I wrote this for my school news paper. What do you guys think?
Raven watched the clock.
She closed her eyes and snapped them back open in hopes the big hand would have moved. Raven sighed with disappointment when it hadn’t. She laid her head on her school desk waiting impatiently.
Today was Halloween, her favorite holiday. She loved trick-or-treating as a child and the parties as she got older. The whole dressing up thing was some how refreshing for her.
And it just so happened to be her one month anniversary with her boyfriend, Brad. Just thinking about his long blond hair and his full smile gave Raven butterflies. Her breathing grew uneven as the second hand took its sweet time drifting around the clock.
Brad had told raven that they were going on a picnic in some park he knew. He said it was a surprise for her. Raven was so excited, she couldn’t help smiling.
When the bell rang, she popped out of her seat so fast, she almost toppled over.
Get a grip, she told herself.
Raven met up with Brad at his red pickup truck in the school parking lot. After a quick peck on the cheek, they drove off.
The entire drive, they talked about how much they loved each other. They teased each other about who loved whom more. By the end, of course, it was a tie. They laughed and held hands as if they were little kids, not a care in the world. Raven couldn’t think of one thing that could make her happier.
When Brad finally announced that they had arrived at their destination, the sun was setting behind the large oak trees. Raven quickly checked her hair and makeup in the rearview mirror. Her long black hair flowed behind her in soft curls. She had the most beautiful violet eyes at hers school
She looked around the park and realized where they really were.
“This is a cemetery,” Raven said to Brad as he retrieved a basket and radio from the bed of the truck.
He smiled at her. It was a new smile that was unfamiliar to her. This new smile that took over Brad’s sweet face was now wicked. IT was almost as if he was a different person.
Her heart skipped a beat. “This isn’t really a nice place, Brad.”
He rolled his eyes at her and turned to walk away. All signs of the scary smiled had suddenly melted away. Over his shoulder, he called to her. Hesitantly, she followed.
After they ate, he stood up. Brad reached out a hand to Raven and she mechanically took it.
Raven forced herself to relax. She was with Brad, nothing could hurt her. She gulped.
He would protect me, right? She asked herself.
Brad took Raven in his arms and started spinning her about. She never even noticed him turning the radio on. Soft music instantly put Raven in a trance.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, letting him lead her around the grave stones, becoming dizzier by the minute.
At first, they twirled to the music alone. Once Raven’s sight became fuzzy, she could see others among the grave stones.
The strange people where dancing along to the music, which has turned fast and it was harder for Raven to look around before Brad spun her again. But it wasn’t the dancing that caught Raven’s attention. The strangers were wearing the weirdest costumes.
A girl that was closest to Raven and Brad was wearing a long red tail on her back side that followed behind her as she moved. She wore red devilish horns on her forehead. When the stranger looked at Raven, her eyes glowed a fiery gold.
Raven gasped and tried to pull away from Brad, but he only held her tighter.
She knew that something wasn’t right about this. These strangers weren’t human. These thoughts terrified Raven to the core of her being.
“Brad,” she said, her voice cracking. “Let’s get out of here. These people are way freaky.”
Raven looked over at someone else dancing close to them. This guy had been painted from head to toe to look like a snake or some kind of lizard. Lizard guy smiled t Raven, his white teeth glistening. Raven’s heart was pounding against her ribs.
Brad finally let her go and held her away from his body. He looked her up and down and grinned wickedly again.
“You’re perfect,” he said.
Raven smiled before she realized there was a double meaning to his words. Her heart started racing as her breathing caught short and she backed away from him only to back into lizard guy.
She gasped and tried a different direction but Raven was surrounded.
The girl with the devil horns smiled at her. “You are perfect,” she agreed. “The perfect sacrifice to Memnoch.”
At that, the world started to quiver beneath Raven’s feet. Everything around her turned dark and she felt like she was falling.
Icy water burned Raven’s throat, splintering her ribs. Her ears filled with the demon’s cries. Cries of pain. Cries of fury.
She tried screaming, but her sobs where muffled by the mud.
This can’t be the end, she prayed to herself. Don’t let it be the end please.
She was in unfathomably freezing waters. Raven was being pulled into the dark abyss. Demons started roaring at her from all different directions. Mud flooded into her throat blocking any hopes for her to scream again.
Raven reached out, trying to tear down the dirt wall that was her only exit. However, the mud had turned into a plank, like the side of a rough coffin.
That’s when she knew it was real.
She clawed the wood until her fingers were raw with blood. The wood started to crumble in little rotting chunks. Raven gasped with fear as water shot between the boards with a scream.
Raven gasped and threw herself backwards in her seat. Classmates around her glared as they walked up the isle towards the door.
Raven laughed at herself and stood up, wiping the drool from her lip.
The End.
