Snippet #2048670

The girl's hands slipped off the trapeze and she fell to the ground. Screaming. Flash. The circus atmosphere turns into the sky. Something drops to the earth below. Flash. The sound of a smack. Footprints in the dirt. Flash. Nervous breathing. A gun. Flash. Bright light. A chorus singing. Flash. The chorus turns into howling. Red eyes....Flash....that change into blue eyes. A golden cross. Flash. A petrified boy covered in gold. Flash. A circus tent. The sound of buzzing. It becomes louder....and louder....AND LOUDER.

Alice gasped as she awoke to the feeling of sweat on her forehead. She looked around. She was still in her room. She looked out the window and saw that the bright red sky of afternoon had been replaced with the black of night. Alice felt something at her feet; it was the Fellowship of the Ring book that she had been attempting to read for the third time before she dozed off.

Alice looked at the clock. It wasn't that late at night, but still, it was night. Alice wondered when her parents and grandparents would get home. They had left for some sort of meeting that was a "secret". Secrets were no surprise to Alice. There were many secrets that were never shared with her, just like the secret that she was a witch.

As Alice swapped her sweatpants for jeans, and her tanktop for a Dr. Who t-shirt, she tried to analyze her dream. All of Alice's dreams had been about death, but this dream seemed to be the first that showed more than death. And the circus tent; it looked extremely familiar to Alice.

Alice grabbed her keys, wallet, and phone, and stepped through her front door. Before she closed and locked it, she paused to watch her furry brown cat, tabitha, sleep on the old blue couch.

Alice turned on the engine of her blue ford and started to drive up south. She was sure her parents wouldn't be back until later. As Alice drove, she looked up ahead at the bright lights of the small city before her.

Alice was near a dusty looking restaurant, when suddenly her car started making funny noises. Before she knew it, her car wouldn't start.

"Damn it!" she shouted, as she unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car. She opened up the hood of the car, and started to check to see what was wrong. She had a weird feeling that she wasn't supposed to be near the restaurant that was right beside her.