Chapter 3 - AT NIGHT (2)

Scary cry, fearful face covered with loam. Surrounding the place were many beastly creatures The place looked haunted, with a graveyard nearby. All creatures enclosed me, I shouted. -A Scary Night, y: Kavitha Krishnamurthy The man's black sweater had torn into shreds while his long black hair fluttered behind him. Raine whimpered when his bloody hand grabbed the back of her pajamas and whisked her out of the room. He dragged the little girl away along the hallway of her bedroom. She screamed once again on the top of her lungs, calling her mother and father. But there was a response from them. Impossible… The scary man jumped past her parents' bedroom, they should have heard her screaming, no matter how deeply they had slept. She cried and tried to get away from the man's tight grip. She stabbed her nails into his hand, but his skin was like marble. She tried to hit his leg, but he didn't even seem aware of her effort. Lastly, she bit his hand while grabbing her pajamas. The man stopped walking as he raised Raine in his left hand. Her attempt to run away annoyed him. With a low growl, he shoved Raine toward the display cabinet made of glass, where her father put his miniature towers from the places that he had visited. The glass was shattering the moment her body collided with the display cabinet, and in no time, the tiny shards pierced her skin in certain places on Raine's body that caused the little girl to wail in pain. The broken glass was scattered all over the floor. "Mommy… Daddy…" She cried when the fragment cut her feet the moment she tried to stand up. But her fear for the man in front of her turned her numb as she backed away from him and ran toward the open door in the living room. As Raine dashed toward the entrance, she caught a glimpse of two dead bodies lying on the floor. Blood was oozing out from their open wound. She knew them! "Mommy! Daddy!!" She cried in horror. The scene was too terrifying for her. Raine slumped on the ground as a loud earear-shatteringg scream escaped from her lips. She was shivering and shaking uncontrollably. Covering her eyes with her hands, she felt that man approach her again and yank her from the floor. Raine screamed when she felt her body fly in the air and crash into the wall, The pain was simply unbearable. However, it wasn't only her who cried in pain, but that man also let out a high-pitched shout and cursed. Raine lowered her hand from her face and slowly raised her head to see what was happening to the man, who caused him to scream in anguish. That man was holding his right hand, as the bulging vein was visible. It showed how much pain he needed to endure at that time. Seeing the opportunity to escape, the little girl dragged her aching body toward the door that connected to the front yard of their house. She would go to Uncle JameJameso lived next door, and ask for help. With that thought in mind, Raine forced herself to ignore the aching pain from her feet that had bled when she moved as fast as her feet could go. Faster… faster… Rained said to herself when she ran past the doorstep and landed her bare feet on the grass. The dew on the grass made the pain worse, as though she were running on top of a thousand needles, yet she didn't dare to stop and whined. When she had run halfway through the yard and almost reached their main gate, something hit her back very hard. She yelped and arched her back in pain. Her breath hitched when his sharp and long nail dug into the skin on her shoulder. "Stop or I will kill you!!!" He yelled on top of Raine's face. However, his threat didn't stop the little girl from fighting him, she kept struggling to free herself until her bleeding hand touched his upper arms. The scary man screamed in pain once again and loosened his grip on her shoulder. The understanding dawned on her as she looked back and forth from her bleeding hand to the anguished expression of the man above he; her blood was the source of his pain. Without thinking twice, Raine put her bleeding hand to his bare chest, and the moment their skin made contactshehe shrieked in anguish. "Bitch!!!" Before he could hit her, Raine wriggled her body and escaped from him. She stood up quickly, yanked open the gate, and rushed in the direction of Uncle James's yard. The scary man didn't follow her, and Raine didn't have a gut to find out why. She ran across the empty street to the white house next to her house. Fortunately, Uncle James never locked his gate, otherwise Raine wouldn't be able to enter his house. The moment she reached his terrace, she opened her mouth to call out for him. But no voice could be heard; she tried a couple of times with no avail. Frustrated, she pounded her small fist against the wooden door and kicked it hard. Pounding and hitting, again and again,n until the commotion that she made woke up the people inside the room.