Jake only woke to hear the sound of shuffling footsteps… coming…that was the only thing he could hear, except for his oddly noisy fan. The footsteps started to get louder like someone WAS coming closer. But the problem was it was not his mom, the footsteps were too big to be his moms. But Jake just rolled over like nothing was happening… oh yes he could hear them, but he was not scared like he should have been. He thought it could have been many reasonable things like his mom or his floor just creaking. But soon he found out it was neither both of those things. The footsteps were walking up his stairs coming closer he could see a shadow coming over the side of his bedroom door, he pinched himself trying to wake himself up but it didn’t work.
He was about to jump out of his bed and make a mad dash… until… the footsteps stopped, the room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop he looked over at his clock. Exactly midnight he found that very… VERY odd. Then…then… it happened, a scream a window shattering blood curdling scream. He shot up from his warm bed and ran over to his desk. There sitting on his desk sat an envelope he snatched it blank mindedly then reached over to the other side of the desk, and opened a safe. In that safe sat a knife that his dad had given to him for his tenth birthday. His dad! He ran blank mindedly, stupidly ran over to his mom and dad’s room shot open the door not aware of what would be waiting for him.
Screams more screams each one getting louder. His mom squirming in bed his dad… lying lifelessly in bed. He strained his eyes to see what was strangling her. "Mom!" Jake shouted with more depth in his voice than he had wanted he felt that something that was strangling his mom was coming closer. His mom fell silent... he ran. he ran and ran and ran until he could not run anymore, he had ran down the street in complete darkness surprising for him he did not really like to be alone. "thump thump thump" the large footsteps started coming this was the first time he had noticed the footsteps. He was scared, he couldn't run he was to out of breath. shaking he started running again he ran to "the house" an abandoned house that him and his friends used at the club house.
He swung the door open. Panting he locked the door...CRACK!! The man smashed through the door and pinned jake to the ground. The man throwing jake's knife across the old wooden floor. Jake screaming his head off. The man looked straight at him. what had happened to his face! It was white as white could be red lips charcoal colored hair a smile carved into his face... and the worst of all no eye lids jake screamed even louder when he saw the face. then black... just black but wait our friend is still alive he slowly turned over on to his back. He was in his bed revealed that it was only a dream.
He looked at the clock... midnight! jakes balls dropped down to his feet. "Go...to...sleep." Black dead The man was real the man... is...out there.
