Wildflower(Friday night)

"I lay in bed trying to shake off the exhaustion from another sleepless night, my eyes were fixed on the toilet door which was wildly opened as if inviting me to see whatever lurked within. The sound of a single drop of water hitting the ground echoed through the room steady and relentlessly.

As I listened to the gentle drip of water my eyelids grew heavy and I felt myself falling off to sleep but just as I closed my eyes the sound changed, Tap. Tap. Tap

"Haaaaa, so cold" I sighed and whispered as the chill crawled down my skin like icy fingers, I wrapped the bed cover around me making myself look like a bee in a hive with only my face peeking through its small hole, my eyes where still fixed on the toilet door my breathing slow and deliberate while my chest tightened up as I could full fear shimming over my body I tried to convince myself it was no fear just my mind playing tricks or I was hallucinations.

it suddenly went quiet as the silence was broken by the sudden ring of my phone that shattered the stillness, as I reached for it I unwrapped myself from the bed cover feeling a bit silly for having to hind under the blankets like a rabbit in its hole or a little child, "was I a child? pff", I asked myself then laugh about it, it was indeed funny, I picked up my phone and answered the call expecting a familiar voice or maybe a wrong number as usual.

"hello , who is this" I asked, waiting for a response but the was no response instead it was oddly silent, for a second I thought it was a network problem so I spoke again.

"hello? can you hear me"

The silence on the other end was unsettling so i dropped the phone but it rang again and this time around I hesitated for a moment before answering, and this time I spoke my first language.

"Mushi mushi..." I said but still no response all I could hear was heavy breathing's like a predator waiting to pounce on me so I dropped the phone quickly as my heart began to race.

"what was that?" I asked my self with my face filled with horror as if I saw something but surprisingly the phone kept ringing persistently and I didn't want to pick up, as it continues to ring the sound started to get annoying as it seemed to be echoing through the room like a scream.

"what a bug" I said before taking the call, "Who's this?" I demanded, trying to keep my voice steady and finally a response, not not any response but a damn childs voice at the end of the line.

"hello, gummy bear wants to use the bathroom" the child said, what! I shouted in my thoughts, who let's a child play on a phone like this not to talk of the timing.

"what, hey child you got the wrong person" I said about to hang up when the next thing the child has said shocked me.

"nop, min-hyun" the child said and the words sending a chill down my spine.

"what did you just say? little one you should know how to address your elder and how did you know my name" I asked.

"tap tap tap, he he he in your bathroom, is it scary?" the child said that made my whole body numb, I could no longer feel my legs as if they had turned to blocks, all I could do was turn my gaze at the bathroom, I stare at the bathroom door in confusion, I swear it was open but now it was open as if something had slipped inside waiting for me to come check.

as the skeptical person I was, I over looked it and shocked off the fear that overwhelmed me.

"Emm hahaha, hey little one, I'm not who you're thinking I am, you definitely got the wrong person" I said with a voice so calm and friendly to the child, I was sure it wasn't a niece or nephew cause I had neither.

child's voice "Your bathroom door is closed now! Hehehe" the child spoke and laughed, what was going on with that laugh, it was hell creepy for a child.

"Wa what do you mean?" I asked, my voice shaking slightly.

The child giggled softly, "Gummy Bear was naughty today and got dirty, Look! he is in there!" making me to feel like the child just wanted to play but I didn't have that time I hissed about to hang the call when the child said something again making my hands trembled as I started to hear running water in my bathroom immediately as the child spoke.

"drop, drop water Kim min-hyun" the child said making me drop my phone and sat on my bed trying to process what was happening, I was scared and confused at the same time the water continued to run and I closed my eyes no one was in the house with me I stayed alone but why does it feel like someone is in my bathroom, I said in my thoughts but still I tried to calm down telling myself I was just tired and had a long day or maybe I ate something poisonous which is causing hallucinations or making me see and hear things or maybe It was just my way of adjusting to a new apartment.

But as the water stopped I opened my eyes and looked towards the bathroom and saw that my bathroom door was open, but to normal "haaaa I was indeed seeing things, I even scared my self" I chuckled but while talking I spotted a hand jumping on the ground then to the door, I sprinted out of my room like a raging bull screaming my ass out not caring about any part of my body if I brushed it on the wall or not I could feel my left shoulder brushing the wall but no pain could stop me from running after what I had seen, I felt I could run faster than usual because of the fear shimming down me and i felt no pain but I felt someone running behind me which made me screamed even more and again without confirming if anything was really behind me or not,I grabbed the door handle pulling it hurrying so it would open but it didn't, ohh I remember, "ahhh shit" I said with a swollen chest, "the keys are in the room, I dropped the keys on the table in my room" I wailed, I just wanted to leave the house it was creeping me out.

Suddenly, my phone rang from the room.

"Ha! I really don't want to end up dead like in horror movies"I said to myself

I took a few deep breaths, turned away from the door, and headed back to my room, my legs shaking as I walked, I had second thoughts and considered jumping out the window but it was a four story building and my room was on the third floor I would just kill myself shamelessly "never" I said as I entered my room picked up my phone slowly, it was the same number that called the child that creeped me out, so I picked and with fire in my voice I didn't mean to play with the child, "What do you want from me this time?"

The voice on the other end was no longer a child's voice but a much older female voice.

"I don't know... Gummy Bear just really.. really likes you. Do you like him too?"

I couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of the question. "Yes" I played along.

She giggled. "Jaa..he's all yours"

Arthur: please give Friday Night a chance