Above all the pressure of walking in your shoes - Andrew Bustos (8 ebook reader TXT) 📗

could force the dorr to stay shut if that big beast hit the door. I stood there holding the door for at least ten minutes stood up and I was confidient that what ever it might have been chasing me was truely gone. So I stayed in that building for the gas station but while I was in there I took what I thought the only chance to try to figure out where I was at.

While I was exploring this gas station I found a desk as I started to go through it I started to finding things at first it was normal things you would find in a desk:paper, pencils, ect. But then it started to get weird I started pulling things out that would most likely never be in a desk like: a gun some shells, a flash light, and a picture i felt drawn to as if I knew who it was but I could quite make out the facial features of the person  but the body type was extremly familiar. As I continued looking at the picture I heard a crash and the breaking of glass then finally a blood curdling scream. I jolted and flintched i wake up my mother is standing over me. "Andy are you okay you like you have seen a ghost" she asked "I guess you could say that"I muttered She walked out and said "let me know if you need anything sweetie and I love you".

Later that day I started drawning what i have been seeing in my dreams while I was outside they were so detailed and I dont know how i managed to be able to has such artistic ablity. "Whacha doing" Lucas asked as he peeked over my shoulder from behind the tree "Nothing that you need to worry about!" I barked  "And another thing who the hell let you outside?" He simply looked at me as if I were crazy and I didnt know what was going on and he simply stated "That lady let me outside she wanted me to tell you to come back I didnt know what she means Andy." I looked at him confused and  finally said "What the hell are you talking  about Lucas?" He just got upset at me because i didnt believe him and walked into our house and slamed the door.

Night time was drawing near and I was begining to fall victim to a natural body instinct which is sleep I could fight it. The same dream began over again as they always do same place except there were no ashes just fog and there was no ungodly beast chasing me down,However there was something puzzling going on there was someone standing in the middle of the road about sixty feet from where I was the fog was to dense to make out who it was but i knew it was someone that look fimilar... I followed him untill he disappered into a building i did not know from any of the dreams before. But I knew what it was it was a hospital why did he lead me here? I went in, the sight was ghastly the floors covered in blood rust and hardened peices of wet plaster, the walls were brownish green in color. Most of all there was no one there what so ever was I alone here? I kept walking asking if anyone was there checking all of the rooms.

A room that spoke in a hushed voice

I finally found a room that was either rusted shut or locked without any way of opening it. This room was different from the others in front of the door there was no filth like the others on the same floor it looked brand new. I looked at the door and and the number on the door I knew it but from where? What was the meaning of this. I walk into that very room I feel as if I`m in third person the scene is set I am there twice I was so confused..How could i be there twice? I was sitting on the side of a bed next to an empty hospital bed with ooze in the color of dried blood and puss. The version of me by the hospital bed head its head in its hands sobbing with no signs of stopping in between sobs iI could make out hearing," I let him do this how could I have let this happen" I walked over there and sat next to myself as a doctor came in and said "I`m sorry to inform you Andy but he didnt make it the burns were to great I`m sorry for you loss" The person I was watching that happened to me walked over to the window and slunk into a corner and sobbed i walk over there and grab myself and kept screaming " who is it, tell right now or I swear I....." and I stopped shaking myself in that form and watched as he turned into ashes at my feet and that room began to fall apart around me. I heard a voice say "Andy you know who I am this will not go away things will never be the same again...You cant fight this you know you cant forget me."  I Scream "show yourself show me your face, show me who you are."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" I feel the scream fall from my lips I try to silence myself before mom comes running. And I mange to do so, but  I still dont know who is haunting me and why do I keep seeing them everywhere when will the end come when will I know who? I drift back to sleep and I begin to see flashes of the burnt face of that teenager that I saw at that house  I knew just who it was at that moment its.... My mind stopped I wake up on  the ground of some where unframiliar but I know where I am.

The final showdown

Now that I am here in this place I see him he is standing right in front of me. "I know who you are." I say to him as I`m bursting into tears " I loved you so why did you do this if your no longer here kyle why?" He goes from being just a line on the horizon to being right in front of me in a matter of a blink of an eye " You see Andy I know you loved me I loved you also but where were you the day of the fire why did you let me burn?" he wondered. Kyle looked at me like he used to before he died with those beautiful brown eyes that looked like peices of amber and they sparkled in the right light and thats what they did at that moment. "Kyle you knew i was gone that day,I told you I was going to the store." I say. He screams "why do you insist on lying to me, do you think I am so stupid I didnt know what you were doing!" I think to myself about that fateful day two years ago the day of the fire, do I destroy the only person I have ever loved or do I continue lying to myself and to Kyle? I`m not going to be a monster anymore I said to myself. "Kyle I`m not going to continue lying to you or myself because I love you..... YOU WERENT SUPPOSE TO BE IN THE HOUSE I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE IN THERE." I sobbed for a great deal of time and then finished explaining "I SET THAT FIRE!!! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TRY SAVE ME YOU KILLED YOURSELF TRYING TO SAVE ME!" I continued to cry.

"What are you talking about Andy, we both dont exsist we both died in that fire." he said "I died holding your hand trying to drag you out I was within fingertips of the door but it all collapsed,thats why I have been following you because the life you think your living isnt real you died with me two years ago." He proves this to me by our hands together and there was a light our hands were shining while we were doing this the scenery began to fade and I watched him fade into nothingness and then there was nothing but black.....

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Publication Date: 08-15-2013

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