Character Summative

“Alex is Scared of Nothing”

It was another dark and rainy October night in the small town of Rutherglen. Rutherglen was a town of extreme mystery and horror, it was always dark and the sun would never shine again, it had once, a while ago but nobody from that time is alive to tell the tale. This explains the remains of dead trees and plants.  Nobody in the town really knew the cause of this, all they knew is if they would leave Rutherglen, they would die instantly. It was a complete mystery as to how they were still living in the darkness or how they had the access to electricity as they did. But the residents have never known what it is like to live outside of darkness, and they do not want to find out anytime soon.

 

The streets were all perfectly aligned with small, black townhouses side by side and the air shivered with a cold breeze, as always. The people who lived in the town loved it here, the quietness, the mystery, the all the time suspense of never knowing who or what can be behind you. Alex was one of those people.

 

Alex was a cocky 18-year-old, she was very tall with dark brown hair and green eyes as deep as the forest. She had an extremely pale complexion that was almost all covered up by tattoos that lined each of her arms perfectly and lacked any source of colour. Her outfit suited her tattoos, no source of colour at all. She wore a black, loose dress and dark black fishnet tights with a long locket necklace that held a photo of her precious, white cat Chilly. She was and has always been a very rude person, Alex does things the way she wants or nothing at all, she hates interaction and views herself as the smartest person on the planet.

 

Alex’s parents kicked her out of the house for this very reason, she acts like a snobby, know-it-all brat and would never follow her parent’s strict rules that most parents in Rutherglen are. Rutherglen is very dangerous so many children find themselves wanting to explore and most parents do not agree because they know what’s out there. Alex is one of the few children under 20 years old that does…

 

It was December 29, 1999, the very day Alex’s parent’s kicked her out of the house.

“You are such a selfish brat, you do nothing around here and always sneak around our rules!” Alex’s mom was screaming at the top of her lungs.

“This is why I hate you, I hate you all!” Alex screamed back.

“If you hate us so much then why don’t you get out!” Alex’s mom replied.

“Finally, I can get out of this house!” Alex said, slamming the door quickly after.

 

Alex ran as fast as she could through the dark street until she reached a forest, she almost stopped herself, but she couldn’t she just kept running, knowing that this was the most dangerously claimed forest in all of Rutherglen. The leafless trees stood as tall as mountains and you could hear a faint howling in the distance. She just kept running, until, she heard something. It was almost like loud footsteps approaching her, the loudest footsteps she’s ever heard. Alex quickly tried to run away but found herself unable to move from her current tracks. As the footsteps got louder and louder Alex saw a giant white figure approach her, slower than she expected.

“Is that a giant cat?” She thought, rubbing her eyes to make sure she wasn’t hallucinating from all the physical activity she had done more of in 5 minutes then her whole life.

It was still there. It purred, very loudly as it sat down next to her made a huge thud that the trees and ground shook beneath her. It was a beautiful white cat, with bright blue eyes and sharp teeth whom Alex decided to name Chilly since at that moment she was in fact freezing.

 

Before this moment nobody under 20 had ever seen anything like this, we have seen pictures of animals like cats and dogs online from other, ‘normal’ towns but for some reason, our town lacked them, and we always wondered why we assumed it was because of our lack of sun and oxygen. But this cat did not look like the pictures Alex had seen, it was about 10 times as big as her. Parent’s knew and that’s why they kept their children home. Alex, on the other hand, was now homeless, so she did not have that rule, and she had seen something so amazing.

 

It was now 3 years later, and Chilly was Alex’s best friend and partner in crime. Alex had built a home for herself in the old funeral home at her favourite graveyard, the place she’d always come to for a peace of mind or some quiet time away from her annoying family she hated so much. The funeral home had tall ceilings and smelt of the wood that lined the walls and baseboards, Alex laid a huge black rug in the center, where the benches used to be and put trinkets and pictures on the shelves which used to be the home for caskets. She had spread dainty lights all over and put new light bulbs in the beautiful chandelier that hung from the ceiling. The room was dark but glistened from the moonlight that shined through the stained-glass windows at the stroke of midnight. Alex collected these things she found in the streets, thrift stores and that Chilly dragged home and made a wonderful life for herself. She has not seen her family since she was kicked out and even though Alex still had her phone they never tried to contact her.

 

Every night, around the same time she found Chilly Alex wanders out into the deep woods in hopes to find a new creature. It has been three years and no such a luck, until one day Alex decides it is hopeless and not to go.

 

It was exactly midnight and Alex was just tucking herself into her bed, which by a bed, was a mattress on the floor in the corner of the funeral home, covered by an old duvet sheet she found in the dumpster. When all of a sudden Alex starts to hear the same thumping she heard when she found Chilly. Alex quickly sits up out of her laid position and looks around and out the windows. She notices Chilly clawing at the back door which leads to the forest, Alex slowly gets up out of bed and approaches the door, on her way grabbing an old broomstick that had been there when she moved in. Alex heard the footsteps getting louder and closer as seconds went on, for a second she felt her heart start to race faster than normal, but only for a second as Alex was not scared of anything. She heard the footsteps stop suddenly.

“Huh?” Alex looked confused when all of a sudden,

“RRRRRRRRRRRR”

Alex could not bear the sound which she could not even identify what it was or what it sounded like. She screamed and covered her ears, dropping the broom.

The door slammed open, and what Alex saw made her scared, for the first time in her life,

Alex was scared.