Do you ever sense you’re not alone. A glance over your shoulder reveals no-one or nothing is there. Goosebumps crawl along your arms, sending shivers up your back. You glance behind you again, still uneasy. Again, you’re seemingly alone.  I’m pretty sure many people have experienced something like that, but, for most it probably ends up being nothing…

Well not for me! Nope! This new creepy sixth sense is now my normal… (Ya, I know, not cool!) I try not to notice that things in my bedroom have been moved; not halfway across the room, just slightly. Even though I do, of course, notice. I used to wonder, “did I put that there…hmmm”. (Now I just act like I didn’t even notice.) But today’s different. It’s somehow something more. I can’t put my finger on it, I just know. My arm hair stands on end, I feel a chill run through my body. I try to trump the urge to get the hell out of there; to convince myself that I’m imagining things, it’s just my bedroom after all. The scariest thing to ever happen here was when my dad walked in on Jimmy and I kissing in ninth grade, yuck!!!  (Talk about fear!!) Now that really gives me the chills!!

Then suddenly, “ouch!!”something just pinched my arm! Shit! That hurt! Just then I swear I just saw movement out of the corner of my eye.  I whip my head around and nothing. I glance down at my arm, there are two very small punctures with tiny trickles of blood coming out. Before now,”just calm down already, it’s all in your head…”seemed to be my catch phrase.  However, that doesn’t  seem to cover getting pinched or bitten by something you can’t really see. I stood there for what felt like hours, but was probably only 5 minutes or so. (Well, you try standing still after “nothing” bites you!!) Do I go tell mom?? No, she’d think I’m losing my mind, maybe start the “therapy talk” all over again…no way am I doing that!!  I could call my dad, but what could he possibly do, from the “big down-under??”  “Oh honey. You’ve always been so creative with that big imagination of yours!!”

Nope! No help from them. So I guess, maybe, I’ll just grab a bandaid and go back to the “it’s all in my head” idea… pretty hard to convince myself now though!! “Huh…”

Then, my big idea, the Internet!!! I can Google invisible, stuff-flying around, just out of my line of sight, tiny biting creatures, or something along those lines. So, I opened my laptop, popped in ear-buds, cranked “One Direction” and fiddled around online with my ridiculous search…I also decided that I should try to look preoccupied and busy. I’d go for normal, act like nothing is wrong. After all, I’ve got to be the only 16 year old girl on the planet who believes that spirits or sprites or fairies or, well, something visits my house, mainly just my bedroom on a daily basis. Yep, I had to work on finding some sense of normal inside me… Good luck!!

I just wrote whatever words spewed out of me. So, no spellcheck, no proof-reading, no critical remarks…leave those here_____________!!

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Hopefully once day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!