1 Meeting Mr.Hypnos

The first day I saw him, was my first day of first grade. I'd notice him lurking in the shadows watching me, I didn't think anything of it though. Although one day I got curious, and I decided to walk up to him. I crouched beside him, and smiled as I asked "what's your name!"

He turned to me, with his dark face and said "I'm Mr.Hypnos, what's your name."

I was confused at first, because when he talked I never saw a mouth on him. I decided to ignore that, and said "I'm William, nice to meet you Mr.Hypnos."

For some reason Mr.Hypnos smiled after hearing me say that, but his smile scared me a little. His mouth stretched across his face all the way up to where his ears would've been, and his teeth looked razor sharp.

He held his hand out, and that's when I noticed that he had no bodily features, and it looked as though black paint had been dumped on him and was dripping down him. It scared me, but I was a very nice kid back them, so I brought out a shaky hand and grabbed his hand. I could've sworn that his smile grew even wider when I took his hand, but I don't know why. The bell rang suddenly scaring me, I turned back to him and said "sorry Mr.Hypnos I have to go to class, I'll see you later though!"

I stood up and waved goodbye, and he waved back. As I rushed to class, I started seeing him in every single shadow, even if it was the tiniest shadow. There were a few times when I saw him in my own shadow! Eventually I reached class, but for some reason he wouldn't go in. I didn't think anything of it, and just continued on why my day.

When class was finally over, and we were going to get lunch I decided to eat with Mr.Hypnos. I got my lunch, and then sat next to him. During the time I ate, we got to know each other. Although most of the questions were directed at me, and he wouldn't answer most of the questions I asked him. I was just about to ask him why he wouldn't go into the classroom, when the bell rang. I stood up, and grabbed my tray as I said "well I have to go home now Mr.Hypnos, see you tomorrow!"

I walked away without waving that time, and threw away my trash. I then walked out to my dads car, and got in. My dad turned back to me, and said "hey! Who said you get to ride home today, I only came here to make sure you weren't dead or something!"

I looked down and said "s-sorry, I didn't know I'll get out now."

"Then get out!" My dad yelled, he was getting angrier by the minute. I grabbed my backpack, and got out of the car. As I walked home, I noticed that Mr.Hypnos was in my shadow again. I waved at him, and surprisingly my shadow waved back. I ended up having to stop, for a moment as I needed to wait for the cars to pass. I noticed that there was a window into a fancy looking shop next to me. I looked at my reflection, and felt ashamed. I had never looked like either of my parents, my dads hair was brown, and my moms blond, their eyes were both green. But I had been born with jet black hair, and blood red eyes, my parents thought I was a demon child because of my eyes. They had hated me for them, they beat me and would rarely allow me to ride home. After living with the abuse, and hate towards my appearance I eventually started to feel ashamed of how I looked.

I snapped out of my trance, when Mr.Hypnos said "hey what's wrong, William?"

I looked to my shadow, and smiled as I said "it's nothing, I'm fine."

I noticed that there were no cars around, so I dashed across the crosswalk. I was too far from either of the sidewalks, to get away from the car speeding at me. I looked to it, and my eyes widened in fear. Just as the car was about to hit me, I felt arms wrap around me. They felt comforting, as I closed my eyes and was hit by the car.