KILL ME OR LEAVE ME, DON'T TEASE ME!

Stella left soon after waking up. That night, nobody came to play the midnight game, maybe they found baby blue boring.

Jack was in a habit of perusing horror books till late evening, and as usual, he was reading some creepy stories. His father was not at home that night as he went to the town on a business meeting and his mother was sleeping alone downstairs. It was around 2 am when he heard the sound of anklets as though somebody is walking in the compound. But he neglected and started thinking that it is just his doubt and that nothing is there outside.

He kept on reading the story when he heard that someone was knocking on the door of his room.

"Who's there?", Jack asked.

"It's me, my son, open the door and could you come downstairs, sleep in my room?" His mom replied.

he opened the door immediately.

"Mom, did you also hear the sound of anklets and are afraid of that?" Jack asked.

"Anklets? what are you talking about? I forbade you many times, not to read such stories," his mom scolded him.

"I was joking, let's go downstairs, wait let me grab my pillow and the book," Jack said.

Unlike mine, the room of my parents got a little light from the neighboring street lamps so my mom did not turn any kind of lights on. So, it was utter darkness in the room till the eyes got adjusted in the darkness.

Jack laid on the bed and his mother on the bed, he kept on ready that book and slept while reading that.

He saw a disturbing dream, that he was sleeping in his room, and there was a dead body hanging from the fan and tried to stand up but his body was paralyzed, he tried to scream but it was of no use, then that hanging body opened her eyes, and fell over him.

He screamed so hard and woke up.

Jack thought of looking at the time, he looked at his phone and it was 4:03 a.m. Jack thought of switching sides so he turned and looked at his mom, there he saw two shadowy figures appear, and they were not outside the room but inside the room. One of the shadows was on her knees looking straight at Jack's mother, while the other one was standing behind her.

At first, he thought that he was still dreaming, then he thought that, as he read a lot of paranormal stuff so it can be the reason, and as he has been woken up by a nightmare it might be an after-effect of that dream. He rubbed his eyes but the shadows were still there, and suddenly one of the shadows looked at him, he lost it.

"Mom!", Jack screamed. "Mom!!"

Both shadows disappeared, and his mom woke up and started staring at him, he gave some silly excuses for waking her up.

The next day his dad came back. So, he decided to sleep in his room instead of his mother's room.

That night, Jack slept earlier, and did not read any horror story, he woke up again in the night and he heard some sounds, these were the sounds of children playing, at first, he thought that it might be coming from a neighbor's house, as a habit he checked his phone and it was exactly 3:03 am. All the sounds stopped, there was dead silence, and Jack closed his eyes. But suddenly he heard footsteps as if someone was coming upstairs,

"Who might be outside?" he questioned himself.

"Mom? Dad? no, but they fall asleep early", he kept on talking himself. "It cannot be any intruder as the colony was protected by guards."

All the sounds stopped. He fell asleep.

At exactly 4:03 am by the sound of knocking on my door, Jack woke up, at this time he was scarred and he screamed "Mom!!" there was no way his mom would here as both the doors were closed. the knocking got worse so was Jack's state.

Then he heard the noise, this time the noise was coming from the room. As if someone is walking with heavy steps.

Jack got angry and thought that it might be the neighbors' children who are on the roof.

He got up opened his door and went upstairs angrily. On the roof, there was no one, but he loved the weather and smiled while looking at the sky.

His smile disappeared when he heard the sound of anklets, he looked around but found no one.

He felt that a girl wearing anklets is coming close to her, like the sound of anklets was increasing.

He turned around but there was no one.

"Kill me or leave me, at least not tease me like this," he shouted with frustration.

"Do tell me what you want? My blood? My flesh? Or what else", he kept on talking while looking in the dark.

But there was silence.

He went back to my room, locked it, and went to sleep.