Monster In Your Head

The little girl stirs in her closet trembling, terrified. It’s coming for her she can feel it getting closer. Her parents sit downstairs laughing, completely oblivious to the horrifying scene in the room directly above them. Husshhh, a whisper broke the silence and the girl hugged herself tighter wishing she could become small enough to just dissapear completely, the only escape at this point. There was no hiding and she knew it yet her body folds around its self trying to disappear. Shhhhhhhh. Another whisper floats through her head leaving the permanent echo that’s does not exist. A hand on her shoulder and a breath on her neck from behind, but the only thing behind her is the wall. She had always feared the monster under her bed its taunts and mockery would sing her to sleep. But never in all those years had it ever showed its face, she felt protected for it always kept to its hiding place under her bed. Her sheets where a shield it was scared to touch. Until now. Now this monster creeps from its place leaving a trail of something she us afraid to describe. This monster is no longer afraid of the shield of her sheets. A claw curls around her neck leaving marks that will stay with her forever. The fight after so long had come to an end the victor is not the girl but the entity accompanying her through it all. She falls from her hiding place and the claws of the monster cut into her skin strangling her. She always feared the monster under her head, but that was her protector she pushed away the true monster she had to fear was the monster living in her head.