It’s Just the Circus

Two nights turned out to be some of my worst. In this story, I shall tell you about those nights.

One night, I was getting ready to go to sleep. I got into bed and then started to close my eyes. I had some weird dream about a dog that could fly and kept annoying me, but everything else felt normal. Halfway through this dream, I was woken up by my alarm clock. When I turned to look at it, it was 3AM. That’s odd, I thought. Why would my alarm clock wake me up at 3AM? This was the part where I heard it. The carnival music.

Suddenly, I just heard this happy but creepy carnival music in the distance. I thought nothing of it, as I had seen posters around town about a circus coming to town. The weird thing was why were they doing it at 3AM? Nobody’s awake at 3AM! Maybe they were just setting up for the day ahead. I couldn’t get back to sleeping because that was all I could hear. Eventually I got sick of it and decided to go downstairs and do something.

That day at school, I told my friends about the carnival music I had heard in the early hours of the morning. They treated the subject like I was insane, which made me feel a bit sad and lonely. I could’ve sworn that I heard the carnival music but I don’t have any proof! The next night, I hoped that the carnival music was not going to return. However, it unfortunately did.

When I was about to shut my eyes, I heard the carnival music in the distance again. This time, it was 9:30AM, so that was different. As I tried to close my ears and forget it was there, it felt like it was getting louder. Closer, almost. Until suddenly, I heard a loud bang from somewhere in my house. I jolted up quickly and rushed downstairs to see a dozen clowns behaving like fools in my living room!

I screamed and ran upstairs to see that my entire room was covered in blood. The sight of something I knew so well being defaced like that scared me. The laughs of the clowns behind me grew louder as they chased me upstairs. Suddenly, they whacked me with some squeaky hammer right onto the ground. That’s when I woke up.

Turns out these two nights were just a realistic dream.