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Scary Stories - THE GC

TW: Thunderstorms

As the thunder rumbles outside of my window, I curl tighter into my bed sheets and try to focus on the movie playing on my laptop in front of me. Thunderstorms never really scared me, but after watching a horror movie, my eyes seemed to be looking all around for things that weren't there.

All is calm until Isaac and Tanner burst through my door and jump onto my bed, basically on top of me.

"What the hell guys!" I say and close my laptop, turning on the lamp on my bedside table so I could see better.

"It's scary and loud outside." Tanner complains and Isaac nods.

"We wanted to be with you." Isaac explains.

That's when Larry, Yumi and Nick find us and come into my room as well. "Well, isn't this a party." Nick says and sits down with his back against my bed. Yumi goes to my desk chair and Larry lies down on the ground. I shake my head.

"What do you guys want?" I say now that everyone seems settled into my room. "I was trying to watch a movie."

"We all don't want to be alone." Larry groans.

"We should tell scary stories." Yumi suggests and I just look at him like he's an idiot.

"Didn't you just complain that you're scared?" I ask, confused.

"Yeah but not as much because we're all together now." Nick says and Yumi points at him and nods.

"Wait, let me grab my mattress off my bed." Yumi's already up and out of my room before I can ask him why or try and stop him.

"Sleepover!" Tanner yells and him and Isaac start shaking my bed.

"It's a sleepover every night you idiots! We fucking live together." I rub my hand over my face and accept the reality that I'm not gonna be alone for the rest of my night, or well into the morning.

Yumi comes back, sliding his mattress on the floor. Larry gets up when Yumi drops it down beside my own bed. "Sleepover!" He jumps down onto it and Larry and Nick jump onto him.

Thunder strikes again outside and everyone is spooked by it. The lightning lights up my room and Larry takes it upon himself to start telling a scary story.

"Okay so one day, my friend and I were walking outside and it was like, really late. So we decided it would be a good idea to go out into the forest and I swear to you it felt like no one else in the world was alive. Anyway, anyway, we kept walking and then we saw a wolf and we were scared so my friend started barking at it but the wolf didn't like that so it pounced on my buddy and ripped him apart. I ran back home and ran up to my room but I swear I heard it speaking to me. Then... BAM!" He smacks his hands on the bed just as thunder strikes and we all jump. "The wolf was actually my mom the whole time and then she made me tacos." He leans back and smiles.

"What the fuck Larry, that wasn't a scary story! You just told a story where you lie about everything." Yumi yells and Larry just sits back and laughs. Nick throws a pillow at him and he pretends to be dead.

"Okay, I'll tell an actual scary story." I say and rub my hands together deviously. Everyone turns their attention to me, and I start.

"One night as it's thunderstorming, 6 friends are gathered in a house together." I hear everyone groan and I laugh. "They all decide to gather into one person's room because of how scared they are but, they don't realize, there are actually 7 people in the house."

"Grunk?" Isaac says and I smack his arm.

"No, not Grunk. This person had died years and years ago but haunts this house on nights where it's dark, and stormy, and they make their way through every room in order to scare everyone into going into one room. Do you know why they do this?" Everyone shakes their heads. "So they can get them all together, and the next thing you know, they have possessed someone. But they are so good, you don't even realize who it is until it's too late."

"Oh my god, stop. This is actually scary now." Tanner puts his face into the bed and Isaac tries to smack him to get him to come back up.

"That's not all. The ghost is very self-centered and they love talking about themselves." No one seems to be catching on and I smirk. "They love talking about themselves and they love to kill their next victims by choking them."

"Kinky." Nick says and Yumi smacks him.

"They take their hands," I put my hands up. "And pounce!" I pounce onto Tanner and he screams.

"No! Don't kill me, ghosty!" He yells and I start laughing.

"Good thing he hasn't possessed any of us yet." I say and lean back. Everyone just looks at me like I'm crazy but this just makes me laugh even more.

Throughout the rest of the night, we all take turns telling scary stories. Some were terrifying, some could use some editing but as soon as we got sleepy, we one by one fell asleep.

Yumi, Nick, and Larry were sprawled out on Yumi's mattress on the ground while Tanner and Isaac slept on either side of me. When I wake up the next morning, I'm pinned down by my bedmate's arms but I make no move to take them off. Instead, I fall back asleep, knowing they all won't be up for hours anyway.