A Walk with Slenderman

It was a cold, snowy and wet night. That night at around eight pm I decided to go for a walk in my neighborhood. I was thirteen and afraid of the dark so not wanting to go alone I decided to take my dog with my gadget. I got dressed, got my dog on her leash and went to tell my mom were I was going. She didn’t care so I left.

As I walked out I could feel the freezing night air tickle my face. I didn’t have time to think as my dog was already in a full burst running down the street. I ran to catch up with her. Finally I had reached her and we slowed into a walking pace. By this time we were in the bottom of my neighborhood. In my neighborhood between every street we have a ditch were all the houses backyards face towards. I was walking and we passed one of those ditches when I looked into it.

Unlike the street were most houses have a light that lights up when it gets dark in there yards the ditches did not. So as I looked down it, it was pitch black. I though just for a second I saw a man. I quickly looked to my dog to see if she saw it to, but she had already passed the ditch so I ran to her guessing it was my imagination. Normally like most people would I kept looking behind me. Finally I was someone it could have been someone that lived in one of the houses but that did not reach my brain I ran.

As I ran my dog ran behind me and then to my horror I could her footsteps running quickly behind me. I was smart because I knew that if I looked behind me I would slow down so I kept running. My dog was barking nonstop and I could see my house. I heard the footsteps change sounds as they walked from the street onto the snow on my lawn. I was so close to the door and finally my hands touched the door knob. I opened my front door and my dog ran in at the same time still barking.

I closed the door and locked it then I ran around the house locking all the other doors. I wanted to tell my mom but I was afraid that she’d think I was lying. So I went into my room and lied down on my bed and pulled the covers up over my head planning on telling my mom what happened in the morning. As I woke up I remembered the ordeal I had last night. I quickly ran outside to see if I could see footprints in the snow.

As I ran outside I saw them. They looked like bowling shoes if you’ve ever worn them. The bottoms were flat no groves or nothing like with tennis shoes. I walked around my house and saw the footprints go all over my house. Until they stopped in front of my bedroom window, but what filled me with fear was that I remembered I left the window open last night. Then I heard my mom scream from the living room.