space as his glasses were knocked from his face and into his
bloody lap. The woman tore off a piece of his skin and began
to smack it between her teeth, moaning in pleasure from the
taste.
The girl screamed from the doorway and ran away.
I finally registered her cries as she shouted, “Come on!” I
was mesmerized by the horror of what I had just seen, but I
obeyed her. I began to follow her but as I was running out, I
stopped.
I turned back to see the woman smiling at me. With
bits of boy staining her teeth and lips, she said in a luminous
and beautiful voice:
“Time for some roast beef.”
Her eyes glittered with triumph as I awoke in my bed,
sweating.
I could not get back to sleep. I was too freaked out.
I didn’t know if what I saw really happened. Who was that
woman? Had I traveled to another part of reality?
When I went for my next lesson, my friend’s mother gave me a big hug and told me not to be afraid. She had
known that something was wrong when I left the other day
in the mood that I was in. With pity in her kind eyes, she said
that I had been possessed by the woman that had appeared
in my dreams, but that the world I was in was a false reality
created by the dream woman to scare me and bring me to my
lowest point. I had been possessed by her from the moment I
had kicked my friend in the balls.
Shocked, I asked what I had done to make the woman
mad at me. My friend’s mom just shrugged and said, “Caroline, sometimes demons will be jealous of what you have
and they will try to take it away from you. All you can do
now is pray to God to have this spirit taken away from you
so you won’t be plagued by your dreams. If you cannot sleep
at night, this woman will take full possession of you. So go
pray.”
I have been praying every night before I go to sleep
now for the past two months, and not once have I had a bad
dream. Despite this terrifying ordeal, I continued my training, and I tried to not let it bother me. However, I couldn’t
shake the intense cravings I got some days, when all I wanted
to eat was roast beef.