They Wont Stop Smiling
A Short Horror Story by Bella
I woke abruptly, sweat pouring down my face, tears streaming from my eyes. Another fucking nightmare. “My God,” I thought. I had to do something about it…Before I could even finish my thought, a sound I had never heard came blaring through my phone. I almost jumped out of my skin before violently grabbing for my phone. Once I had it in my hand, I unlocked it, trying to kill that ungodly sound.
coming from the speakers. I was finally able to kill the noise with my volume button. “Thank God,” I thought as I looked at the clock. “3:33, only 2 ½ hours until Marcy makes it home from working at the local hospital.”
I laid down on my bed, staring up at the glowing green stars my wife insisted on splaying across our ceiling. I had just closed my eyes when that loud and mysterious noise started to scream from my phone once again. WTF, I screamed, almost jumping out of my skin. I grabbed my phone violently and unlocked the screen, and what I saw confused me more than ever. DONT SMILE BACK stared up at me, blinking in big block red letters. The background was a deep black, and reminded me of an abyss sucking out all the color. A cold shiver ran all the way down my spine. “What the hell is that even supposed to mean?” I screamed out loud as if my phone could hear me. In all my years of owning a smartphone, I had never heard a sound like that.
The pit in my stomach continued to grow as the 3 words blinked ominously in rapid succession. And of course that fucking noise again, like those sirens they use for tornado warnings. I silenced my phone once again and immediately called Marcy in a panic. “Amelia?” She said as she picked up the phone. “Baby, are you okay?” “I don't know Amelia,” she whispered. “Something strange is going on outside.” There is so much screaming, so much blood that you can see it through the window.” “Wait, what…what’s happening, baby?” I said in a panicked voice. “I don't know Amelia,” she said softly. “We all got this weird alert on our phones all at the same time, it scared everybody half to death.” “I got the same alert,” I mumbled into the phone. Ameila spoke again.” After about five minutes of getting the alert, we heard the first scream, it hasn’t stopped yet.” “Okay, baby, I’m coming to you,” I yelled frantically, jumping out of our old antique bed.
“NO,” She practically yelled at me. “I’m walking through the parking garage now. And coming straight home to y….” She trailed off, and all of a sudden the phone went dead. “MARCY!”
I screamed again and again until I was positive she wasn’t on the line anymore. I tried calling once, twice, three times. But every single time, she sent me to voicemail. “Fuck this” I screamed out loud and jumped up frantically trying to put on clothes. I was in the middle of putting on my pants when Marcy’s ringtone started to play from my phone. I jumped and answered it before the first ring was even finished.
“Melia…baby..I don’t know what is going on out here, but people are being chased by…well…themselves.” “And I mean spitting images, except the ones doing the chasing don't look…normal “In fact, they don’t even look alive,” She said, all in confusion. “Marcy, what are you even saying?” “I don’t know what the hell is going on, but I think it had something to do with the alert that everyone got”
“Dammit this doesn’t even make sense” I grumbled “I ..I know, baby,” Marcy said in her best calm voice. “Listen, I know it sounds crazy…but people are literally being chased and murdered by people who look just like them.” “I’ll be home as soon as I can..I’m on the highway now….BEEP BEEP BEEP. The phone hung up. MARCY I screamed, pulling my ear from the phone. There it was. That same deep black screen with those same horrible 3 words…blinking up at me as if waiting for me to do something. I pressed the call button to call Marcy again, but it wouldn't work.
I tried every single button on my phone. But nothing was happening; it still had the same black screen. I ran and grabbed the TV remote and turned it on, hoping and praying the news would be on to tell me something. When the thing finally turned on, all that was staring back at me were three fucking words. Those three fucking words are going to drive me INSANE! I screamed at the top of my lungs.
I ran to my computer and turned it on. It said the same thing! Even the Xbox had those three terrifying words splayed across the screen. Every single electronic in the house said the same thing. DoN’T SMILE BACK. It stared back at me like it wanted me to go insane. Begging me to break. Tears were now cascading down my face, drenching my nightgown. Okay, Amelia, stay calm. I said to myself through sobs. I grabbed my cell, just in case, and started to head downstairs to find something to barricade the door, but then I heard a noise coming from my bathroom. It sounded like someone was lightly scratching on the bathroom door. Slow and ominous. I froze in fear, my eyes widening. I took a few deep breaths and did a full-body shake. I was trying my best to work up the courage to see what was in my bathroom.
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Author Bio:
My name is Bella and I have been writing since I was 11. Short horror stories are my jam though. I have always appreciated the darker things in life and try my best to let that take a life of its own through my writing. The human psyche is a crazy thing and I love to explore it! Hope you enjoy!
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