Frozen Scream

Frozen Scream

Written By Chris K Reeve

I really do not know how I got here. I can feel the water surround me and its cold, the pain that I feel is like nothing else I have ever felt, and it hurts. It hurts so much my chest feels like it is being crushed by two trucks and I am in the middle but how did I get here? I feel that my body is sinking even lower, there is so much heaviness that I cannot move but there is someone here with me I can hear her but cannot see her my eyes hurt so bad from the cold, but she is there. Even in the water I can feel her screams as I go deeper and deeper, water getting colder, breathing more shallow. Am I going to die this way?

It has been a few years now since I have been to the family cabin and here at this point, I am all alone. The fear of walking back into that cabin after everything that happened but I needed to get it ready cause I believe that it was time to get rid of it, too many memories. The realtor will be here in a week so I have a week to get everything done and cleaned so that way she can get rid of it for me. I pulled up to the driveway that led to the cabin and the pond that was attached to the property. This time of there year the pond would be thawed and a little warm and be perfect for a swim but that was those days, and I do not even go near it anymore.

As I pulled up to the house itself I can see that there is some work that needs to be done to the roof and the siding, but it is that moment when I opened the door for the first time in years that I could actually hear the screams and just for a moment I stopped and I know that the memories wanted so much to come rushing out but I could not, I cannot remember and I must get rid of this place. It was an exceptionally long day for the first day I have gotten most of the inside cleaned from webs and dust, but I knew there had to be work that I had to do, and I really did not want to sleep here any night but I could not afford to stay anywhere else right now so I will just push through. I forgot what it was like to sleep here, and I had never really slept alone up here until this moment. I would say that it was scary, but I just thought to myself that if I worked through the night, I would be too tired to even care about the silence.

But that is just it is not it as the night went on there was no silence, I could hear the kids singing and playing in one of the rooms, the giggling I tried to keep busy, but I could still here them. At that point, the memories came rushing through and the lights lite up and the whole cabin had the look of it lived in and there were the kids dancing around and there she was my wife my beautiful friend who I had grew up with dancing with me. I could hear the music and smell the scent of her skin and at that moment I fell to the floor. It is just a dream there is no one there. As I looked up the cabin was the way it was before the kids laughing and the music. I hope I can really handle this; I knew I should have had someone else to get this done, but I just could not afford this. I worked until around 4 in the morning when I finally just sat on the couch and passed out.

But it was not long before my dreams started to wake me up. This went on for a few nights as I was getting ever closer to getting the cabin ready for the sale. But as the sixth night came after a day when I finished the repairs on the roof and the siding and that is when I just could not hold off, just spending the day on the roof and looking out at the pond just threw my thoughts over the limit. The cabin became very still and silent all of a sudden and then there she was my wife. I tried so hard to get her out of my head I even slapped myself really hard just in case this was a dream, but it was not the lights were on and there standing in the middle of the room was my wife and kids.

I could not stop this, and I could not stop them, I could not get them out of my head and the music that was playing would not stop either. It just kept going so I ran out of the cabin, and I felt like I was running for hours but when I finally stopped running, I found myself at the edge of the pond. The weather outside had changed, it was cold and freezing. The pond was frozen over. At that moment I looked behind me and there were two people chancing me yelling I could faintly see them it was my kids but where was my wife, I could not see her. Then at that one moment I could see that I was standing in the middle of the pond and my wife running towards me she grabbed a hold of me and then the ice broke. The water was so cold, and she was screaming, and I still could hear her, but the water was so cold, we were sinking. I could hear a faint yelling from the kids but then silence. There was nothing but silence and the cold.

I really do not know how I got here. I can feel the water surround me and its cold, the pain that I feel is like nothing else I have ever felt, and it hurts. It hurts so much my chest feels like it is being crushed by two trucks and I am in the middle but how did I get here? I feel that my body is sinking even lower, there is so much heaviness that I cannot move but there is someone here with me I can hear her but cannot see her my eyes hurt so bad from the cold, but she is there. Even in the water I can feel her screams as I go deeper and deeper, water getting colder, breathing more shallow. Am I going to die this way?

Then I found myself standing in the middle of the cabin, I looked and there was my wife. She looked at me, grabbed my hand, and held it tight. We both looked and the darkness became light and there was the soft sound of music. There were two people standing in front of the cabin, they were older one male and one female could not really tell who they were, but they were standing in front of a for sale sign. My wife looked at me and smiled with a tear in her eye and we both walked into the darkness.