Morning had come with the sun rising above the horizon in the sky hiding behind the dark and gloomy clouds. There would be no rain for the day. There was already the presence of depression from the weather. With the New Year passing, it was going to be a frigid day, but the chance of snow was slim. Even if it was thirty three degrees outside it would rain instead of snow. That’s how it was in Oregon.
However, the weather did not matter to Madison. Her alarm buzzed 8:30. Refusing to get out of bed, she hit the snooze button, and rolled over. She had a restless night and got very little sleep. The whole night she tightly gripped the covers by her scrounging face. There was continuous scratching at her door and occasional creaking. At one point she thought she heard a moan, but the scratching remained. It was until light began to peek through the room did the scratching stop and Maddie was able to doze off.
Five minutes pass and the alarm goes off again. Hitting the snooze button again without even turning over, she continued to lie in bed. However, the alarm continued to buzz. Maddie sat up and saw her cell phone next to the clock buzzing. She picked it up and flipped it open. The name read Erin.
Groggily she answered, “Hello?”
“Maddie! Good, you’re awake.” Erin spoke with energy.
“Yeah, just barely. Anyway, what’s up?”
“You don’t remember? We had made plans to get coffee this morning.” Her voice almost sounded disappointed.
“Oh,” Maddie said as she looked at the clock, “that explains why my alarm was going off.”
“You forgot,” she said as a matter of fact.
“Sorry, I didn’t have a good night sleep last night. That reminds me, I read you’re story.” Maddie rubbed her face and positioned her feet to the floor.
“Really,” She immediately perked up, “That was fast. How did you like it? Is there anything I should change?”
“I thought it was really good. Gave me the creeps.” Maddie shuddered by her own words.
“Thanks.”
“I’m curious, Erin,” she said as she slowly walked to the door almost hesitant to open it, “where did you get the idea for the story?”
“Oh, I based it off an old ghost story here in town. Mr. Gregor, the old man across town, was nice enough to tell me about it. I changed a couple of details to my story from the original to make it sound a little more real.”
There was no response from Maddie. Only silence over the phone.
“Maddie, are you there?”
She did not move. Terror had completely frozen her in place. Erin continuously said her name over and over again, but she did not respond. Because what lay before her was a corpse.
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