the nightmare

With one swift motion, Jill's head turns as her eyes scan the room. Nothing. She is alone, with only an unusual silence. Her friends have oddly disappeared.

"What, where, what's going on?" Jill sputters as she looks around in the darkness. She hears quick footsteps behind her and snaps her head back to catch a glimpse of a shadow now gone, and a plastic wrapping rustling in the distance by the cold breeze now felt on the back of Jill's neck.

"Who's there?" Her voice is a little shaken. The breeze stirs up again, the plastic wrapping rustles, then silence. "Hello? Who's there?"