When I wake up I hear Curtis knocking on my door, I go to my door and answer it and ask Curtis what he wants. "I have decided we are going to play the Midnight game", I smile and say "Awesome", "We can't play it till later though, we have to start the ritual somewhere around 11PM" Curtis says, I just nod and smile. As Curtis is walking away I get curious and I ask "What made you change your mind?". "Well, You have been terribly sick for the past few days so I thought I would be nice to you and let you have some fun" Curtis replies, "Okay" I say and go back in my room.
It has been hours later and it is now 11:50PM, Curtis and I are doing the ritual now. We both write our full names on a piece of paper and prick our index finger with a needle and allow a drop of blood to fall on the paper and let it soak in. We turned off all the lights and got our candles and lighters and boxes of salt. We place our pieces of paper on the floor in front of the door and light our candles, it is now 11:59 which is when we have to start knocking. We knock and both of our last knock lands exactly at midnight. Curtis opens the door and we blow out our candles, we have just invited the Midnight man into our house. Curtis closes the door and we immediately relight our candles. Curtis and I start to walk around the house, We have to make sure our candle stays lit, if it goes out we have 10 seconds to relight it, if we can't do it in the 10 seconds we then have to throw down a ring of salt to protect ourselves. The game is over at 3:33, that is when the Midnight Man leaves. I know the things that the Midnight Man is near. Your candle will blow out, you will suddenly get very cold, you will hear a low whisper,and finally you will see a black humanoid figure within the darkness. Also the only light source we can use is a candle, we cannot turn on the lights, we can not leave the house, and we absolutely cannot provoke the midnight man.
Curtis and I have gone our separate ways, I think Curtis is upstiars because I can hear footsteps. As I continue to walk my candle suddenly blows out, I get a little scared but I manage to relight it in 6 seconds and I continue to walk. As I walk into the kitchen I start to think about what will happen if the Midnight Man cathces me, some say he will kill you, or possess you, another thing says he will make you hallucinate your worst fears. As I walk by the kitchen I see the time is 1:29AM, we have been playing the game for awhile. Just then my candle blows out and I can't relight it, before I can throw down a ring of salt I can see a black humanoid figure standing IN FRONT of me. Just then I am not in the dark kitchen, I am in the living room, it is bright, I see Curtis sitting on the couch watching TV, he turn to look at me, he is smiling, though his smile quickly fades when he sees me.
"What the hell are you doing here? I thought I kicked you out" Curtis snaps, I feel my heart starting to hurt, "Curtis, were brothers, why would you kick me out?" I ask, "You are NOT my brother, you are a fucking annoying pest. I kicked you out because I couldn't handle you. Now GET OUT" Curtis snaps, I start to cry. Now I am standing over a grave, I look at the grave and I see the name and the date on the grave and I see that it is Curtis. I start to cry harder. "ITS NOT REAL" I scream as I try to break free from the hallucinations, but it is not working.
I don't know how long I have been stuck with the hallucinations but all of them are either about me being tortured, killed, or about Curtis dying or saying he hates me and other really bad stuff to me. Right now I am suffering through one of the worst. I let out a muffled scream as I could feel the knife slicing down my stomach. I look at Curtis and I try to talk through the gag, I am trying to ask him to stop but he can't understand me. The pain is excruciating and I wish it would stop, what hurts the worst is that it is Curtis inflicting the pain. I continue to cry as Curtis dissects me, when I die that is when I am about to go to the next hallucination. However after that hallucination I wake up. I am on the floor, when I wake up I start to cry and sob, I am sobbing loudly because Curtis can hear it, I can hear him yell my name and run down the stairs. I curl into a ball and continue to cry, I never want to play this game again, NEVER! Curtis drops down next to me and holds me tightly, "Whats wrong? Did the Midnight Man get you?" Curtis asks, I look at the clock and see that it reads 3:34AM, I continue to cry, I am going to have nightmares from what I experienced.
"It's okay, the game is over" Curtis says and pulls me so I am sitting on his lap, he starts to whisper something to me but I can't hear him over my sobbing and crying. When I am calm enough to talk I tell Curtis everything, how the Midnight Man got me and made me experience horrible hallucinations. I told him about all the hallucinations and he reassured me about most of them, about the ones involving him, how he would never do anything to hurt me.
"I'm so sorry Erik, we shouldn't have played this game, I'm sorry" Curtis says, I don't say anything, I am just quiet, I don't want to say anything.
"We should head to bed now" Curtis says, I stand up and so does Curtis. We both walk upstairs and when Curtis is about to walk to his room I grab his hand to stop him, I am scared and don't want to sleep alone. Curtis looks at me and asks "Is something wrong?", I don't say anything, I just tug his hand and walk a little bit to my room. Curtis must seem to understand because he walks with me to my room, we both lay down on my bed. Curtis wraps his arms around me and says "Goodnight Erik", it takes me awhile to fall asleep, but it is easier since I am in the safety of my big brothers arms. I fall asleep in about an hour.
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Brotherly love.Creature Feature fan fic.
General FictionCurtis and Erik are close friends, they consider themselves brothers. Sometimes Erik does some stupid things and Curtis has to show him tough brotherly love.
