Fear Gripped Me
It is 11:40 and I am excited to join this prompt again, it has been a while.
... Yeah, my mum was always very funny; she would scare us to our wits' end.
Mom was very good at scaring us, and even her siblings told us that we were not the only people she used to scare; she actually started this act when she was young. 😅
Countless times she would just come to the window unknowingly to us and be making scary sounds, especially if we had finished watching a scary movie; she would do that, and of course everyone would be shouting and jumping on one another, looking for safety. Then she would just come from nowhere and laugh at us.
One night after watching a scary movie, we were just there in the room, and the worst of it all is that, immediately after we finished watching the scary movie, our light was put out for some hours. It was very scary.
My mum actually remembered that I did not finish washing the dishes, and those dishes were outside the housen she told me to go outside and pack them inside. I begged her that those dishes could pass the night outside, and then I begged everyone to just come out with me because I was scared, but my mum told me that I was going outside alone.
That night my dad was not around; he went for an all-night rehearsal. Had he been around, he would have helped me or maybe packed it for me.
I summed up the little courage I had and went outside to pack the plates and other stuff. Immediately I felt relief, and I was not really afraid again. I started packing, and in my mind I wanted to prove to my siblings that I was not afraid again, so I started washing the dishes.
I forgot about the fact that I was afraid, and I started singing, but something scary happened. I heard my name, and the voice was very strange; I was gripped with fear.
My heart skipped and my hands were shaking; my eyes and nose became watery.
What made me very scared was that I did not hear my mum's usual scary sound or the way she usually laughs.
I told myself that it was not the usual mummy's play.
I heard my name again, and this time all the leaves started shaking.
I ran to the house, crying and shouting.
I later knew that it was Mum because she was not in the house, and when she came inside the house, she was laughing, but I did not know how she got outside to come and scare me.