started crying and clung to the guy who was nicest to me. I apologized and let go, but as soon as I heard the hoard again I grabbed him.

                Finally I could see them at the door and bolted for the cafeteria, stealing the candy in the process. I found Alexis and my friend James and we ran. I don’t know why I didn’t round up all my friends, but I just grabbed the closest and was gone. I don’t know if we really had a destination, but we ran outside, and into the mansion next door that was just as big as our school.

                The weird thing is mansions in my dreams are always the same. The furniture always looked really comfortable and the rooms are small and cramped. This dream was no exception. First time around I don’t really remember seeing much of the mansion, but I know we ended up in a weird looking room upstairs. It was really dark and the floor was black and white tile. There was a long staircase that curved up along the wall to a door. The ceiling was seriously high.

                The old woman who lived in the mansion opened the door at the top of the stair case. She was tall and her white hair was pulled up into a bun. She wore an old looking dark blue dress. She told us to come up and said that we could stay at the mansion. So, naturally we went up. The first staircase was white marble, as was the railing, but the small one inside the door was creaky, old wood.

                The attic was large and dusty. It also had high ceilings and the floors were also made of the same old wood that creaked with every step. The only furniture in the room was a small wooden table and behind it was a window. The only light in the room came from the candles on the table. I don’t know why it was suddenly night time.

                The woman pulled out this scroll and told us about the four founders of our school. I know, sounds just like Harry Potter, right? I have no clue where that came from, but whatever. Anyway, the scroll looked weird. Instead of having wooden rods it had two carving knives. All it had on it were these weird pictures. The woman told us that she’d been trying to capture their spirits because they were still hanging around.

                So, I’m like “Great, it’s the zombie apocalypse and we’re living in the attic of a haunted mansion. What luck.” So, while James did his own thing and Alexis and the old woman disappeared out of thin air, I went through my bag to see what I had.

After I was done doing that I just kind of sat there. There was a doorway to a hallway really close to us on the north side of the room (to the right of me and in front of James). I was just staring into the darkness and then this male shadow figure kept walking soundlessly back and forth. He stopped and stared at me and then vanished. James didn’t see him.

We went back to the school and got my friends Brittany and Erica, then went back to the mansion. They must have gone running around or something because it was just James, the old lady, and me. This hoard of child zombies broke in and I bashed one over the head and killed it. I went to kill another, but the old woman stopped me.

She told me they were infected, but not like the others. They wouldn’t attack us. Really, they weren’t that different from normal people. They traveled like zombies and had black eyes. They seemed to have heightened senses and were really suspicious of everything. For some reason the old woman gave us hats and gloves to give them. We were supposed to take care of them.

So James and I did that and then I woke up and my first reaction was “OMG I’ve gotta tell James!” And that’s exactly what I did :)