As my eyes strain to keep open, I looked outside the window to see the thunder roaring and the menacing looking clouds at the same time as the rain rammed fiercely on the window panes. I felt an unpleasant sudden fear as I felt as though I was being bombarded by the coldness that surrounded me.
I looked up at the ceiling and there I saw it. Shivers ran down my spine making me tremble all over; it was very pale almost transparent, with the deepest blue eyes, sleek skin and a very sharp smile; its body as skinny as a pole, as its limbs stick out, with huge bony legs. I couldn't bear to look at it anymore as I hurried to cover myself, I thought about how I once read a story about strange spiders found in the wilderness but those are fake right a figment of our imagination. Stories told in the woods to scare campers; stories about missing children hopefully to be found, Bigfoot, and huge spiders that can rip through human flesh and eat us whole.
I slowly look out above my blanket and see that there was no giant man eating spider, just the lightning setting off shadows around my room. I silently thank any deity out there that it was just my over active imagination and go back to sleep, what I didn't notice though as I drifted off was the creak of my bedroom door closing and the knob click into place.
As I awoke the next morning I saw the sun shining through my window with not a cloud in sight. The usual smell of eggs, pancakes, and toast was not wafting through the air like it usually would on a Sunday morning. "Mom probably slept in today", I said out loud. As I make my way downstairs I hear soft muffled sobs coming from my brother's room, so I go to see if he's ok, I was not prepared for what I saw.
Blood, blood everywhere, it was soaked into my brothers bed it covered the walls, the ceiling, the floor, I've never seen so much blood. The metallic smell was almost unbearable, my mom was sitting in the middle of the floor cradling my brothers favorite stuffed dragon and crying into it while I was shocked stiff. I learned two things that morning, those stories about gigantic spiders are real and those missing children aren't coming back.