Chapter Four

Chapter Four

Moaning quietly touching my aching head I swiftly try to open my eyes. I feel my mouth dry with an emptiness in the pit of my stomach.

What happened to me?

"Wher - Where am I?"I whisper parting my chapped lips, swiftly opening my eyes.

Taking a deep breath and opening my eyes wide I stare at the white ceiling in front of me. My body feels cold and weak. Quivery, my muscles twitching I rub my forehead confused. 

"Where am I?".

"Madelyn, "I hear a familiar voice beside me. "Are you okay?".

Slowing moving I met Kristin's grey eyes.

"What happened,?"I ask her. "Where am I?"

She regards me for a second frowning before she answered my question. 

"You passed out as soon as we walked out of the class!" she ceased her brows together. 

"What!?,"I blurt weakly. "Passed out as we came out? didn't we just walk along the corridor?".

I stare gloomily, confused at her.

"Walked? what are you even talking about?" her eyebrows squished together. 

My thoughts freeze for a moment. My mind races searching for answers. 

Weren't we walking to the infirmary?

What was the dark thing I saw lately in the classroom?

A cold chill pinches the pit of my soul.

What was it?

"She is back to conscious!"I hear a voice and turn to see the nurse Mrs Sammantha. 

I cast her a weak smile.

"Probably you were so stressed that you passed out!" she responds with a smile. "Did you have your breakfast today?".

I avert my gaze hesitating. 

"Probably "I finish with one word not willing to speak more.

She seeks something inside the drawer and pushes it back.

I turn to Kristin. 

"Were we not walking to the infirmary?"I ask worried and suspicious. "The walk seemed so long and exhausting. When I spoke you didn't answer, you were staring ahead as if you were not hearing me. The day seemed-"

"Phewww, Maddie stop stressing yourself!"Kristin says concerned. "We were not walking. As soon as we were out you fainted and Alex carried you here!".

"Alex?, "I arch one of my eyebrows. "He carried me?".

Things were very suspicious and confusing.  I felt that I had been walking to the infirmary before passing out and here my only best friend Kristin says I passed out as soon as I left the class.

What the heck was happening around me?.

What was that dark thing?

I must be exhausted from all the things that happened that I now see and imagine things. If this leads I will have to end up in an asylum. I can't take a physicist. How can I say to them what bothers me?

How can I say that I murdered someone and now that I'm afraid of going to jail?.

This can't happen.

I will have to seek solutions on my own.

I meet Kristin's eyes which stares at me askance.

Deciding to say what I had seen and what bothered me I part my lips.

" Madelyn, are you okay now?," Alex hurries into the room before getting Mrs Samantha's person. "What just happened?".

" Shhh!," Mrs Samantha frown at him. "She is fine now just stressed and exhausted!. Now you two will you please go back to class while leaving your friend to take some rest until she fully regains?".

 

 Alexander's gleaming gaze meets mine and I cast a weak smile when he smirks.

"Old lady wants us to go," he whispers pacing closer. "I got you this!" he shows me the energy drink and few biscuits he got.

"We are moving and you will have to finish that off" Kristin adds.

Alexander places them on the side table and moistens his lips.

"See you sooner Maddie!" he beams and walks out following Kristin after she had given me a concerned hug and a peck on my cheek. 

Mrs Sammantha leaves into her private room leaving me alone on the bed to stare back at the white ceiling. 

Heaving a sigh my thought race back. I wanted to do something I can't be doing daily.

I stare at the room observing around. The room gives a sense of calmness and peace. It smelled of old medicine. There was a beautiful painting on the right side wall and two leather chairs opposite. On the wall in front of me is a plasma screen and the bed looks so comfortable.

At a corner, I spot the table where Mrs Sammantha that been endorsing something in her drawers just before. I turn to the side table where there was a blue vase with dried daisy flowers. The table had the drink, biscuit and some fallen flowers petals which were not from Alex.

Taking a deep breath I comfortable myself on the bed slightly wincing to the throbbing pain in my head.

I shouldn't have done that mistake!.

I dart my eye across the dark doorway where a strange thing captures my glance.

With a sudden overwhelming sensation of dread, my eyes widen and I clench the bedsheets.

My body temperature increases a tingling in my chest.

The dark smokey figure stands floating in the mid-air by the door staring back at me with its featureless dark smokey face hidden inside the black robe it's wearing. 

Made...lyn...

The whisper echoed in the quiet surrounding making cold chills running down my spine. My heart hammer harder against my rib cage. I squeeze my eyes shut clenching on to the bedsheet tighter. 

"Go away please go away.."

"I don't want to see you.."

Go away...

I chant to myself in a whisper.

Swiftly I open my eyes to see toward the door and find the figure gone leaving me alone to take a rest.

***

The day had been terrible to me and ultimately, I have endured the tragedy. I was back home after school. The whole day I had kept up at the infirmary before the last three periods wrapped up. 

My inner fears had been dwelling taunting me. I had many questions and qualms. Sunday was coming shortly and I had spent my Saturday at Kristin's house planning and scheming on where else we can shift the body before Mrs Karen whisks to the school with handcuffs. 

She had been panicking the way I was and I had no idea how could I reassure her while I was haunted with the same trauma. 

Our day was not as fun as normal previously. The whole day we had been having a conversation about the corruption we had made and how to conserve and halt ourselves from it.

I was more than frightened as each second passed by. I had been trying to tell Kristin what I had seen in the classroom on Friday questioning her with jams before I conversed with her directly. But all I got from her was she had no monopolies on anything paranormal like ghosts or spirits. 

My mind had been wandering with the question was it him? and I was unable to come up with a conclusion since I had seen the figure as just a smoke.

I had become sensitive to each tiny noises that came from somewhere. I was horrified that the dark thing would be back. Each time I kept an eye at my doorway where ever I was. I had this hidden sensation that someone was gazing at me.

Taking a deep breath I was there on my bed on Saturday night after Kristin and her dad just dropped me home after so many reasons for refusing a stay at her home.

I wanted to take sleeping pills before I go to bed but found the bottles empty and annoyed I collapsed on to my bed.

It was ten minutes for midnight. After a tiny sneak peeks at my I*******m account I threw my phone aside and hardly pushing myself to sleep.

I was nearly lost in the dark. I was standing right in the middle of the road wearing my red party dress at Alexander's party. My hands were trembling. 

Loud music and chatters were throwing up in the dark cold air. I glanced around realising I was alone.

My heartbeat starts racing.

"Where am I?"I whisper to myself. 

Observing around I swallow when a yellow light from far shows up. I stand rooted watching a bike approach at the corner of the street. 

"Popular bitch!!"I hear a familiar voice.

I turn to see Dixie at the porch on the left side third house wearing her pink sequined dress and waving her hand over me with a nasty smirk. 

"Dixie?"I arch one of my eyebrows whisper. 

I hear the bike noise soon behind me and in a flash, it passes me speedily. 

Squinting my eyes I frown seeing a white jacket with a large red letter C written on the guy.

"You freak killed him!!"I hear Dixie yell from far arrogantly her voice almost sounding raspy. 

Shivering I mumble in a whisper. 

"No".

"You bitch killed an innocent soul!!" she screams her voice raspy.

" No"I say again.

She stands staring at me furiously her lens turned into deep dark and huge. It was not like the normal Dixie whom I saw at school.

Swallowing I drag a step backward  when my back hits someone behind me turning my blood run cold.

Adrenaline shoots through my system elevating blood pressure. Panic overwhelming I hesitantly turn to meet a sparkling pair of furious dark eyes.

"You MURDERED someone and hid it from us!"I jump when the rough male voice hollers louder.

Alex?

His normal cocoa brown eyes had turn to a deep dusk cold ones.

Suddenly, with the irresistible sensation of dread my mind goes crazy.

Anxiously I glance around and spot Kristin standing at the left side pavement few distance away from me frowning  weirdly. I glance perplexed.

What was happening?

Where am I?

"She  hid the body in her backyard!!"Kristin claims her tone frantic.

"No!"I scream to her.

"You MURDERER!!"I hear Dixie hoot.

I grasp the side of my head trying to regain control.

" That was a mistake,"I say warm tears sliding down my cheeks. "I had no intention to do it!".

" That was a mistake.."

"MURDERER, MURDERER, MURDERER!!"Three of them starts chiming and parading towards me.

I drag steps behind my heart hammer hard against my chest.

I wanted to flee away by my legs gave out they were gone weak and numb.

Finally I decide to  squeezed my eyes shut and give myself to what ever that's gonna happen, clenching my fists.

" MURDERER, MURDERER, MURDERER"

The raspy voice turned to soft whispers slowing before fading away.

The indictments were over  and gulping I swiftly open my eyes to see myself standing in a white narrow way which turns out to be the school main corridor. 

My knees and legs are weak. My stomach feels rock hard. Holding my breath  I gulp down breaths to stay quiet when I see people appearing around me scowling weirdly at me with contempt. 

What's happening?

"Yeah, she is the one"I see a blonde girl with a tee and pink short skirts point at me.

"Oh, oh, yeah"The crowd murmurs.

" She is the MURDER!!" someone from behind the crowd cries out.

Terror passes through me panic and anxiety overwhelming.

 The lot of students starts to point and accuse me.

Someone moves besides me with pride and I turn to meet those vengeful gleaming glare of officer Karen with a nasty smirk.

I feel a hard heavy cold commodity touch  my wrists and I stare below to see my hands handcuffed.

My heart beat starts accelerating my fingers turning  cold with tingles in my chest.

They caught me!

My stomach roiling with a dropping sensation I feel my chest heavy and difficult to breathe.

A sour taste in my mouth at the back of my throat ached.

I'm going to the jail..

My heartbeat hammered harder.

No on can save me...

This is the end..

The murmurs of the crowd raced again.

"Shame on her!"

"No!" I whisper.

" MURDERER!" everyone started accusing.

"She should be punished for what she have done!" someone shouted.

"Shame on her. The popular, shame on her she faked us!".

"No!No!" I cry.

Everyone started throwing things at me and I had to duck my head with my arms defending me from the attack.

"I didn't," I cry warm tears covering my cold cheeks."That was a mistake.."

"Kill her!"

Th room temperature turn warm making me sweat.

Everyone accused me with hurtful word.

"THAT WAS A MISTAKE!," I scream. "I didn't kill him!.No!".

" NO!"I scream louder panicking and my heart hammering.

With a one last scream and rapid breaths I open my eyes wide at once glaring at the ceiling in front of me.

"No" I whisper into the thin cold air. " Please don't"

Slowly, my body relaxed in the reserved atmosphere. 

That was a dream wasn't it?

 The tightness in my chest deliberately reduced and I wiped my tears with the back of my hands.

Sniffing I sat up to grab the glass of water on my night stand.

That was a very unpleasant dream..

I drag a sip of the cold water and dart my gaze to place it back when my eyes meet a dark figure sitting on the chair in front of my bed make me drop the glass which smashed onto floor followed by my loud shriek.

A dark figure which was crouching on the chair and suckling it thumb, with bright white eyes gaping at me in the darkness cried out at my loud shriek startled and fell from it's chair while I rolled out of my bed to the other side and hide myself pulse racing.

What the fuck was that?

The sound of my heartbeat thrashed in my ears and I waited speechless in the reserved surrounding.

I heard a moan and then a murmur.

"Stupid!, Stupid women!".

My muscles tensed I kept my body rooted to the floor in my sitting position.