The Girl In The Basement

I can still remember that day or should I say night.

My name is John, I'm 12 year's old living in Wisconsin. I live in a small town completely isolated from society. Typical small town, everybody knows everybody. To be honest, I don't feel comfortable at all talking about this. I forgot the exact day but I'm never going to forget the details of that face. I have just gotten home from school, My mom was in the kitchen working on dinner while my older sister was in her room like she normally is. I rush past my mom almost crashing into her and making her spill the hot pan of spaghetti she was carrying. She probably said something but I was to focus on the basement to even catch anything she was saying.

The basement is my escape from reality. After being bullied in school, I decided to spend most of my time playing video games. I love fighting games the most especially the new game that just came out called "Death Punch". I am the best at fighting, In the game of course, Cause I suck in real life. Standing to the right weighing in at 114 lbs. wearing glasses and arms that look skinnier than a tree branch issss meee john. Can't defend myself even if my life depended on it. Good thing I have "Death Punch" and my beautiful basement to ease my mind and forget the bullies waiting for me outside. I mean can It get any better than this.

As soon As I place the disk inside my console I hear a knock on the door.

knock!!.. knock..!!

"What!!", I shouted at whoever it was misfortunate enough to disturb my peaceful slumber.

"Your cousin is on the phone, He said he's coming over"

"Okay!!" I shouted back after hearing my mother give me the good news. My cousin is just like me literally, as the opposite version of myself but with the same way of thinking, I know that doesn't make sense. When my cousin gets here I know that we mostly are going to be down here playing games but knowing how much of a football fan he really is I have a feeling we might end up playing football in the backyard just the two of us. I don't know but for some reason, the room seems to be getting a bit colder. Let me check the temperature to raise it up a little cause is getting really chili now.

I look over the temperature meter on the wall and to my surprise, the temperature says it's 75 degrees inside the basement. Maybe I could be getting sick or something that I'm getting this cold feeling is whatever now, I'll just get myself a blanket and keep myself warm until my cousin gets' here. I ran over to the back of the basement to get one of the blankets we got store away in the background. It's supposed to be a guest room but we turn it into extra storage space. I open the door to the background and I get this extreme cold breeze pass through me. It literally sends chills up my entire body. With both my hand's I tightly hug myself and rub my hands up and down my arms to provide some type of warm effect, cause this room is freezing cold.

After moving a few things around that were in the way of my mission to complete comfort and warmth I start to get a strange feeling that I'm being watched. I pause for a moment because this is not a normal feeling, I'm completely alone in this room so there shouldn't be any reason for me to feel this way. I decided to ignore the feeling after looking around the room to see if anyone was down here that shouldn't be or to see if my cousin got here without my noticing. There is a window inside this room and it was open when I came in so I figure my cousin probably did get here and decided to play a prank on me by giving me a jump scare. But if that was the case then he would have done it by now so I decided to pay no mind to the feeling.

I got my favorite superhero blanket because hey who doesn't love superhero's I know I do. As I'm walking back to the living room inside the basement I get that strange feeling that I'm being watched again. this time the feeling is so strong I can feel the hairs at the back of my neck stand up even the hairs on my arms. this overwhelming feeling has gotten me stuck in place, I can't move. My heart starts beating really fast and I'm starting to get scared because I can really feel someone behind me starring intensively at me. I turn my head as low as possible with my eyes lock on the back of my head trying to catch a peek at whoever was standing behind me even though I can tell who it was already, my cousin.

I turn around as fast as I could and try to give him a jump scare before he could give me the jump scare and as soon as I turn around, my heart stops. The person standing in front of me is not my cousin, its a girl. My eyes open up wider as I felt a shockwave across my body that force every hair on my neck and arms to stand up as if they had a mind of their own. My heart started beating faster and faster, I drop my blanket, turn around, and ran as fast as I could up those stairs. As I'm running I'm screaming "MOM!! MOM!! HELP ME MAMI PLEASE". my heart is pulsing out of control so much that I can feel pressure in my chest start building up. Every step I take feels heavier every time. I'm halfway up the stairs now, I can make it, I'll be safe I'll be alright I just got to make it to the door. halfway up the stairs, the girl pops up in front of me like some type of sci-fi teleportation trick. Her instantly appearing in front of me freak me out and made me stop going up the stairs. I turn around to try and go back down the stairs but my foot slipped and I lose my balance and the next thing I know I am at the bottom of the staircase my entire body from my arms to my legs are screaming in pain. All I can see is the entrance to the bathroom, the girl's legs standing in front of me. As I lay on the floor I start losing my ability to hear and my vision is slowly getting dark. At this point I don't care what happens, I just want this pain to end.

I open my eyes and I can feel the pain in my body. I'm so confused, Where am I and why does my body hurt so much. I look around to see a white wall, a window some beeping machine, and a chair facing my bed, that's when I realize that I was in a hospital. After wondering for five minutes how I ended up here my memories start rushing back to me. I remember falling down the stairs and I also remember her. When I took of the little cable thing they had stuck to my chest the machine started beeping making like a warning signal. the doctors came rushing to the room to see if anything had happened to me because the beeping machine was telling them my heart when flat. The doctors were surprised to me up and normal to the point that she automatically try to stop me from moving.

"Omg hey you can't do that, hold on, you shouldn't be making so much movement in your condition"

"Doc, what happens and why am I here"

She gave me a confused look and with a sarcastic voice ask me if I don't remember what happened to me. I look at her with a confused look on my face and moving very slow because of the pain told her that I don't remember even though I did. doctor Jessica pearling who was my doctor for that incident told me that I had fallen down the basement stairs of my house and that I suffer a head injury. that explains these bandages around my head. She said they needed to give me 12 stitches on my head because the impact of my head hitting the floor crack my head open and I was bleeding on the floor.

When the doctor was fixing the cables on my chest a police officer enter the room. He introduces himself as Sargent parker and wanted to ask me a few questions involving the accident. He asks me if I had any thoughts of suicide recently and wanted to know if I ever thought of hurting myself in any way. I told him "why would I want to do that" I guess he believed me cause he stops asking me suicidal questioning after that answer I gave him. The next question however caught me off guard. He asks me if anyone wanted to hurt me or if I had any bullies at school. Of course, I do but not even my own mother knows about them what makes him think I'm going to tell him.

I was curious why the officer asks that question but I just let it go since I didn't want him to continue bothering me, I don't really like strangers. I ask the officer why he would think someone wants to do this to me when he said that my mother told him that I wasn't alone in the room but she just never saw the other person that were with me in the basement because they left before she even got down the stairs. I told the officer that it was impossible for my mom to have said that because I was alone in the basement the entire time ( clearly I'm lying but hey he's not a mind reader) That's when the officer asks me, "then who knock on the door", I said, "What door" and then he said "Your basement door, son you know who found you right?", I said, "no sir" that's when he told me that my mother was the one who found me on the basement floor unconscious bleeding from my head and that she said that someone knock on the basement door when she was just passing by. he went on to explain to me how lucky I am to had been found minutes after the accident. She said that she figured I was lock inside the basement because our basement door has the habit of getting stuck and locking people in so when she heard the knocking sound coming from the basement door she though I was locked inside the basement until she opened the door, she saw me lying down on the bottom of the staircase unconscious with blood coming out my head. that's when he asks me again "Are you sure no one else was with you in that basement" that's when I said, "I don't even know anymore, nothing makes sense to me".

I look down to try and focus and remember something when the image of that girl comes rushing back to me. I felt that shockwave again coming from my chest and now I can't get her image out of my head. I look up just to see her standing behind the officer with her eyes deadlock on me. the moment her eyes and mines lock focus with each other my heart started beating fast and that's when the machine starts making beeping sounds again. The doctor looks over at the monitor and her voice started getting serious. She tells the officer to get out that his presence and questioning are affecting her patience health. that's when I felt that same shock coming from my chest again but this time it takes control of my entire body and I'm pushed back against the hospital bed and at that very moment I felt this strong pulsating pain coming from the bottom of my back my lower spine. the machine is now beeping faster and the doctor decided to call other nurses and doctors to come and help her because all I can see now in my mind and in my own eyes is the girl standing in front of my hospital bed.

I start freaking out and as I'm staring at her I scream at her saying "please don't hurt me, get away from me please don't hurt me" doctor Jessica looks at me confuse saying "I'm not going to hurt you, my dear boy, I promise I'm not going to hurt you, I am a doctor and my job is to safe life's not hurt them". that's when I looked at her and I said to her "please don't leave me here with her" I pointed towards the area that she was standing in but all I see now is an empty corner.