SRF Heavy Industries

This one time I had this dream that there was a kind of rattle-sound in the box at the bottom of my closet. I dreamed that it woke me up, and in the dream I sat up in my bed but I was too scared to get out of bed to see what it was. I pulled the blanket up over my head and I screamed and that must have woke me up because when I woke up I was doing the same thing. I remember I was worried about Mommy couldn’t hear me scream if I had the blanket over my head, but nothing in the world could make me take the blanket off until Mommy came, so I just kept screaming.

When Mommy got there I told her about the sound and she turned on all the lights and opened the closet door and looked through the box that just had old clothes and shoes in it. First she pulled it out and looked it all over to see if there was holes in it, but there wasn’t. Then behind her in the closet a piece of the floor lifted up and I didn’t see what was pushing it up, but I screamed and pulled the blanket up over my head and kept screaming, and then I woke up again and Mommy came into the room and turned on all the lights.

I told her about the box in the closet and that she had already come in here to look in the box and that when she was looking the floor lifted up, and she sat on the bed for a minute and told me I was just dreaming, that I had a nightmare. Then she went to the closet and opened the door, and there wasn’t a box on the floor or anything because there never was. I told her where the floor lifted up, and she knelt down to look at the floor, and that’s when a hand came out of my dresses and grabbed her by the hair and my closet door slammed closed.

I pulled my blanket over my head and screamed and screamed, and then I woke up and kept screaming. Mommy came in and turned on all the lights. I told her that there was a box that rattled and I had dreamed that she came to check, but then I had woke up again and she came and the floor lifted up, and then I had woke up again and she came to check and some man grabbed her hair and pulled her in and slammed the door, and I asked her not to go to the closet to check. But then the door to the closet just came open, just a little bit, all on its own, and I pulled the blanket over my head and screamed and screamed and woke up again.

When Mommy came this time I told her to take me to her bedroom. I kept screaming and I couldn’t talk but I pointed at the closet and screamed louder when she got up to go to the closet door, so she came and picked me up and took me down the hall to her bedroom. Puppy was curled up on the bed and was grumpy, but Mommy made him get down so I could sleep next to her. Mommy hugged me until I felt better but not all the way better and she fell asleep, but I kept hearing Puppy walking around. Then he sat down in front of the door and growled, and I told him to hush up. He was looking at me when Mommy’s doorknob turned and the door opened up, and then another Puppy came in and they both jumped up on the bed and started fighting and I pulled the blanket over my head and screamed and screamed and when I woke up, I was in my bed, with my blanket over my head, and I was screaming.

When Mommy came in and turned on all the lights, Puppy came in with her and went up to the closet door and started growling. I tried to tell her about the box and the floor and the man and Puppy fighting another Puppy on the bed in her bedroom but I was crying too hard. Puppy kept growling and barked at the closet and Mommy went and snatched open the door so hard Puppy had to jump out of the way and there was another Puppy in there only he was hurt and bleeding and Puppy jumped in and dragged him out and then I pulled the blanket over my head and started screaming.

When I woke up this time, Mommy came in and turned on all the lights. I couldn’t breathe or talk, but I pointed at the closet and said “Puppy” and she sat down next to me and told me Puppy had ran away two days ago and hadn’t come home. And then she opened up the closet door and the floor was pushed up and Puppy was in there, but he wasn’t moving but a little bit, and there was a man trying to go back down through the hole in the floor. Mommy grabbed the man by his hair and pulled him out of the hole in the floor and started hitting him and biting him and I pulled the blanket up over my head and screamed and screamed and screamed.

I didn’t wake up again this time, but Mommy sat down on the bed with me and hugged me through the blanket and said that it was okay, that the man was dead and the police were going to come and take him away and that I could go to her room and sleep with her tonight.

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