Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

Imaginary friend

My mother told me about a man living in our house when I was 5 years old. She said it happened to be my imaginary friend, she remembers every thought of what I told her when I was little.

She said I always told her about the man hiding in my closet at night, at first, I didn't pay any attention to it. Since I was a kid that time I don't remember what happened to me and now I'm 13 years old completely a teenager nothing seems to be re-appearing in my senses of that man. It just happened so fast until I got this strange dream that I was in complete darkness no other things could be seen but full of blank space. I looked to my right and left and it gave me the chills to see a man standing with just his shadow to be seen, I said hello to him but he didn't respond instead he just stood there and waited.

I got completely messed up about what this man try'na do so I just let him be besides I know this is just a dream and I will wake up sooner. I just strolled and walked in an open space not bothered about where I was going until I heard a whisper a kind of whisper that reflected me.

"You remember me?" The voice said.

I look behind my back to see a man again standing behind me and this time I can see his actual face he has this kind of gaze a freakin horrifying gaze he smiled at me widely with his teeth showing up. He doesn't have eyes, it feels like his eye sockets are gouged out and you can see through his identity that he wasn't a normal human being.

"W-Who are you" afraid to speak up as he was grinning at me even though it was still a dream I could sense that I was in the real scenario of this guy right now.
I can see him smacking his lips and muttering something I don't understand. He was still grinning at me like crazy hoping that I would wake up to this dreadful dream. After some time he disappeared amid darkness and that was the time I woke up completely terrified of the dream I had gotten into.

It's morning and all I can do is watch television all day. My mother left the house to go to her friend's getaway, and I just stayed here and looked over at the house until mom came back. It's sunny and everything seems quiet not the television it seems but I can feel that my surroundings are quiet. I can even feel the wind through my skin it's weird in all but I just ignored it and continued watching.

In the middle of watching there was a loud thud in my room it sounded like there's something had fallen to my cabinet. I looked and found what could have fallen and there I saw a picture frame of the glass cracked into little bits. I gently picked up the broken glasses and it hit me hard when I looked and saw a picture of me when I was a little boy I was holding a toy car the picture was taken here in my room and I found out that the image behind me was disturbing. There's a black figure standing in the corner of my closet and based on its features I can see that he is a man. It was the man who appeared in my dreams, I immediately put the photo away and left my room.

I rub my eyes and remind myself that it was nothing and I'm just imagining things that all of this was just my delusion. Probably I was thinking too much that it put me through hallucinations. I don't have any idea how that man appeared in my dreams or even in my damn mind. But one thing I was certain that I'd seen him before, I couldn't quite remember it but I knew I saw him somewhere else. That's when my mind suddenly kicked in, he was my imaginary friend.

That darned imaginary friend of mine my mom used to tell me when I was little. Now, I'm already 13 years old, my mother is now old. She doesn't speak much about my imaginary friend of mine when I was five. I couldn't remember when I was little she must have been sick with my weird personality back then.

Last night I was horrified and completely scared when she mentioned the man. I wasn't expecting that from her at all, I thought she forgot about it but she mentioned it out of the blue while we were both in the living room.

She was sewing her scarf while I was watching television when she spoke to me.

"Do you still remember the man?" She said. "The man who also appears in your dreams"

"Mom?" I looked over to face her in shock "How do you know all of those things?"

"Because I knew you weren't lying that time"

I don't know how to react right now but I'm clearly in dazed. My mother wouldn't bring up this kind of topic out of the blue especially since it was a long time ago. It wasn't normal, she was behaving and acting strangely as if she couldn't focus well on her sewing. I can sense that my mother is nervous, it was the first time I saw her like this.

"He appeared in my dreams last night" I replied.

She stops with her sewing and unexpectedly turns off the television. I knew she was acting strange right now but I didn't know she would drag me into my room completely horrified.

She covered my mouth and said something that gave me chills through my soul.

"He was here with us" she whispered.

My mind went blank for a second. Is my mother playing pranks on me, she could be playing pranks at her age, but why do I feel like she's telling the truth I can sense fear from her eyes.

"I saw him earlier before I sew. He was standing next to you watching you in the darkness."

That shits give me goosebumps, I thought it was just a dream that I only see him in my dreams but my mother can see him too. I was wondering what he wants from us.

"Mom, I want to be away with him," I said shaking in fear.

Who knows what that creature will do to me? He would just stare in the dark for a while but I had this feeling when my mother was out he would take control of his scheme. I don't like that guy anymore he was giving me the creeps.

"He will be here to take care of us now."

"What do you mean Mom?"

At this moment, my mom gazed at me the one gaze I saw in the man. She was smiling grinning from ear to ear that's when I knew this wasn't my mother anymore. It was a horrifying monster, I hate how I got fooled knowing my mother would never mention that beast. But right now, I was scared, I was scared that he would take over me and my mother.

"I'm here to be your friend again," she said and at the back, the man appeared with the same expression as my mother. "We will be best friends forever together with your mother."

~The End