Midnight shift
I used to live in my family's house until I moved out to live with my girlfriend. I can't say it is a happy relationship but it is good nonetheless. Me and my girlfriend met in high school and we found things in common with each other. My job is to watch security cameras at midnight in a mall. The pay is decent. It's not far from our house but the working condition is not exactly good.
It smells very bad in the surveillance room, so bad I had to bring a bag in everytime just in case I throw up. I never see other security guards there. Everytime I think about it, I just guessed that they are on day shift. That was not the case when I come to the mall at daytime, there is no security guards which debunked the whole thing altogether. Maybe they had a vacation? But that's not the topic of this. One night, I was watching the mall on the security cameras until I saw a figure near one of the shelves. Since i'm the only one at midnight shift, i had to brave myself up to face the figure. So i took my flashlight, my taser, and my baton. I exited the safety of my room. And began searching. Every corner i expected to see the intruder but i never did. So i went back to my room, check the cameras, and there it is. This time it was in a different section. So i grabbed my flashlight, my taser, and my baton and went to the section it was at. It was not there, so i went searching everywhere in the mall but it was never there. I thought my eyes are playing tricks on me so i went back to the surveillance and there it was, standing near one of the shelves, taunting me with it's every fucking step.
My mind is playing tricks on me, it's not real. Yet it does. The figure went to the edge on one of the cameras view and I switched to see where it was going, I remember that it was going to the direction of the storage room. It was not there. The door has not been opened since if it did i would've saw it enter. My adrenaline was rushing, whatever it was it was definitely real it was there. Yet it doesn't. Then i heard a knock on the door and I quickly switched to the camera pointing at my door, it was at my door. My adrenaline was rushing fast, my mind was racing, and I quickly gripped my taser pointing at the door. It opened the door and i shot at whatever it was. Nothing. Whatever it was it is definitely real, whatever that opened the door it is trying to get me. I quickly closed the door, i barricaded the door with a cabinet, my chair, anything. I was scared out of my life and I checked the cameras. It was no longer there. Moreover the sun was rising but i remember clearly that i started my shift at 12:35 AM. I checked the time and, it's 6:33 AM. My bones felt stiff, my eyes were tired, i could feel my body barely standing. I muster all the strength i can to move the barricade out of the way and i did. I unlocked the mall door, walk to my car and tried to jumpstart it but before i could my head collapsed on the steering wheel, dropping the car key in the process.
I struggled hard but eventually I found the key. I jumpstarted the car and drove the fuck outta there. Since there was not alot of cars there, my sluggish driving managed to avoid any accidents and I managed to get to my house. Before i could reach the door I collapsed on the pavement, falling unconscious. I woke up on my bed, my girlfriend concerned of what happened, hugged me and asked what happened. I explained to her the whole ordeal, if it even is an ordeal. My body no longer feel like it's collapsing, my bones are no longer stiff and i feel refreshed. The next night I watched the tapes and when I reached the part where it entered I was there. Frozen. Unlike last night i was just there standing. The figure disappeared as soon as it opened the door. I remained standing there for 6 fucking hours before I started moving again at the 6:33 mark. Whatever happened last night froze me to the point I didn't remember it happened at all. I checked the cameras. Nothing out of the ordinary. Moreover I was more alert and paranoid, hoping that every pixel of shadow in the screen is not the figure or whatever that shit was. That was until i heard a loud roar outside the room. I was terrified for my life, I checked every camera. Camera 1. Nothing. Camera 2. Nothing. Camera 3. Nothing. There was nothing on every camera but I was so scared I decided to run out my room and crash through the glass door of the mall. The glass shattered upon impact. Saving my job was the last thing i would do at the moment.
I entered my car, i drove outta there praying nothing came out of the darkness and stopping me dead in my tracks. I managed to drove back to my home, burst through the door scaring my girlfriend. The next day I was called to office and after a very heated scolding I was fired. Since then I am now working as a cook. The pay is very good, it is very close to my house and i could walk by feet there. I am now married to my girlfriend but I will never forget that day. I just hope that it doesn't come to my house. Whatever that thing was, it is definitely not human in anyway. Though if I'm gonna be honest I'm very grateful i got fired. I never want to go there ever again.
Credited to Tryper-ler
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