FlakesBongler [they/them]

Midwestern Oaf

Shy, but willing to talk if approached

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • So, the one truly terrifying thing to ever happen to me happened when I was 4

    I was home with my brother and I wanted to ask my dad for something, so I asked my brother where our dad was. My brother told me that he was up in our attic, so I wandered up there looking for him

    Of course, this was a trap, and as soon as I got up there, my brother slammed the door shut and locked it, leaving me alone in the attic.

    The attic itself wasn’t creepy, it had several windows and was very well lit, plus there was a box of toys up there, which I started to play with

    Everything was fine for a while, until I noticed that there was an old armoire in a back corner. It had been up there as long as I could remember, but it didn’t belong to us, it came with the house. For some reason, I couldn’t take my eyes off of it, I just had a feeling that I shouldn’t stop looking at it

    After a few minutes of staring at it, it started to creak. Painfully slow, and dreadfully loud it began to open. When I saw the thin gray fingers emerge from around the door, I lost it

    I sprinted for the door, screaming as loud as I could, hoping that the door would have be unlocked

    It wasn’t

    I kept screaming for someone, anyone to unlock the door, beating on it as hard as I could

    I was making so much noise, I couldn’t hear anything else, I couldn’t think about anything else, I had to get out before whatever was in that armoire made it to the stairs and got me

    After what felt like an eternity, but couldn’t have been more than maybe 30 seconds, the door swung open and my dad was there to pick me up and hold me

    I was inconsolable for hours, aside from immediately telling my dad that my brother locked me in the attic, I couldn’t bring myself to tell anyone what I saw up there. I had seen plenty of movies where someone wasn’t taken seriously and then people got hurt trying to prove to them that there wasn’t a monster.

    Never went up to the attic again, nobody blamed me for it either, except for my brother, who kept making fun of me about it. Nobody else ever mentioned seeing or hearing anything weird up there.

    We moved out of that house a year later. Before I left to get in the car to drive to our new house (which thankfully didn’t have an attic), I made a little note for the next people to move in.

    With a bright red crayon I wrote

    Monster up there ⬆️

    And left it taped to the attic door

    I really hope whoever moved in took it seriously