Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Dark Source ❯ Fear of the Dark ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1 Fear of the Dark

As Vera walked down the hallways of her school on her way to her locker, she felt as if everyone was against her. She felt as if everyone was out to get her, and no one really accepted or liked her. As she walked, she looked at the ground, trying not to look up at anyone. As she reached her locker, she looked up and put in her combinations. She put them in and opened the locker door, she put in the books that weren't needed, and took out the ones that were, and she also took out her book bag. She closed her locker and put her book bag on. Then she walked down the hallway towards the school doors.

She reached them, opened one, and stepped out; the sun shown bright. She walked home slowly, not wanting to go home because she was afraid of what would happen. As she walked, she heard little kids playing and laughing cheerfully as if nothing could ever go wrong in the world. Vera, wished she could think like that again; having no fears, happy, care free, but she wasn't, not after her moms passing. Everything had gone wrong.

As she walked up to the front door of her house, her neighbor, and old friend, Bryan waved to her, she waved back, forcing out a smile.

(when you see ` ` that means she's thinking, and of course when you see "" she's talking.)

`I hope he's not home` she thought as she searched for her keys in her book bag; she found them and opened the door.

As she stepped in, she smelt the smell she dreaded to come home to. The mixed smell of smoke and alcohol, which always meant her dad was home. She walked in, trying to be very quiet, and hoping that he was asleep, and walked as quiet as she could. She managed to get up to her room and closed the door. She put her book bag down beside her bed.

Her bedroom, was a bright sky blue color, and the ceiling was black and had glow in the dark stars painted onto it, well… it used to be like that, now the bright sky blue walls were covered in stains, and the ceiling that had a beautiful scenery, was just black, her father has painted it over so many times, that it was darker than dark could be. Though, spite that, she was able to keep her bed it good shape, and so did her father, but only for special reasons. She had a dresser that her mother had given her for her 9th birthday. It has 5 drawers. They all used to be filled with clothes, but now, all it had was a pair of jeans, a belt, socks, underwear, a couple of shirts, 1 skirt, and pj bottoms. She kept her uniforms in the closet. On her dresser was a huge mirror. She never had any friends over, so the need of cleaning or repainting her room was not needed; though, she wished it was.

She sat on her bed, and did her homework. Then, after finishing, she put everything away. But then she heard a pebble hit her window. She stood there, then another hit the window, she walked up to it and opened it and stuck her head out. "Hey! Think I could come up?" It was Yusuke, he had just moved back from the US. So, he had no idea what had been going on with you. Yusuke had moved to the US for reasons unknown to you, he had moved back about 6 months ago. Though, this was the first time she had seen him, he was never around. But, he went to the same school as her. Vera and him were always hanging out.

"well… my room… its… not… I…. uh…" she starts off. "Doesn't matter! My room's always a mess! I'm coming up!" he says.

He started climbing up this vine thing that was under you window. Before he left he was always climbing up and visiting, even when she had locked the window, he always found some way to unlock it.

Vera stepped aside so he could come in. When he did, he looked shocked. "what… happened… to your room?" he asks. He had always found her room to be the coolest ever. She kept her eyes to the floor, not answering. "my… mom…. She died shortly after you moved…" she says, keeping her eyes to the floor. He looks at her with sad eyes. "oh… I'm sorry… I didn't know…" he says to her. He walks up to her and puts his hand on her shoulder. "but… that doesn't mean you have to be depressed over it… that was almost… 6 years ago…" he says while smiling warmly at her. She looks up and looks him into the eyes.

He had grown a lot, he was now taller than she was herself. And she was a good 5'7'. `he's gotten really cute…` she thought.

"and it doesn't explain what's happened to your room… what happened…" he asks. "I… don't… think is I should tell you…" she says to him.

"how come?" "I… I'm…" she says, trying to say something that doesn't give him to much information. "you don't look to good either… what happened to all the lights in here…. There's not one…" he says looking around. Then the sounds of footsteps on the stairs could be heard. Fear was suddenly the expression on Vera's face.

"go! Go now! Before he gets up here!" She says to him. "Who?" "Just go! "what's going on?!" "Just go!" She tries pushing him but doesn't succeed. He finally decides to go when the doorknob turned, by the time the door was open, Yusuke was gone and the window was closed.

Vera stared in fear at the person in the doorway, it was her father. "why do you look so scared?" he asks smirking. He closed the door, and walks towards her. She steps back. "get on the bed." She stood there, scared. "I said get on the bed, now!" he yells at her. She, scared, gets on the bed. He laughs and digs into his pocket and pulls out a knife, and slowly walks up to her. She closed her eyes, and prepared herself for the worst.

Then she felt him grabbing her arm, and the cold metal knife digging into her skin. She did all she could not to scream, this kind of thing happened every night. She just was able to hide the marks because they were on her leg, but, her uniform sleeves weren't long. He moved the knife up to her neck; he put it to the back of her neck and left a long scar. She was bleeding heavily. "hm… your lucky… I have to get to work… but… *smirk* I'm off tomorrow." He gets up, walks out of the room, and closes the door behind him. Vera stood up in pain; she got out of her uniform fast so bloodstains wouldn't be left on it, then she carefully put on her pj bottoms and a white shirt.

After 15 minutes, the bleeding stopped, she then got into bed. Everyday, she felt the same pain, the same fear, the same longing for death to come upon her. She just wished that her life would end, and take the pain away with it. She had nothing to live for, her mom, whom she loved so much, was dead, and Bryan was moving in December, which was 6 days away, and she thought that Yusuke probably thinks she's a freak. The moon wasn't out that night, so the room was extremely dark. She was scared, scared that he would come back, she wanted her own death, but was afraid of dieing.

`why can't anybody help me… why am I all alone?` she thought to herself. A tear forced its way down her cheek. `NO! I mustn't cry… it'll show my weakness… he well no I feel pain…and do even more…` She felt as if the dark was consuming her, she pulled the covers closer to her head. `who would help me?... who can help me?` As these questions flowed threw her mind, she slowly closed her eyes, and fell asleep.

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