The Shadow

Do you need to go to the nurse? Are you OK?"

"Yes I am fine and no I don't need to the nurse." I can see that he was worried because it was the first time that I had acted this way in front of him.

All day I was thinking of what had happened in the morning. I was walked towards my last class of the day, I was bored and tired because all day I had been doing stuff that I don't like; doing presentations, making projects, walking all the time to the library, I couldn't make it. I went into the classroom and I noticed that no one was there. I felt a kind of coldness in my back, the one you feel in a winter morning when the air is blowing really, really hard and your buggers freeze still inside your nose. I hesitated to look back but when I did, there was a red stain on the floor, a broken glass and the red juice that I had seen when I walked in the school this morning. I saw something run in front of me really fast, it was too fast I couldn't see it. At first I thought it was Fast Tom, but when I examined my mind--were I had saved the image-- it was some kind of a shadow. Scared, I ran to the principle office, hopping that there was someone there that could help me, but what would they think? Would they think I was crazy? I didn't care. I got to the office half laughing, half-crying. I was laughing because I thought that I could beat Fast Tom at running. Crying because I was so scared that I almost peed on myself, I had to go to the restroom first, I didn't want to because the Thing might appear again. I had a choice, go to the restroom and face the Thing or pee in Mr. Richardson's office, get humiliated and have to stay after school to clean my mess. I chose going to the restroom. As I went walking into the restroom, I felt the cold, bitterness again, but because all my life I wanted to be brave; like William Wallace on Braveheart, I thought this was my chance. I walked inside, acting very cool, holding my hand in a fist, I knew that I wouldn't be able to beat the Thing, but I was cautious. I went inside one of the stalls and waited for the Thing to come for me; I knew it would come because that is what always happens in the movies. Suddenly, I saw a Shadow on the floor, it didn't look normal; not like a human, it had a weird shaped head and it had unbelievably short arms. I was surprised at how I saw the details but at the same time I was terrified, I had to go pee; it almost came out. I stayed there for more than 20 minutes, I think. When I got out of the restroom, the school had already ended; I could see the teachers getting ready to go home. How long did I take? I started running towards the front door of the school before anyone could see me--it was the closest one to where I was. I opened the huge doors ran home.

I was thinking of the Thing, I was thinking so much of it, that I even gave it a name "The Shadow."

"Stanley, honey, come down and eat your breakfast!"

"Coming Mom!" Breakfast? It was already breakfast! I thought it was dinner.

"Stan! Come on!" That's my sister, Susie, she is a very inpatient child.