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09/30/07(Sun)06:56 No.288396I don't like talking about this, or even thinking about it, but... well... hell with it, I don't need to sleep tonight.
I
was around thirteen, fourteen years old, just entering middle school.
It was the first time I had been very far away from my home and my
family (my elementary school was only a few blocks away) and I was
interacting with an entirely new set of people. I made some friends,
not the good sort by any means, and one day we all decided (or they
decided, and I was pressured in to following them) that we should all
go try to scare ourselves stupid. Rumor around school was that an old
woman who lived alone had died in her home, and that no one had gone to
collect the body yet. A chance to see a real live dead body? These were
the type of kids who couldn't resist such a thrill. We found the house
after about an hour of walking. I was sure my parents would be
wondering where I was, but I feared abandoning the group. The house was
old, very old, pieces of it were crumbling away as we approached along
the stonework pathway. The garden was overgrown with weeds. A flowerbed
that sat under a darkened, cracked window was littered with wrinkly
gray petals. We got up to the door, and the bravest of the group
hazarded a knock. No reply. He tried the knob. To our surprise,
excitement, and horror, it turned with a rusty whine. We opened the
door slowly and crept inside. I can't remember much of the decorations.
The clearest memories I have of that first room are hazy - a black mist
swirls around them, obscuring their reality from me. We made our way
through the house, searching for the old woman's corpse. Most of the
doors we tried were locked, but one lead into room, the kitchen. We
couldn't see inside for it was too dark, but the smell belching forth
from that room made us all nearly vomit. This is where my true fear
began. |