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Nightmare
By Dwayne Langley
 

I went to Levi's crib and Donna told me he was at the church. I went to church, and it was huge. The building was so dark inside, and Gothic, The sanctuary was like Mars Hill's without all the pillars, and it was on the 2nd floor. On the first floor it was a big living room or waiting room about the Size of True Vine’s actual sanctuary with red carpet everywhere, a long dark hall way which has the entrance in it, and a long stair way up the wall of the room to go to the sanctuary that had a double door on each side of the long balcony at the top of the steps.

The congregation was so full that people were spilling out of the window, and people were still coming right on in at that risk from the 2nd floor of the building. I played the organ, but there was no drummer. Katina and Eric were not there yet. The church was located between McShaine and St. Thomas Halls at SJU, but it was like SJU in the 60's or 70's, before all the buildings and streets, a whole lot of jungle and trees. The service started at midnight every night for the whole week. I saw everyone that I ever knew in that service from reality and dreamland, including a white midget who has appeared in my dreams in the past. Everyone was having a great time, and Levi and James were absent as usual. The service was over sometime the next morning. When I came out of the church, we were back on Lehigh Ave., were the Church really is, but there wasn't any buildings; just desert and mountain, but I felt familiar with that, And I saw these girls across the street, right under a mountain, so I Went over to talk to them. I don't remember how the conversation started, But at the end of the conversation I said, "U should meet James... he just might help save Ur souls!" I started walking back to the church and Winnie was like, "Is that punkin (James) over there across the street’ Tell that boy to come here!" Then she turned around and started talking to her friends. So I walked back across the street, and he was on the mountain strolling on down. So I waited at the street, and I was him come down and start staggerring. So I went towards him like, "What's taking so long’" but he never replied. As I got close to him, I saw him on crutches, and his legs were cut-off at his knees. He was pissed-off about something, and I was like, "HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!?’" "WHAT'S WRONG!?!?’", but he still never replied. He walked right pass me. I approached him and said, "YO, TELL ME WHAT...”, and he took off. He threw the crutches at me, ran on the stubs of his legs into the wall of the church, and his body crumbled and all that was left was his skull. I dreamed that I woke up crying, and I was so sad. Dave came over and I told him what I saw. We didn't know what to make of it. I was simply in mourning. So we both went to church that night. It was located at SJU again. Michelle gave us some bags and told us to take them into the kitchen, which was downstairs. It was so dark, but we could barely see our way through the kitchen, and I could see a silhouette of him. I turned the light on and it was so dim that it didn't make too much Difference. But as soon as I turned it on, the light switch turned off, almost immediately after I moved my hand from the switch. I was like, "Ghetto @$$ church!" I thought the switch was hard and I didn't put it up all the way for the light to stay on. I reached for the switch again, and I felt somebody's face. So I jumped back and said, "DAVE! WATCH OUT! SOMEBODY'S UP IN HERE!!! DAVE!!!" And suddenly, I saw Dave (his silhouette) grab his neck as to try and pull the person's hand off of it, Then Dave's whole body started rising up into the air. I woke up.

I went back to sleep. I had run back to SJU's parking lot near the cafeteria. Security already knew about Dave, and they said he was stabbed to death. They said everyone had to go home via shuttle, not by himself or herself. All of the campus shuttles were taking everyone home from there. I saw Faith and Tiffany getting on the shuttle and they seemed a little skeptical, or at least, pretty nonchalant about the situation, so I told them that Dave was dead. But there was a girl left and the shuttle was full, then I saw Chy Chy pull up, so I got out of the shuttle, and went to His Jeep. Him and Stephanie were there. I was like; "Yo I need to talk to you NOW, U going 2 the caf?" He said yeah. We went in the cafeteria, and it looked more like a diner. Then Cheryl came and sat next to me. I told them all about Dave and James, and as I concluded the story, the sun started shining so bright into the cafeteria, and it dawned on me, that it was about me. Everything that happened was an attempt to get me. So I said, "Yo we should be the good guys!" And he was like," Well..., errr..., umm..." I said, " OK I'll just be the good guy!" He was like, " We nee to just go to my apt." So we went to his car, but Cheryl started going towards our car. I was like, "What are U doing? Just get in Chy Chy's car!" Of course she didn't, so I got in our car. Of course Chy Chy and me got split up on the road. Then I told Cheryl to go straight to Chy Chy's crib and get out of here, I had to run back to the church and deal with the problem. I realized that it was all about my faith on the way to the church. I had to run thru a jungle. As I was running thru the jungle, there was a herd of rams charging towards me. I kept thinking to myself, "If I keep my faith, they'll run around me. I gotta keep going." So I kept running and they went around me. But then I saw a cougar jump out across my path. Then a cheetah and a lion. I thought to myself, "I can't stop, I gotta keep my faith, gotta just keep running." All of the animals were making their noises of going into battle, I was scared as hell, but I can't possibly outrun any of those animals, and they were all between the church and me. I made it to the church. I jumped in there, and ran into the waiting room to get out of the darkness. I started walking up the steps, and just happened to turn around, And there were two zombies carrying bloody knife shards with their Arms raised right behind me, As if to try and kill me, So I ran up the stairs, and they chased me. I ran into the first door of the sanctuary, and everybody was a zombie. I ran to other door and there was one waiting outside of it, but I got past him, and I made it to the bottom of the steps before I was cornered. One of the zombies that appeared to have authority over the others spoke to me. It was a female. She said, " Why put up all the fight’ Cheryl didn't give much argument!" Then I saw Cheryl. She was one of them. She was near naked and was trying to provoke me. I was in shock and I really started to lose my faith, then I woke up.

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