Abyss

 Standing like a monolith, Eiffel stared into the abyss and started to cry. The once occasional tears that were gently running down her face turned into a long stream of something like octopus tentacles squirming from her red and swollen eyes. Kaylee was gone, she had fallen into the void, down into the never-ending galaxy. Eiffel’s face turned a pale white, and she melted onto the ground, sobbing. “But I didn’t mean to hit her that hard…” she thought. There was a noise, a piano, like in heartbreaking movies. Springing up, Eiffel whipped her body around to find Kaylee, opening her arms for a hug. Eiffel tried to run into her welcoming embrace but woke up crying and petrified.  

“It’s almost time!” My mom yelled. “Ok” I said in a shaky voice. I checked my backpack like 5 times to make sure I had everything I needed.

On the sixth time checking my backpack, my mom got up from her chair and said, 

“Hey kiddo, we gotta go!”

“Coming!” I said

We got into the car and drove off.

It felt like forever, but we finally got there. Adrenalyn pulsing through my body, and my hands trembling, I ran up and down the unfamiliar hallways, passing a sea of backpacks as I tried to find the classroom. It was probably one of the most intense, yet exciting moments of my life. A couple minutes later, I found myself in my first-period class, English in room 5. The classroom was filled with stuff like books, pencils, clocks, and STICKY NOTES. My teacher must have loved sticky notes because they were EVERYWHERE. 

We started working on an assignment on the computer, but I’m not great with computers, and I got frustrated. My face flushed red like a tomato. I clenched my hand into a fist, and hit the trackpad on my computer, but I didn’t mean to hit it that hard…

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20, here I come I was it for hid and seek.no one was in sight the air was silent it was dark and I was in the basement. “I see you avery”. but it was not avery. It was midnight,  30 minutes later no one was down there my friends were not in the basement. I went up 30 minutes pass no one was in the hose.it was 1:00 am, it was getting late  “time for outside”. I told myself. Guys we are not allowed to go out here I will count to ten and you have to be inside ready 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9…….. 10 there was still no sound so I grab my phone and put the flash on my friend’s phones were on the ground and someone or something was griping on a tree I shined the light on it then it was gone. Scared, lonely I went up to the tree but I was not getting closer.

Darkness

I enter the forest, looking for my sister. It’s 11:00 am, my sister disappeared an hour ago, while we were playing tag, she entered the forest and I haven’t seen her since. I see a bush rustling in the corner of my eye, my heart is pounding, I see two arms covered in moss reach out of the middle of a tree. I scream, two bright red eyes glaring at me with a mouth, riddled with razor-sharp teeth. The eyes are getting closer, I start running, closer and closer, I hear the creature, heavily breathing in my ear. I turn my head to see a twisted face, a grueling body, and daunting claws, inches from my face, the creature lurches towards me, everything goes dark. I wake up to a relieving conclusion: it was just a dream.

My shoes, which were now icy and almost frozen from the snow, made a “crunch” on the icy ground as I walked along the trail.

 “I love hiking,” 

I said to myself, out of breath from walking up a hill.  My breath froze and rose up into the air.  I giggled.

I kept walking along the trail, looking at all the beautiful trees, when I came across one with some strange brown arms wrapped around it. The trunk of the tree was now all scratched up. I went to the other side of the tree to see what strange creature was there. It was a baby bear. It was so cute. It seemed to be hiding from something, but I didn’t see anything it could have been hiding from.  I stared at the creature, wondering where it’s mother was. I was still looking at it, wondering, when I heard something. I whipped my head around and saw what I think was the cub’s mother. I slowly backed away and ran the rest of the way back to my car, but satisfied with my walk. The cub had found its mother.

Hi, my name is Jessica, but most people call me Jess. I live under the sea and my best friend is a gentle octopus, his name is Springing because I found him Springing on a jellyfish. The day today is June 5, 1988. I really want to go off of land to see the white rushing water and hear the birds chirping that sounds that a magical piano. But the only problem is… I want to take Springing with me. He will be so sad if I leave for some human world. How do I even know I can go on land? I swam to my father’s cave and asked “Hey dad, and underwater people go on land?” He jolted his eyes down at me. “Why do you want to go on land?!” He yelled. I softly told him.“Ummm, I was just wondering,”. “Well, no we can not go on land.” He told me. I started crying.

THE END