And Puppy Dog Tales

My breath hitches again as the howling outside my bedroom window continues to intensify, signaling its nearness. The sound, causes the glass windows to vibrate and my heartbeat to postpone its need to pump blood throughout my body. Night time seeps through my bedroom, past the sheer curtains, as the moonlights haunting soft rays, began to kiss the objects of the room in eerie silence. My knees begin to shake and tremble as the crouching position I am situated in, becomes a burden.Teeth bites down on the soft minty flesh of my lips to mute the squeaks that threaten to spill out from their dry cavern. It followed me here but for some reason has yet to enter my home. Spider like hands, splay across the slickness of the wooden floor, made even more slippery by the sweat that covers my palms. My head lies near the edge of the window as I listen and wait. Hearing the crunching of the Autumn leaves along with heavy breaths that would spurt out in impatience. My peripheral, occasionally, catches the fogging up of the outside window. My pupils have dilated and scan the shadowy outline that forms along my bedroom wall. The dark figure retreats behind the four squares of my window. Leaving behind the condensation of the breathy fog it left. My hand wraps around the journal, with the red jeweled emblem on the worn, and torn front black cover. Fingers, trace the bumpy edges of its spine and the sharp strings that protrudes from it. They trail over the pendant that would glow ever so often. The same emblem that just so happens to match the one my grandmother gave me once I turned twenty-one. The one she made me swear to never remove from around my neck. If only I hadn't taken the book, then maybe I could still pretend that this was all just a dream .A nightmare that I would soon awaken from. My mind eases at the semi comforting thought, only to become on high alert as another ear splintering howl pierces the air. Mocking my wayward thinking and the comfort-ability it brings. My eyes closes, the tightness causing my temples to throb and ache, as his voice begin to permeate my mind in a chilling revelation. "I know you are in there my little thief, its just a matter of time before the protection ring wears off. Then, that which you seek to guard will be mine once again...Forever."