Scarred

I rolled into bed after a long day at work. I have this habit of going through the events of the day in my head every night before I go to sleep. As every night I did the same thing today. I remembered walking to the office in the morning, it was cold and the wind was blowing and as soon as I had entered the building I could feel the heaters on and my body which was cold to the brick was now all warm. I had asked Janet, my assistant to get me a cup of coffee and a bagel. The day went on like any other but one unusual thing happened. Some guy had shown up at the office asking to meet me, he had somehow gotten past security and had stormed into my office, when I looked up at him I saw bright red glowing eyes. I laughed at myself now how silly I had been. Slowly my eyes become heavy and dozed off to a peaceful sleep.

After a while I woke up thinking I had heard something, I had always been a rather light sleeper. Ignoring it and blaming it on the neighbors I went back to sleep

After a while I woke up to the same noise again only it felt much closer and now was when I got scared. I fell completely silent waiting to hear something again, not even daring to breathe loudly. It was pitch dark in the room and I couldn’t see anything. Slowly and steadily I moved my hands to my bedside table to grab my phone so I could see. As soon as I turned my phone's torch on I heard it again but much louder as if it was in the guest bedroom next to mine. I tried to scream but I couldn't. As soon as I opened my mouth I felt like I was going to vomit. My eyes moved around the room and then something caught my eye, a red glow emitting outside my door, I could see it from the gap underneath. Suddenly I heard scraping on the floor almost as if someone was dragging their nails across the floorboard. “Sofia…… where are you ?” I heard it say as it drew nearer.

My body went stiff as a brick, I couldn’t feel a limb. I tried to move but it felt as if I was holding a heavy stone. I closed my eyes and focused my ears on every little sound. I could feel something drawing nearer and smell what smelt like blood. Slowly with a lot of effort I moved my hand up to my face, I felt as if there was something crawling on my face. My fingers brushed something scorching hot which caused me to open my eyes. I was blinded at first by a strong red glow right up in my face causing me to see nothing but red and for my mind to go blank. I shut my eyes close and slowly opened them again. I could see now, the red glow was still there but not as strong. I moved my eyes around and saw what seemed like the body of a man wearing a pink suit in front of me but his eyes…, they weren’t normal, they were glowing. The man at the office earlier today, his picture flashed in my mind. I stared up at the “creature's” face, the glow isn't effecting me anymore and said “you-you’re the guy who came to my office today”

“Hello Sofia,” she replied in a deep voice.