User:ThunderJMan

My name is Jay. I am 13 years old. I live in America. I have a brother who is 14 years old and two parents. My mom is usually at home to take care of us and even cook us dinner. My dad is a busy man. He would usually work for a long time during the day. Sometimes he would be here during the day, sleep early and go off to work. My brother is okay to live with and he sleeps in the room next to me now ever since I got my own room. The only thing you should really know about me is that I am a procrastinator. I usually save my homework until night time so I have time to play video games or be on my phone. The house would always be empty so no one can nag me to do my homework. My mom would ask everyday if I finished my homework and I would give the same answer I always give to my mom.

“Yes Mom”

She would ask me to bring it to her and I would say it was an online thing so she just took my word for it. It was my bedtime finally and my mom would always tell me to go to bed, but I would never do it. I would wait for her to go to sleep so I can either finish homework, watch tv, or play video games. She snores when she is asleep so it was pretty easy to know if I was safe to continue with my duties. My brother didn’t care for he would always be hungry at night and besides my mom’s wishes to stay out of the kitchen when it’s past ten o'clock he does it anyway. I am up right now on a tuesday doing homework at 12 o’clock now with the tv on when suddenly I heard the sounds of footsteps approaching my room. I stopped what I was doing instantly so I can hear better to make sure I wasn’t just hearing things and sure enough they were footsteps. My mom would ground me for a week if she finds out I’m up past my bedtime on a school night. I had to think fast so I decided to put all my work under my pillow and swing the covers over me as fast as I can. I turned off all the lights that were on to help me see my homework, left the tv on, and I waited.

I heard the door creak open as she checked to see if I was asleep only to see that my head was under the covers. I stood as still as possible so she couldn’t suspect anything. I could feel her gaze washing over me like a cold breeze and something seemed off. I started to get that strange feeling in my gut when she just stood at the door for more than minute. My mom would have left by now, she got work in the morning so she needs her sleep as well. Then the minute turned into 5, then 10 then 15. I still felt the hot gaze burning inside me like when a cop is looking at you and you know you're going to jail.

I think she knows I am awake may be she is just toying with me as a sort of punishment. I knew it was over, I knew I had lost and it was time to explain myself. I started moving my head up when something caught my eye...something creepy and will always be stuck in my mind. I see her shadow on the wall on the opposite side from the door and it was her showing her face. The first thing I noticed was her smile when she was looking at me. The eyes were red and as I looked at them I felt her stare stabbing at me worse than before. As I looked longer I came to a shocking realization that this was not my mom. I repeat THIS IS NOT MY MOM.

Then my brother moved in the other room and I think he was getting up to do his middle of the night snack routine. I didn’t know if I should scream for my brother to run so I looked at the shadow again and the smile I saw when I looked instantly turned into a frown. It must a came to a realization that my brother was up and it wasn’t happy about it not one bit. I heard the door slam shut as the thing went after my brother. It shut the door to my brother’s room when it went in, but I can still here my brother screaming and struggling for help. My mother’s room is not that far from my brother’s room so I am not sure how she could not hear his cries for help. I wanted to help my brother, but I knew I was no match for this thing.

Then silence...nothing, but silence...It was possible that my brother was dead. I sticked my head out from under the covers to hear something, anything. My heart sank when I heard the sound of a lullaby playing In my brother’s room.

“Go to sleep, go to sleep”

“Go to sleep until the morning”

“Go to sleep, go to sleep”

“Or the sandman will be coming”


 * Static*

It was 6 A.M. now, I think he was gone. I got up from my bed reluctantly still traumatized as I remembered it at my door. The only reason I’m alive now is because I faked sleep. I don’t know what would have happened if it saw me awake, but that is what I’m about to find out now. The bags under my eyes didn’t make it easy, but I made it to my brother’s room. I opened the door slowly and peered in expecting to see blood everywhere. All I saw was just my brother in bed on his side facing the opposite direction from me with the covers on him. His covers, pillow and bed were all shredded. I ran to him, pulled the covers off of him and turned him over so he was on his back now. I tried pulling him from the bed, but I now noticed he was chained to the bed. I hugged him instantly thinking there was nothing wrong with him and telling him that I was going to get him out of here somehow. Five seconds has gone by and he didn’t move so I started looking at his body making sure there were no wounds or marks. Then there it was...a message scratched on to his chest that read:”Sleep Tight”.

I looked at his face and there was another problem. Not his face...but his eyes...his eyes were not there anymore. It looked like they had been scratched out or just removed by a professional. I stared at his eyes and all I saw was darkness where is eyes should be and nothing more. As I looked at my brother corpse I start to feel something crawling up my legs. I look down and I see bugs and they were coming from the bed. I start to shake them off as they were getting on my face now and they were trying to crawl to if I had to guess my eyes. I started swatting them away now and started running for the door. I knew it was finally time to leave, I seen too much from this monster.

Long story short I ran out the room screaming for my mom to call the cops. The cops came and explained that it was an intruder and couldn’t really explain most of it. I didn’t go to school that whole week and we finished the funeral on sunday. Until that moment on It still kept coming to see if I was asleep and every time I would fake it. It would usually stay near my door until morning so I would just wait there still under my covers and wait for it to leave. I don’t get sleep at all and as my friend nudges me awake in class I always come to the conclusion that the only way to avoid him is to just sleep. The only problem with that idea is that no matter how hard I try I can’t sleep. Ever since I caught a glimpse of it’s shadow and heard the horrifying screams of my brother I can’t sleep. I seen it’s shadow once with the shadow of my mom walking by and she didn’t notice it. Neither did my dad when he was home and he walked by my door when he went to work at night. I came to the frightening conclusion that adults were not able to see this thing. So if I can’t sleep to avoid this thing, call for my parents, get help from my friends and risk getting them killed,  or let it know I’m awake at night… what do I do? *sobbing* What Do I DO?!


 * door creaks*

shhhhhhhhh

It’s here…

with my brother?