Part 2

Maria sat up from the bed. She looked around, she wasn't in the dark hallway anymore. Sweat covered her body and she was breathing heavily. Michael sat up and looked at her. "Are you okay?" Michael asked her concerned. Maria didn't look at him she just kept breathing in and out, in and out. "Maria?" Michael called her name. Maria looked at Michael. "What?" She asked in a while little kids voice. Michael chuckled, he loved it when she did that. "Are you okay?" He asked again. Maria nodded her head, and laid back down. "What was it?" "Just a nightmare." Maria told him, afraid to shut her eye's. Michael laid back down and pulled Maria close to him. "A nightmare huh? Then you should stay close." Michael said into her ear. Maria giggled and faced Michael. "I should huh?" Maria said kissing Michael on the lips. Michael ran his hand under Maria's shirt and pushed her closer. "Yes, you should." He said bring Maria into a passionate kiss. Michael rolled on top of Maria, with his lips still attached to Maria's. Michael pulled away and stared into Maria's eye's. He smiled at her and went back to her lips. ----- Maria walked into the crashdown for her morning shift. Liz smiled at her best friend and followed her to the backroom. "Hey Maria. You okay? You look tired." Liz told her while Maria put her stuff in her locker. "Ya, I'm fine. I just didn't get much sleep last night." Maria told Liz. Liz smirked. "Ooooooh, Michael again?" Liz asked and then winked at her. Maria giggled and hit Liz on the shoulder. "Ha ha ha, I just had this nightmare. No big deal." Maria told her. Liz shrugged her shoulders. "Oh really, what was the nightmare about?" Liz asked her as both of them walked out of the backroom. Maria shrugged her shoulders and tied her hair back. "I don't know... It was scary. That's all I can say about it. Like really scary." Maria tried to explain to Liz. Liz rolled her eye's. "Well, lets get back to work." Liz told her. Maria smiled at her and nodded her head. About an hour later Michael walked in for his shift. Maria smiled when she saw Michael. How could she even think about breaking up with him? She loved him, and he loved her. Michael walked up to Maria and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Hey." Michael said to her. Maria smiled at him. "Hey." She said back. "What time does your shift end?" He asked her. "Umm, at noon. What about you." Maria asked him. "One, so you gunna wait for me?" Michael asked with a smirk on her face. "Sorry spaceboy but I'm gunna head home and get some sleep. I didn't get much last night." Maria told him. "Oh sorry about that." Michael told her with a smirk. Maria laughed at Michael and shook her head. "No, it's just the nightmare kinda kept me up." Maria told him. Michael nodded his head and headed to the backroom. ----- Maria got home after her shift and went to her bedroom. Her mom was out of town for about 2 weeks. She didn't mind, sometimes she liked having the house to herself. But she would usually stay the night at Michael's when her mom was out of town. Maria laid down and closed her eye's. She was so tired, all she wanted to do is sleep. Maria heard a noise and opened her eye's. She got off her bed and opened her bedroom door. She walked into what she thought was her hallway. But all of the sudden it turned into the hallway that was in her nightmare last night. But this time it wasn't just one long hallway, it was a hallway with turns that lead to probably other long dark hallways. Maria turned around and tried to go back into her bedroom, but she saw nothing but darkness. Her bedroom had disappeared. Maria started to walk slowly down the hallway that she hated so much. She thought she heard someone behind her but she ignored it, knowing if she turned around nothing would be there. Maria stopped walking wondered what way she should go. She sighed to herself and turned right. "Your back, Mariaaa." The whisper that scared Maria the last time said. Maria just kept walking. "Your mine, Mariaaa." The whisper echoed through the hallways. Maria didn't know which way the whisper was coming from. It seemed as if it was everywhere. Maria shivered and kept walking. A brush of wind came from behind her. Maria turned around. 'If there was wind coming from that way. That means there has to be door or a way out.' Maria said to herself. She started to run the other way. Hoping she would find a way out. Then she saw it. It was a door. Maria ran faster, wanting to reach the door. She finally reached it and opened the door. It was her bedroom and Michael was in it. He was looking at the picture of him and Maria, that Maria had next to her bed. Maria tried to walk in but a clear class door was blocking her. Then all of sudden someone came behind Michael with a knife. "Michael! Behind you!" Maria yelled. Michael couldn't hear her behind the class that was blocking her. Maria pounded on the class, hoping she would break it, but it didn't. The person that was behind Michael took his knife and stabbed Michael in the back. Michael dropped the picture frame breaking it. Maria heard Michael yell in pain. Maria pounded on the class again. "NO!" Maria screamed as she pounded harder on the class. She felt the bruises forming on her hands. "Michael! Please god, don't let this happen." Maria screamed. Michael fell to the floor and the person who stabbed him seemed to disappear. Michael crawled to the class door and placed his bloody hand on it. Maria fell to the floor with tears in her eye's. She placed her hand where Michael's was. "Michael...." Maria whispered. Michael looked into her eye's. She saw all the love in them. More tears poured out of her eye's. Maria than heard the evil laugh again. The one she heard last time. But Maria didn't look anywhere else than Michael's eye's. "I lu... love y.. you." Michael whispered to her. With that Michael's hand slid down the class door, leaving a blood trail. Maria screamed in pain. "Michael! Michael! Please get up! MICHAEL!" Maria screamed. "This isn't real. This isn't real. This isn't real. THIS ISN'T REAL!" Maria screamed. Maria pounded her arm against the wall. "Wake up, Maria! WAKE UP MARIA!" Maria screamed. But she didn't she just stayed there in the hallway with her dead lover. "Please god, let this be a dream." Maria cried. "Please... please..." TBC