Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-30288666-20161209014438/@comment-30288666-20161210153144

When I was five years old, I had a grandfather who I remember because of his habit to

knock on my families living room table whenever he came over and, despite knowing my

name, he always called me Sonny. I thought it was odd, but that's why I liked him so

much. One day, on my sixth birthday, my grandfather got into a serious accident on the

drive to my house. We went to go visit him a few days later at the hospital, but when we

got there we found out that he had succumbed to his injuries and was no longer with us.

 Being only six, this was quite traumatizing for me. Fortunately I was able to move on

 about two years later, leaving this a distant memory in my mind. Fast forward seven

 years, I was thirteen years old at the time and my grandfather's death was just a distant

 memory. My parents had been fighting lately and were now sleeping in different

 bedrooms. One night, while I was catching up on my studies, I heard a faint tapping

 sound. It didn't come from my room, nor did it come from either my parents' rooms. The

 tapping lasted for a few minutes before silence filled the house. The next day I asked my

 parents if they had heard the tapping both of them had heard it and neither of them

 knew what it was. That night the tapping came again, just as faint as last night. This time

 my parents and I decided to search through the house to find the source of the sound.

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> My parents found no source from upstairs while I heard it coming from one of the rooms

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> downstairs. I wandered through the kitchen and guest room when I heard it grow louder

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> as I got closer to the living room. It sounded like it was coming from somewhere in there.

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> The gentle taps were as steady as someone knocking on a slab of wood to pass the

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> time. I stood in the doorway, listening to the tapping sound. I turned on the lights and the

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> knocking ceased, only to resume when I turned them back off. Confused, I flicked the

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> lights on and off four times when the tapping stopped all together. A few moments

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"> passed before a hushed voice spoke out in front of me.

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px!important;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);">"Sonny, could you stop that please?"

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);">Is this better?