Silence fills her dark room, yet Eve’s eyes snap open to look around her. Chills run down the length of her body as she pulls the covers up to her chin. What is going on? It’s that same feeling as though she is being watched. Her eyes wander to the dark corner furthest from her, as usual. There is nothing there, even after she turns the bedside lamp on.
Something doesn’t seem right and tonight she doesn’t feel like going back to sleep. She isn’t an imaginative child.. She can sense something unnatural. Her head falls back onto her pillow. For hours it seems, she stares at the ceiling, the walls, and the fading moonlight. Finally the outside world begins to soften with the morning light. She turns her bedside lamp off and manages to sleep for a couple of hours.
Eve feels like crap when i
