Nightmare Disease

My nightmare starts as all do. Total blackness that makes you feel like you're drowning. Like the air is being pulled from your lungs and your throat squeezes in on itself. I can see a single figure in front of me but it takes a minute for her face to come into focus. Her eyes are stained with tears and her shoulders shake. There's a pair of children't scissors that seem to mock me. Her arms are covered with scratch marks and bleeding cuts. She holds the pair of scissors up to her throat and plunges them in before I can stop her.

I sit there watching my best friend die in my arms because I wasn't fast enough to stop her. Because people piled pressure on top of her and did nothing to lessen the weight. Because of the bullies who don't care for anything but to tear others down and this is what happens. Death.

I suspect I had this nightmare because I actually found my friend in the bathroom at school preparing to cut herself. I don't know what I would have done if I showed up a minute later than I did. I've never been so scared in my life.