Tap. Tap.
The sounds of something small rapping against glass was keeping him awake. His ears perking upon hearing it, Nick scoped the room. Nothing could be seen with his night vision.
"H-Hello?" he muttered in the quietest voice possible.
No response. No other noise responded to his call in the darkness.
He picked up her phone and clicked it on to look at the time, seeing that it was only 2:42 AM.
This hadn't been the first time that he heard a sound that had awakened him from his slumber, though. It hadn't even been twenty minutes before this when he heard the exact same noise.
Telling himself once again that there was nothing there, he turned himself around and squeezed onto the paw of the gray rabbit who, surprisingly, was sleeping soundly through the knocking sounds that disturbed his sleep. Normally it was the other way around, but not this time.
Tap. Tap.
Just when his eyelids were ready to close, he heard the peculiar noise and picked his head back up again.
Where the heck is that knocking coming from? Nick asked himself. It ain't comin' from the windows in here, so where is it?
The vulpine slowly got himself in an effort to not disturb Judy from her sleep. He then tiptoed out of the bedroom and walked out towards where the other rooms of their new home was, his paws pattering against the cold tile flooring. He carefully maneuvered his way around the cardboard moving boxes, ready to be unpacked in the morning, that were scattered around the area.
On the wall on his right was a side portrait of a portly bear with a forlorn expression on his face hanging on a nearby wall. It had been there since he and Judy had arrived, as if it had been left by the others that lived here before them, but he didn't bother to question it.
Tap… Tap…
He heard it again, but the thump sounded slower and closer in range. It had sounded like it came from a bathroom that was coming up on his right. The thing that was eerie about that was that the room had no windows. The only glass that could have been knocked on was the mirror that was beside the sink.
That was when his mind went back to what the elderly hippo two doors down from their new abode told them as he was moving boxes in. He couldn't remember everything that he had heard her say to him, but he did recollect something about some ghost that could still be spotted on occasion within the house. If remembered things correctly, she said something about how the figure of a young bear still could be seen, and that she had seen it in a mirror with her own eyes when she was watching the place for the property's previous owners.
He didn't even bother to tell Judy about it when he heard it; he had thought of it as nothing more than nonsense being sprouted by an old mammal. But now he wasn't so sure. A part of his brain was actually thinking that the hippo might have been telling the truth, and that she wasn't crazy when she said that stuff to him.
He slowly crept towards the room where the tapping had been coming from all along.
Tap…
What he heard next was the sounds of youthful giggling, similar to the kind kits make when they are up to no good. The noise of the small laughing sent a shiver down the fox's spine.
Nick turned his head to the side as he took a few steps back. When he looked back at the windowless room that he heard the sounds coming from, he saw the figure of a grinning brown bear, who appeared to be no older than the age of six, in the bathroom's mirror. What he was seeing with his own eyes basically matched the hippo's description. Despite no one else being in there to create such a reflection, it was as visible as ever.
The fox gasped under his breath and pit-a-patted away from the area. But as he making his way back from where he had walked rom, Nick wasn't sure what was creepier: The mysterious apparition he just saw in the mirror, or the fact that the portrait of the bear looking to the side now appeared to be staring directly at him.
Author's Note: Hey there, readers! With Halloween right around the corner, what's better to do than write a story that's on the spooky side? So that's exactly what I just did! Nothing too overbearingly scary, but just something to get me in the Halloween spirit. :)
Hope you enjoyed this little story of mine. I might try to do another short but spooky story that's just like this. Maybe, maybe not.
As always, let me know your thoughts. Your feedback, good and bad, is always gladly appreciated.
'Til next time! :D