The Nightmare

         I was sleeping happily when a horrible dream struck me. I was walking through a room. Even my aunt was there along with my cousin. It was their house. It was new. Me, my parents and my sister had come to my aunt’s house to see how it was. It was dark. As dark as a night without a moon. It did not matter to anyone how dark it was. We walked up the stairs all together. We started into a room and sat down on a sofa in front of a T.V. We watched something for five minutes. I was not interested in whatever was playing on the television so I took a look around. Right beside the tiny television was what seemed to me as a herd of sheep. It was not clear nor was it decided. This was enough to freak me out. The sound of silence made me unsure that there were people around. I realised that they were starting to get up. I walked slowly towards the door behind the others thinking about what I had seen or what I had thought I had seen. As I reached the door to go out the room to the stairs, I heard something. It was not a voice of my relatives nor was it the thudding of footsteps on the wooden stairs. The squeaky sound was heard again. I was stopped dead in track. I turned around to the corner of the room where the sofas were. The sound was coming from that direction. I thought of running to my parents immediately but I could not. I had a feeling it was too late. That was when I caught something moving at the corner of my eye. I saw a bag holding on to the steel bar where the curtains were supposed to be hanging. They were now at the terrace of the house drying after a wash. The bag was made of rope in crosses, a net? The steel bar came till the end of the room, where I was standing. The bag was the source of the racket. The bag was moving on the steel bar. I was petrified. I could not breath. I waited with terror as the bag came closer..........

          It was finally here. There was a loud squeaking and then the bag was ripped open and there was a sight that made me scream. Rats, mice, I did not know what. It was after all only a dream with no details applied. I was shocked. I was numb all over. It is inexplicable how I felt. I was not scared, I was not nervous, I was blank. I felt as if this is the end. I thought it was over. I could not have felt worse. The species jumped onto me. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!

          I screamed and woke up with a start. My parents were worried. It was a catastrophe. Whenever I think about this now, my hands are filled with cold sweat. This could not have been worse.