Freenie, the monster friend!

It was time for me to leave. Leave the comfort of darkness under the bed.

“Who was I hurting? No one!”, I was agitated. A life of selflessness and it is I who must give up her principles. It is all very confusing.

To take on the burden of teaching and informing the world is not an easy task. I always reminded myself of that. Only the toughie toughs can do that.

Jake and I have been pals since he was born. More like since he started crawling and then could stand up and finally move around. Before I signed up for the job, I made it abundantly clear to my employers that I would not go on scaring the little kid or kids I was going to be assigned to. It is not fair. But, I realized the kids also need to know about the demons and evils in the world.  So, I decided to appear apparition-y. I worked on my deportment. And, it worked. I would spread out like a whirl of shadow and eat jam crackers. He wouldn’t see that. Only me.  

But one thing was for sure even before me, Jake knew to fear darkness. And my only job was to let him lean in and befriend the darkness or may be slay me to overcome it. I would sacrifice myself for the cause. “Wasn’t that the whole purpose of it?”, I was keenly assured.

After few slaps and beatings from Jake’s mom and dad; some here some there, I most certainly could inculcate empathy within Jake. The day we became friends. He wanted to know why I was different from him? How could I diffuse in the air in a snap of finger? Did the job pay? And we would talk for an hour daily. At least. He was not a weird kid. I was just one among many of his friends. And, he wanted to lower the loneliness in my life. It was comforting. It was just the apt amount of interaction I was willing to make space for.

Since his high school, we started drifting apart. Academics, you see! I took on different jobs but would check up on him from time to time. We would talk for hours then at a stretch; discussing books, girls, teachers, cricket, and whatnot. And lie beneath his bed if I was tired.

Lately his demeanor has changed. Especially after he left for college. I discounted that he was an adult now. And further you stay from an adult, the better. Sam, my new buddy, his brother is friends with Jake. And, he keeps me informed about his DUIs, gambling and other tasty predilections. It is high time things changed. It is time to scare one ghoul into oblivion.

I can literally hear the derision in voices of my employers. “All talk talk talk, huh, Freenie!”, I can feel the disgust rising in my amorphous blob-shaped body. “Grrrr!”, I bobbed my head. But I have a job to do.

And that’s why I have least remorse for my plan. It is going to be so much fun. It involves a lot of time for me in the air, floating around, transparent. And, slapping around now and then whenever I am pissed by the degrading creatures of humanity. So. Very often.

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Prompt 1: Start with "It was time for me to leave."

Prompt 2: POV of 'A monster under the bed'

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