That......stupid song! The more I rowed down the river, the louder it got. It was blaring in my head, and from how my rowing partner wasn't acting differently, he didn't hear the song. Lucky him; he didn't have to be paranoid.

Row, row, row your boat

It was bugging me. Every time I looked down into the water, I swear I saw the face of a young boy rippling on the waves. Brown hair, and demonic black eyes that stared into my soul.

Gently down the stream

It got me scared. I was flipping out, trying to row faster and faster while my rowing partner decided to continue at his slow, lazy pace. "FASTER," I shouted at him, raising my hand as if I was going to hit him. And I was planning on it. I'm not sure why, but I was.

Trying to find some land because

Ugh, that song! If only he could hear it! I turned my back on him and continued to row. A sudden rock in the boat made me toppled backwards. I spun to face my rowing partner, only to find him....missing.

Roland's haunting me.....

With a shock unknown to me before now, I peered over the edge of the boat to see my rowing partner getting dragged into the dark depths of the lake by the boy with the demonic black eyes. I had to get back to land, fast! Picking up my ore, I rowed with more anxiousity than ever, turning the boat to where I was headed to land.

Something began clawing at the boat's bottom, making small leaks appear in the wooden structure. Roland, I thought to myself. His name was Roland.

About twenty feet from land, the boat broke in half, throwing me into the cold river water.

I felt claws try and grasp my ankle, but I kicked and swam away before it could grab me. So close to land, I thought, swimming as if I were in the olympics.

A foot from the riverbank, I felt a cold, clammy hand wrap around my ankle and start to pull me away from land. "NO," I screamed, clawing at the riverbank. Before I could inhale again, my head was pulled underwater. I tried desperately to struggle back to the surface, but that only made my need for oxygen even greater. It felt as if my lungs were going to burst!

And I made a horrible mistake; I opened my mouth. As water filled my lungs, I thought, I was so close to surviving this, before watching the sky above fade to inky blackness.

(*scowls* This one goes to my obnoxious brother, Steven. Roland is Steven's character who I would very much love to slaughter!!!)

~IlluzionTheProxy