Horror Stories to Read in the Dark

Social phobias

Triggers/Warnings: Social phobias(the fear of Socialism.), death, Anxiety, and murder/murderer.

This story is about a teenaged girl named Ava. This is how her fear became her killer. 

Ava was terrified of socializing. To an extremely concerning point. Her parents had to homeschool her because of it. She never left the house and never was around people. She has had this fear since she was a kid.  Today her parents decided that she needed to get out of the house. They were going to take her to the mall but on the way there got a call from work that they were needed at work so had to stop there first. Little did they know they would never make it the mall.

Ava complained to her mother 'mom why do I have to leave home?' 'because dear you never get out of the house. After your father and I deal with work we will go to the mall.' 'Okay.' she shivered at the thought of a crowded place. She had images of the people yelling at her, her head spinning with the fear of the outside world.

After arriving she was told that she had to go inside although she didn't want to she had no choice. Her anxiety seemed to skyrocket the moment she walked in. they walked into an elevator then up to the highest floor which she later found was the rooftops. sitting on the roof on a chair near the edge she calmed down a bit and was just looking out at the city. the air wasn't clean smelling but rather disgusting the breeze was nice however the sun beat down on her skin. She could hear the faint sound of the cars on the highway but for the most part it was silent.

Once she turned her head rather than seeing the table where her parents sat she saw an old fashion gas mask. She jumped shrieking as it stood up straight she could see smoke coming from the masked figure. Slowly backing away she could hear a whisper not sure what it was saying she kept backing up. Till she felt the glass railing suddenly remembering she was on the roof now cornered as the thing got closer. It dragged a leathery finger across her face before pushing her over the ledge.

She shrieked falling down before she landed on her side breaking her rib, pelvis, leg, spine, and skull. All shattered on the pavement spraying blood everywhere. She died instantly,

Turns out she was the only one to see the killer and she never screamed the first time.

It was said she committed suicide.

Nothing more was investigated.

Her parents blamed themselves for taking her out of the house.

There was a small funeral with the remnants of the body being burned to ashes then buried in her backyard.

The building was forced to close the top floor. Which was said to hold the spirit of her haunting the building for the next two years before it was demolished do to strange things happening.

No one will ever know what really happened that day except the killer.