Assignment 2

Jens Vorkefeld
Introduction to Creative Writing
Writing Assignment 2

Just another nightmare
Have you ever had a nightmare? Have you ever had a nightmare that frightened you to death and almost made your heart stop beating? A nightmare that seemed so real you only wanted to wake up? My life has become such a nightmare, but I know it is real. Every morning is worse than the one before. I wake up, walk in my bathroom, look in the mirror and now that this is real. I see my face, can feel my strong muscles and feel how my whole body is fighting with itself not to fall asleep again. This is the moment when I start crying again and wish I was dead. I can`t stop it. I just can` t stop crying. At home, at a friend`s house and even in school. My life is one big nightmare that I can`t escape of. I can`t do it anymore, why did this happen to me?
Only one week ago my life was perfect. I and my best friend John were the stars at our High School. I am sure you have heard of us before. The two great Football players of the Grant High Highschool, unstoppable, admired and destined for greatness. No team came even close to beating us, nobody was good enough to stop us. Year after year we won our Conference and the national title and all the girls loved us.
But one night changed everything. The life I had before fell apart and is now a puzzle of 1000 pieces; nobody can put it back together. It happened on a Tuesday night and as usually my best friend John went to out village bar “Blue Lagoon” to celebrate our last football victory. The rock band “Low Shoulders” was life on stage that night and everybody had fun. Suddenly, however, a fire broke out and burned the whole place. The band “Low Shoulders” could escape the fire, John could not. I wasn`t there that night, I felt kinda sick and decided to stay home…a decision I will never forget in my life. Every night I am lying in my bed I can see John trying to escape the fire, looking for help, looking for his best friend to save him but he wasn`t there. John died that night and so did I. I wish I had died that night too, cause my life without him is just one big mess, without the slightest hope of being happy again and having a life at it was before.
As it should turn out my life was to end soon anyways. I was standing on the football field when our High School Diva Jennifer walked over to me. Jennifer, a girl that seemed just perfect, a girl that you normally only see on the “Maxim” cover and can only dream of. Her hair, her body, the way the smell of her perfume makes you think of angels, makes you forget everything that is surrounding you. All the boys wanted to be with her and all the girls admired her for her beautifulness. She came to me, looked me in the eyes with all her love, took my hand and said it was John`s will of us being together.
I could feel the pain in my stomach when she said the name “John” and I was about to cry again. This time I could not however. I was lost in her eyes, the way she was looking at me and the touch of her soft and beautiful skin made me forget my pain. 5 minutes later, we were in the forest that was surrounding our school and Jennifer was standing in front of me, completely naked. If angels exist then she was definitely one of them. Her legs, her breast, her skin…everything was too beautiful to be real, to be human. This was the last thing I would ever see, the last thoughts and feelings that would ever go through my mind again.
She started kissing me. She said John wanted us to be together so I returned her love, I wanted it as much as she did. A few seconds later, I m lying at the ground, unable to move any muscle of my body. I am covered with my own blood and Jennifer sits on me, her mouth full of my blood and little pieces of m flesh hanging out of her mouth. I am screaming. I am hoping this is just another nightmare and am trying to wake up but I can`t…this is real…I know it. Pain is the only thing I can feel and will be the last thing I will ever feel again. My heart is about to stop beating…..John…………..oh John.