Mr. Nightmare

True Creepy Christmas Story

Arthur Maxwell-

"Meeting my ex-girlfriends family during the holidays was the worst weekend of my life. They lived in a different state than my ex Kaylee and I, we were on Long Island in New York and they were all the way up in Vermont. Our relationship was still kind of new but she seemed to think it was serious enough for her parents to invite the two of us up there for Christmas. Kaylee had a really small family so apparently it would be just the two of us, her brother and her parents. Pulling up to the house was a pleasant surprise, the house was beautiful and it stood on a huge well-kept property secluded from any other houses. As Kaylee and I got out of my truck, her parents came out to the porch to greet us. First impressions they seemed friendly and weird an unexplainable type of friendly. The father didn't smile but he shook my hand, patted me on the back and said it was great to meet me. The mother hugged me showing a lot more emotion but something about her face was a bit off-putting , she had a really wide smile that seemed to be exaggerated. The house was as beautiful inside as it was outside. It had a wooden Lodge type atmosphere to it. A little while later I met Katie's brother Paul who got home from work, he was a really socially awkward dude. He had a bowl cut and had a whole tattoo sleeve running up his arm. We had dinner which was awkward at certain moments but other than that it was kind of normal. After dinner we watched a Christmas movie in the living room. I tried not to make eye contact but I could tell Paul kept looking at me for extended periods of time on a few different occasions. At one point I finally looked back at him and we locked eyes for like three seconds before he turned back to the tv. He was giving me the most judgmental stare i'd ever seen and it made me only more uncomfortable. At the end of the night Kaylee and I were in the guest room which had an attached bathroom, Kaylee was in the bathroom. She left her phone on the nightstand, I saw she got a text from her mom and for some reason feeling a bit snoopy I got up to read it. It was not at all what I was expecting and it changed the whole night completely. Briefly on the screen it said " Text from mom: Do you think he suspects anything yet?" but the message quickly switched to new message, i'm guessing because she had IMessage notifications set to hide once the phone locks. I wanted to read what was said before that but her phone had a password unfortunately. I could actually feel my heart pumping now. Kaylee came back into the room, I kind of gave her the cold shoulder because my mind was racing, she seemed to notice. She was texting on her phone for a bit before turning out the lamp and going to sleep. I couldn't sleep though, I was rolling around for hours wondering what that text meant and if it was about me and what the hell was up with her brother. It was exactly 2:00 in the morning when I heard Kaylee get out of bed but she was doing so very quietly. Normally I'd find this to be a kind gesture but under the circumstances, I was finding this suspicious now. I didn't move, I pretended to still be asleep. I heard her come to my side of the bed and stand there for a few moments then leaving the room and walking downstairs, then I heard someone else walking downstairs and then another person. Something was going on. I went over to the top of the stairs to listen to what was going on downstairs, there was a bunch of talking but in very low voices. I walked down a few stairs quietly, the talking was coming from the dining room by the stairs, it sounded like they were planning something. I heard Kaylee say something like " When I go back up, you stand by the door" then I heard her brother say something but what was going on was really starting to hit me in the face or at least what I think was going on. I went back to the room to grab my stuff and leave. As I was grabbing the keys I noticed something in the corner of the room. I turned the lamp on which exposed Kaylee's dad sitting in a chair in the corner of the room, blank expression on his face behind his glasses staring at me. I screamed at least four times "You're all crazy" as I ran to my car. I put the car in drive practically before the car was even fully on and floored it out of that long driveway back to the road. I didn't stop once except for gas and at that gas stop I checked my phone and saw Kaylee texted me saying " What the fuck happened!?" I didn't respond, not until later that night when I got home. I said " I don't know what you and your sick family were planning on doing to me, I don't want to know. Don't ever contact me or come near me again and I won't report this". I said that only because I knew there was no proof at all of what happens or what might have been about to happen. She never replied."

Merry Christmas!🎄 ❤