I wished this day would never happen to me. Since then it changed everything. Nevertheless it scares me even after so many years passed by. It ruined my life so bad, that I can't go to school anymore and my stay in the clinical institution will never end. No matter how much drugs they will give me it won't go away.

It is still there...

this terrible creepy laughter...

and it haunts me each and every other day...

and not just the laughter appears...

something comes with it...

It all started when I was twelve years old...

The weather was so nice. A pale blue sky and no clouds were there. My family and I spent the day together outside. My father and even my mother were so happy and we laughed a lot untill...

My father kicked the ball way too hard and it flew right into the dark and gloomy forest. I told my father I would find it and will be back as soon as possible, because I knew where it landed. At first my parents looked at each other in a critically way but they aloud me to go...

Before I went into the dark forest, I gave them my very last smile...

From afar I saw something and I thought it was the lost ball...

I hurried myself to the spot...

The temperature fell slowly down the nearer I came to the spot.

My body felt the cold but I had no fear at this time, even if it got darker and darker.

There! I finally found it! Right in front of me was my ball lying on the cold and squashy ground.

I took the ball and turned me around and suddenly a laughter sounded through the whole forest.

I turned myself around to see from where it would come but I couldn't barely see anything at all, because of the big trees which surrounded me and took all the light away.

"What was that?!", I asked aloud.

I saw something hiding behind a tree trunk.

The laughter was still there and it became louder with each and every step I did.

Even now I'm still asking myself, why I didn't turn around and ran as fast as I can back to my parents.

But the naivety was stronger and I had to find out where this laughter came from...

And that was a terrible mistake...

Behind the tree trunk was someone who's wearing a black cloak and I couldn't see the face because it was hidden behind a big hood.

I was standing now in front of it.

And I couldn't move my legs anymore.

Something was wrong...

I never felt such madness before...

The cloaked creature began to move in a ghostly way. It was levitating. I couldn't see any hands or feet, as if there was just a big cloak who's laughing and. Its laughter became so scary. And than I saw something I've never wanted to see.

Big stary yellow eyes and such a pale, skinny white face. Sharp and demonic teeth smiled at me and its big and long tongue came out.

It grabbed me now with his big claws and said:

"How dare you, little boy, to enter my realm. I will hunt you till you die.", it said and laughed.

I cried for help and my father ran as fast as he could. But when he found me, I was lying on the cold ground with the ball around my arms.

They asked me what exactly happened to me. I tried to explain, but they never believed me. Even after some time passed by...IT came all night, they never saw this cloaked creature and its scary laughter...

Only me...

Only I can see and hear it, and there's no cure for me...

Though there is a way...

And it is...

Death...

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"The Laughter in the Dark"

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Michael Okami

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