A Creepy Night

 

One dark night, Alana went for a ride on her bike. As a shy girl, she gathered all courage to answer her friend’s challenge to prove her bravery by riding through a cemetery in the town and took a selfie in front of the biggest tomb in the middle of it.

 It was raining lightly and nobody was seen on her way from her house to the cemetery.

Upon arriving, she opened the creaking gate of the cemetery and slid through. Nothing was heard except the soft sound of raindrops and the whistling wind that breezed coldly passed her.

She looked around and surely she would not find anybody stupid enough to go there. She pushed her bike slowly along the path between the tombs approaching the biggest tomb. She whispered to herself, “Go on, brave Alana. You can do it. Go on.” But still, her trembling body couldn’t hide her fear.

As she was whispering, a faint sound of something soft dragged along the wet grass caught her attention. She quickly looked around but her eyes only saw tombs protruding above the ground. She walked again slowly and still the same sound seemed to follow her. She began to feel very anxious. Then she turned and looked back and when she faced forward again, a dark figure flew right towards her as quick as a lightning. It had the scariest face she had ever seen. It was a vampire with two sharp fangs coming out between his lips.

“How dare you come to this place, young girl?” he grunted.

She tried to make comprehensible words but she was too scared to do it. She could only babbled. Shakingly she walked backward slowly. Yet the vampire approached her slowly but surely. She searched her pocket but she only brought her cellphone.

She took it out and tried to contact someone. However, all she touched was the camera application. It opened and turned the backlight accordingly. She tried to close it but the vampire noticed and stopped her. “Don’t close it!” he said unexpectedly. “Why?” Alana answered, still shaking with fear. “Why, to have selfies of course!” So, he took the phone and had selfies with Alana. He kept smiling during the selfie sessions and grinned a lot. Alana, on the opposite, was really ackward. After taking many selfies, the vampire handed the phone to Alana and thanked her. He then vanished without a trace. 

Then she hurried up to get out of the cemetery. Once she reached the road she pushed the pedals as hard as she could and headed home. Instead of taking a selfie, she got selfies of herself AND a vampire.

(A workshop assignment from Ms. Frances Christie in ISFC 2016 Post Congress Bandung)