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The knock on the window
Me and my partner are just chilling in bed, watching a movie when we hear a knock on the window in our room. We think it could be a bird and ignore it. But after some time we hear the knocking again..and again and again until that’s all we hear. We end up getting annoyed and look out the window, but no one’s there. We stay quiet for a moment to see if the knocking will start again. Nothing. “Strange” I think and go back to watching the movie. 5 mins go by and someone knocks on the door. I get up and go downstairs then when I open the door, but there’s no one there. “Someone must be trying to prank us” I say to myself after closing and locking the door again. I go back upstairs and to our room and when I enter the room I don’t see my partner on the bed. I look around the room while calling their name until I hear something moving in the closet. I walk over to the closet, take a deep breath then open the closet door. In the closet sits my partner tied up with a blindfold over their eyes and tape over their mouth. I look at them in shock for a sec then reach over to take the tape off their mouth, but before I even get a chance to move my arm to their face I get hit in the face and everything goes black.
When I wake up again my whole body is shaking and I’m feeling really cold. My vision is blurry at first but after some time I can see more clearly. I’m outside on top of a mountain, it’s snowing a bit and the sky is gray. A few meters in front of me is my partner on their knees still tied up crying while looking at me with a scared expression on their face. Their mouth is sewn shut and they have blood all over their face. I try to get up and run to them but a rope tied to a metal chair keeps me in place. “Leave us the fuck alone! We haven’t done anything wrong” I shout, and right when I shout a demon looking creature walks past me and goes over to my partner. I keep yelling and crying for the creature to leave them alone but there’s no use. The creature grabs my partner by the throat, takes out a knife from its pocket and cuts my partner’s stomach open then throws them down the mountain. I scream at the top of my lungs and sit up straight in my bed. Tears fall down my cheeks while I look around in panic. I see my partner beside me looking at me confused and worried. I hug them tight as soon as I see them and repeat the words “thank god.” They hug me back and tell me it’s just a nightmare and that I’m safe. After some time I’m calm again and we go back to sleep in each other’s arms.
I wake up again around 3 am and the bed is empty. I turn on the flashlight on my phone to help me see and I get out of bed and look around the room. “Maybe they are in the bathroom?” I think to myself and lay down again. I wait for a while but they don’t get back to the room. “Strange, they normally don’t take this long” I whisper and get out of bed again and go to the bathroom. I check the bathroom but it’s empty, so I look around the whole house without finding them. When I get to the kitchen I see through the window a light coming from the forest. I go to the hallway and put on my shoes and walk into the forest to where the light is coming from.
When I get to the light I see something I never expected I would ever see in my life. Deep in the forest is a big fire among the trees and above the fire are my family members floating and getting cooked like pigs. I look at them in horror as they slowly spin around all having apples in their mouths. I turn my head to the left side of the fire and there my partner is standing facing away from me. I slowly walk over to them while saying their name. They give no reaction. The second time I say their name they flinch and I stop moving forward. It’s quiet for a while then they start turning their head slowly and as it turns I hear his neck break and make many different types of sounds until they are fully facing me. Their eyes are completely black with no light behind them, they have many weird looking scars on their face and the smile on their face is unnatural. Their teeth are sharp and from the edge of their mouth some black liquid runs down to their chin. Suddenly they start giggling but that giggling quickly turns into a psychopathic laugh. I take a few steps back out of fear and yell at them to stop laughing. Right when I yell they stop laughing and stare at me with a blank expression on their face. “What happened to you..? Who did this?” I say in a shaky voice and step back a bit more. For a few seconds it’s quiet but then they suddenly get down on all fours and let out a demonic scream. I jump out of fear and run as fast as I can back to the house. I hear them running after me while laughing hysterically. I tear up as I run into the house and lock the door behind me and right when I’ve locked the door they run into the door and start banging on it. I run upstairs and into our room locking that door as well and fall down to the ground. I start to cry as I still hear them banging on the door.
After 5 minutes of constant banging it suddenly stops and everything is quiet, I calm myself down so I can listen more properly. “Did they go back to the forest? Please tell me they went back to the forest..” I mumble to myself as I get up and start to make my way to the bedroom door, but I stop when I hear a knocking coming from the window. I slowly turn around to face the window and make my way over to it. The curtains are closed and I count to three then quickly roll up them and look outside. Nothing. I look around outside for a few seconds to see if I can see anything that looks different until I feel like a breeze on my neck which makes me turn around fast. But there’s no one there. I turn back to the window and there they are standing in front of me with that messed up smile on their face. Before I can even react they grab a hold round my throat and lift me up in the air. I try to get out of their grip but there’s nothing I can do, their grip just gets tighter and tighter by the second. I look them in the eyes as I gasp for air. “P..please” is all I manage to say before the grip round my throat gets too tight. My “partner” keeps smiling at me and a lot more liquid from their mouth runs down to the floor as their mouth slowly opens. Suddenly a lot of that liquid shoots into my mouth and I can feel it move down my throat blocking the airway even more. Their laughing is the last thing I hear before everything goes black.
The end.