I look around myself, feeling flustered. I was deep in the woods and it was very dark. How did I even land over here?

I looked up at the starry sky in confusion. Is this even real?

I was about to step forward when I heard a high pitched scream coming from behind me. My head whipped around to find a silhouette running towards me. As the figure kept coming closer and closer, my heart began to beat faster and faster.

I stepped back, ready to sprint in case I was in deep trouble when I noticed that it was a girl who was running towards me. A girl who seemed too familiar that I felt rooted to the place I stood. My breath hitched when I remembered that she was none other than the girl who was murdered. The girl whose body I saw this morning. The girl whose name was Mia.

She looked terrified and kept looking over her shoulder as if someone was chasing her and finally stopped in front of me. She held both my hands in hers and began rambling.

"I don't have much time, but you should know this. Don't trust him...he is not safe."

I was confused and scared by then. Was she referring to her killer? Did she know him? But who is him? I had to ask her.

"Who is 'him', Mia. Tell me." I manage to say.

"Remember my words. He is coming for you. Trust no one." She looked at me with her dead and cold eyes, her pale fingers holding mine in a tight grip.

"Who is HE!?"

I screamed out in despair. Who is he that was planning to turn my life into a nightmare. I wanted answers. Fast.

"He is coming."

Saying that, she freed me of her hold and ran past me, away and deep into the solitary woods. I was struck by her words. But I didn't have time to ponder over her words as my head began to swirl and my surrounding became blurrier.

I felt myself holding my head as it began to spin and stared at my surroundings when I noticed that I was no longer in those terrifying woods.

However, I was in a room that was completely dark and I was confused. Where was I now? It was nowhere I was familiar with and it was somehow giving me the creeps. I felt that someone was looking at me and turned around to find myself in an empty room.

Maybe I was feeling paranoid about what was happening to me. But this was all a dream, right? This can't be reality. I had to re-assure myself that I was safe and no one was going to hurt me.

Before I could calm my racing heart, a masculine voice spoke out from the shadows in the corner of the room.

"How are you, my love? Finally we meet."

I eyed the shadow near the window in horror as I backed away in fright. No, he was not real. But still, I felt a sudden need to stay away from him. I couldn't bear to be in a room with him.

My legs carried themselves towards the closed door but to my dismay, I found the door to be locked.

Before I could decide what to do next, I was pulled back into a hard chest while a hand clammed over my mouth preventing screams from coming out.

I trashed around but whoever was holding me had me in a killer grip and all my struggle was going in vain.

I stopped when I felt his breath fan over my ear before he said in a malicious voice.

"Blake sweetheart, there is no escape from me. Even death can't do us apart as I am Death himself."

And when he started chuckling to himself, I couldn't stop the scream building inside me.

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My eyes flashed open in fright while my breathing went rigid. I ran a hand over my sweaty face as I recovered from my nightmare. So, it was not real.

I sighed in relief. Thank god. But, it had felt so real. The touch, the voice, the tingles on my skin. It seemed so real.

It was shocking how I wasn't safe and secure anymore.

Shifting to dad's place has created a number of problems here. With such a small town, it becomes difficult. Difficult to know whom to trust and whom not to.

I sat up to relieve myself from the after effects of the dream when I saw that my window was wide open. This did nothing to calm my thundering heart as I remembered vividly that I did close the window before sleeping.

I slowly walked over to the window to check it out, adrenaline building up in my body to fight any impending danger. I gulped audibly when I noticed something on the window pane that proved that someone indeed entered my room when I was asleep.

And I knew who that someone was as I stared down at the red rose basking in the moonlight.

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And that was the end of chapter 6 everyone. I know that it was short but time is a luxury for me these days. Coming to class 11 is a studious deed as I do nothing but study nowadays. Well, I finally spared some time to update this chapter and I think that it was a bit boring. But no worries! The next chapter will definitely be much better than this one.

So, ciao! Until the next update!

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