#gatorfaye

  "Ugh..." A girl wakes up in the dark. "Whe... Where am I?"   She looks around the dark area. Everything looks cloudy, spiderwebs appear to have taken over most open spaces. She slowly sits up and winces at some pain in her arm. She looks down to see her right arm. On her fore arm there appears to be some slight bruising. The bruise hasnt fully formed but she can feel it getting darker.   She slowly puts her arm to her side. and looks around around the space again. As her eyes slowly focus she starts realizing where she is.   "Is this.. Is this my work area?" She stands up still holding her arm. She slowly makes her way over to what looks like a desk. As she shuffles some papers around on her desk she hears a small rustle at the end of her aisle. She quickly turns around but all she sees is darkness. "Hello? Anyone there?"   She begins to walk towards the sound that got her attention. She slowly walks to the opposite end of her aisle. As she gets close to the end a dim light twinkles on. She sheilds her eyes and and squints towards where she thought she heard the sound come from. "Hello? If you are there please say something!"   Her eyesight slowly gets better and she gasps as she sees a shadow dart across the end of the aisle. When she sees that she realizes that all around her are aisles, just like the ones at her work. There is only the single source of light right above her. She looks up at the light to see if she can see a bulb somewhere.   "Ow!" She gasps as she feels something on her arm. She gets a better look at the bruise she felt earlier. It is finally taking shape and color. "What the hell?!" She stumbles against the wall and stares wide eyed at the bruise. The bruise has finally taken shape and she cant believe her eyes. The bruise looks like 4 long thin fingers, like someone tried to pull her forcefully from someone.. Or something. She grabs her head trying to remember what or who made this mark on her arm.   "Why? Why cant I remember anything?" She crouches on the ground grabbing her head. "What is this? Where am I? Who am I?" She gasps and snaps her head up at the last question. She stares blankly into the dark thinking again, "Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?"   As she questions herself, a shadow slowly creeps up beind her. It appears as just a blob of darkness that grows taller and taller until it is well over 12ft tall. The girl feels the presence behind her and looks behind her only to see two glowing orange eyes. As it sees her notice it, it smiles. The smile is a terrifying smile full of nothing but jagged teeth.   The girl gasps and the shadow drops down on top of her.

  "Stay awake" a girl says to herself as she speeds down the freeway. She slaps herself for good measure. "Stay awake!"   As she mumbles this phrase repeatedly to herself she keeps an eye on her speed. 70 mph is what the car shows. She looks at the clock on the dashboard and it shows that it is almost five in the morning.   "This is still way too early for me." She yawns. As she goes to cover her mouth she glimpses her right forearm. The bruise that was there had faded but she could still see it clearly.   As she is examining her arm something had appeared on the side of the road that caught her eye. She veered left to miss whatever it was. She thought it was a person at first but when she checked her mirror there was nothing but darkness there. She sighed and continued on her way like nothing happened.   Every couple minutes she would look to her left or right and she could swear there were people watching her as she drove. They didn't appear to have any kind of facial features and all she could make out were dark outlines. They just seem to follow her car the entire freeway. Their heads slowly turning as she would pass each... Thing.   "You don't see anything. There is nothing there." She whispers more to herself than anyone who could be listening. She starts slowing her car down because her exit is coming up. She makes the right turn onto the empty dark road. The road is barren, businesses line the streets but none are open. Just dark buildings with a dim street light here and there. She looks at her headlights and sees little white flashes, "See, just moths." She calmly tells herself.   As she makes a left onto a more populated road, due to the multiple apartment complexes on either side, she sees a man loading something into the back of his car. She is watching this on her right side trying to see what he is putting in the trunk. He appears to be holding a rolled up rug of some kind, obviously much longer than the car itself.   "How does he plan to fit that in that tiny car?" She thinks to herself when she suddenly notices a pair of white sneakers running towards her car from the left. They had a slight glow to them like the moths in the headlights which is why she seemed to see them so clearly. She pressed the brakes and checked her rear view mirror to see if whatever it was running across the road made it safely.   When she looked into her rear view mirror she saw a giant black blob with two orange eyes and a mischevious and dangerous smile staring at her.   She closed her eyes, "He isn't there... He isn't there... He was just a nightmare..." She frantically chants. She puts her eyes back on the road and begins driving forward again. She reluctantly looks in her rearview mirror once more to see the blob still staring with an even more menacing smile.   He waves to her as she continued her journey.