Under the Bed
[All characters engaging in sexual activity are 18 years or older]
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My name is Joseph and this is what happened to me when I was in high school.
I was a timid kid growing up. I wanted to get into sports, but I didn't have the physique for either football, soccer, or baseball. I wanted to ask a girl out, but I kept freezing up before I could even walk over to her, like a deer in headlights. While most guys were into hunting, I felt bad about the animals they were hunting. I was even a vegetarian.
I never really tried to stick out much in school, which made me a pretty good target for bullies. I knew their schedules after a while and learned to avoid them, so it didn't get too bad.
I had a couple of good friends to hang out with, or I occupied my time by either exploring the woods out behind my house or loitering around the small town that I lived in. Anything to keep myself away from my house.
I can't explain why, but there would be times where it would feel like someone was watching me, out of sight. Either in the house or the barn, my hair on the back of my neck would stand up and I would hear the slightest of noises. The creak of the floorboard, some rustling of hay, a scritch-scratch noise. You probably think I was the one making that noise or thought it was something else, but I know that it wasn't me. I'd known since I was ten.
I tried to tell my folks, but they didn't believe me. Dad would just tell me to stop being so timid and be a man. Mom would scold him for being so harsh with me and assured me that it was either my imagination or a rodent. I tried setting up some live-traps, but I would find the cheese or peanut butter gone the next morning, the trap hadn't been set off.
Nothing really happened and after a while, I even began to doubt myself.
Until one night...
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It was a quiet night. There were no clouds in the sky, allowing the full moon to shine right into my room, making it easy for me to see clearly.
I was soundly asleep until around midnight, when a noise woke me up. It was a creak that came from under the bed. I decided that enough was enough and with steadfast resolution that I've never had before, I checked under my bed. I found nothing. I lifted myself back into bed and put the covers over myself. That's when I heard a scritch-scratch noise from the closet.
I lifted myself until my back was lying on the pillow and I whispered, "W-who is there...?"
There was no noise for the longest time.
Then a hand curled around the closet shutter. The fingers were long and clawed. Then it quietly pushed the shutter open, revealing a long, furred arm. The thing slowly, but assuredly, left my closet. It was big, way too big to have fit into the small closet. It was considerably large and tall, three feet taller than my Dad, who was 5'10''.
It slowly came over to my bed, where I finally could see the whole thing. It was covered in shaggy, dark fur, but the body was covered in shorter fur while the head and most of the spine had a wavy mane that covered most of it's face, making it tough to see it. It had long, spindly arms and legs that ended in human like hands and feet, even though they were also slim and clawed. The skin that I could see (hands, feet, under the arms, and the sides of the legs) was dark, but not like the dark skin of a human, more like really dark gray, with the skin getting lighter towards fingertips and toes.
This thing had gripped the end of my bed and lifted itself off of the ground, where its feet landed on the bed frame, the part that stuck out alongside the bed itself. Whatever this thing was, it was incredibly flexible and strong. It's arms slowly went to and gripped the headboard. The hands and feet seemed slightly proportionally larger than its body would suggest. It lowered it's long (at least compared to a human's) and shaggy neck.
I could hear it breath through its nose. It lowered its head further until the hair of it's mane started to tickle my neck and cheeks. I was frozen in absolute fear. I had no idea what this thing was or why it was here. Was it going to eat me? Was I going to die here and nobody would know what happened? Will there be a body to find at all? I was sweating bullets... It smelled musty, but not particularly unpleasant. This thing then sniffed me a few times before getting back up.
It let go of the headboard, squatting directly over my legs, and pushed the blankets off of the bed. It gently (but firmly) gripped my legs before slowly sliding me down the bed until my head was just barely on the pillow.
My god,
I thought,
this is it. This is how I die.
It gently slid my shirt over my stomach and lower chest. This thing stuck it's long, pink tongue and licked my stomach and chest a couple of times, licking some of my sweat off. I could see it's teeth, very sharp looking teeth. It then had a hold of my pajama bottoms and slowly pulled them all the way down to my feet.