Short Stories

The Monsters

I'm Olivia and me and my sister Kate were getting ready for bed, when Kate came into my room.

"Livy, the stuffed animal is looking at me." She was on the brink of tears so I followed her to see what was wrong. Sure enough, her teddy bear had its eyes fixed on us when we entered her room.

"That's creepy.." I said walking around it. Sure enough, the eyes followed me. But the teddy bear started talking. It's voice was raspy and cold, like a withered corpse.

"Play my game of hide and seek, you can run but cannot leave, we never tire, we never hide, we always seek, so you better not squeak, we play this game 'till brink of dawn, so now go hide or you'll get CAUGHT...." It's voice dropped an octave with the word caught.

Kate wasn't crying, she was already halfway down the hall running to the door.

"Kate open it up come on!" I was freaking out, someone or something was in our house. She pushed and pulled but the door wouldn't budge.

"Nope, can't leave." Kate and I dashed back down the hall and into my room, slamming both doors shut. On my bed a shadowy figure sat. I grabbed a flashlight from the box by the door.

"I don't wanna do it, I don't wanna do it!" I whined my hand shaking.

"Ok let me have it." Kate took the flashlight and shinned it on the object, I winced preparing for what might be there, but it was only a cute teddy bear that I never seen before.

"Aww that's so cute." Kate reached for it, seemingly forgetting that a teddy bear had thrown us into this horrific game. I slapped her hand away and she turned her head.

"Oh no not windows! That means their faces could pop up and stuff! I. Hate. Windows." Kate screamed thrashing her hands at the curtain less windows of my room.I didn't know why, she usually loved her windows, and we couldn't leave so why would they be able to either.

"There something you can jump out of if you get scared or caught." She turned her head slowly, she lashed out at people when she was scared so I wasn't surprised by her next remark.

"Not here! We're in the country! Where are gonna run to Olivia? The death barn?" She closed her eyes and leaned agents the wall, the clock struck 1 am. Only 4 hours to go until dawn.

"Remember don't use the flashlight if you hear breathing." I told my sister who now weld the flashlight.

"Why?" She hurriedly shoved it into my hands. I didn't blame her.

"Because if we do they'll see us if we had any chance of being hidden." Kate nodded and returned to her place agents the wall. The clock struck 2 am, only 3 hours until dawn. Something moved on my bed and I shined my light on it. The teddy bear had twisted itself into a horrible form.

Me and Kate shrieked and toppled over each other trying to get away, I ended up in the middle of the room with Kate standing next to me. Kate somehow retrieved the flashlight and was screaming something like 'Wadda I do Wadda I do'. She turned and screamed at me.

"Do something! Close it close it!" She was running in little circles around me.

"I don't know what to do! You can't close the bed!" I stood up and held her still. Kate was shaking. The teddy bear kept twisting itself. We ran inside my closet and shut the doors. We sat there cowering.

"Should we look at the bed again?" I asked. Kate shook her head violently.

"I'm not looking at the bed again." She scooted farther into the closet. I stepped out with the flashlight. I turned it on and screamed, falling backwards.

"Whyaretherethree Whyaretherethree!!!" I scrambled back. One bear said in the same voice as before;

"Your losing." Kate screamed. I pulled her out of the closet.

"What are we doing wrong?" Kate yelled kicking at empty air. The teddy bears scooted closer. 

"Throw the robot at them!" I grabbed my model robot and threw it at the middle one. Kate ran in circles and grabbed the lamp.

"Throw the lamp!" Shouted Kate. I held her back.

"Kate no." She set it back on the ground. We walked back into the closet not turning our backs from the twisted bears.

"How do we protect ourselves?" Kate cried I shone the flashlight back and forth waiting for a monster to kill us.

"Oh.. is the light dying?" The flashlight flickered as Kate fumbled with the batteries.

"No no no no no nu nu nu nu no no no no!" Kate shoved the batteries into the flashlight and the flickering stopped. We came out of the closet to check the time. 3 am. I checked the bed again. To my surprise there was only one bear and it looked like it had before.

"I'm watching you, you little butt. Are you good??" Kate was leaning on the edge of my bed starring at the bear.

"Got my eye on you." I heard footsteps at the door. Me and Kate ran over.

"Hello?" I asked to no one inpaticular.

"That doesn't help! They didn't come for tea and cookies!" Kate looked like she wanted to slap me. I listened harder.

"Shhshsh, I heard something." Kate rolled her eyes and grabbed the flashlight.

"No you didn't, your probably just pranking me." She sat agents the wall again.

"No no I heard footsteps." I looked at her with pure panic. She looked unimpressed as if i was acting.

"Then check." She tossed me the flashlight, and she leaned her head out the door with me. A figure with long black hair waved to us. We screamed and ran back into the closet, tripping over each other in the process.

"N-n-n-no we need to close the door." I leaped over Kate and ran to the door

"Shut. Shut. Shut." I slammed the door in simotainiously with the word shut. By the Kate had joined me, her skin white.

"So what do we do about the death bears on the bed and the other people in the hallway?" I said holding the door closed.Kate slid down the wall and sat next to me.

"I think we just pray that they don't teleport and eat us from behind." Kate closed her eyes and took shaky breaths. I could hear breathing from behind the door.

"I am not letting go until 5am" I yelled leaning my head on the door. It was 4:30 right then.

30 MINUTES OF HOLDING THE DOOR SHUT LATER

Kate had fallen asleep but I still held it shut, it was 4:58am, and I was not about to lose. I kicked Kate awake and pointed to the clock.

"Ok let go of the door, check see if their there." I opened the door, no sign of the black haired figure. 4:59. One minute. I checked the bed again. I turned on the flashlight and screamed. One humungous twisted bear sat when the silent normal one had 30 minutes before. 

"Did we lose?" Kate yelled from the wall. The black haired figure came through the door and tried to grab Kate. 

"Not yet, they have to catch us, throw the lamp" Kate screamed and ran behind me. I had thought she just chickened out, but when I heard the word duck, I flattened myself agents the ground, the lamp had taken out the bear and the black haired figure. 5:00 am. We won.

"It's over!!!"Me and Kate hugged and cried of relief. But the black haired figure and the bear laughed.

"Olivia it's me, Abby, and Dan, we totally got you!" Kate pointed to the several cameras around our room. She explained that she wanted to prank us and we'd have to prank her back. I was furious, 5 HOURS of pure terror. She was good.

"I'm gonna follow you home, and I'm gonna punch you in the face." We all laughed.