I flopped down on the pull out arm chair, and pulled the lever back to release the foot rest. I shifted in the seat until I was in a more comfortable position between two pillows and then looked over at J who was trying to pick a movie to watch. S was lying on the lounge, a bowl of popcorn in her hands. 'Just pick something' she said to J who was still trying to decide between two dvds. He finally decided and slid the dvd into the dvd player. He grabbed the remote off the top and flopped onto the couch, missing S's feet by on a bit but with enough force to send some popcorn flying across the room onto the floor. S got up and switched the lights off, then laid back onto the couch. J pressed play on the remote. The movie began. I reached over and grabbed a hand full of popcorn, and ate them on at a time as the opening credits ran. "So what did you decide on?" I asked. "twilight zone", he said. 'I felt like something creepy". I laughed and said "so you decided on twilight zone?” He laughed and said "just watch it". The movie started with a guy standing in a lab. He was playing with some chemicals, when a (for lack of a better word) ghost like creature appeared behind him. I pushed into him and you could see the imprints of the ghost on his skin. It began pushing outwards, stretching his skin outwards away from him. He screamed in agony and I felt a wave of nausea watching the movie. Then the guy appeared fine. He had a strange look on his eye as he walked out of the lab. His assistant was sitting at the computer typing notes. He walked up behind her, she didn't seem to notice, and then he went translucent and went into her, doing the same thing that was done to him, stretching her skin as if he was trying to break out of her. Except she didn't seem fine at the end. Instead he managed to break through the skin and splattered blood across the room. I got up, feeling a bit grossed out to go grab a drink of water. I asked S and J if they wanted anything, and J asked for the chocolate from the cabinet in the kitchen. I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of coke from the fridge. I turned to the cabinet and reached for it. The door swung open quickly by itself. I jumped back for a second, then composed myself, grabbed the chocolate off the top shelf, closed the door and headed back inside. I tossed the chocolate across the room at J. I asked him if the door of the cabinet ever opened by itself. He laughed and said he was surprised I could even open it since it always got stuck and he had to yank it really hard. Weird I thought. I leaned back in my chair to peer into the kitchen. I could see the cabinet from where I was sitting. It slowly opened itself again. I turned my attention back to the movie, telling J that the cabinet was opening itself again. He got up and walked towards it, but it was closed. I laughed it off and said I was trying to scare him, even though it had happened. I leaned back in my chair, watching the ghost in the movie rip through a new person. I began to wonder if this movie even had a plot other than gore and ripping people apart. The scene flickered to a house where a girl with dark hair was thrown on the floor as the guy came closer. He seemed to get darker in feel with each person he ripped apart. He reached for her, and I closed my eyes not really wanting to see another splatter fest. 'That was close' I heard next to me. I opened my eyes and turned to my right. On the arm of the chair the girl from the movie was sitting next to me. She smiled at me and said "thanks for getting me out of there. I hate that bit". I looked at her confused when the dvd just went black. It stopped playing. "Fuck" said J as he switched the lights on and went over to the dvd player. He took the dvd out, cleaned it and put it back in. Again it wouldn't play. Frustrated he decided we should head over to the main house for dinner.
I got up, and the movie girl followed me. We walked through the door into a dark backyard. For some reason, I couldn't find my shoes and we started looking for it in the backyard. I headed down towards the corner and found two different shoes, one left, one right, both my sides but opposites. One was blue and the other was black. We continued to look around the old tree. J and S had disappeared down the side of the house and I couldn't see them in the garden. I could hear the tree creaking and a strange wind seemed to be blowing through the tree... but only that tree since nothing else in the garden was moving and I couldn't feel anything. The girl from the movie came up to me and whispered that we should really go inside since she had a bad feeling, similar to the one she felt in the movie. We moved away from the tree, a strange cry seemed to course through the air and we ran for the house. We walked inside and it was warm. The dining room was dimly lit with candles and I could hear the TV in the background. The lady inside the house asked me to go into the front room and ask the guy in the front to come to the table, dinner was almost ready. I walked into the front room. The TV was playing the same movie, with another girl standing in a park as the man dove into her skin from behind her. Her clothes seemed to stretch forward as he pushed through her. She screamed as her clothes stretched further and further in front of her, revealing the impression of his face. Then instead of bursting through, it appeared to be sucked back inside. The shot panned upwards to her face. I was staring at my own face in the movie. Movie me smiled and pointed behind me then the screen went black. I turned around, nothing was there. I told the guy watching the movie dinner was almost ready. We headed to the table and sat down. There was a lot of food on the table, and the candles seemed to just light up enough of the room to make out people's faces. The movie girl sat next to me as everyone began to eat. There were two seats spare for J and S who would "be along shortly" according to the lady who had been cooking. Everyone started eating when the guy next to me started to make a big deal about having to sit next to me. I flashed him an angry look, as he started complaining about how it women should eat the left overs, and that we were all dumb. He continued on and on and I chose to ignore it, until he began to shove me every time he made a point. I started getting mad, but tried to keep it under control until he shoved me hard, almost pushing me off the chair. I screamed at him that I had two degrees and I was smarter than he would ever be, considering that all he did was sit on his butt and watch TV while his wife went out and made the money since he was inadequate. He looked shocked at me for a second then grabbed my hand and the steak knife off the table. His face went red as he called me a "bitch" and he'd teach me a lesson. Red flashed in front of my eyes for a second, then he began to scream. I watched as something stretched through him, bursting through his skin. I saw the impression of a girl's face that looked quite a bit like mine, but slightly different. Suddenly the whole room was screaming and blood began to splatter onto the walls. I closed my eyes, and curled up into a ball to avoid seeing it all. The screaming began to die down until all I could hear was the flicker of the candles. I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked up to see the girl from the movie. 'Did you have to do that? Now we have to clean this up and leave here... I was starting to like this place to. Tell me you still have you fake passport". I looked at her confused for a second. She sighed and said "don't pretend you don't know what's going on. This happens every time and now we have to start all over again." I looked to the door to S and J walking up the steps. I pointed it out to her, she looked at me and said “so are we going to run or are you going to take care of them as well? Whats two more bodies considering the mess you've made?" I wasn't sure what to do, but I heard the door click as they turned the handle. Then I woke up.
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