The Darkness comes hunted

Chapter Seven: In a lonely Place

"What makes a place feel like home?...is its warmth and familiarity?...some idealized, make-believe- version of the American dream?... is it love and acceptance?...or is it simple safety?...or it none of those things... and it's a place where the captain of the football team is murdered... or maybe it's just a forgotten closet under a well-trod staircase ... where it's just you and the mice and the spiders...like an extra in a Wes Craven movie." Typing into his computer, it is Cole's point of view toward what happening for the past couple of weeks in his hometown, Lakewood.

After a long night of writing and researching, Cole thinks that now might be a good time for him to have a good night for the night... turn off his computer, prepare his room, and go to bed early for the first in 2 weeks might be a good change in his life for him, but that good night has turned into a nightmare that Cole hasn't have for a long time.

A loud knocking on the door, causing Cole to wake up in the middle of a dark, Full-Moon night,

"Dad, Is that you?" He shouts to the door, but no answer... At first, he thought the knocking on the door it just his mind making it up, and he processed to go back to sleep, without knowing that he didn't wake up in the real world, he just wake up in his dream, and suddenly a loud knocking on the door happened again, he opened his eyes but this time he found himself in the middle of a temple,

It was a dark, creepy, moonless night, and he had no idea if it was real or he just dreaming. He looks at everything surrounding him but all he can see was a tall wall with a big bell on top, it looks like a church, an abandoned one, he could hear the low shrieking sounds of different things like a bell, piano, and violet, all playing at the same time in other room.

He knew he was trapped, pinned against the wall, he tried to get out, but it seem like he can't, he tried to release his legs from the strong clutches of chains, but the more he tries to break free the more he was tagged in it. He could hear a loud creepy laugh from where he is right now, but he can't see who laughing because it was too dark to see, with just a torch that lit up over his head.

He tries to look around for anything that could help him in escaping this mysterious place, but there is nothing except a bell hanging over his head.

Cole was so confused as to what is this place, he had never been to a church that has that big of a bell before. He try to shout for help but no one answer, so he just give up and wait for whoever kidn*pped him to show up when suddenly a light lit up on the other side of the room, with a person holding an umbrella standing under it.

"Hey, you... Who are you? and what is this place?" Cole asks the mysterious person holding an umbrella, but no answer comes back.

"Are you the same guys from the group who murdered my frie----?"

But before Cole can finish his accused against the mysterious person holding an umbrella, the light just lit off and the person just disappear with the light.

A moment later another light lit up in front of him, and the same person just walk out of the dark to be in the light again, Cole can't make out the face of who it is, but he is pretty sure in his heart that this guy also the same guys, who been following him all weeks.

The guy looks straight into Cole's eyes, and then the guy put down its umbrella, and show its face, but it turns out, the guy is a girl, It Jessie, Cole's little sister.

"Jay-Jay!! What are you doing here? and what is this place... help get me out from these Chains... Jay-Jay?" Cole tries to communicate with his sister but Jessie just stands completely still, continuing looking straight into her brother's eyes, without blinking for a whole minute.

She slowly tilted her head towards left, than to right, slowly, Cole also followed the movement of his sister's head as she did. she has a face of an innocent child, but with a lot of bruises on it too.

She had doe eyes, a sharp nose, and beautiful lips. She said nothing and didn't blink once since she encounter Cole, she swept him away from the abandoned church to a familiar place. Cole knew the place. This Bridge was near his town. He thought In his head, what was he doing here and why did his sister act so strange, it was like she doesn't have a soul in her body or something? While he kept on thinking, he saw her sliding over the train track and fall into the river.

He could not understand what just happened and then she suddenly came back, walk from behind him and her facial expression changed. Big hollow eyes and nose, mouth wide open, face entirely wrinkled, her clothes suddenly changed from pure white to tattered dusty covered in blood. She came near him and let out an ear-deafening shout. He could not bear it and fell to the ground. He saw her flying around the river. As he was looking at her with a horrifying look, suddenly the entire area became dark, and after that, and his eyes open up, knocking him out of his nightmare dream.

Laying on the bed, terrifying, and sweating like hell, Cole quickly rushes to grab his phone that sitting on his night-lamp, It is 3:10 AM in the morning, he got up from the bed and go down to the kitchen to get some cold water to refresh or restart his brain, that just has a meltdown. He bent down a bit and opened the refrigerator door, removed a bottle, and closed the door. As he stood straight, he realized someone was behind him. He could feel the warm breath on his neck.

"Cole... what are you doing in the kitchen in the middle of the night, What time is it?" Looking up at the Kitchen clock" It's 3:15 am son, you have school tomorrow, you know, now go to sleep?"

Cole stood still for a moment, trying to wrap his head around, to what just happened to him and try to get his soul back to the real world.

"Just has a bad dream, dad, that all?"

"Now go to sleep, son? I thought someone breaking into the kitchen for a sec?"

"Sorry dad, that I make you worried, will not happen next time."

Put back the water bottle into the refrigerator, Cole just casually walk up the stair, goes back to his room, and retired to his bed, but he could not sleep, he just laying on the bed, watching the ceiling, trying to remember what happens in his dream and analyze it...

Hours have passed he realized the sun was coming up, and he heard the chirping of the birds. He got up, came down to the kitchen, fed his dog, and had his cup of coffee before started getting ready for school. He was still confused regarding the dream, weird dream.

The dream has happened to him before, the night before his uncle died in a car accident. That dream caused him a meltdown, he was so afraid and depressed that he had to be taken for counseling, he try to explain that dream to his counselor but they didn't listen, they believe it was just an 8 years old kid making story up, the dream that Cole tells his parents and his therapist about is the exact replica of what happens to his uncle the night after, died in a tragic car accident.

Don't want to bring up the past, Cole put on his music, get on his bike, and drive to school like he always does every morning,

On the other side of the town, Mike and Betty sit in the same booth at Pop's Pizza Palace, waiting for their breakfast to be served.

"Thanks for passing on the information about Merrick Biotech, Mike, really appreciated." Said Betty.

"Speaking of information, I know we are on the same page here, trying to expose Martin Merrick and his company, but I still don't understand why Cole wants to keep me out of this, he didn't want me in on this investigation with you guys...I mean, do you mind asking him for me, Why?"

"You know Cole, he is a sensitive person and after he knew about....uh...I went behind his back and dated you, that kind of thing.... he is still mad at me, and I try my best not to involve any relationship conversation with him, but if I have a chance, I will try asking him for you?"

"Look, Betty, Card on the table... you're not over Cole... and I'm not interested in being anybody's rebound, and besides, now I'm more into redhead girls anyways...I mean if there are any redhead girls in town for me to date?"

Betty's closed her lip and nodded," Okay, got it." Said Betty.

Meanwhile at school, Cole and Cherly walk together talking and sharing about their problem.

"You know, I needed to clear my head and I did... And I realized that this is just a sick game to him, psychological torture." Said Cheryl.

"So what now?" Said Cole.

"So, I'm done with my Dad now, with his letter, with his Simon says, and especially with me acting as his personal shield."

"But what if he doesn't stop, and he continues to use you as his scapegoat again."

"I'm gonna expose everything he does with Mayor Blossom in his free time with the rest of the world."

"What business did they do?" said Cole.

"I'm not sure, but the last time I heard them talking in his study, they say something about an underground project in Lakewood."

"And the underground project, like a ... a secret underground testing site... something like that?"

"Maybe or Maybe not, I'm hundred percent sure, but maybe they just talking about an underground subway project, beneath Lakewood, who knows?"

"Talking about a subways project with a school Principle, I don't think so, but thank you for the Information Cheryl."

Kissing Cherly in the cheeks and runoff, making Cherly cheeks turn red like a rose, after a shocking kiss from Cole, Cherly wipes the kiss-off her cheeks and continue to walk to her class, but with a smile on her face, thinking, who knows, Maybe Cole Walker like her.