The Monster Under the Bed

Sarah sat on her bedroom floor, stretching, today was the final round in her aerobics championship and she had to be in tip top shape or she would never win first prize. her mother called upstairs “Sarah dear, if we don’t go soon you're going to be late!”

“Shit” Sarah mumbled when she saw the time “I’ll be right down!” she scrambled to finish dressing and hurried downstairs.

Once they reached the gymnasium, Sarah ran to her spot and plugged her earbuds in letting the music flow through her, as she began her routine. She flew across the room, far outpacing the rest of the contestants, and easily winning the first prize.Her parents brought her out for a congratulatory dinner, and they came home late.

Once the arrived Sarah when straight up to her room, it was sunday and she still had homework to do. As she was studying, she heard a noise behind her. She turned and looked but saw nothing, but she did notice that the blanket was falling off of her bed. As she fixed it she realized that She always made her bed in the morning but she thought that perhaps she had forgotten today.

She returned to studying she had the feeling that something was watching her, but whenever she looked over her shoulder she couldn’t see anything. Eventually she finished her work and got ready for bed, but when she returned the blanket was on the floor again. She looked under the bed but no one was there. She eventually just crawled into bed turning the light off, but leaving a small lamp on. During the night she woke up to what sounded like growling. But whenever she turned the light on nothing was there.

She woke up the next morning exhausted from lack of sleep but hurried and left for school, thinking that it was all imagination. Everyone congratulated her on winning the first prize ribbon, and her fellow cheerleaders even threw her a surprise party. She came home drunk that night, sometime after midnight and stumbled upstairs collapsing on the bed. She woke up a few hours later to the feeling of something tugging on her ankle. trying to pull her under the bed she pulled her leg away and, still slightly drunk, rolled over and fell back asleep.
Sarah woke up again a half hour later when the force of something pulling at her made her fall off the bed and begin to slide under it. She screamed, but her parents stayed asleep. She couldn’t see much of the creature but its glowing eyes, and it’s scaly hand that’s sharp nails were digging into her leg. She clawed at the bedstand kicking at the creature. It was pulling her into an abyss of darkness, that seemed to go to far to fit underneath her bed.

Just as Sara’s head disappeared under the bed, her mother walked in, wondering what the commotion was about. She heard the sound of someone eating, and she looked around the room to see who was there, when she stuck her head under the bed she saw a pile of blood covered bones. Her husband woke up to her screams as the creature began to devour her.

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Stephanie closed her book, her parents could never know how much she enjoyed writing. They wanted her to be a doctor, that’s why she kept all her stories in a secret diary, that was kept in a locked box under the bed. She tucked it away, and locked the box. She had to go to bed, it was late and she needed rest for her first day of nursing school tomorrow. Just as she went to sleep she noticed that her blanket was falling on the floor.