Flight Of Stairs

Flight of Stairs

Susie's bedroom was a typical girl's room. Stuffed animals on one shelf, books on the other. Pictures of her and her boyfriend hanging on her walls. Her bedroom walls had a faint lavender tone. Even at 25 Susie would always be a little girl at heart. She felt the safest in her bedroom. She got all the privacy in the world, nobody to bother her. Plus it was her safe haven from the big bad world as she liked to call it. There were so many bad things going on in the world but none of it would affect Susie as long as she was in her little bedroom. After work, Susie couldn't wait to go home and get under the covers all tucked safely in bed. Her and her boyfriend Joe also spent a good majority of their time watching movies in her bedroom. Susie was grateful for that little safe space she had. 

At 11:30 P.M. Susie stepped out of her room to go downstairs to the kitchen to make a hot cup of cocoa. She was getting ready to watch a movie. After she made her cocoa, she walked right to her bedroom and opened the door. Susie dropped her cocoa and gasped. Her bedroom had changed! The walls were black. No pictures hanging on the wall. No stuffed toys. No TV. No bed. No nothing! It was just an empty room Susie entered. "How could this be?" she thought panic struck. "I'm imagining this. I'm probably dreaming". Susie makes hot cocoa all the time. And today of all days, in just a very brief moment, her bedroom changed! She stepped out of her safe haven for less than ten minutes and got back and now nothing was the same. Susie felt confused and scared. There had to be an explanation but there was none that she could see. The room was a dark silent room. To the right corner, Susie saw a door. But that was impossible. Susie did not have a door that led outside. She felt the need to approach the door and open it but was so afraid of what could have been behind the door that she wanted to resist. She turned around and tried to run out of the room to the hallway of the house, but that door was gone! The only door that was left was the new one Susie was afraid to open. But if she didn't open the door then she would be trapped. Trapped in this eerie and silent room. 

"HELP!" Susie cried out. 

"Mom, Dad, HELP ME!". Nobody came to her rescue. Susie walked to the door and put her ear against it. She didn't hear anything. Her heart was racing so fast to the point where she felt it was going to burst right out of her chest. She opened the door. All she saw was a flight of stairs. 

A very long flight of stairs leading up. Susie was confused. "Now I know I have to be dreaming", she thought. She walked up the dark lit stairs. It was a never ending stair case. But where did it lead to? Was it going to lead to somewhere safe? Susie looked behind her and the staircase going back down was so dark like a black hole that she was afraid if she lost her balance, she would fall right in. The stair case would swallow her whole. She continued to walk up. And up. And up. Going back down was no option now. It was as though with every step she took, the previous step was chipping away. Her room was now a distant image in her mind. She no longer felt safe. She had a gut wrenching feeling that she may never see her room again. 

She continued to walk up. And up. And up.After a long travel up the flight of stairs in what it seemed like slow motion, Susie finally found a door. She was so hesitant to open this door too for she had no clue what could be behind this door, but she could not go back down. The flight of stairs will eat her alive. Susie opened the door and there was a hallway. The hallway had doors. It looked like she was in a someone's house. It was a nice looking carpeted hallway. 

Susie heard screaming coming from one of the doors. She shrieked so hard but unable to scream herself. "STOP! PLEASE"! Susie heard cries of what sounded like a young woman who was being attacked. Susie ran towards the door where she heard the screams from and saw the door was open a crack. A woman was being bludgeoned to death by a crazy mad man. And Susie was watching it happen! She stood there in shock and unable to move. But the man and woman in the room did not even acknowledge her presence. It's like she was watching a movie but up close and personal. Susie looked back and headed out the door. The room diagonal from that room where the woman was being attacked, Susie saw a German Shepherd. It was whimpering as though it was wounded. Susie tried to walk towards the dog in the other room and saw the dog's fur was matted in blood. The dog was sitting in a blood bath. There was a man lying next to the dog dead! It was THAT same man who attacked THAT woman in the other room! Susie let out a scream finally. She tried to run back as hard as she could. She ran towards the same door in which she came in through the flight of dark stairs, opened it, and started screaming. The stairs opened up and Susie was falling in. Like a black hole, she was getting swallowed in.

At 12:30 A.M., Susie woke up in a bed at the local county hospital. The doctor came over to her and put his hand on her head and smiled. "You had one helluva nasty fall there kiddo. You have some broken ribs and a bad concussion. But it could have been worse. You are lucky you did not break your neck with the kind of trip you had. Maybe next time you won't leave things lying on the stair case for you to trip over." Susie was so groggy  but still remembered her dream. 

In her dream she didn't fall down the stairs, she was being eaten alive by the stairs. It was so dark and so vivid. Then she heard doctors yelling down the hallway that caused her to jump right out of her drugged up state. They sounded panic struck. From her bed, Susie saw right outside her hospital room. She saw doctors frantically transporting away a woman who had been through a very horrific accident. Susie all of a sudden began to feel beads of sweat rolling down her face and her air supply being labored. It was the same woman in her dream who was being bludgeoned the death by that man! The doctor came into Susie's room to check in on her shortly and saw Susie was as white as a ghost. "Is everything ok"? he asked her. 

"I have to get out of here Doctor. Please! That woman...that woman you just wheeled by my room, she was attacked by a crazy man...please Doctor, I am scared", Susie pleaded. The doctor tried to calm Susie down. "There is no need to worry. You just relax now. That man is not going to hurt anybody again. He was a crazy jealous boyfriend who was way too possessive of his girlfriend. She tried to leave him and he wouldn't hear of it. Shortly after he had killed her, the woman's guard dog attacked and killed him."

There was no more mad man on the loose. 

Fictional Story Written By Zainab Ali