Charlie's Book of Short Stories

My Nightmare [2]

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Most people have nightmares about monsters and evil creatures lurking in the dark but not me, I'm different, the weird one.

Monsters don't scare me. They're not real. It's impossible for something that isn't real to cause you any real harm so why should I fear them? What can they do to me?

Spiders don't scare me. It's the most common phobia in the world but I remain unaffected by it. They're just animals they're nothing scary about them. Sure, they can be dangerous but so can many species of cat and, yet we happily welcome them into out homes. Why are spiders any different? Why do so many people fear them so much? I'll never understand.

Not even death scares me. Everyone should fear their own demise, but not me. It's not like I'll welcome it when my time is at its end, but I won't cower away in fear. When my time is up, my time is up there's nothing I can do about it so why should I worry about it? Why should I allow it to haunt me in my sleep?

Like I said, I don't want to die, but when the day comes I won't kneel before my reaper and beg for my life. No. Instead I shall stand and look them in the eye and tell them that I am ready. I have faith in my family. I have faith that they will be able to carry on without me, and I promise that I will look over them when I can.

But everyone is afraid of something, no one is truly invincible. So, what am I scared of if it is not monsters, spiders, or death?

It's abandonment.

I am not afraid of anything taking my life away from me, but if something were to take the lives of all those around me then I don't know how I would ever be able to cope. Humans are social creatures, we need to know that people will be there for us and support us, what are we if we don't?

I fear the feeling of loneliness more than anything else, my nightmares are full of images of a young child cowering in the corner of a dark, cold room, crying and all alone.

I fear it because I know what it's like.

I know how it feels to be alone and empty. I know how people end up when no one is there to help or support them.

They end up like me.

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Authors Note: Sorry this was delayed, I was meant to publish this yesterday but I got distracted with some very important stuff (That's code for I was feeling lazy and spent the day watching dumb YouTube videos) Anyway, thanks for reading and if you find any errors in this please let me know.

Toodles,

~Charlie