Dont Read at night

Darkwood circus

I would like to thank AutumnBerlinn for giving me this AMAZING! Idea

Darkwood circus.

"Hey Em have you ever heard the story about a place called Darkwood?" Jasmine asked Em.

"Wait.. what?" Em replied in confusion. The girls had been friends for around a year and would always tell scary stories at sleepovers or gossip about school.

"Well" Jasmine began," it all started around twenty five years ago when a man went crazy when he saw his wife die in labour, as his wife died because of children he thought that all children were bad and he started to kidnap and kill young children. It has been said that the place is haunted and -"

"Hahaha and you actually belie this shit!" Em chuckled, "wait I remember seeing something about a circus at Darkwood this weekend, wanna come?"

"Nah I have homework..." replied Jasmine clearly scared of the idea of being around that area.

"Chicken!" she laughed and pulled the covers over her face and soon enough she had drifted off to sleep.

The day of the circus finally arrived and she managed to drag her boyfriend, Marco to come with her.

As they were driving there they noticed that the area seemed quite dodgy and behind the circus was a large Forrest.

Hundreds of people were coming and lining up behind them in the line and the whole place was filled with screaming and laughing people. he could hear many snippets of people's conversations;

"Wow the food here is so expensive, good thing we packed a salad!"

"I come to the circus every year, how about you!"

"The circus started a few years after the... incident with the crazy man occurred."

She shuddered just thinking about the man and how he murdered so many people.

"Tickets please!" it was their turn to enter the pavilion and when they got inside a clown waved and smiled her.

"Hi I'm Smoky the clown, I predict your fate, hahaha" Smoky put a hand on her shoulder and she flinched away almost automatically. he handed her a small sheet of paper and skipped off.

After a while when the two found their seats she looked down at the piece of paper for the first time. Typed on it was a poem.

You will discover something that you don't want to know,
You might want to hide it but eventually it will show.
And ugly truth about your sheltered life,
You might as well end it with a knife

She screwed up the piece of paper before Marco could see it and focused more on her surroundings. she then notice something strange about the clowns, she couldn't quite put her finger on it but she knew it was something about their costume.

A little while later the show finally started and Em had her head resting on Marco's shoulder and six white horses came galloping on stage, all with a little monkey riding on its back. she thought it was adorable and it loosened the tension of of everything, within half an hour she was jumping around and screaming in delight.

When they asked for a volunteer for the disappearing she did not hesitate to stick her hand in the air.

Luckily the ring-master chose her and she skipped onto the stage in delight and they carefully placed her in a cupboard with a trapdoor at the bottom for her to slide threw when he started to turn the box.

When she was down in the basement she listened to the crowds screams of delight and wonder when she noticed something red in the corner of her eye. curious, she went off to investigate.

She screamed when she opened the door. It was the makeup room and she suddenly realized why the clowns looked different to normal clowns.

Their red make up was made of human blood.

Their wigs were made of human hair.

And worst of all,

Their costumes were mad of skinned dogs.

She started to vomit on the ground where she was standing as she looked around the room at all the corpses.

She knew from that moment on that she should of listened to the poem.

You might as well end it with a knife.