Like No Other

Bumps in the Night

A/N: Told you I'd update😁

Noises in the night or as we call them bumps in night seems to love to frighten the young. 

Why was nature so noisy? Why did it want to torment children?

Deprive them of their sleep by turning branches into claws knocking on windows and sweaters on chairs into a monster's silhouette.

Was it a warning for the bad we've done the day before? Or a cruel "I told you so" for watching a horror movie that wasn't age appropriate.

Or maybe it's just us, maybe we want to forget but our imagination....our damn imagination loves to get creative. Loves to shape figures into the darkness, to make us freeze with fear.

Our fears follow us to adulthood, and even now our imagination haunts us.

We hear footsteps and assume a stalker is behind us, why do we assume there's something behind us?

We assume everything is behind us, but never think about what's in front of us.

It's like a joke...a cruel joke, whatever might be in the dark laughing at you from a far as your paranoia grows and can't wait to make you shriek in fear.

I guess nature isn't what it's cracked up to be...

(A/N: whatever 😒)

Nature shines it's beauty in the sun but shows it's true colors in the moonlight where the noises are the loudest and the houses are the quietest.

Does nature gives us our fear? Can you ACTUALLY face a fear?

I semi believe that.

To get off topic and into my life, a few days ago this girl from my psychology class. She was a junior while me of course a freshmen.

Anyway she came up to me in the library while i was watching my favorite show American horror story, she seemed pretty happy and we got acted out one of the scenes.

Where Kai (Evan peters) asked what Ivy (Allison Pill) what she was most afraid of.

I answered her by saying "the dark" well what's in it for that matter.

She asked me if I ever stared or stood with the lights off in a room by yourself?

I shook my head, the dark was just a fear that I couldn't even begin to deal with.

She told me to try it and tell her how it goes.

I thought about lying and saying that I did it but my brain couldn't stop thinking about it so I did it.

That very night after I turned off the tv and took the earbuds out and sat on the floor in complete darkness.

I listened to nothing but the faint snores of my mom and sister when I heard a thud.

I know it was my loud neighbors but my heart started racing, and I literally started shaking.

I was seeing figures and shadows but didn't move from spot, wishing the light switch was closer and wishing it was maybe a nightmare.

I finally chickened out and turned my phone flashlight on and turned the lights on.

The next day really isn't important, I was tired as fuck 😒

Anyway now getting back on topic, you can face your fear but that doesn't mean you'll win.