Thunder clapped outside my bedrooms skylight, making the thin strip of frangible colored glass tremble so fiercely from the deafening sound I feared it would shatter overhead. Lightning was soon to follow it's companions example, raining down light along my pallid skin with every cracking strike against the heavens. As each burst of light crashed across the night sky, illuminating the darkened word and casting shadows of anomalous things, my mind jumble with the changing scene as I thought up obscure ideas of what they could be. With each passing minute i found myself sinking further and further into the warm comfort of worn out Cotton blanket that had long ago turn scratchy from age, yet despite that it somehow still managed to keep its vibrant color throughout the years. It's blood red threads hung from me in meshed patches‚ layering down my body as if depicting a gruesome event soon to come into fruition. At one time the color had seemed beautiful now it only helped fuel the terror that rocketed through to my very core leaving me a jittery mess. Yet despite the discomfort it arose in my chest I could never bring myself to throw away my only source of contentment from a time when I wasn't plagued by sleepless nights and terror filled dreams. I had cowered there in the confines of my cocoon of delusional safety for what felt like an eternity. My half lidded eyes, heavy with sleep yet persistently staying open in the struggle to ward off any inclination of rest, and the nightmares that came along with it. The night had droned by at a snails pace until I had eventually managed to zone out the outside world's clamor, with only the incessant tick to-ck of my clock now filling my mind and making me all the more aware of each fleeting second. It wasn't long before I soon found myself gazing into the shadowed corners of my room, beseeching to a God I wasn't quite sure I even believed in anymore that I could somehow withstand until dawn while wondering what wicked things lurked inside the darkest depth that my eyes could not see and my thoughts could not fathom. TO BE CONTINUE...