A story that just popped into my mind... Horrifying.

When I was about 7 years old, my best friend was having a birthday party. Me, her, and two other girls stayed at her house. It was a little "treat" that we were going ot be allowed to sleep in their camper (in the backyard lol) and be big girls on our own. We stayed in there playing mash, mad libs, talking all sorts of horsey stuff, etc. Then we decided to go inside and get cake. We all went in, ate, had a ball, and decided to go back.

When we walked in the door, the camper had been trashed. Clothes, bed sheets, pillows, everything. Papers were torn up and thrown all over - except for a paper that had 4 people drawn on it - without hair. It was horrifying. We all lost our minds. We had no idea what to do, where to go, we just wanted HELP. We were too scared to stay there, where someone would get us. But we wanted away from there. We ended up trying to force all 4 of us to 'calmly' run to the back door of the house (about 20 feet away). We couldn't figure out who would go first, and who would go last. Eventually we all sucked it up, got in an order, flung the door open and ran like wild animals to the door.

The back door was locked.

We all started screaming and crying and banging on the door (one of those glass sliding ones) insanely. My friend's mom let us in, completely bewildered. It took two hours for us to calm down. We never went back outside, my friend's mom went to get all out stuff and we slept inside - bunched up together.

I never got over that. We were terrified. We were like 7. Surely something had happened. Something was after us.

When I was about 17 (yea, a whole TEN years later), one of the other girls discovered that my friend's mom had done it to play a prank. She didn't think it'd get that out of hand or bother/scare us that much. I was sworn to secrecy to never speak of it to the other girls. So, two of us know the truth. It was a prank that went wrong.

However, to this day, I still feel terrified when I think about that night. I remember it so clearly.

DG
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