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The bright white screen fills the room as I hold the remote up to the TV. I flick continuously through the channels, hoping something will take my fancy. I pause on a breaking news story. The voice of a woman fills the air as she explains. ‘A runaway escapee and murderer last seen heading towards the South end of Australia has disappeared. Anyone in the areas of’, I reach for the off button as the mumbles of voices drown out as the TV turns off. I put the remote down and shut my eyes. The dark patterns and swirls fill the darkness as I fill my mind with the endless possibilities from some of the deepest parts of my mind. I replay the series of my day over and over in my head. Replacing the mistakes in the day and presenting myself with what …show more content…

My hand covers my mouth, steadying my breathing as I crouched behind my cold, wooden bedroom door, curling myself into the smallest shape imaginable to try an escape this unimaginable circumstance hoping I would not be found. Outside, the floorboards creaked as the footsteps came ever closer towards me. I swallowed a huge lump in my throat as I look down and close my eyes. My heart thumps against my chest like an African skinned drum as I open my eyes and peer out into the faint light pouring into my room from the moon. I peer through the crack in the door frame, as I put my hand to my chest. I look hard as the figure moves towards the moon light. I inhale as the intruder steps into the light to revealing a knife. I retreat backwards towards the corner behind the door as my leg scratches along the ground. I gasp I hear a low exhale of breath as the thuds of the intruders feet stamp hard down onto the ground towards me. The door flings open as the flow of the white, bright moon light covers me. I sit there blinking violently trying to adjust my eyes as a hand explodes out of the darkness and grips onto my shirt as it violently jerks me out of the corner I had once hid. I am flipped onto my back and slide along the wooden floorboards. The intruder leans down beside me, knife in hand and begins to speak. ‘Home alone are we lad, don’t you wish this was just another nightmare you could wake up from?’ His blood shot eyes staring at me as I flick between his smirk and his knife as I watch him slide the blade up to his chest. The fixated intruder smiles deviously as he turns the blade toward me and begins to move down towards me chest. My lungs decrease in air as I beg to him. Telling him that I value my life, explaining that I am so young, that I want to experience all of the joys and occasions the world has to offer. His dry throat crackles as he leans back and laughs. He speaks as he tells me ‘the world is full

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