Nightmare’s Call

A woman in white with short hair was sitting in front of the desk with her back to him.

At night, the moonlight was like a veil, and the woman lay her hands on the table, motionless.

There was no light, no sound.

There was silence all around.

Lin Sheng lay on the bed with his head wrapped in the quilt, looking sideways at the woman at the table.

He felt a little strange, he remembered that he went to bed at half past nine, but now, depending on the weather, it was three or four in the morning at most.

This is his bedroom. When he woke up, he saw a woman sitting in front of his desk.

Where did this woman come from?

He squinted his eyes, nearly five hundred degrees, and he could only see that it was a woman in white, who seemed very young.

But where did the woman in white come from? My mother never wears white, and my sister is going to college in other places, so she always wears a school uniform.

It was eerily quiet.

Lin Sheng frowned, and tried to blink his eyes, trying to see who the woman sitting there was.

But it was too dark at night to see anything clearly.

And what made him feel even more terrifying was that he couldn't move his body!

In a daze, he seemed to hear someone talking and chatting. The voice was behind him, beside the bed where he slept, out of his sight.

The voice was close at hand, as if the speaker was staring at him while talking against his back.

He seemed to be able to imagine that there were two talking people staring at him with strange and cold eyes while chatting inaudible words.

Lin Sheng felt goose bumps all over his body.

click.

There was another crisp sound.

It seemed that the door opened and someone came in.

All the voices disappeared in an instant, Lin Sheng came back to his senses, and saw the woman in white at the table standing up slowly and silently, with her back turned to him, motionless.

Her long white sleeves were like the sleeves of a long dress, loose and empty. The movements of the body are as rigid and precise as a machine.

".I."

Lin Sheng wanted to speak, but he was horrified to find that he couldn't even make a sound.

His body seemed to be cramping all over, tensing and trembling uncontrollably. Large swaths of cold sweat seeped out from the vest, and he felt his teeth trembling violently involuntarily.

Tap, tap, tap, tap.

There were crisp footsteps from the door again, and the footsteps stopped at the end of the bed, as if the person had stopped standing still.

Lin Sheng was terrified. He tried hard to tuck his body into the quilt, try to relax his body as much as possible, and tried to lie flat, trying to prevent the visitor and the woman in white from noticing that there was someone on the bed.

He felt that as long as he lay as flat as possible, maybe they would think the bed was just a thicker quilt.

But his body couldn't move. Legs and back cramp badly. So much so that he had to do his best to suppress the trembling and pain.

Tap, tap, tap.

He heard footsteps approaching the bed.

Lin Sheng's fear reached the extreme.

He wanted to close his eyes to prevent himself from seeing the approaching scene, but the inexplicable panic made him unable to even blink.

puff! ! !

Suddenly a pair of cold hands reached into the quilt and grabbed his feet.

ah! ! ! ! !

Lin Sheng yelled loudly, and sat upright from the bed. He was covered in sweat, his face was pale, his eyes were wide open, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot.

Whirring whirring

He lowered his head, panting heavily, breathing fresh air.

"I'm having that dream again." He bent his legs and touched the place that was just grabbed by the cold hand.

There was nothing there, just as usual, no scars, no pain.

But the feeling just now is still vivid in my mind, very clear.

The morning light outside the window was bright and bright.

Lin Sheng got out of bed when someone knocked on the door.

Boom boom boom.

"What were you calling just now?"

My sister's voice was a little worried, coming from outside the door.

Lin Sheng touched his forehead with both hands, his head was covered with sweat. He took a deep breath.

"It's okay, it was just a nightmare."

"It's good that you're fine. You've been surprised a lot lately. Is there something wrong at school?" My sister asked again.

"It's nothing. Really, it was just a nightmare." Lin Sheng replied after a moment of silence.

"Breakfast is ready, get up and drink some hot milk, you will feel better." My sister comforted me, then turned and left.

Lin Sheng sat by the bed and kept recalling the dream just now.

It was not the first time he had this dream.

For three days in a row, it was the same dream. The end result is all the same. He was grabbed by the feet and couldn't move.

Subconsciously touching his feet, Lin Sheng stood up, walked to the desk, and opened the curtains with a snap.

The blazing sunlight instantly illuminated the entire bedroom, and even the dust in the air could be seen.

He is just an ordinary high school student. He has attended Hui'an Middle School for three years and is about to take the college entrance examination soon.

My father runs a grocery store, and my mother works as a kindergarten teacher. The combined income of the whole family does not exceed 100,000 a year.

My sister is still studying in a university in other places and will leave in a few days. Now she is just going home for a few days.

"So, most of the time, I'm the only one at home."

Lin Sheng was silent, and stretched out his hand to open the door.

Outside is a white and sunny corridor.

From the kitchen came the sound of my sister busy washing things, tinkling, crisp and melodious.

Lin Sheng walked to the kitchen, picked up hot milk from the counter, and drank it all at once.

Elder sister Lin Xiao never likes to dress up, she always wears a white T-shirt and jeans, not tight-fitting, just ordinary loose trousers.

The only thing that is a little peculiar is that she has waist-length black hair, a gentle and quiet temperament.

Lin Sheng put down the milk cup, reached out to pick up a piece of hot bread, and ate it with small mouthfuls.

"My parents are not here today. I will be in charge of cooking, but I will leave tomorrow. You can arrange your own life and don't worry about it all the time."

My sister turned around and took off her apron, sat on the high stool next to the cabinet, and also took a sip of a glass of milk, while chanting.

"En." Lin Sheng responded, not knowing what to say.

"Is the pocket money enough? I earned some money from part-time jobs during the holidays. It's not enough. If it's not enough, remember to ask me for it." Elder sister Lin Xiao always likes to worry, worrying about this and that. She has been like this since she was a child.

"enough."

"." Lin Xiao thought for a while, "Do you want any special products? There was a fair at the school before, and I went shopping. It's not bad. It's the specialty of Kongsi. Mail you a porcelain doll, it is said that the porcelain dolls over there are finely crafted, and many of my classmates like them.”

Lin Xiao began to think about it again.

Lin Sheng listened silently, until his sister muttered for more than ten minutes before quietly answering.

"Nothing wanted."

"Okay. Don't be so bored all the time. Go out and socialize with people when you have time. Girls don't like it all the time." Lin Xiao was helpless.

Like other friends in the dormitory, she is also a person who attaches great importance to her family, and her younger brother who has always had a dull personality has become the object of her greatest worry.

When she thought of the eldest brother in her friend's family, who couldn't find a wife in his forties because of his dull personality, she felt a sense of urgency in her heart.

"I see." Lin Sheng has always been like this.

The two of them were speechless for a while, just lowered their heads and ate breakfast quietly.

The bread on the plate quickly bottomed out, and the milk glass quickly emptied.

The elder sister put down her hand and looked up at Lin Sheng.

"Shen Chen, I'm in college and I have a part-time job. I have enough money. If you are in trouble, you can call me."

"Understood, sister." Lin Sheng bowed his head in response.

"Shen Chen." Lin Xiao suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed Lin Sheng's left shoulder.

Shen Chen is Lin Sheng's nickname at home, and only those closest to him would call him that.

"When I was away, you were a man. Help your parents. It's not easy for them now. There was something wrong with my mother's kindergarten before, and a child was lost. It happened to be the class that my mother was in charge of. Now that Everything is still being processed. Although my mother is fine, she also bears some responsibility and has her salary deducted."

Lin Sheng nodded.

"Sister, don't worry, I'm fine here."

"Then why is your complexion so bad?" Lin Xiao asked worriedly.

"Am I looking bad?" Lin Sheng was taken aback.

"Go to the bathroom and see for yourself." Lin Xiao said helplessly, letting go of his shoulders.

Lin Sheng turned around and quickly left the kitchen and walked into the bathroom.

When he looked up, the mirror reflected his current appearance.

A haggard face, pale and bloodless, with gray lips.

"Did you not rest last night? Why don't you go to sleep again?" Lin Xiao's worried voice came from the bathroom door.

Lin Sheng touched his lips, but there was only a dry, peeling texture.

"I had a nightmare last night. It's okay, it will be fine in a while."

He didn't want his family to worry, even though the nightmare was quite real. But his tone still seemed understatement.

"Okay, I'm going out first. I have something to do. When you come back from school later, you'll have some hot food for lunch. Don't worry about me. Mom and Dad are going to Grandpa's place today. You're the only one at home. Remember to bring your keys when you go out. "

"Understood." Lin Sheng replied calmly.

Soon there was a door closing behind him.

The whole house suddenly became silent.

Lin Sheng stood alone in front of the mirror, looking at his own face. For some reason, he suddenly felt that the nightmare last night would not pass so easily.

"Hope is just an ordinary dream."

Lin Sheng turned around and left the bathroom, and walked into the living room.

There were two hundred-yuan banknotes on the long wooden table in the living room.

The green paper has different colored luster with different angles.

Lin Sheng stretched out his hand to hold the money in his hand, but said nothing.

Because this is pocket money for the next two months.

Before that, his pocket money was 100 yuan a month, and the food and other things were provided by the school.

But now the two hundred yuan will take two months to manage. That's 15 yuan on a Tuesday, and when it's shared equally, it's only more than 3 yuan a day.

"I can only spend more than three yuan a day, so I can save money." Lin Sheng got up and walked towards his room.

In the room, I changed into a school uniform. On the left chest of the school uniform with blue background and white patterns, there was also a school badge, which was a simple pattern of a rooster, with the two big characters of Hui'an written underneath.

Lin Sheng packed his schoolbag, changed into the same blue and white ordinary sneakers, and hurried out the door.

The aunts and uncles who were selling vegetables walked out of the community and got on the old bus at the bus stop next to the gate.

Then I staggered and drove for more than ten minutes, and finally squeezed out among a large group of office workers, jumped out of the car and rushed into the school, catching the class bell before entering the classroom.