Sacrifice Alternate Ending

James walked down the path. The trees curving over like a tunnel of green. He felt like something was watching him. Like he could look to the side and see red eyes staring back at him. He kept walking hoping the eyes would leave him alone. That’s all he wanted, to be alone. That’s where he felt safest, in the comfort of his own thoughts. This would be his last walk, and he knew it too. The eyes would finally make their long awaited move. The eyes weren’t an unfamiliar figure in his life. They were there when his girlfriend died, when his friends moved away, and his parents stopped talking to him. Now all he needed was to be left alone. The eyes were connected to a shadowing figure that always seemed to be looming nearby. The figure was just that, a figure, it didn’t look like anything. It was …show more content…
James wakes up at 2:46 AM. He looks in the corner of his room and sees a tall shadowy figure. “No, you’re not killing me.” He yells standing and unlocking his bedroom door and running for his kitchen. He grabs a knife. The shadow follows and stands in front of him. “This is the last time.” He stabs the figure. The knife plunges deep into the figure, but as this happens pain shoots through James’ body. The figure was gone and a knife deep into his abdomen. Blood pooled around him as he lay there on his kitchen floor. Where he cried as the call came his girlfriend had been killed in a car accident, where he drank his pain away as he watched his only friend move away, and when his parents called to inform him they didn’t want anything to do with him anymore. He blamed the shadow for all of his problems. He thought killing it would solve everything and the people he loved would come back. But that monster wasn’t some shadow that followed him. In fact, that monster wasn’t a physical thing, that monster was himself. And all his monsters were inside of him. And now the monster was dead. And James had finally