Nightlight woke up after another night suffering the lack of sleepless with stange noises and things that scared the living soul out of her.
She looked at her clock next to her bed.
8:30 am
"I wish today was a saturday." She said to herself with a yawn.
She put on her glasses, even though her left eye was blind she needed reading glasses as well, some of her friends at school questioned her, but she told them she needed it.
And she thought they looked cool on her.
The light brown pegasus toke her scarf for the winter, she also thought it looked cool on her as well but no one really minded her.
She trotted out of her bedroom and down stairs.
She saw her mother sitting on her chouch reading the newspaper.
"Where's dad?" Night Light asked her mother.
"Your father had to go work earily." She replied. Night Light made a soft sigh and trotted to her mother to sit becide her.
"So how was your sleep Night Light," Night Light layed down on her back and looked at the seiling and made a tired yawn.
"I wished I had any at all."
Night Light's mother looked at her and chuckled. "And how's that?" She said.
Night Light didn't want to tell her about those noises, she can't even decribe how they sound. And her mother would call her crazy if she told her about the feeling of something sliding a hand down her face.
So she thought up with a smart lie to tell. "Late night horror flics." Night Light lied.
Her mother made another chuckle and let out another smile.
"I told you those movies will give you nightmares and keep you up at night and get no sleep, we've talked about this last thursday."
"I know, I know mom I just like horror movies that's all...Some are just very scary..." Night Light said with another sucessful lie.
Night Light looked at her mother's news paper and one artical caught her eye.
She grabbed the article and started to read it.
Family found dead in woods!
The artical read.
A family of three was killed in the entrance of the Everfree forest.
There were bloodied foot prints of a creature of unknow origin. A team of police went to followed the tracks but were never found again. Police are still after the killer
Find out more on page 3
***
The creature sat crouched behind a tree outside of NightLight's house. Its white eyes that show nothing but looking like the dead themselves.
Its long pail arms were touching the tree's bark. But he couldn't let go. The creature was hypnotized of what his souless eyes were staring at.
Nightlight.
Ever since he saw her, he was always hypnotized by her looks. But she didn't know his existence, she may have heard his noises he makes but she doesn't know who was the carrier of those sounds she hears at night.
And they've never have even been so close up to each other that there was no way to denie both of their existences as just a lie.
But being up close to a creature who has the ability to kill anything living before they can end a scream. Is one thing he didn't want her to meet.
But not just yet.
"Nightlight its time for you to go to school." Nightlight's mother said.
Nightlight put down the article and made a yawn and got off the couch.
"I didn't even have breakfast mom..."
"Well it looks like you have to wait until lunch."
With another yawn from the tired Pegasus Nightlight grabbed her note books, text books, and her saddle bag and packed her school work.
As Nightlight exited her house and on her way to her school. The creature saw her making her way as he stood next to the same tree he always hid.
He followed her to every where she went just to look at her and watch her doing the things she does with her life.
But he always stayed in the woods, no matter how far she went away from any forest area he must stay where the trees lay.
It wasn't time for him to expose himself to public eyes. If so he'd be slaughtering them. But he wasn't ready to show himself to anyone.
He followed and watched over the Pegasus as she did her school work and talked to her friends and teachers.
But one thing draws him to confusion.
Every time he looks at her, and follows her, he had a feeling that he never felt in his life. A kind of feeling that made all of his sadness and anger and all of the things that bother with his life seem to just go away.
Last night he almost made a smile when he was under her bed. He was so close to her that he could actually put his hand on her face. And he did. He knew that Nightlight would have a negative reaction, and he knew he should've not been in her room.
But he just wanted to be a little closer to her.
Just so he can see her dreaming that night.
***
The final school bell ran and all the fillies and colts exited their class rooms and headed their way to their homes.
But Nightlight was sound asleep, and everypony in her class room had left but her.
Nightlight felt a hoof shaking her tired body. Nightlight jumped after several shakes, she got up and looked at the one who was shaking her.
"Nightlight get up." A voice said.
"Sorry Ms. Cheerilee...I'm...Just a little bit sleepy..." The light brown Pegasus said, her eyes trying not to shut multiple times.
"Sleepy...? You've been falling asleep in class more than once, this has been going on for two weeks and your school work isn't doing as good as it used too."
"I know...It's just that...Well things aren't doing as great at night and-" Ms. Cheerilee put her hoof on Nightlight's mouth interpreting her sentence. "That's just an excuse you've used more than once...Look, I know you're tired like you were the past week and this one. Today just try to do something to get some sleep."
As Nightlight lazily exited her school the creature again stared at her, but he had a slight bit of confusion of why she did so.
Is there something wrong? he thought. the creature quickly moved to the next tree and hid behind it., it wasn't big enough but contently put in a hidden spot, but he was able to look at Nightlight.
Nightlight's eyes were closing and opening slowly, he didn't know why she was doing so.
But he whipped away is confused look and continued to stare.
The creature moved from tree to tree with ease and never seen from anything else. As he looked at Nightlight entering her house.
The routine he went through was stalking her and waiting until he can't view her.
He has become a little worried about that but always forgets. He had questions of where he was at before, but he was drawn away from that. But he had question he thought of a week back.
Is this place is where I belong now?
That question was forgotten until today. So he sat down behind the tree he stood at and took time to think.
He ran through many theories, he was never good with theories.
It took him hours with failed ideas of his question.
He took reality's side and gave up with his ideas and theories. the hours of thinking and not one theory satisfied him.
He looked at the night time sky, it wasn't night time earlier.
A loud noise was heard.
He knew it was coming from himself. He didn't know how to stop it nor does he know how he makes those sounds.
Just like every other victim who looks
But what does he care?
He is nothing but a killer, but not that average mentally ill one with an adiction to homosidal actions.
That one rare thing you never see in any type of homocilde nor sociophath behaviour in any way.
That one monster with a forever feeling of lonlyness, fear, even sadness that searches for one thing that will make all of those feeling all just disappear...
But who will see something with razor sharp teeth, souless eyes and a deformed body with the lack mercy or remorce, will ever feel that kind of emotions?
But what does he know?
"I'm just a freak that needs to be locked away in some kind of cage..."
I said sobbingly.