Making Nightmares Into Stories..

The Cherry Blossom Tree..

(Little A/N before we start- This is based off of my best friends nightmare who I will not mention for privacy reasons, I will change the names in the story as numbers again for privacy reasons. Anyways onto the story.)

-My best friends POV-

I lived in this very sketchy house with 1, 2 , 3 , 4 and my parents. We were just chilling, unpacking in our new house. But something seemed off...Our house was in town, but away from all the houses and there was a big window in the front of the house, with large annoying blood red curtains.

 We all had our rooms, I slept on s bunkbed with 1, 2 had his own room and so did 3 and 4. And my parents had there room of course. 

We had this beautiful backyard with big Cherry Blossom trees and a fountain that complemented the middle of the yard, it was unknown why we had Cherry Blossoms but oh well. 

So like I said before I we were all unpacking, watching TV and playing games for pretty much the rest of the night. 

A couple of nights pass by and I was standing outside, watching the Cherry Blossoms glow with my Dad and we were just hanging out, talking. It was about 10. I look to the side of the Cherry Blossom tree and see this monster looking thing peeking in our backyard with the hole in the fence.

 I was terrified. It was a disgusting monster. It had an arched back, bright bright red eyes, long sharp yellow teeth, and long claw nails and a hat. I told my Dad to go back inside and go to sleep. 

Everyone had been asleep, but I decided not to tell anyone what happened the other night. I was watching TV with 1. 

All the sudden the news popped on over the show we were watching. It was saying that there was a monster in town, killing specific people. It had described exactly what I had saw near our Cherry Blossom Tree...

The news was saying to stay safe, close all windows, curtains and to lock all doors. I wanted to tell 1 what I had saw but I didn't wanna scare her. Soon enough we did what we were told, but 1 was thrown off guard by a little bunny she had saw. She wanted to go outside....

I told 1 it wasn't safe but she didn't hesitate and ran outside. I followed her out and checked the time on my watch..it was 9:54 PM. I told 1 about the monster type thing I had saw the night before but she completely ignored me and kept running for the bunny. 

I sat down on a chair on the deck as I watched over her running back and forth for the little bunny. She had a flashlight on her so she wouldn't get lost. I could see the stream of light when she passed. I told her to watch out and that if something happened to her it wouldn't be my fault.

It was getting dark out. I told 1 that we should go inside before it got too dark for even her flashlight. But again she refused and kept running after it.

I soon realized that bunnies are scared of people, right? I thought it was weird. But I looked back up and no longer saw 1's stream of light. I thought maybe she fell or dropped her flashlight. Until she came running back screaming in fear 'RUN RUN RUN IN THE HOUSE -- I SAW THE THING'.

I immediately knew what she was speaking of, I opened the screen door and closed it after 1 was inside.

1 started crying and telling me about the monster and how it was the one on the news. But I knew exactly what she was talking about. It was the monster from the Cherry Blossom Tree. 

Later on that night we had both fallen asleep. I heard a very loud noise. I checked the time on my watch again..it was 2:39 AM. It had been our glass window that shattered. 

Glass lay on the floor along with blood. It was splattered all over my white curtains. I heard screaming and crying soon after I realized. They sounded of 1's screams...I slowly peek down to see the monster completely devouring her. 

I then realized that once the monster sees you..he kills you later on. Clues all started to form and this monster started making more sense. 

So many people had gotten targeted. But why was he not killing me...why was I not already dead? I saw the monster before 1 did. I was the first to see it. 

I  thought maybe I had some kind of power protecting me from the thing. But I was gravely wrong...I saw the monster slowly climb up the ladder of my bunkbed and claw my foot. I screamed in pain.

Slowly it climbed all the way up and took its claw to my throat and showed it so far in, that I had felt his sharp nail in my head.

It was the end...

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