User:Tl1777

Remeber that 90s classic videodrome, the one were James woods gets sucked into a virtual world of horror, well this harrowing tale is similar... except I'm not James Woods.

 it all started when I was 13 me and my friends or misfits as people liked to call us were just being teenagers. you know how it was- lounging around, playing football, life was good. my friends Callum and Adam really loved the movie trainspotting (Ewan Mcgregor high on all sorts). After 15 minutes of pleading for us to watch it they persuaded me to try.

 I looked at the bookshelf were my parents kept the DVD's. Stood on the arm of the chair (the only way I could reach) my eyes skimmed across the shelf. It took just 30 seconds for me to find the red case with the black letters.

 we stuck the DVD on. Callum and Adam with a look of delight there favourite movie, considering they didn't have the DVD themself this was a good thing. As they looked, eyes fixated on the screen I sat in my chair thinking... who is so sick minded as to even think about making this. Watching the death scene with the baby shook me up good. At the end of the film we all just sat there in a stunned silence.

 "Any other requests?" I said my voice dripping with sarcasm. They both cracked a smile. We all loved sarcastic jokes. "Wanna go play footy?" said Callum. Me and Adam didn't even need to answer. "I'll be out in a minute, just got the put the disk away I called as they left the room.

 same old procedure I thought. I stood on the chair and slotted the case back where I found it. And thats when I saw it. Another DVD case. Have you ever seen a DVD in the store that says DO NOT WATCH- EVER! in big letters. It wasn't printed on either, it was crudely scribbled on with permanant marker. "Is it right to take this?, is it right to not follow direct instructions?" All these questions floating around my mind. Ah what the hell, I'm young. I took the DVD and put it underneath the chair where no one would see.

 I did not consult my friends about the DVD. These were my closest friends. nor did I consult my mother when she came through the door that day. It had been 2 weeks and 3 days since I had hid the DVD. Every day I had taken it out wondering why it had such a sever warning. And on that friday night Callum and Adam stayed over.

 we did the typical teenager thing. xbox, doritos, pepsi all night. Sleep had overtaken Callum and he fell at 3:13am. Adam and I mashed buttons and shot titans. We both loved Titanfall. It was 4 o-clock in the morning when Adam asked if I wanted to watch a movie. We loved the classics. Once again, as I had 1000 times before I looked on the top shelf "I got Resivour Dogs and Silence of the Lambs?" I said down to Adam "Resivour Dogs" Adam replied, seeming to not give it a single thougth.

 <p class="MsoNormal">"Well I do have a DVD better than that" I said. "Oh, is it Alien?" Adam said, we both laughed. "No unfortunatly not, also I have absoloutly no idea what it is". Adam turned and looked at me "Well this should be fun" he said slowly. I reached under the chair and pulled the case out. Adam stared at it with his evil smile. Not so much evil, more... well I don't know it was a fantastic grin.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">We slotted the DVD in to the tray. I was already regretting my actions. I turned to Adam and requested we just shut it of and go to sleep, but he's not going to pass this one. I take my seat at the back of the room. There is no menu at the start, just breif static and then we see something that truley shocks us. A few years before we had this friend. He was a good friend, generous, kind, he was  good guy. His name was John. Adam for some reason had always hated him though. Everyone else really got along with him. Except Adam. Anyway, he died of this illness- I can't remeber what. Everyone was just devestated. Even Adam. So when a picture of John in the hospital came up we all went pale.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">All I wanted to do was turn the thing off. Tears welling up in my eyes. I found myself unable to move. I turned and looked at Adam who was even more scared and shocked than I was. And then it got even worse...

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">There was just darkness on the screen for a few moments. There was absoloute silence. The sound of Callum breathing seemed to stop. And then it came back on. We were looking in to a mirror except there was light. The lights on, and the sun shining through. I waved my hand in the darkness of reality and on the TV it did the same. Me and Adam turned and looked at each other for a few minutes. In more silence.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">Then the light in the screen dissapeared and we were thrown in to reality. Still a mirror but just the darkness that was in the real world. I had no idea why I was rooted to the spot, was it because I was terrified? Probably. All of a sudden Callum bolted upright. Me and Adam jumed so high we could have broken a record. And for a moment we stared at him. I wan't to call him an idiot for scaring us. Ask him how long he'd been awake, if he had heard us weep for dead John.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">The screen has gone black again so only moonlight helps us. I manage to stutter a few words "Callum... could you... t-turn the light...on. He does not reply. However he does turn on the light. Callum stands there looking at me from the light switch. But whats happening on the TV is much more different... and Horrifing.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">Whats staring at me in the TV is a creature that I am only using my pereferal vision to see. I don't want to turn in case Callum has become this monster in real life. It's teeth are sharp and like knives. They could easily bight through anything. It's fingernails just as worse, like power drills, cutting a hole in to anything it touches. It has a smile so wide it goes from ear to ear. Dry blood around the edges. It's the most horrible thing I could ever imagine- worse.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">It turns to Adam as does Callum and cuts his throat. His screams muted as blood spews out all over the couch. Grapping his throat the only thing I can do is watch. I have only just realised to turn to real world Adam. It's happening. I immediatly begin to cry. The creature is holding its nail in the end of the cut, but Callum's finger is floating away I realise its because his nails are short. Like the creature has invisible nails reaching out.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">Callum pulls his hand away and stands there, fingers bloody, so is his shirt. Something bursts out of his chest, like from Alien. It spins around the room in the air. Callum lets out a cry and falls dead. The thing that killed my closest friends jumps through the screen of the TV. It looks at me, straight in my eyes. And then he dissapears.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">The next morning they find me. Sat in the same chair. Rocking back and forth on that same chair. The bodies untouched. The DVD mirroring the paramedics and police men running in. And it's been 20 long years I have been locked up in that cell. A small confined space with barely any room to move. Sometimes when I close my eyes I see Callum and Adam at 13, the way I last saw them. And sometimes, the creature that has plagued my life will come. And stand with me in my cell. Smiling.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">I wish I had just obeyed the cover- And never pressed play.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">So if your putting away a DVD, and you see a case that says DO NOT WATCH! EVER in big letters, don't watch it. You'll find the same fate I did.

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