Scary Stories

The Dog

Once there was a girl who lived with her parents and her dog in a house in the outskirts of a city. One night, the girl's parents said they were going to go into town, and they wouldn't be back until morning, and that she was to shut and lock all of the windows and doors when they left.

And she did. But there was one window in the basement that just wouldn't shut she pushed and she shoved until finally the latch clicked, but then it wouldn't lock. She left it.

She spent the rest of the evening watching TV and listening to the strange sounds coming from the basement. Around 10 o'clock she washed up and went to bed. Her dog slept beside her.

She woke up. It was 2 in the morning. She was annoyed because she couldn't figure out what had woken her up. Then she heard it. It was a dripping coming from the bathroom.

That's weird, she thought. I'm pretty sure I didnt leave the sink running. didn't leave the sink running. But, she didn't turn it off. Instead she dangled her hand over the edge of her bed and let her dog lick it for comfort. Then she went back to sleep.

She woke up again. This time it was 4:30. She could still hear it in the bathroom. Drip, drip, drip. What, the heck. She thought, annoyed. I know I did not leave that sink running. But yet again, she did not turn it off. She simply let her dog lick her hand, and went back to sleep.

Then, a third time. It was 6 o'clock, and she was extremely annoyed. By now. She wrenched off her covers and sat up just in time to see her parents were pulling into the driveway. Finally, I can get somebody to fix that stupid drip. She got out of bed, walked into her bathroom, and turned on the light.

There was her dog. Skinned, and hung up by its feet to the curtain rod. The noise she had been hearing was its blood dripping into a puddle below.

She screamed, and ran back into her bedroom. There, beside her bed, was a note. It read,

Humans can lick too, My Beautiful.