Marcus' Nightmare!
It is now three years later. Marcus, who is now around 12-years old, is laying in his bed tossing and turning. He is having a nightmare!
NIGHTMARE:
Marcus finds himself right back in the same area in the dark dim isolated school hallway. He is frightened, scared, bleeding and injured as he steps backwards towards the end of the hallway looking back towards the end of the hallway as he continues to cry with his body bent forward in pain. He is getting closer to the end of the hallway where the large window and exit sign are. The eerie sounds of the crickets coming from outside the window become louder as Marcus gets closer to the end of the hallway. Marcus quickly turns his head back forward and looks back at Diane D.
Diane D is standing way down the dark school hallway staring at Marcus. She is in a trance like state looking down the hallway at Marcus giving him a cold stare with half dead puffy and swollen eyes with her face pale, bruised and bleeding.
Marcus continues to back away as he cries and frighteningly looks at Diane D. He turns his head around again and looks back towards the end of the hallway again as he continues to back away. He is closer to the end of the hallway. He quickly turns his head back forward. He suddenly stops right in his tracks and freezes with fear! He sees that Diane D has moved closer to him! Suddenly, Diane D moves and slowly starts to walk towards Marcus. She then runs towards him!
Marcus stands there frozen in fear! He finally breaks loose, quickly turns around and makes a quick painful dash for the back stairwell doors! He pushes the stairwell doors open and quickly runs into the stairwell as the stairwell doors close behind him!
Marcus cries and screams as he frighteningly and painfully runs down the staircase practically rolling down the staircase with his body still bent forward in pain! He hears heavy footsteps jumping and charging down the top flight of stairs after him! He screams even more! He quickly runs to the first floor stairwell doors as his body remains bent forward shouting, “Aaaaaahh! Help me! Somebody help me please!
Aaaaaahh!"
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PRESENT:
"Aaaaaahhh!" Marcus wakes up screaming as he sits up on his bed! His slim mother Jessica and slim grandmother Vanessa rush right into his bedroom!
They rush right to him and shout, "Marcus!" They bend to him and grab him as Vanessa shouts, "Marcus, it's okay! It's us!"
"Aaaahhh, help me, help me!" Marcus screams. "She's still after me! She keeps coming after me in the back stairwell of the school! She keeps trying to kill me! We have to call the cops!"
"Call the cops?!" Jessica shouts.
"Yes! I want her arrested!"
"Arrested?!" Jessica and Vanessa shout.
"Yes!"
"Oh Marcus!" Vanessa shouts. "You're having another nightmare about Diane D!
You can't have her arrested, because she hasn't done anything to you lately! She hasn't been anywhere near or around you since a few years ago that night inside that school hallway!"
"I don't caaare! I still want her arrested because she keeps coming into my dreams and nightmares!"
"Marcus the police can't arrest Diane D for that!" Jessica shouts. "She has no control over your dreams and nightmares!"
"She just might! I still want her arrested! We have to call the police on her!"
"No Marcus!" Vanessa shouts. "We cannot call the police just because you see someone in your dreams and nightmares! They cannot control your dreams and nightmares! It's your own subconscious doing that to you!"
"So what are you saying Grandma?! Are you saying that you're not going to call the police on Diane D?!"
"Yes that's what I'm saying Marcus! The police cannot stop you from dreaming or having a nightmare about somebody!"
"Okay then! If you won't call the police on Diane D, there is only one way to stop her from coming into my dreams and nightmares."
"Oh yeah?! And what is that Marcus?!"
"Kill myself!"
"What!" Vanessa and Jessica shout. "Kill yourself?!"
"Tell us you didn't say that Marcus," Jessica shouts. "Tell us you didn't say that!"
"I did say that Mom! And I mean it too!"
"No Marcus nooooooo!!"
The next day, Officer Henley, a stocky white male police officer with dark hair around his mid 40's and Officer Grey, a slim black male police officer around his early 40's are standing outside the Diaz-Davidson Charity Organization's front door. Alex, a tall white/Hispanic male with dark hair who is one of the employees, opens the front door. He sees the police officers and says, "Hi. May I help you?"
"Yes," Officer Henley says. "I'm Officer Henley and this is Officer Grey. We would like to speak to someone in charge of the Diaz-Davidson Organization."
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"You mean Margarita and Tomas Diaz-Davidson?"
"Yes them."
"Oh they're not here right now. They're out of town."
"They're out of town?"
"Yes."
"Where?"
"They went back to their home country to the Dominican Republic."
"They're in the Dominican Republic now?"
"Yes."
"How long have they been there?"
"Oh they've been there for the past few months."
"They have?"
"Yes."
"Do you know when they're returning?"
"They should be back in another few months."
"Another few months?"
"Yes."
"Is Diane D with them? Is she in the Dominican Republic too?"
"Yes Diane is with them in the Dominican Republic also."
"She is? How long has she been there?"
"Oh she left the same time they left which was a few months ago."
"Has she been back and forth here since a few months ago?"
"No Diane hasn't been coming back and forth. She hasn't left the Dominican Republic since she's gone there with her family a few months ago. Why? Is there a problem?"
"Well, not with Diane D or anybody in her family."
"No? So what's the problem then?"
"Well, it's about that kid Marcus who claimed that Diane D beat him up inside that isolated school hallway that night a few years ago, then chased after him in the back stairwell of that school. You remember that case right?"
"Of course I do. Everybody remembers that case. What about it?"
"Well that kid Marcus is still having nightmares about Diane D coming after him in that isolated school hallway and in the back stairwell of that school."
"Yeah I heard that kid is still having nightmares about Diane even though a few years already went by."
"Yeah. He claims that Diane D is trying to kill him and he keeps calling the police department claiming that he wants Diane D arrested."
"What! He still wants Diane arrested?! Listen, Diane has nothing to do with that kid's nightmares! She has no control over what he's dreaming about!"
"Try telling that to him."
"She has not been anywhere near that kid since that night she appeared at his school a few years ago, she's in the Caribbean! So you cannot come here and arrest her for something she has no control over!"
"No sir, you're misunderstanding! We're not here to arrest Diane D!"
"You're not?"
"No."
"So what are you here for then?"
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"We just want to see if we can talk to her. We want to know if she and her family can try to talk to this kid Marcus just one more time and tell that kid that she forgives him for the hoax that he and his brother pulled on her and her family years ago! Maybe if he finally accepts her forgiveness, his nightmares of her would stop and he would stop calling us telling us that he wants her arrested!"
"Look, Diane has tried many times since that incident to tell that kid that she forgives him, especially when she heard about the nightmares he keeps having about her, but every time she gets on the phone and tries to talk to him, all that kid does is scream at the top of his lungs and runs away from the phone, shouting that Diane is a monster!"
"We know he does that, but we just want to try and see if Diane D can try just one more time to talk to him."
"That's right," Officer Grey says, "because this kid keeps calling the precinct with these false accusations of Diane D. We want this kid to stop calling the precinct because of his nightmares. We cannot stop this kid's nightmares. That's why we want to know if Diane D can try one more time to tell the kid that she forgives him and hopefully his nightmares of her coming after him will stop because he's talking about taking his own life again!"
"What!" Alex shouts. "Oh no! He is?!"
"Yes! He might have to be on a suicide watch again!"
"My God! I'm sorry he's going through that, but what else can Diane do about it if the kid refuses to come to the phone and accept her forgiveness?!"
"Try to talk to him just one more time. If the kid still refuses to come to the phone to talk to Diane D and accept her forgiveness, then it is out of our hands. It's in his and his doctors' hands."
"Well I'll give Diane and her family the message when they return in another few months."
"Okay, thank you sir."
"You're welcome."
"How is Diane D by the way," Officer Henley asks. "Is she okay?"
"Yeah she's fine. She's enjoying herself in the Caribbean with her family and relatives."
"She is?"
"Yes. I think that kid Marcus is the last thing that's on her mind right now."
"I'm sure it is. Well thank you sir. Tell them to give me a call when they return?"
"Sure, no problem Officer."
"Okay. Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"Take care."
"You too."
Officer Henley and Officer Grey turn and walk away.