The Dream

Fiction:

Before we went to bed we made jokes of talking skeletons. my brother said it will be fun to see a skeleton walk and speak at the same time.

That night as I closed my eyes to sleep, I saw the image of a dancing skeleton in my room. I was amazed at first but I soon began to scream after it made its way to my bed. The skeleton spoke to me saying, "where is it?" "Where have you kept it?" It went straight to the cupboard by the right corner of my room and started searching for what I had no idea of. I tried to escape using the opportunity but to my utmost surprise I could not move.

The skeleton took out a box from my cupboard and said in excitement "yes, I found it". Then it turns to me and said scornfully, "you I shall teach you a lesson never to meddle in other people's business". I have always been a quiet girl and I hated meddling with other people's business so what was the skeleton talking about I tried to speak but I could not. It approached me and took me out of the bed. That was one of the most frightful moments of my life. It's locked me away in a tiny box with no room for movement.

After what seemed like forever the box was opened and I could breathe again. The scenery had changed to that of Riverside. I did not see the skeleton anymore. What I saw was the image of a strange man who dragged me out of the box. He began to argue with the skeleton. After sometime he handed something over to the skeleton and said, "this is your property now leave and never return". Soon the skeleton was went away and the man wrapped me up and carried me like a baby back home.

As we approached the compound where I lived, I felt someone tapped me on the shoulder. I opened my eye to discover that I was lying on the bed and my brother towering over me and saying, "sister wake up we are late for school". Only then did I realise that I had been dreaming all along.

After that frightening dream that I had, I began to stay away from strangers making sure that I never collect anything from people and that I returned everything I collected from them before they even asked for it. Seeing skeleton in my dream again was off the record book for me and it is something I would never want to repeat itself again. Skeletons became an abhored topic for me