Growing up, I was a skinny and weak kid. I was bullied a lot when I was a kid and therefore I didn’t even have many friends. I would usually pour my feelings down in my diary as it would make me feel better. I would write everything in it, from my most embarrassing and humiliating moments to the happy and loving ones, but there was something that happened to me that I couldn’t bring myself to think, let alone write, I wanted to forget all about.

 

It happened to me when James and Chris, the “popular” boys from my class came up to me. At first, I was surprised how happy they looked to see me and how friendly they acted but it turned how they needed “help” with the Math homework or more like copy it.

 

I was so sick and tired from them using me, I refused to help them, but I wished I would have just let them copy the homework rather than being scared for the rest of my life. 

 

During lunchtime, I would usually sit in the library as not a lot of people would come there and also because the cafeteria was a loud place and I preferred reading my book in silence.

 

The two of them walked up to me smiling as they cracked their knuckles, I would lie if I told you I wasn’t terrified at that moment, because I didn’t let them copy my homework the two of them had received detention and they had to skip soccer practice. 

 

James held me my collar and drag me to the boy’s locker room. There were no teachers around that time and I was shaking in my boots. They locked me up in the locker and left roaring with laughter.

 

It wasn’t the first time this had happened, but I still found it extremely uncomfortable, I couldn’t move a single muscle and I had a hard time breathing as the holes placed on the lockers weren’t very big.

 

I cried for help, and I could hear footprints approaching the room I was so relieved and thought that I could finally get out, but it wasn’t what I thought it was.

 

It wasn’t a person, I had no clue what was standing in front of me. I peeked through the holes to find I tall, dark figure lingering by the lockers, it had huge fangs coming out of its mouth and it crawled down to the floor eating something I wasn’t familiar with.

 

I knew it wasn’t James or Chris, the creature was double their size, all I knew that it wasn’t good news. 

 

The creature came closer to the locker I was locked in and banged his head against the door. I shivered with fear and I could feel the tears roll down my eyes and I tightened my fists and closed my eyes. I was too scared to watch anything anymore and I sat inside praying that I would get out of this mess.

 

An hour later the janitor opened the door and I hugged him tightly, I had never felt so happy in my life, even though this incident happened a long time ago, every time I closed my eyes I could see the same creature saying in a soft yet strong tone “I’ll be back.”