Pamela's Monster

"I don't want to go to sleep!!" Pamela yelled to her dad.

"Pamela, everyone has to sleep to grow and to take care of their bodies." her dad said.

"But, the monster is going to get me. He keeps chasing me in my dreams." She finally broke down and cried.

"What monster?" Dad said.

"The one in my dream. He is very tall and hairy and he is always chasing me." Pamela said in a whine as she wiped the tear out of her eyes. "He is big and scary and he going to get me."

"The monster isn't going to get you. Listen this is what you do. When the monster starts to chase you stop running and tell it to go away. You are a strong girl that can defeat this mean looking monster." Her dad said as he sat down on her bed.

"I can tell it to go away?" She said trying to process what her dad just said.

"Of course, your in charge in letting that monster get you. When you run he thinks its a game. Of course he wants to catch you. You must tell him your not playing and to go away." Her dad said trying to come up with something to get her to go to bed without all the tears.

"Okay, I will tell him I am not going to play no more with him. That he is not nice and to go away." Pamela said laying back down and covering herself with her blanket.

"That's my girl." Her dad said with a sigh of relief. He kissed her head and tucked her in the bed. On his way out he made sure her night light was on, turned off the lamp and shut the door. "One down, one to go." As he headed to Pamela's sister room.

Meanwhile, Pamela laid in her bed thinking about what she was going to to tell the monster when she saw him. "GO AWAY!!" She practiced in her head. "I DON'T LIKE YOU!!" was another thought she had planned to say when she saw the monster. As she thought on these things she slowly drifted to sleep.

"I'm going to get you." Said a husky deep voice in the background. Pamela was outside on her swing set when she turned around and heard the voice.

"AHHHHHHH!!!!" She screamed and she turned and started to run. As she was running she thought about what her dad said.

"I am going to get you, my pretty" the monster said as he ran to her. He was very tall and had two horns sticking out of his head. His face was black and he had long brown hair all over. He didn't have any clothes on just long brown dread looking hear. You couldn't see his eyes but Pamela really wasn't going to stare at him very long because she had only one goal and that was to stay alive. She ran as fast as she and then stopped. The monster stopped too.

"I don't want to play with you anymore." Pamela said giving her father's advice a try. If it didn't work then she would continue to run from it but what did she have to lose. The monster stopped chasing her, and looked confused. As he had been hit.

"Don't want to play?" The monster said.

"NO!!" Pamela scream at the monster.

"Fine, I not play with Pamela no more." The monster said with his head hung down low. Pamela looked at the monster and noticed this was the first time she had actually ever seen the monster.

"Thank you" Pamela said in her normal voice in her dream. It was the first time in her life she realize that maybe that the monster she feared wasn't as bad as she had thought. Maybe all the monster's in life was like this monster. Looks scary and will only chase you if you run from it, but if you stand up to it then just maybe the fear of the unknown will stop chasing you and you can be who you are meant to be. From that moment on every time she dreamed of the monster he kept getting smaller until one day she never saw the monster in her dream ever again.

The End