A car arrived at the parking lot of Crystal Coast High. A teenage girl wearing a dark green dress and black flats with golden flowers, alighted. She said her goodbye to her father and immediately ran into the school building.
In the hallway a boy wearing a plaid shirt, a jean and walking shoes, called out while approaching her.
“Ruby!”She turned around to see a colleague of hers, holding two large items.
“Happy Birthday.” He said stretching two large dairies to her.
“Thank you Urie.” Ruby replied while observing the two large books in her hands.After a few moments of admiration, they both walked to class, having a little chat on the way.
Ruby was greeted by a few of her classmates , then slipped into her chair in-between her two best friends.
"Happy Birthday Ruby," Tessa beamed from her side.A clap echoed through the class starting from a blond boy named Andrew, who seemed the most astonished. Soon the whole class picked it up, excluding the two, Ruby and Tony who looked like he was having a cold.
Mr Tapper the class teacher walked in, restoring order in the class. He walked to the chair with some books in hand, standing for a brief moment before he smiled at Ruby.
“Happy Birthday Ruby.” He said, maintaining his smile as he sat.
It was twenty minutes short of 12PM and Ruby was laying on her bed. She smiled, remembering the gifts she had received. The only thing left for her to do, was sleep. She had said her good night to her parents an hour ago, but was a little late to bed, mostly because she was unwrapping gifts and designating them for their different purposes. Ruby heard a knock on her door and sighed in frustration.
“Who's there?” She waited for a response, but what she got was a harder knock.
“Who's there?” She asked, getting more irritated. "Mom?" She walked sluggishly to the door and on opening it, saw no one.
Ruby hesitantly closed the door and headed back to her bed, but before her body could touch the bed, she heard something drop behind her.She turned around and walked to the middle of the room where an unknown object had fallen.Threading cautiously, Ruby picked up the object.
'You have to do something'
A voice whooshed past her ear, causing a tingle in her spine. She looked around, sweat forming on her forehead.
The object she held was a very old locket with a chain attached to it. The cold locket bit into her skin as she sat on her bed. Opening the strange object Ruby examined it cautiously.
On the inside of the locket, there was a carved symbol. A square with four triangles on its four sides and four smaller ones on its edges.
Ruby glared at the object that seemed to have fallen out of nowhere, more stunned than earlier and took a deep breath.
She looked around the room like it belonged to a stranger as fear cripped into her bones. A violent shake of her head was was enough to disperse the thought and she dropped the object on her desk. Ruby laid back on her bed, dog tired, ignoring the voice, too faint to be real. It might just have been her mind, reading the wrong meaning to everything.
Sleep didn't come easy to her. She tossed and turned helpless to the powerful fear dancing in her heart
“Don't be paranoid.” She whispered to herself.
'It shouldn't seem stranger than I want it to be.' Ruby thought as she turned of her lamp and slammed back onto her bed.
Ruby heard a creak beneath her bed, her closing eyes flew awake, widened to the darkness in her room. The creak continued as Ruby laid frozen, holding her blanket tightly to her chest. Her bed slowly began moving making loud noises as it went. Ruby was so frightened, she thought she had already started dreaming. She tried to feel for her lamp, but it was not there. Suddenly the bed moved backwards, hitting the wall and sending Ruby into panic.
She once again felt for her lamp and tried switching it on but the lamp didn't go on. Fear didn't allow the petrified girl get off the bed and once again the bed sped forward. Ruby found herself laying again and this time the bed began to turn, getting faster with each passing second.
“Dad!!” She couldn't help but cry out at this horror.Ruby hid herself under her blanket in hopes that the horror would end, but it continued.
'Can't they hear what's happening?' She questioned, with a disoriented mind.
She slowly became unconscious, and even if the room was lit up, she wouldn't see anything.Her head spiked with pain, and she lost the feel of her body. The loud creaks from beneath her bed were now very faint, till she couldn't hear the noises anymore.
'You have to help my people'.
It stopped abruptly, almost throwing the lifeless girl off it. Then it returned to its former position.
Ruby laid lifeless on her bed, getting a semblance of the sleep she desperately wanted.