We All Wear Masks

I have to get out of here! I screamed through the crowd. Out of my way! I ran as fast as I could towards to bar door and headed straight for my car. Then as soon as I put the key in the ignition, he was there. It was the man in the mask! I slammed on the gas and he jumped on the hood of my car..."Great." I said aloud. "One night all my own and a strange man in a mask ruins the whole evening." 1

Then I shrieked. The car slid forwards as the man punched on the glass, it could have knocked through it but his hand only made a crack. Then I swung the car sideways but he hung on tight. I couldn't get far before someone ran across the street. It was 2 o clock in the morning and I was getting tired.2

Then, *crash& poof* something strange happened. It was a head on collision.3

"And that's all you remember?" Penny looked up at me from her notebook. She had been writing down the story, my story, the story of how and when I became undead.4

"And this is why you think you're..*cough*...undead?"5

"Well..I mean."6

"Cookie, I think you need to re-evualuate things a little. Take a break for awhile, and things will clear up."7

I walked out of the office and headed towards my apartment. It had been only two months since the man in the mask and the alleged head on collision. The one that no one had acknowledged or remembered. And here I was, a few scratches and bruises, but nothing distinugishable to count as proof.8

I headed up the stairs and into the apartment, flipped on the lightswitch and there he was, Ahhh! The man was sitting at my diningroom table and drinking a cup of coffee.9

"Cookie, why not Crumby?" He said then he laughed. "Ha Hah ha heeeh heeeh heeh"10

I was so shocked and confused that I didn't know what to do. I thought to grab the fire extinguisher like I had seen on the movies, then a thought came to me. "Stay calm...I am only having some fun."11

I saw the man pull out a gun and in an instant I was surrounded by sticky black goo. Shadowy fingers tickled me and pinched me. I heard howling, screeching, like birds only more like some diseased animal, and then I heard a low growl....*growlll* 12

*bang* *bang* *bang*!!13

I saw myself sitting at the coffee table where he was sitting, reading the newspaper and then my head turned towards me. It took a second for the sick realization that my head was turning without me moving it. My head was spinning, around and around and I saw my face with shiny pearly teethe and one gold crowned tooth. 14

I was trapped in some parallel universe, I was totally losing it, or I had already lost it, maybe I was dreaming? The banging grew louder and worse and worse, then I realized where I was, slipped on my blouse and hurried to the door. "Open up!" Someone shouted.15

"Open up!" I turned to the bed, huh!? There was a naked man sprawled out on the sheets, as hot as ever. 16

"Come here, Cookie." Then I realized it was a dream, I was swept over with relief and sunk down to the floor.17

"Cookie. Why don't you see who it is."18

"I finally got up the nerve to open the door just a crack."19

Ahhhh! I was so shocked, outside the door was another man, he was similar to the one in the dream only he had a mustache. 20

"Christ! Who is this woman?"21

This guy pushed the door and then looked like he was about to puke at what he saw. "Zack? How could you???"22

Then he looked at me, and I couldn't help but laugh.23

"Don't mess with me" 24

I turned to the door. "Not so fast." He said.25

The guy's hands went slowly towards his pocket. "You're not getting out of here that easily." And there was a small silver knife. 26

He aimed the knife as me, began jabbing at me. Then he jabbed at Zack.27

"You! You slept with a girl, you pussy!!"28

"What has the world come to? Bisexuals! All of you are bisexuals!"29

This was starting to scare me.30

"Cookie! Run!" Zack hollored. 31

But I was trapped and so I did the only thing that sounded plausible. I began to scream. A screw must've come loose or something because that was when I felt my head spin. It kept spinning and spinning and then the guy was screaming and even Zack was screaming.32

Then the other guy, not Zack, started walking towards and running towards the door and so did Zack and as he opened the door the other guy came tumbling out through it and onto the railing.33

We were on the third floor. He flipped over the railing and fell. My head stopped spinning then, I looked around somehow my head had recovered and there was the smell of fresh onions and tomato soup.34

I figured that it was lunch down in the cafe. Then I peered over the railing and there was no one there. No one at all. When the police-man questioned me about the incident, then ordered me some therapy, I told them this story, exactly.35

"Well, Cookie, I can see why." Just as the therapist got up I caught a wiff of the tomato soup, and knew it meant trouble. I looked at the therapist and then I really screamed. The therapist had a look of terror and laughter. I jumped over and pulled on her wig, and it came off, and so did the mask. 36

"Wait a minute...!" I pulled on my own face and it slid to the floor, along with everything else...and then THEN I was face to face with the person I knew it was all along, my shadow, DEATH.37

THE END.38