Sleep is good for you. I mean, yeah, it’s good for your health and helps you focus, but for me, it always traumatizes me. Let me tell you my somewhat horror story. I have always lived in one place and never moved or changed houses, but there was one good thing about it: my parents decided to keep my best friend over for the summer because her parents were on a romantic cruise almost every summer.
Most of the time, Marie would stay with a nearby relative or her grandparents but this year I asked my parents and they always brushed my question away. My parents were hesitant about Marie coming over but after 4 days of begging, they finally said yes.
This was the best gift I have received since I was an only child. I missed my best friend so much after she moved three years ago, and I didn’t have many friends to spend the summer with. But little did I know this summer would not be what I thought it would be.
The doorbell rang that morning and I ran down the stairs to answer it. It was my best friend Marie but she was different.
She didn’t wear our friendship bracelets saying they were kind of getting lame and had dyed her hair brown to purple and cut it short I waved at her and let her in.
The rest of the day we caught up and I kind of liked the new Marie. She loved to hike and she loved the farmland that I lived on even though she hated it a few years back. Marie and I played board games, watched movies, and had a lot of fun the rest of the day and I finally had my best friend back.
That night Marie told me ghost stories and then started talking about the Black Demon. “The Black Demon is someone who came if you mocked him and would torture and kill you”. Marie said in an eerie voice. Marie saw the look on my face and laughed.
“Jenny, the Black Demon is just a dumb old tale, nobody believes it.” I put my hand on her mouth when she started mocking the Black Demon because I believed he was going to come so when I fell asleep I stayed awake on watch until 2:46.
I heard screaming, opened my eyes, and realized I wasn’t in my bed. I was alone in the middle of nowhere. I had fallen asleep and then I saw it standing far across from me was the Black Demon.
I never knew what he looked like but at the sight of him, I could instantly tell. He looked so intimidating and horrifying that I almost screamed. Black voided eyes, sharp bloody teeth, and the most evil look on his face.
The Black Demon stared at me and whispered something weird in my head until I heard what he was saying. “I'm gonna get you as soon as you wake just wait” My blood ran cold.
I was asleep and the Black demon was waiting for me to wake up so he could kill me. When I looked back at him he was smiling and the smile was so sinister and evil I screamed.
The Black Demon cackled and came running toward me on all fours picking up speed. I ran for my life, my legs burning but I kept running, I turned my head and the horrible beast was on my tail until I felt something hard smash my head and everything went Black.
I opened my eyes and looked around. It was dark and cold and I could feel something watching me, and Marie was gone.
I opened the door and a loud creak came from the hinges I froze hoping no one heard and then I heard footsteps, Loud footsteps, going up the stairs so I ran into the room, jumped onto the bed, and shut my eyes praying it would just walk past my room, but it didn’t.
The loud footsteps got closer and closer and my heart was pounding, then the footsteps stopped, it was at the foot of my bed watching me and I couldn’t breathe properly because of how close it was.
I felt the blanket pulling down and I almost flinched, the blanket was the only thing that made me feel safe at that moment but it was long gone.
The figure grabbed my left leg and pulled slightly dragging me off the bed and before I knew it, I was off the bed and being dragged down the stairs my head hitting each step as the unseen figure pulled harder as if trying to wake me up on purpose.
The door opened and I was pulled onto the cold pavement. I opened my eyes slightly and almost gasped. It wasn't the Black Demon, it was Marie dragging me into the forest.
I didn't see her face but I knew it was her. I couldn't believe my best friend was doing this to me.
“Marie, what’s going on, where are you taking me, are you ok?” Marie turned around, and I screamed.
The Black demon possessed Marie. Her eyes were voided and she had black pointy horns pointed at me. “I told you I would get you” I heard the Black Demon's voice coming out of Marie and then Marie collapsed on the ground with a thud.
“MARIE” I ran over to her and shook her hard and patted her cheek but she didn’t wake up, not even a movement from her.
I ran inside and pounded my fist on my parent's door. “Mom, Dad, wake up, it's Marie!” My parents opened the door and I dragged them outside while they were barely awake.
I ran outside and looked around Marie was gone and all that was left were her headphones and a fingernail. “Jenny, what happened here, where is Marie? This is not funny.”
My dad looked at me and I knew that wasn’t my dad talking his eyes were voided just like Marie’s were. My mom grabbed me and we backed away as the Black Demon slowly took my dad, it broke my heart to see him like this.
“Jenny I want you to run, as soon as I tell you to, run to the forest I’ll meet you there, and don’t look back at all.” my mom whispered in my ear and I shook my head slightly trying not to make any sudden movements.
My dad opened his eyes but instead of black they were blood red, and his face had cracks all over it like a broken mirror. My mom gasped and almost cried as she saw what he had become and tightened her grip on my shoulders.
“RUN JENNY NOW” So I turned around and went full speed towards the forest not taking a glance back at the terrible sight. Tears fell down my face as I heard my mom screaming and crying.
I don’t know how long I ran for, but I know after I slowed down, I ran farther than the creek we passed when we were leaving town. I checked my pocket for anything and only had my phone and a couple of pieces of gum.
The rest of the night I was on high alert. I climbed a tree and sat on the tallest branch I could find and I was out of sight but I stayed awake scared the Black Demon would get me and take me away too.
I checked the time and it was 4:37 am. I had been sitting on the branch for more than 2 hours but was too scared to be bored so I watched videos on my phone until I heard something walking nearby.
I turned off my phone so the light wouldn’t attract whatever was down there and slowly peeked my head over the edge.
“Mom up here quick,” I said to her I was so lucky my mom was alive but she had big bruises on her arms and one on her face. Before I could say anything else she covered my mouth with her hand and I tasted a lot of salty blood.
I looked down and saw my possessed dad with a sharp ax in his hand ready to swing at anyone who got in his way.
I looked at my mom’s hand and saw a huge cut from the ax. It looked like it was already infected so I took off my jacket and wrapped it around her hand tight so it would stop bleeding.
As I looked down again I noticed that my dad was gone, but it was too quiet we would’ve heard him walk away but before I could look around I felt a hot breath on my neck and it wasn’t my mom.
I jumped down from the tree slamming my arm into the hard ground and I screamed in pain.
I didn’t even try to be quiet about it because my dad had already found me so I ran, my broken arm hanging by my side, but this time when I looked back my mom’s head fell from the tree and her body fell after it.
I screamed and cried as I saw my mom’s head fall to the ground, her eyes wide open but she couldn’t see anymore. After that, I just ran nonstop and I didn’t even look back or in any other direction, just straight.
My legs were burning but I kept running at full speed. I was not going to end up like my mom. After I ran for a while I stopped. I saw something in the distance. It was Marie but she looked terrified.
I ran to her, my heart beating fast. I stopped a few feet and cautiously looked at her. “Jenny is that you,” Marie took a step closer and then stopped and looked me up and down like I was something out of a horror movie.
“How do I know it’s you Jenny I can’t trust anything or anyone after last time” I took a step closer “Marie what are you talking about” Marie pulled out a knife, and threw it at me.
The knife hit me square in the stomach and I fell over as Marie watched in horror she ran over and cried and after that, I passed out.
I’m in the hospital right now on one of the computers writing this and I don’t really have enough time so I'm going to tell you about what happened.
After I got stabbed and passed out, Marie somehow dragged me onto the side of the road and started trying to get a car's attention, and after only a minute a woman pulled over and drove us to the nearest hospital.
The whole time I was knocked out, the Black Demon was torturing me in my dreams and saying that it wasn't over. After that, I heard loud beeping and people talking around me and horrible pain in my stomach and head.
Apparently, Marie had hit my head on the side of the car and given me a concussion and she was also taken into custody for stabbing me but that was about a week ago and I had my surgery to get stitched up 2 days ago. I dropped all charges on Marie and her parents are coming back from their cruise early and my dad is going to prison for murder.
As for me, I keep having nightmares but I can’t stop them. The nurses say that the therapy I'm going to next week will help me but I doubt it. I’m planning on going back to the forest to end these nightmares and the Black Demon I’m leaving tomorrow night and I’ll update you all when I get back.
Bio:
I wrote this story as a school project. At first I thought of this as a school project but now I want to write more stories after reading some of your stories I decided I will keep writing stories and I even have a Christmas story ready.