Short but Creepy Stories.

Forgetful Forest.

Ding!
The bell rang and all the kids barged passed each other to escape school.
Cody kept to himself and carefully walked around people keeping his head down and letting his black messy hair dangle in his dark brown eyes.

Eventually, he managed to get passed the swarming teenagers, it was time for the big decision, which way to go. The long way or the shortcut. Now, I know most of you will assume that he'd take the shortcut. But the shortcut was through a deep, dark forest. There were many creepy theories about this forest, like those that go in and never come out. Although that theory never gets the chance to get proved true or fake as nobody would dare even take a risky chance.

But where did this scary theory originate from?
Well, years ago back in the 80s, before the school was there, a young boy one day was out with his brother. Once where the school is now, was just fields, perfect for young children to play. Tommy was 6 and his brother Jacob was 11 at the time. They were chasing each other through the fields when they paused in front of the scary-looking forest. A wooden sign-post was tied to the first tree titled 'Forgetful Forest'.
'Lets go in there!' Tommy said whilst pulling his brothers arm.
'Uh I'm not sure Tommy, it looks....creepy.'
'Oh please! It will be so much fun!'
'Fine!' He said with a sigh, his brother always gets his own way.
'Turn around and count to 20!' Tommy said as he ran off laughing into the forest.
Jacob was still very unsure about this, Forgetful Forest?! What's that supposed to mean?!
20 seconds passed. It was time to find Tommy.

Jacob stared at the dark, tall trees looking back at him. He took a deep breath and stepped in.
He looked around.
'Coming! Ready or not!' He yelled. He kept checking behind him to make sure he didn't go to far, he could just about see the entrance, this was far enough.
'Tommy! I've had enough! You win okay?! I loose! Please come out!'
He called for a few more minutes then decided to yell to Tommy, where ever he was, that he was going back.
'Tommy I'm going back il wait for you outside the forest!'
He ran back to the entrance. The sun was going down. He had no idea what to do, he couldn't go back in and look for him! He had no phone or anything.
There were houses just a few yards away, maybe they had phones! He raced towards them and began to bang on the door of one of the houses. An old lady answered the door.
'Why hello there dear!'
'Uh, hi, I need your help!'
'Of course what's the problem?!'
'My little brother, we were playing hide and seek, he ran off into the woods over there, I went after him but, I came out and told him that he won but he didn't respond! Can I use your phone please?! I need to call my mum!'
'Why of course, that awful! Come in quickly!'
She lead him to the house phone which was the size of a brick.
'Thank you!'
She smiled back at him.
He dialled the number into the phone and called his mum.
He told her everything and immediately she called the police.

About half an hour passed by and the boys mum and police arrived.
A tall police man approached Jacob and asked him what happened.
Hours of searching passed.
The police still didn't come out.
Eventually Jacobs mum took him home as midnight approached.

Days passed, and still nothing. Except not only was Tommy missing, but so were all the police that went out looking for him.
Eventually 7 years passed and they pronounced Tommy and all the police dead. Another cold case added to the collection. Nobody knows what happened to any of them. Some say they were eaten by bears, or some kind of creature or they just got lost. All we know is that they were never seen again. People do say one thing though, the Forgetful Forest was called that because, the people who go in their are forgotten or the people who are in there forget who they are and are lost for eternity. But creepily, on the wooden sign that hung on the first tree of the forest, the one that says 'Forgetful Forest', a mark appeared on it 2 days after Tommy and the polices disappearance. Actually, not just one mark, but 12 marks. Well the day Tommy went missing, 11 police went in looking for him and went missing. So in total 12 missing people, and 12 mysterious marks. Like a tally chart. Written in blood. The blood was tested for DNA. The blood belonged to all 11 policemen and 1 belonged to Tommy. That's when they had a feeling they were dead.
Although there was one witness that saw something. The old lady who helped Jacob, she looked out her window and saw a little blonde boy rubbing his finger on the sign. She immediately ran outside to see the little boy still rubbing his finger on the sign as if he was writing.
'Tommy!' She called.
The little boy turned his head slowly, he looked back at her. His eyes had been scratched out, blood dripped down his face and he smiled at her. She ran over to him and he walked back into the forest. As she looked in, there was no one there. The little boy matched Tommy's description, that's the last time Tommy was ever seen. But that night the old lady watched out her window, she saw 11 policemen walk out to writing a mark on the sign with their eyes scratched out as well.

Cody stood there still debating whether to go in the forest or not. He looked through into the forest there looking back at him was a little boy. A blonde boy. With scratched out eyes and behind him, 11 police officers. All with scratched out eyes. Smiling back at him.