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" When I was a child

I was afraid of ghosts.

As I grew up I realized

that people are more scary."

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I laid there frozen against the snow. It was as if my life, as I knew it, was a complete and utter blur. A broken distorted image that laid before me. I knew who I was, or at least I think I remember.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying face up looking at an enormous cloud of gray smoke that suffocated my lungs and smothered the light blue sky from my view.

I coughed and tried to clear my throat as I struggled to sit up. The second I look down at my body I panicked.

Blood... Lots and lots of blood.
I was covered in it.

"What the hell?" Is all I could manage to say as my lips and skin trembled to see my body and clothes torn up before my eyes. The crimson colour of what I presume is my blood, ran all over my legs, arms, and hands dripping freely toward the ground.

Gashes and cuts covered my pale skin. I gazed in horror as my blood falls against the once all-white snow; leaving it now stained.

What happened to me?

What I noticed was the bloody metallic taste in my mouth. I could feel it grazing my teeth and soaking my tongue. As that of this aching and cracks within my bones, as the cold winter air encased in a suffocating heavy blanket.

Surely at this moment, someone might have screamed... Calling out for help, begging for it...

But I was taught better, fear was a weakness in my father's eyes... and I... I didn't want to be afraid.

As I got to my feet I noticed what horror and madness had fallen before me.

Smashed cars everywhere! Everywhere I looked I saw vehicles and shards of glass scattered along the road. Some were burning and traces of ash and smoke cut through the trees.

I watched as cars flipped and tumbled like Autumn leaves passing thru the November wind. The noise of the metal and steel being bashed along the concrete was almost deafening.

With every bit of strength, I stumbled to my feet. The ice beneath me felt like shards of glass slicing through my skin with every step I took.

I quickly glanced behind me and that's when my knees came collapsing to the ground as I looked upon the lifeless body....my lifeless body.

I raucously smothered every breath from my piercing mouth as a blistering massacre of tears shattered down my face.

"Am I dead?" I said before distressingly jolting to my feet and tearing quickly over to my vacant lifeless body.

Tugging at my hands and trying to make out a pulse my reality started to kick in. I had no pulse.

"Could this be just a dream? A sick twisted dream! I'm not dead! I just need to calm down, I'm going to wake up soon and this is all just going to be a stupid nightmare. I'm not dead... I can't be dead! " I said out loud before my hands covered my face.

So many questions rushing through my head. Will I waken to another normal simplistic boring high school life? Where I'm walking through a blacked out hallway filled with scratching sounds and babies crying in slow motion where the ground starts to sink like a scene from a nightmare on elm street. But the reality's much scarier where everyone's self-absorbed within their perfect little lives to even know my name. No one would remember me. No one would miss me... no one would notice I was gone. Erased from the world like a white smudge on a perfectly white canvas.

My loud cries filled my ears before I heard the sound of someone clapping and laughing amusingly behind me.

I spun around, petrified in shock to find a man, pale white skin and light brown hair staring at me with blue eyes like glass daggers.

"Lilith, Lilith, Lilith... I must say, you cried a lot for a girl who wants to die!" He tore into a hateful laugh, "You could have fooled me with your tears and theatrics. Bravo, very good!" The man said with a sinister smile from where he sat up in the tree just near the side of the road.

His back pressed up against the trunk of an old willow tree. His posture reminding me of that Cheshire Cat everyone loved to hate in Alice in Wonderland. His left leg fully stretched and crossed like a spoiled English prat on one of the branches.

Urgency filled my chest, my heart beating with broken fear. "Who are you how do you know my name? What is going on?? Why am I here?" I asked and he shook his head and laughed. "What??? WHAT??" I belted out as he delivered a half-cracked smile.

"So many questions so little time." "You animals are you always so demanding? I will let you in on a little secret..." whispering a devilish mumble.." you're dead darling" He said rolling his eyes and looking over my shoulder at the ghostly like corpse that lies at my feet. He then went on to make a 'sucks to be you' face at me. "As for where you are... well I'm sure it's not that hard to guess." He said mockingly to himself.

"No, because this is just a dream! I'll wake up and it will be over!" I said and he rolled his eyes once more.

"Yeah... hate to burst your bubble sweetheart but it's time to burst ..so POP you're dead. D-E-A-D... DEAD! Would you like me to write it out for you love? Or you can keep saying it's all just dream if that helps you sleep at night. Oh wait never mind, the dead don't really need to sleep." He said trying to stab a joke at me.

"But...but... this makes no sense. How could I have died?"

"Let me simplify things a little for you. There was a boom, your body went splat and your heart stopped... now here we are! Personally, I prefer the gory details because I can do that if you'd like if you like." he said all chipper and then looked at me curiously.

"What's wrong with you! I just died and you want me to be a jolly happy clown. Are you nuts!" I said and he just shrugged.

"No, no..coming from the girl staring at her own corpse." He said as he jumped down from the tree landing perfectly on his feet like a cat changing one of its nine lives. "Come on Lilith, you're free! For the first time in your life, you can do whatever the hell you want." He said as he took hold of my arms smiling into my face like a teenage girl looking into the eyes of harry styles.

I couldn't even think straight. I kept trying to think back to how this had all started and how I got here. Hell, I couldn't even remember what happened to me!

"Seriously you can't be trying to make me believe that you actually miss your pathetic little life. I'm not stupid! You wished your life was over and now it is, so stop moping and embrace it, you got what you wanted Lilith so move on!" He said with a tone of anger in his voice and was starting to sound more serious for once.

"I'm sorry that I am freaking about the fact that I died less than five seconds ago! What the hell do you want from me!" I demanded.

More questions from such fickle humans! "Wow you humans and your childish emotions... looking at you, I understand why some animals eat their young, You literally are no fun!" He spat, letting out a sigh. "Aren't you just a little curious as to who I am?"

"No, and I don't care!" I screamed at him before running off towards the smoking cars.

"Run, ra-runnnnnn....little girl" The man yelled after me as his words bellowed and blew through the trees as I made my way down the empty deserted road.

As I reached the melting metal of steel and glass I began to cry again as I ran my fingers through my long blond hair and looked around not knowing what to do or where to go.

I knew I had to collect myself or what was left of myself. And Yeah I get it, I'm a dead girl! But that doesn't mean it make any sense! I need to retrace my steps. Get my phone... Yes!! My phone and call for help, call anyone...LIVING! I reach for the phone in my jacket fumbling to find it as my nerves rush through me. But where??? Where is my phone? As the coldest darkest light of hope fades away I hear HIM! Crackling through the branches like a black bear on his last kill.

Suddenly, I could feel his presence lurking behind me closer and closer. "No, no, no" like a hundred echo's and before I could even finish what I was going to say my words turned into a silent cry.

"It's ok." He said before appearing beside me in the blink of a second and wrapped his arms around me.

"Ok? Ok? How is any of this ok?" I asked him looking into his hollowed eyes and he shook his head.

"It isn't." He frowned as he looked down at me, with what I could have sworn was remorse, before snapping my neck. "But it will be!" ....

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