I felt my soul tear in half as Alice held the two concert tickets in front of my face in the middle of the overflowing hallway of the school. I thought she was joking when she asked me, months earlier, if I wanted to go see my favorite band live with her. “It’ll be your birthday present from me to you,” Alice would go on to smile. I stood in front of our locker, which served partly as a shrine for Alice and I’s favorite bands, shocked and overwhelmed, “Alice, you know my parents would never let me go,” I whimpered, teary-eyed, after all these people were my heroes! I could already hear the cruel rejection and even more cringe worthy lecture roll off of my parent’s serpent tongue, echoing about ‘you’re too young’ and ‘you have to study’. How could they deprive me of such thing?! “They don’t have to know. I’ll ask my parents if we can give you a ride on Saturday. You will have to wait at the end of your street, though,” Alice suggested, getting a little …show more content…
With no time to lose, I skipped down the hill and finally reached the slippery pavement. That’s when I heard him call after me. It coughed and hacked in such a twisted and violent manner. The rustle of nearby shrubs reflected behind me and it intensified the more I tried to ignore them. I prayed that Alice would hurry up and take me away from this, but the traffic was as lonely as I was in this world. The snapping of twigs multiplied and so did my heart rate, the pounding of blood pumping through my veins catapulted by the second. I felt as if this thing was getting ready to pounce on me and all I could do was wait for something that would never happen. That’s when I came to my senses and turned back to face the steep slope and those piercing red eyes lingering in the bushes. Before I had a chance to let out the bottled up shriek, I jumped my way back home and through the window once