Dreams and Nightmares the story of Alexis

The chilly wind of the night is cutting through my skin into my bones as I make my way through the lonely creepy path. The sky is pitching black and all I can see is the crescent moon hanging above my head that seems to be diming off. Looking straight ahead I catch a glimpse of what seems to be a gate. It’s the gate to a church cathedral. Help at last! I should be safe there. So I walk towards it but it seems to be going farther and farther. I can barely see where my feet is treading when suddenly the ground under my feet turns marshy ; I start running and at this point I realize that I am bare feet; without any shoes. The wind blows again causing me to hug myself and there in the moment of time stops. I can feel no clothes on myself just bare skin. Where are my clothes, what happened to me? Could I have been ambushed or even kidnapped? Worse still defiled and left to die? In the distance there is a rustling of leaves and then a snap; I get startled and start to tread carefully while hugging myself even tighter to cover up myself which is of little or no use at all. What if I have step on a thorn or worse a poisonous snake or a scorpion; that’s ridiculous, I shouldn’t be having such thoughts. Well at least getting bit by a snake won’t be so bad considering I am naked and approaching a cathedral; I could just die of embarrassment. Oh my! What am I going to do? It is so quiet I can hear blood and adrenaline pump through my veins, my heart is going a thousand miles an hour. Wait a minute, what’s that? I can sense something’s following me. It’s etching closer and closer right behind me, I feel like my heart has left my chest cavity into my mouth so I increase my pace again and keep walking until finally I stop and turn slowly to see what or who is following me. I slowly close my eyes while saying a short prayer in terror and slowly turn 360 degrees only to see nothing. phew! Thank goodness! I keep on the path straight ahead when I trip over something that seems like a twig but am sure it isn’t, my body hurts I can’t make out where I am no more, the cathedral is gone, it looks like it just disappeared into thin air Where am I? Where am I headed’? I can no longer feel the earth beneath my feet anymore and the darkness is closing in. I try running but I can’t move, my feet seem to be planted on…nothing “it doesn’t make sense” i think to myself. Clutching myself I meet the most distraught thing ever decaying flesh falling off white flesh eating maggots dripping ceaselessly. I scream out in horror but no sounds, I scream and scream even louder then i hear my name in the distance and there is a slight tugging on my arm “Alexis”. “Alexis” “Is that you?” “Alexis wake up dear, get up, it's only a dream” calls the voice. My eyes open and drowsily all I can see is the ceiling right above my head. I see mom, she looks so worried, and clutching me to her bosom she rocks me back and forth reassuringly. “it’s okay honey, it was just a dream” I am overwhelmed with emotions of fright and relief I begin to sob Overtime I came to understand that things are never what they seem to be. When you feel you just might’ve figured out everything, it’ll rock your world that you know little or nothing at all. For a 13 year old I suffer from the worst dreams ever. Mom and dad say they’re just dreams but they are much worse, I call them ‘the nightmares’ I am Alexis Canton and this is very much my story