Scared of Darkness >> Open

[Rayleighe White]

Rayleighe awoke in her Slytherin dorm early around four o'clock in the morning. She was not in the mood to go back to sleep, so she just layed there for awhile. Gazing into thin air, deep black color that could be anything. Raye didn't even blink it was mezmerizing to her. She could tell it anything, but really it already knew. What was it? Raye didn't even know. She scooted up to lean against the wall upon her bed. All she thought about was her family. It just kept bringing the thought back and back, no matter how hard Rayleighe fought against it. It made her cry, she hated thinking about her family.

The other student Raye shared the dorm with was still fast asleep, so Raye got up and sat in the window. She gazed out at the dark sky. Why was she so ammuned to it, but so attracted. She loathed it, but wanted it. Normally Rayleighe wasn't one to brake the rules without her friends by her side, but today was different. She needed the urge, the punishment, for some odd reason she wanted it and in her mind she needed it! "Meow..." shrieked a bright white cat. Raye noticed her from the corner of her eye. She'd never seen the cat before. It scared the living daylights out of Raye and she fell out of the window seat on to her knees. "Shit!" Raye mumbled,"Why me?"

As Rayleighe sat there in pain, she went over her conversation with the darkness in her mind. She had to get to it, touch it, talk to it in person. Shaking her horrid aching knees out of her mind, she slipped on a pair of denim cuffed capris and a tight lime green cami. Raye grabbed a pair of lime green flip flops and clutched them in her hand. She ran up the stairs from the common room bare foot and into the main hall. She put on her flip flops and heard another meow. She spun around on her heel to find the stupid white cat following her. "Shoo you stupid cat!" Raye said sternly to feline who didn't move an inch. She blew the cat off and kept walking and of course so did the cat.

Ignoring the pet, Raye pushed the door open and took a big whiff of the cool, wet, black, outside air. Rayleighe tip toed through the dewy grass toward the Forbidden Forest. Yes this was outlawed and against the rules, but at the moment Raye didn't care. She finally started to hear the crackling of leaves under her feet, so she knew she was among the trees. She sat down and leaned up against the tree trunk staring out into what she could not see... the unknown.

The cat was still there. It plopped itself right down next to Raye and just purred. "You damn cat, what do you want?" Raye asked the cat. It just meowed. "Fine i'll keep you..." The cat purred satisfied. Rayleighe layed her hand atop the cats fur and petted, scratched, and ruffled the cats fur. The cat just purred, it seemed to be enjoying itself. "I'll name you Emerald!" Ray told the cat and it began to meow loudly. "Of course I knew you'd like it..." Raye began to talk to the cat like a person, it became her best friend,"Do you like the darkness too or are you normally scared of it like me?" Raye wasn't sure at the cat's reaction or her own. She was in need of somebody to wake her up from this nightmare!