Bath Time

"You've got five more minutes in the tub." Her mother called out her warning.

"Ok mom." She replied.

As she returned to play, she grabbed her toys and started throwing them in the water pretending that they were being pulled down as they sank in the water. As she continued to pick them up and throw them back in she could hear her mother. "You better be not making a mess in there."

"Yes mom." She called back as she threw another toy with a loud thunk. She watched the water through the bubbles expecting the toy to come back up. As she sat in the tub staring down into the water wondering what happened to the toy. She started to push the bubbles out of the way, she leaned down to look, as she moved closer she reached down to search for it. When she put her arm down into the water with her hand open wide to grasp, she felt something wrap around her fingers. She recoiled back, slipping and falling down on her backside, screaming and yelling for her mother.

Her mother rushes into the bathroom, "What is going on, are you ok?" Her mother asked with worry on her face. As her mother walks in she surveys the scene, she looks in the tub looking for her daughter, all that she sees is the sloshing of bubbly water. She looks frantically for her, as she looks behind the door she sees her curled up into a ball.

"What is going on?" The mother asks in a soft calming voice.

The daughter slowly looks up and points to the tub and says in a stuttering voice. "There is something in the water."

The mother stands and slowly walks over to the tub, she bends down to pull the drain plug. As she stands there looking watching the water slowly drain down, she sees all of the girls' toys being lowered down to the bottom of the tub. As the last of the bubbly water drained out, the mother looked over the empty tub, she had found nothing.

"There is nothing there, sweet heart. It must have been some hair." She tried to explain as she wrapped a towel around her shivering daughter. She toweled off her frightened daughter and ushered her to her room. As the mother started to help dress her, the daughter couldn't help but glancing back down the hallway to the bathroom.

"There you go sweetheart, all nice and cozy." The mother said rubbing the sides of the arms of her daughter.

The daughter still kept her eyes peeled on the door of the bathroom, she was sure that there was something in the bathtub. The mother sees the worried look on her face and says, "You know what, why don't you sleep in my room tonight?" The daughter looked up at her mother and said, "Really? I can?"

"Yes you can, but just for tonight." The mother replied.

As they both walked out to the hallway they passed the bathroom, with the door slightly cracked open, she tried to peer in. As the both walked by, the daughter could see the faint outline of the bathtub with the light of the hallway gleaming off the rim of the tub. The daughter seeing this shrieked back into her mother as they continued down the hallway to the mothers room.

They both walked into the mothers bedroom, the daughter climbed into the bed as the mother tucked her in pulling the blankets up to her chest. "All right now, go to sleep." The mother said as she bent down to kiss her daughter on the forehead. The daughter snuggled deeper into the covers as she thought to herself, "Whatever that was can't get me in here." Her eyes slowly started to close, with her mothers big blankets and soft pillows comforting her she fell off to sleep.

Later on in the night the daughter woke up, rubbing her eyes. She looked around to the other side of the bed to see if her mother had come to bed. With no sign of her, the daughter assumed that she must be still up, so she climbed out of the bed and started down the hall. She quietly walked down the hall searching for her mother, as she grew closer to the bathroom she noticed the light was on. She slowly approached the door, hesitant to open the door with the memory of what happened earlier in the night still in her mind. She pushed the door open without walking through, she slowly stepped in looking around to make sure it was ok. As she walked in further she didn't see anything, as she wondered why the light was on, she looked over to the bathtub. As she leaned over to look, the blood drained from her face as she screamed.

What she saw was a long arm stretching out of the drain, coiling around her mothers body all the way up to her neck. At her mothers neck was an elongated hand with even longer fingers that was able to wrap around the entire neck. The mother's bulging bloodshot eyes looked at her daughter pleadingly, with her arm stretching out, as the long arm slowly dragged her body towards the drain. As the daughter looked on with horror, paralyzed with fear unable to move. Another long arm appeared and slowly closed the door.

As the door closed with a click, all that could be heard was the sound of water flowing down the drain.