The Closet Creature

THE CLOSET CREATURE- By: G.M. WHITING
We had just moved into a new neighborhood at the time, we had just bought the house a while back. Not knowing why we moved, it felt very strange. The first two weeks weren't bad at all. As a matter of fact, they were fun. We went swimming at my friends' houses, and we had sleepovers quite frequently. Then, things changed. I was getting ready to go to bed, but then i heard strange noises coming from my room. It didn't bother me, so I went back to getting my evening apparel on. My room was upstairs, considering i was only 9; I thought the upstairs was fun. I went to my bedroom and turned on a movie. I fell asleep while the movie was on, I woke up later that night to weird noises coming from my closet. I didn't care at the time, because when you are little, your mind plays lots of tricks on you. One thing still just creeps me out, I remember closing the closet before I went to bed. Somehow, the first thing I noticed was that it was open. What I saw was so demented, that I could never erase this from my mind. You know there's just some things you can just forget about, then there's things that you can't forget about? Well, this is one of those things. I saw two big red dots, they seemed like eyes. These eyes, had something that normal eyes don't have. They glowed and flashed bright red lights. When you looked into them, you gazed off into a whole other place. A place that's simply evil. What I saw in this thing's eyes was truly and unexplainably horrible. I saw my brother... My brother who you might think "How is that bad?" Well I will tell you.

My brother, his name was Mike. Notice how I said "was". He claimed that he saw something terrifying in his room. This happened when I was only 7. He was 15 and a half, turning 16 in a couple of weeks. He later died the day of his birthday. I don't know if whether he took his life, or if he died from something more serious.

That thing... It came out of my closet. It sat on the foot of my bed. I have always had that internal feat, that something horrible would come and try to scare me. On the other hand, this thing didn't try to scare me. He turned on my light and sat down next to me in my bed again, this time he sat beside me. He asked for my name.

"My name is Thomas" I replied

He gave me his name. His name was "Creature". I could understand, because for what i could see, I couldn't figure out what he was. He looked like something from a movie. Although he didn't look terrifying, he gave me the chills. He asked me

"Do you need a friend?"

Normally, when you see a strange figure, you don't really want to be friends with it. This creature, offered something any other friend wouldn't offer. Even though his looks gave a sense of discomfort, he actually gave me a sense of safeness, a sense of comfort. A comforting sense, none of my friends gave or offered me. What I never and never will understand, is why I saw my long gone brother in his eyes. I took that friend offer he gave me. We had lots of fun, whenever my parents left the house to go pay bills or to go shopping for things we needed for our house, we hung out. He would come out of my closet, and he would walk me around outside. He said that he wanted me to go and run away with him. He says, that he has a huge place where all of his friends that run away with hime live. He gave me some names. Names like: Rick Commons, and Sage Michaels, and etc. I thought long and hard about the offer. I told him,

"My parents would miss me, and I'm not close to you like that"

He looked disappointed, he left. I stood the night at my friend's house that night.

The next day, I came home. My paerents went to go pay some bills. I went up to my room, and looked in the closet for Creature. He wasn't there. He left a note on my bed, stating he left me, and moved on to someone else who wanted to go with him. I didn't feel like I was going to miss him, even though he offered me his protection. I walked outside to a cemetery a few blocks down. I went to see my brother. One thing I noticed, is that the first couple of tombstones I saw were the names of those kids, which Creature said ran away with him.