The Horrors of Our Mind [COMPLETED]

Training Wheels

Joseph was 10 years old and was still riding his bike with training wheels, which was one of the multiple reasons why he was picked on by kids his age as well as the older kids. His father left him and his mother when he was very young, and his mother would work day and night supporting Joseph, so he never had anyone teach him how to ride his bike without them.

One day, he decided that enough was enough, he was going to teach himself. He took off the training wheels from the back tires and got back onto his bike. His first attempt was a fail, he just wobbly went forward a few feet then tipped over to the side. Again and again, he tried, never giving up. With his motivation, he was able to ride it without shaking or tipping over, which in his eyes, was a major success. In the other kid's eyes, however, his attempts were pitiful, and they only found something else to make fun at, which it was he didn't have a father to teach him how to ride a bike.

Trying to get away from his bullies, he pedaled away down the street and didn't stop. Not recognizing where he was, young Joseph was scared and didn't know what to do. Still, However, it did not matter how scared he was, he had to get as far away as he could from the bullies. He rode and rode till he came to a cross in the road. Thinking to himself which is the right way to go, he looked at the street signs. Upon further inspection, however, he soon realized that this road was dangerous. It had been on the news multiple times for child kidnappings and he was terrified. Down the road young Joseph was facing, he saw the truck described in the news stories from the witnesses slowly making its way towards where he was.

Joseph struggled to turn his bike around on the dirt road and wobbly peddled away, not accustomed to being off his training wheels. No matter how hard he pedaled though, the truck had caught up with him. Joseph started crying as he rode his bike and could hear the doors of the truck open. The driver of the truck quickly got out of the vehicle and grabbed Joseph, throwing him in the back seat, leaving his bike to fall to the ground. The truck quickly drove off, and Joseph was too terrified to move. He cried in the back seat and looked at the rearview mirror, looking at the eyes of his capturer, they were cold and empty, not feeling sorry for taking children.

Joseph cried himself to sleep only to be harshly woken up by the driver when they arrived at the hidden destination. The young boy was dragged out of the truck by his short red hair and into the rundown shack were surrounding the building, were unmarked shallow graves, most likely of the missing children. Even though he was scared, Joseph was determined to escape, to not become one of the graves.

Something snapped in the young boy, and he fought out of the man's grip only to turn around and face the horrid person. Joseph's body started to contort, and grow as his chest cavity opened up revealing endless rows of jagged teeth. By this time, Joseph towered over the frightened man, who was cowering and backing up trying to get back to the shack. The jaws of Josephs' chest opened wider revealing more and more rows of teeth. He walked closer to the awful stranger and bent down, eating him whole.

Once the jaws closed, Joseph shrunk back down, returning to looking like any other 10-year-old boy, and ran off trying to find his home.