• Night...a symbol of terror, the unknown, and the evil that lurks within it. Human beings at heart have always been fascinated and terrified by night. They've constructed lanterns, candles, and night lights to keep the darkness of night at bay. They've constructed Horror movies and terrifying stories of monsters and spirits that come to prey on the living at night.

    Now, what would happen if the horrors were true? That every childish device invented by man to keep the night lit actually worked? What if...your nightmares came true??


    I sat by the TV watching A horrorfest of movies: The Grudge, The Grudge 2, Screams 1 through 3, The Ring one and two. I scoffed as the Ring two ended, so sure that all that happened was only false and untrue. That these things only happened in the minds of underpaid scriptwriters who had to borrow concepts from already finished movies, including one missed call. I walked into my bedroom, which was messy. Dirty laundry piled up and scattered on and around my hamper. The desk where I did my work was piled with papers and sketches. I shook my head, thinking that I should clean up, even though I knew I was too lazy to do so. I turned off the lights, got comfy on my bed and went to sleep.

    The next morning, I woke up. No dreams tonight I guessed. So I showered, got into a new change of clothes and went out to face the blackened morn. Then the phone rang. Being my lazy self I left it ringing and picked up my back pack to face another day of school. When I approached the door the answering machine picked up the call. There was nothing but static...and then a raspy voice hallowed out from the machine.

    "By the end of the day....you will die."

    Originally, it came as a shock. I thought to myself, "No way that was real. Probably some freaky prank call."

    I turned back to the door and saw my reflection in the window along with that of another being behind me. Surprised, I turned around quickly and saw nothing. Nothing but the light of the hallway, and the darkness of both the kitchen and the living room. Truth be told, I was freaked out.

    I walked to my school and every time out of the corner of my eye I saw that same being, A young black long-haired girl stalking my every movements. Yet every time I turned, there was nothing. I didn't like the feeling and began feeling the effects of Paranoia. Obviously, someone or something, was out to get me. I entered the school, and found it completely empty. No chattering, no footsteps. The lights were on but dimly lit, like something out of a survival horror game. I thought to myself that I had come early, but as I checked my watch I found that there was only 5 minutes left till class begun. I walked through and found nothing but empty darkness. There were no teachers, no students, nothing. Papers were scattered around, but still, nothing. They say silence is golden, but to me, it was more painful than a thousand knives plunging into my heart. The school yard is not supposed to be this silent. I turned around and what I saw scarred my mentality forever. The fading image of the black-haired girl, her one visible eye glaring at me, silently whispering the same message left on the machine as she vanished :

    "By the end of this day...you will die..."

    By now, I was dead scared and I began to panic. I pulled out my ipod to listen to music to calm me down, but all I heard was static played over the inaudible music, and the image of that same girl on all the Album pictures. I freaked and threw the Ipod to the ground shattering it.

    "What a waste...", I thought. Then searched around the classroom. Every time I moved, I felt as if I was being watched by that entity. Sadako, the same name of the girl from the Ring, is what I began calling her by...mainly cause I forgot the name of the girl from the Grudge. I took a sturdy meter stick and left the classroom. It had little use to me, but out of all the horror movies I watched, I knew that something was going to jump out at me...or appear out of the corner of my eye. I entered the gym and found it as empty and lifeless as the pale moon. I looked up through the crystal clear window and found something to be impossible. The full moon itself, shining with the reflected light of the sun, its moonlight beaming down on me.

    "This is impossible", I said to myself. "How could it be night when it was only about 7 in the morning?"

    I looked down at my watch and was shocked. It was 7:00 P.M. Everything I was experiencing was an impossibility. I looked at the meter stick in my hand and slapped myself in the face. The pain was excruciating. At that moment, though, I had realized my horrifying predicament. One way or another I had to escape this world, this land of darkness. I turned around and saw Sadako again. I wasn't surprised any longer. After all what just happened I don't trust my surroundings anymore.

    "By 10:00 tonight...you will die...", she said, then faded away.

    My eyes widened. I stared down at my watch. 9:30 p.m. I would only have 30 minutes left to live? There was so much left to do with my life though! I couldn't end here...I couldn't...there was still too much to do. Then there was a moan. then another and another. one by one, groans and moans piled atop one another. I sighed. "you've gotta be shitting me."

    Zombies. Thats all I had to think about. Of all the things that had to come after me and end my life, it had to be girls in white, and rotting corpses that feast on human flesh. I had no time to think as one of the decrepit monsters lunged out at me, trying to sink its teeth into my skin. I shoved the meter stick into its mouth and was amazed by its bite force. returning to reality I shoved it away with a kick and slammed the Meter stick down on it's head. I had no time to make sure it stayed down, so I ran for safety. The moaning and groaning echoed in my head. As I passed through the double doors I heard childish laughter, Eerie moaning, and sinister laughs echoing down the hallways. Left and Right I saw the same girl, Zombies, and horrifying gruesome deaths. I screamed, dropping my backpack to run faster, and pushed through another set of double doors into the kitchen. I barricaded it as best as I could, yet the moaning and disembodied laughter caused my mental state to go into a frenzy. I stumbled and panicked, eventually tumbling behind the island stoves, spilling random utensils, and a few knives.

    I thought back, my life flashed in front of my eyes, every moment, every memory, every scar...I treasured them so. The banging commenced. By the sound of the oppression I knew I did not have long. I looked at my watch which caused me so much despair...

    9:59 P.M.

    I looked up at the ceiling, and there Sadako looked down at me.

    "At 10:00 tonight...you will die.", was all that she said repeating it until the phrase was etched into my brain.

    The double doors broke apart. I reached for the butcher knife nearest me. I could hear the horde of undead stagger near, their silhouettes clambering over each other...their odor pungent... my death immanent. I stared at the knife, It's mirror surface reflecting my fear, my life, my unbelievable future. I looked up, and there she grinned, and image to terrifying to describe. It was as if she saw my undeniable death. I looked back down, positioned the knife atop my heart...and stabbed. The Watch toned 10:00.


    ~Death...has never felt so good.~