Darkness

Christian Baumgarth

Economos

AP English Language

6 November 2012

               

          I am done with my homework at nine so now I have a little time to relax in my basement and write my blog. I open up Microsoft Word and try to think of a topic to write about. Five minutes……… ten minutes……. half an hour and no ideas pop into my head. So I think about what is going on in my life at the time………. still nothing. Then I get an idea that’s just crazy enough to work. Well, here goes nothing!

         
           I sit very still in my large recliner with a blanket over my body to protect me from the coldness of my basement. This is no different than what I do any other night. I enjoy having a little time to myself to do anything that I want. Some people would hesitate or be a little frightened to sit alone in the darkness of their basement, but I don’t mind at all. I’m not scared of the dark!

All of the lights are off and the only luminance comes from my TV turned to NBC to watch the results of the presidential election and my computer screen. I have the volume off on my TV so the only sound I hear is the quick tapping of my fingers on the computer keys. I feel a strange sense of satisfaction as I am living in my own little world down here free to do whatever I please.

I pause for a minute to take a look at the number of electoral votes that each candidate has when something strange comes over me. I get a chill running down my back and I suddenly seem very cold. I look behind me and all that I see is darkness. I feel like someone or something is here with me….. watching me….. listening to me. Strange creatures of the dark waiting for me to make one wrong move and become their victim. I suddenly begin to feel insecure as I sit here all alone wondering what is going on. As I take a deep breath everything becomes quiet, but not a peaceful kind of quiet. Then suddenly, I hear a loud noise coming from behind me and I jump in my seat. I then go back to work as I realize that it was just the howling of the wind.