Through the Looking Window
Through the Looking Window
He looked in the window, fogged up. Damn. Nothing to see in there, thought Jimmy to himself. I need to see what’s in there, I know I heard a noise come from that room. But how do I see what is in there.
Jimmy hurriedly searched the horizon for some solution to his problem. Was there another window he could look in? Could he get the window open some how? And what the hell was going on in that room?
Jimmy went around to the side of the house and looked up, aha! He spotted the solution to his problem. On the opposite side of the house was another window, and a ladder placed conveniently at the base of the house. Jimmy set the ladder gently up against the side of the house. He slowly crept up the side of the ladder, one painstaking rung at a time.
The snow was gently falling all around him, piling on top of the two feet already on the ground. There wasn’t a sound to be heard, complete and utter silence, except for the noise which drew Jimmy’s interest to the foggy window. What could this horrendous sound have been? And why was it sill playing over and over in Jimmy’s head?
Half way there, only another 10 feet and Jimmy would see what this god awful noise was.
As his head reached the bottom of the window sill, he gently peered one eye over the ledge and spied something so ghastly atrocious it made him gag and sputter out a nonsensical phrase. Then it sent him free falling back to the snow covered ground.
Jimmy landed with a thud, leaving an imprint two feet deep in the snow. Sharp pains were running through his body as he lay there trying to get his head around what he had seen. Surely that could be what he had seen, there was no way. That doesn’t exist. No Jimmy told himself, I imagined it.
He slowly pulled himself up off the ground. Thank god there had been so much snow on the ground. Jimmy began his slow stroll home. He had to cross through the woods that went behind Tom Jackson middle school, before reaching his back yard.
Jimmy set off on his short ten minute walk home. After walking for about twenty minutes Jimmy realized his trip home was taking longer than usual. Surely that was because of the snow, but as he looked around, he realized he was in unfamiliar territory. In fact, he had never seen this area before in his life.
Panic began to grip Jimmy’s chest. He started looking around frantically, trying to spot something he would have noticed; nothing. Jimmy began running, trying to race his way out of the forest. He ran until his heart felt as though it was going to leap out of his chest.
He was setting a marathon’s pace through the woods. At that moment Jimmy felt like he could out run anyone. However, it got him nowhere. He stopped to finally catch his breath. He thought that he had surely made it to the edge of the words, he hadn’t. He hadn’t even made it to the middle school. In fact, he was right back where had started running.
It made perfect sense now. Jimmy wasn’t crazy. He didn’t imagine what he saw in the window, it was real, all of this was real.
You see, Jimmy had come across something that is only supposed to exist as a legend. The Blair Witch had Jimmy; he could hear the screeching now. It was growing louder and louder. It wouldn’t be long now. The Witch had him, it was done, he sat down in the cold snow. Tears gently began to roll down his cheeks.
He could hear it now, creeping up behind him. He felt a rush of warmth over his body, followed promptly by a cold nothingness of dark haze.
Happy Halloween!!!!!