I See You

Nothings There Myra

On my fifth birthday my mother told me that there's nothing under my bed. It was just my imagination, that I was just being silly. I really was but I didn't care about being silly for the simple fact that I was scared. Scared that there really was a monster under my bed I looked under. Only because my mother wouldn't anymore. But I don't see anything, it saddened me that I was sadly wrong. That I was over exaggerating about the whole thing. That I could have happily slept this whole time. But NO I was in fact wrong about the monsters under my bed. I sit back in my bed and let out a big sigh of relief and disbelief. I look out of my window and see a face, not just any face either. A man with a skeleton face and it wasn't pleasing.

I scream and the face disappears and I begin to cry. My mother and father rush into my room, my mother trying to comfort me and my father looking around for the bad guy. Hot tears rushed down my five year old, softened face. No five year old should see anything like that, which is why my parents moved away a month later. Only because I wouldn't go to sleep and they thought my fear was getting the best of me. So they took a psychologists advice and moved so i'd sleep. Fear was still in me, though I knew I was out of that horrid town. I never wanted to look back from that day forward. So I didn't plan to until my eighteenth birthday when my parents told me we were moving back to that town.

Deep down I still have that fear of the man in the window. You can't blame me for being scared, I know for a fact that man WAS real! The man has put fear in my heart for that town. I vow when I move from my parents house that I will move out of this town. That's a promise by Myra Everest, yours truly. It's too risky for me to NOT move out of this town. That man may be wandering around this town still. I don't want to live in fear but I can't help it. The man scared the hell out of me, I couldn't get to sleep easily by myself. Not in my own room that is, my mom and I have grown closer since then. Wanting to comfort me from the man that I saw even though she didn't believe me. That's why moms should be considered the REAL MVPs. Cause they're always considerate of others EVEN children.

I sigh the day that we move, and I almost want to NOT move with my parents. Settle down in this little town of safety. It's been my safety bubble since I was younger. I've never tried to get out of the safety bubble my parents built. I rub my eyes and look at the house as I help pack the last few things. This house, it's beautiful and special in every way. In every aspect of it's being, it is BEAUTIFUL. That may just be because I lived there almost all of my life but it's ALWAYS been beautiful to me. My mothers pale hand lands on my shoulder and I look at her. She smiles and I smile as best I can, because I know it's going to be just like when I was little.

"It's going to be okay Myra, I promise." Says my mother, looking concerned. "Everything is going to be fine."

"No, it won't be fine mom." I say, almost growling. "Nothing about this situation is going to be fine."

"Myra, you're overreacting!" Says my mom. "There is no man or ever was a man with a skeleton on his face."

Then I receive a text from an unknown dialer. So, I panic before I open the text message I take a deep breath and try to think.

Hello, Myra. This is Maddie, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out for your last day in town? - Unknown Dialer

This is Maddie? What happened to your number? New phone again or something? - Myra_L

Yeah, phone broke and I had to get another one. Great thinking for getting a new phone right? Well do you want to hang out? - Maddie

Sure, my mom is upsetting me about the whole man with skeleton face deal. I'm kind of on edge about the whole thing really. - Myra_L

That's understandable in more ways than one. It's not something typical you can imagine. I might visit you sometime and try to see the guy. - Maddie

I don't even want to live down there, considering the man is going to be around still. Well probably... - Myra_L

I heard you mention that you saw him on Halloween that year. Did you seriously? - Maddie

Yup, I was never the same kid as I was back then. - Myra_L

Well we should meet at a store or something and I can buy you a going away present. I'd do a party, but I know how you are about them. The last time I had a party is the other reason. - Maddie

Yeah, that was really a disaster. Really though. - Myra_L

I know man it was crazy. But what store do you want to meet me at Myra? -Maddie

Um... how about... Manchesters? - Myra_L

That's fine with me Myra. - Maddie

Meet you there. - Myra_L

Okay bye! - Maddie

I shake my head at that girl and her crazy parties she had in the past. They got me and her into some real trouble. That was fun hanging with her all the time. Now I have to move away, it really sucks. I think I might stay then I push the thought away. My mother would be heartbroken. So I meet Maddie at the store and hang out. She looks sad but I can see she's trying to be brave. We've been best friends since I moved here as a little kid. She was pretty and popular at school. I remember when she walked up to me and started taking nonstop until we were best friends. I don't regret moving one bit. Honestly I love that day, moving here. I made all these wonderful friends. They all have my back one hundred percent. I'm thankful for that too.

Maddie surprises me by taking me to a pizza place, when I walk in all my friends are there. They all have a happy that I'm here, sad that today is my last day here face on. I smile as best I can considering the circumstances. I mean leaving all your friends is heartbreaking. For me it is anyways. I don't even remember the people from my old town honestly. Just my cousin Ragina, she's sixteen. She's really quiet though, I worry about her sometimes. How quiet she is, is abnormal to be sixteen. Most sixteen year olds are chatterboxes. Maddie's sister is and it's funny how fast she talks. About anything at all, she isn't shy. She's like her sister Maddie. That's a good thing though, quiet doesn't get you anywhere. If your quiet you more than likely won't speak up and make a lot of friends. Friends make school A LOT more fun. It made my high school experience great.