The Storm Before the Calm

It all started on a Sunday night.  Jeff would go into work earlier on Sundays, I think about 7:00 pm or so.  I would be by myself & it would happen within the same time frame every Sunday night thereafter.  It would usually be around midnight, which is what time I would finally settle down to sleep.  I would just barely start to drift off when the vibrations would hit like thunder.  Again, my whole body was enthralled with the most intense vibrations accompanied by the loud sound they would make.  I would open my eyes to see (this time) some small, demon like creatures.  They were only about a foot tall, with long arms that almost touched the floor.  They were running around my room & appeared to be throwing things, it seemed like they were trying to destroy something.  One jumped on my bed & that is when I started to really become horrified.  Again I started praying very hard & quickly.  I would open back up my eyes & they were still there.  I would shut my eyes & start praying even harder, begging God to please save me from whatever was happening.  At this time I felt like they were there to try & possess my body.  I prayed hard for them to go away, & then I opened back up my eyes & the scream I was trying to belt out, just seconds before, was now heard.  I was screaming & they were gone.  I thanked God, but I was so scared that I did not fall back asleep.  I told Jeff about it & about the first time it had happened at my mom’s house & he was blown away.  He did not question my sanity, as I probably would have done had I been in his shoes; I mean, never having been exposed to anything paranormal.  He believed me & was actually quite proud almost that it had happened to his girlfriend.  I wasn’t aware that he & Russ had been talking about witchcraft, spirits & all sorts of things from beyond at work.  It seems that Russ was dating a girl who was a practicing witch.  I knew from the instant that I had met him that I did not trust him & that I should be sort of spooked by him; now I knew why.

I called Katie that day & told her what had happened.  She was convinced that it was because I was with him & that it was his darkness that was bringing such evil things around.  I didn’t know what to believe, I just knew that what ever they were, they were not good.  I knew that the prayers I said were what drove them away as well.

Katie came with us the next weekend to watch Jeff’s band play at yet another gig.  They were opening up for “Mercenary” & “The Dehumanizers”, a punk band from Seattle.  I was always glad when Katie would be with me at any sort of event.  I used to get drunk & want to fight with all of the chicks that were slutting around my boyfriend while he played.  She was always the one to calm me down & keep me from going to jail for battery or something; also, I just missed her company.  We didn’t get to spend every day together anymore & I missed that.  She was still seeing Eddie & had just been through an abortion because he got her pregnant but he did not want her to have the baby.  She was too young to do it on her own quite yet anyway.

That Sunday night, like clockwork, another visitor came.  This time when the vibrations started I instantly started praying before I opened up my eyes.  They stopped almost as quickly as they came & I jumped out of bed & went into the living room, turned on the light & the TV & prepared to be awake all night again.  I wouldn’t be so lucky this time; it seems I was too exhausted to stay awake.  My eyes slammed shut & the vibrations started instantaneously.  I opened my eyes to see a horrid face with the features I can only recall as being that of someone tormented & hateful.  It had blonde hair; that much I know for a fact.  I wondered later if it was an evil side of me coming out.  Who knows?  I sure didn’t.  Again I prayed for it to leave me alone & asked for God to be with me & it stopped.  This time I did not fall back asleep.

The next Sunday I was scared to even go to bed.  I had seen a pattern forming & didn’t like the result.  I put a “Jesus” pin on my t-shirt that I would be sleeping in & got into bed.  Again the same thing, only this time when I opened my eyes it was what I thought to be a black figure in a sitting position.  It was as if there was a chair at the foot of my bed, but there was not!  This thing appeared to have long black hair & stood up just as I shut my eyes to beg for God’s help in getting rid of it.  I opened my eyes feeling it’s presence over the vibrations, it was leaning over me like with my first visitor, but this one grabbed the Jesus pin & said, as it pulled on the pin & let it go (as to flip it), “Do you really think that this is going to fucking help you?”  It said this with such hatred & anger, I still have a hard time thinking about it to this day.  It was ghastly, I knew this one was dangerous, I felt it flip that pin & that means I could feel it if it tried to hurt me.  I prayed so hard & did not even stop to open my eyes again until the vibrations had stopped.  It was finally gone, it seemed as though it took forever, but it was finally gone.