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A Day At Home - Original Writing

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It had been a fairly, nice day, and work wasn’t to bad. My boss wasn’t on my tail for not getting him a paper on time. It was supper time when I got home. The food was already set out and the kids at the table when I walked in the door. Jane, 9 years old, had a book in her hand like normal. Billy, 4 years old, sat there picking at his scab. My husband came in with the last plate. Jason had been out of a job for 9 months now, so he was the stay at home mom for a little while. I set my bag down on our wooden table right beside the door. I walked over to the table said hi down and went to finish helping my husband. When we were finished, I sat down to look all of my wonderful family in the eye and see that today was a good day.
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Then I got down on my knees to check for monsters. What I didn’t expect was to see a pair of glowing eyes staring back at me. I went ghostly white. This creature barely whispered, “Mommy, there is someone in my bed.”
I panicked, I didn’t know what this thing was. It just was under there not moving at all. It was afraid I was going to do something to it. A million thoughts went through my head. I decided to call for Jason. He hurried into the room wondering what was going on. “Yes, honey?” “I want to show you this paint chip on the bed frame.”
I knew he would rush over because we came up with a password to warn each other of something important without alarming the children. He bent down next to me. I pointed at the things under the bed. He almost grasped before he caught herself. He panicked and looked at me. I couldn’t tell from the lighting of the room but I knew he was going to call the police. He dialed the phone, “Excuse me, but there is something under my sons bed. More like another one of him. Please come to my house. I am not joking, this is something we don’t know how to deal with.”
“Yes. We will be there shortly, if you could just stay calm and don’t alarm the children. We will be coming with the sirens off and looking out for your house. Can I please have your address ?”

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