That spooky encounter!

I could feel commotion and havoc all over the place. It was an ambience of disturbing pandemonium. Ah! My head ached like as if it were going to blast. I couldn't move my body either. Looked like as if I have had a strenuous workout after a decade or so. Where was I? I struggled hard to open my eyelids apart. The scene was totally out of focus like one of those poorly focused photographs I usually take. It was all dark, or may be kinda sepia toned. I tried hard to focus squinting and relaxing my eyes alternatively. Slowly it all became clear. I remembered those microbiology classes at school where we adjust the lens to have a clearer view of the strain on the slide.

It was clear. She was standing right there a few steps ahead of me. Scrawny and raddled soulless eyes which were caved in and pitch black with tiny red pupils. An unnatural smile smeared across her face, slowly expanding into a grin. I quickly closed my eyes because I knew that was not real. For a second I convinced myself before opening my eyes again. There she stood closer to me than before with her dislocated jaw, half ripped tongue, and the jagged saw-edged teeth with old blood stains on them. There were rancid saliva drips all over the chin and neck which had blood red highlights. She had stitches all over her limbs, that were messy and stapled from which drops of blood ran all the way to the floor. She had no hair nor eyebrows.
She looked terrifying.

My brain froze. I was petrified and horror struck. It was not in a position to give orders to those trembling limbs which were ready to take a flight. I felt unstable. Never have I even in my worst dream thought that I would have an encounter with the monsters I have so long been witnessing in movies, which even I would watch only with half opened eyes. Suddenly the skeletal creature started juggling towards me. In haste knowing not what to do, I quickly reached out to something near me. I got hold of something, I didn't know what it was but I realized I was holding onto it tight, so tight as any kid would hold his parents' before going into a monstrous slide at the theme park.

All of a sudden, I felt something sharp on my hand. It was dark. I couldn't see a thing. I traced it all over. It seemed like a log of wood, just that it was extremely slimy and overly uneasy to touch. I could guess it would have been the ugliest log on earth. I traced over further. Yes! I got hold of the thing that pierced me. It was sharp, kind of a nail. I traced over again. It was a hand.

My heart skipped a beat or may be two.. No! may be my heart stopped working right there. I was numb. Breathless. I stood there shivering. I quickly gathered some courage and grabbed my mobile and used the flashlight to see that "whatever" near me. I could see a silhouette of something big with no proper figure to let me guess. It turned towards me and came closer.

The creature was cosmic and gnarled with huge twisting horns that disappeared into the midnight sky. I could feel it's claws-so sharp. It's eyes were vacant. I knew it was the end. I blindly stood there like a corpse knowing not what to do expecting what is destined to happen. Where was I? Am I going  to die? Oh monster! Please do not swallow me. If only I knew my end was near, I would have engulfed all the chocolates and pizzas and icecreams in the world. Coz who would bodyshame a corpse?!

I felt aghast. A shiver struck down my spine as I could witness my end nearing me. All of a sudden, I heard something human. Ah! I knew my mind was playing games with me. How I wished to meet someone!! Someone human. Someone like me. I heard it again. Hmmm... I keenly listened.

"Hey you idiot!! let go of my hand!! Drunk again?", The voice said.

Only then I realized that I was at a Halloween party that night and the vodka put me asleep for a couple of minutes. Gosh!! And if the beast with slimy hands and sharp claws was my friend then who was the...

Nah.. Don't panic. it was the mirror!!
Eeeeeeee...
Happy Halloween 😁