One winter break, I went on vacation with my best friend
Victoria
(Tori) and her
Mom and Dad.
We actually stayed in a cabin in the Swiss Alps and
the cabin, Tori and I were very disgusted with it.
It was old and dusty
and the floors were rotting, they looked as if you might fall
through at any given moment.
Tori and I had the best time ever to
start with; it snowed every day for 3 days. But on the fourth day,
a huge blizzard hit, and it knocked the electricity out. So we all
had to light a fire to stay warm, we waited for about 5 hours, but
the power still did not come back on.
Eventually, Tori’s dad got
fed up and decided to drive to the nearest ranger station and let
them know.
He was gone for quite a long time, and Tori’s mother was
getting worried, so she said to Tori, “Darling, I’m going to look
for your father, I’m taking the snow- mobile, since he took the car,
I don’t know when I’ll be back, will you girls be ok?”
Tori swallowed noisily, but she nodded bravely, but her face
was ashen as her mother hugged her, put on her coat, a ski mask, and
gloves, and went out the door.
Tori and I both kept the fire going,
and practiced our songs (we both took voice lessons and I have to
admit, we were and still are very good) anyway, we sang for hours,
until my watch read 11:30 P.M. So we went to bed, but it was so
cold in the little cabin I could not sleep for the life of me, I lay
awake for hours. Then suddenly, I heard Tori give a
strangled gasp from across the room. I turned over, and she was
stumbling across the room to me. She was deathly pale, and my heart
skipped a beat when I saw visible hand prints on her neck.
“Tori…” I said slowly.
I saw that she needed help, and I leaped up. I got to her
just in time, she fainted and all her weight landed right on my
arms, we both crashed to the ground. I dragged her back to her bed
and flung her like a sack of potatoes onto it. I was horrified, I
mean who wouldn’t be? I was breathing hard, praying that her
parents would come in the door. Tori gave a gasp, and the color
came back to her face, but her eyes stayed closed. Then, I heard
something, and I saw the outline of a female.
“Mrs.Laylor?” I asked.
No answer came in the darkness. I wanted to look away, but
I couldn’t, I so wanted to, but I could not tear my eyes away, she
started toward Tori and I, her breathing became raspy and I did not
give anything a second thought, I tried to scream but I couldn’t.
“Why did I sing so much?” I thought wildly.
I shook Tori until her teeth rattled, even in her
unconscious state. Her eyelids fluttered open, I turned her toward
the figure closing in on us, and she sprang up with new energy. She
grabbed my wrist and tore out of the room. Then as if in a
nightmare, my foot broke through the floorboards, and became stuck.
“TORI!!!!!” I yelled.
My friend tried desperately to free me, but then we saw her
again. My fear suddenly pushed past my dying voice and I screamed,
really screamed. I felt a blackness closing in on me, and I tried
to fight it, but it flooded my vision and everything lapsed into
silence. When I woke up, Tori and her parents were standing over
me, and I will never again return to the Alps, or the cabin that the
fear still lives in.
I don’t know if you have figured this out already, but…I’m
Tori.
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