Sleep Paralysis (short story)

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       Jenny was a small girl who thought she was useless. She was picked on, laughed at, bullied, and she was sick of it. One boy named Jake was very mean to her, he hated her and just wanted her to die. He had always hit her on the bus to school, no matter how much she ran, he would always find a way to hurt her. 

Jenny tried to be nice to him one day and offer him cookies, but he threw the basket out of her hands onto the ground and slapped her. "I don't like you, Jenny!" she had cried for the rest of the day.

So the night Jake went to sleep, somehow, he couldn't shut his eyes, he stay awake in bed, with the feeling of being watched. Then he heard something very frightening: his own name being called in a slight whisper, coming from the window. "Jake...."    He shivered in fright and uncomfotrably tried to shut his eyes and turn away from the window.

But the voice got louder. "Jake.."

He shut his ears but he still heard it, louder and louder each time he fought it.

"JAKE"

"Go away!"he finally managed to say from minutes of frustration. 

He finally heard it stop and turned back towards the window, opening his eyes.  But not to what he waned to see. "NO! GO AWAY! HELP!"  

Jake couldn't move out of his bed. He couldn't move his lips. Everything he said was in his head. "Stop!" 

He saw the shadow getting closer to him, and closer. "MOM!" he called, but nobody could her him, it was his mind. The shadow placed a hand on his mouth. "Sleeeeep Jaakkee." 

The shadow was choking him, he couldn't move at all, the shadows long finger traveled down his nose and mouth and covered his eyes. He could no longer scream in his mind.  He had no way to escape whatever this was, to breathe and just sleep. He wondered what he did wrong.. not too long before he finally died, right there in his bed. 

And the shadow disappeared. 

The next school morning Jenny thought she would try to be nice one more time before telling the principal she was being bullied. She wanted to be Jake's friend and little did she know what happened last night. She wanted to show him that she wasn't useless. 

That day she saw jakes mom at the front office crying. she hopped along happily until she reached the crying woman. "Hi! I bought some cookies for Jake!" The mom turned and yelled. "He's dead, go away!" 

She ran to the swings.... laughing.  "I didn't do it." she smiled.

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{ That's it for this strange story I made up! hoped you like it and I have a bunch more ideas coming along so stay tunnedddd. Backstory: Jenny killed jake because they were close neighbors and she knew he had sleep paralysis because his mom and her mom were friends.  Jenny choked him by blocking his throat with her fingers and whispering for him to sleep,  all the while he was having sleep paralysis. She sneaked in through the poor boys window. andddd thats all i have to say, hope you enjoyed.}

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