The Night of Games.

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We were having so much fun until she came. She was vain. She makes chills run down your spine the moment she looks at you. I really do not know who invited her to our family game night but she is my sister so she really did not need an invitation to attend her own family's night of terrific games and it looked like she had come with her own game to play.

I thought she was going to

give it to my parents to add to the other games we were going to play later

that night, but she just went straight to a dark corner of the sitting room and

begin to play. We all thought she was just playing a normal and fun game like

Monopoly but what we did not know was that she was playing Charlie Charlie. Turns

out it was a devil summoning game in which you keep chanting Charlie’s name

like three times in order to summon him to were you were.

At some point, we heard her talking but we thought she was talking to herself out if the fun and enjoyment she was having but she had summoned Charlie and had began to chat with him. After some time, my dad told me to go check up on her and ask her if she wanted us to join her. I was very terrified, but I could not disobey my parents. I mean what was I expected to say would I go like, oh dad I can’t cause I am super frightened of my older sister. I could not say that, so I went like an obedient son I am. That was when I saw something that gave me a trauma for almost 6 months.

I saw my older sister talking with a devious looking monkey like it was her long-term best friend. It looked like they were having a good time, so I left, and my sister gave me a bad eye and I was becoming so scared, I almost peed on my pants. When I got back to were others were, my dad asked me what she said and all I could say was demon. They thought there was something wrong with me and said they were going to check on her by themselves, but I said she was having a lot of fun, so we continued our game of cards. I don’t know how but occasionally, I always looked to where my sister was and sometimes my parents would see me and ask what happen happened and I will go like, oh nothing. After some time, I said I was feeling sleepy and my parents admitted they were also feeling the same, so we all agreed to close game night early that night.

My dad told me to go and call my sister and tell her game night was over, but I was too scared, so I just shouted it from across the room. But all we got in response was silence. We all thought that she had already dozed off, so we left. I asked my parents if I could sleep with them in their room and they said yes. After all, they had noticed something was wrong with me. That night, at around 10:00 clock my parents woke me up and told me if I wanted to follow them back to the sitting room and continue playing with them and I said yes, therefore we went there, put on the lights, and to our wildest surprise, my sister was sitting right in the middle of the room talking to thin air but in her mind, she was still talking to Charlie but we just could not see him. My dad thought she was just playing so he said we should not disturb her, so we had to pack ourselves to a side of the room and carry on playing our game of cards.

After some time, we noticed a bright blue light flashing from were my sister was and I was both curios and scared but curiosity got the better part of me. I went to check out the source of that fascinating blue light while ignoring the persistent calling of my parents which was a very bad idea. While peaking on my sister, I thought Charlie had spotted me, so I jumped back behind the couch in fear of being caught. I went back and told my parents that the beautiful blue light was coming from a demon that my sister had summoned but my parents did not believe me because they thought that she was such an angelic little girl. They wanted to go check it out by themselves but with the fear of me being left alone and not wanting to follow them in case Charlie noticed me again, I said we should all just forget it and continue playing. After some time, I could not see anyone or any blue light, so I felt less relieved and more relaxed and before I knew it, I saw my sister sitting in between my parents. I was creeped out, but I just ignored it.

Some time later, like at around 11:30, we were hungry, so we all went to the kitchen to get ourselves some snacks. After eating, I heard some familiar voices shouting my name and telling me to wake up. I eventually stood up in the real world and was terrified when I saw my sister right in front of me with my parents behind. I started searching around for any strange thing around and my family could not understand what was going on and I was like I thought we were just having game night. My sister started laughing and then my parents. I was so confused I could not understand what was going on. After some time, my sister said that they were waking me up so that they could start game night at that point in time, I was very confused. I though they were playing a prank on me until they were like let’s go don’t keep waiting and that’s when I realized that it was all just a dream. I was so happy that it was just a dream and I hugged my sister very tightly.


March 27, 2020 22:35

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Enibabe Adeniyi
21:23 Mar 30, 2020

thnx

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Eric Hyzer
12:53 Mar 30, 2020

What a nice little story.

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