The Legend of the Firewalker Read Free Page B

“Maybe you should sleep with the lights on!” the girl laughed.
    Leah could feel her cheeks turn red as the blood rushed to her head. “Sure!” she let out, her voice shaking with anger.
    She walked quickly to her room; trying to beat the laughter before it ended. Forcibly, she closed the door behind her and sighed heavily as she pressed her back against it. “Can this be over any faster?” she yelled. In frustration, she tossed her toothbrush and her towels on the floor. “Ugh!”
    At that moment, a gust of wind rushed violently through the open window, knocking the lamp on her desk onto the floor. The room was suddenly in complete darkness. “Grrreat!” she said, in a drawn-out huff.
    She bent over to pick up the lamp but felt a little uneasy as lightning from the approaching storm created strange shadows around the room. As the sound of thunder filled the room, she stumbled to find the socket to plug in the power cord. Duh , she thought. I should just turn on Amanda’s lamp. As she reached out to turn on the lamp, she paused. She had an eerie feeling that someone was standing behind her. No one is behind me , she thought, as she extended her arm to turn on the lamp.
    “Aaah!”
    There was a burst of light in the room followed by a loud crack as the lightbulb from Amanda’s lamp shattered into many pieces, landing across the table and the floor. Startled, Leah jumped back, withdrawing her hand. At the same time, the door to her closet slammed shut, causing her to let out a stifled scream. Quickly, she spun around, her heart pounding against her chest.
    Leah stood in the dark frozen with fear. Through the darkness, she could see that a strange mist had begun to fill the room, and when lightning struck, there was no thunder to follow.
    Leah dared to take a step forward. She felt the glass from the lightbulb crunch beneath her tennis shoes, but there was no sound from the crunching glass. Leah waved her hand through the air, and the air seemed to ripple like water. Nervously, she looked around the room. She noticed the light underneath the door from the hallway was gone, and she could no longer hear laughter. The posters of male models on Amanda’s side of the room, which once were vibrant with color, now appeared to be in black and white. “It’s like my dreams!” she stuttered, in a panic. “Everything is washed in gray!”
    Suddenly, there were shuffling noises all around her, and goose bumps formed on her arms and legs. She took a deep breath in, and when she let it out, she saw it take form in the air. Her heart was racing fast now. Leah bolted towards the door. “Help!” she yelled.
    Spontaneously, the closet doors from both sides of the room flung open, stopping her in her tracks. Several small shadows darted in and out of the closets. Leah screamed in horror because she had seen them before, surrounding her, chasing her, in her dreams.
    She took several steps back. Now, her back was against Amanda’s desk. Frantically, her hand searched the table. She was desperate to find something to protect herself with, but little stabs of sharp pain suddenly shot up her arm. Leah looked down and shards of glass from the lightbulb had sliced into he r palms and fingers. Among the tossed paper and glass, she could make out a small shape in the darkness. Instantly, Leah recognized Amanda’s cell phone. She plunged for it, causing a wave of ripples in the air. 
    The phone, closer now, was no longer washed in gray, and the light from the LED display illuminated the apple-red color in the darkness. Without hesitating , she dialed 911, but there was no dial tone, just silence.
    Abruptly, a high-pitched wail filled the air, and goose bumps rushed down her back.
    “Leeah!”

 
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    NIGHTMARES
    Nathan let out a huge gasp as he suddenly awoke from sleep. He instantaneously sat up in bed. His face and chest were drenched with sweat and his palms tingled. His heart pounded ferociously against his chest and his breathing