Meeting with the Boogeyman

I woke up with a start with my heart pounding like a hammer hitting a nail. I looked at my alarm clock to see that it was 2:00 in the morning. And it was still dark out. "What's wrong with me?" I thought to myself. "I've been having nightmares the past few days and it happened again." With a sigh, I decided to lay on the couch til I get tired again and have a better sleep.

My eyelids started to get heavy and I dozed off. I was too tired to get a blanket and let myself sleep without it. But I thought I felt someone put it over me and stroked my hair slowly and gently. But I decided to let it pass by. I woke up a few minutes later and I still felt tired. With a yawn, I also heard a low chuckle from the ceiling.

I looked up and squinted to see who it was. The figure floated down in front of me as I backed up a bit. The stranger looked like a man with a pair of golden eyes,black hair that stood up on his head, pale gray skin, and a long black cloak. Panting heavily, I asked, "W-who are you?" He said with a toothy grin showing sharp teeth, "Pitch. Pitch the Boogeyman. Or the Nightmare King."

I know the term pitch black, so that's probably what he meant by that. "Hello...Shannon." He added slowly. I gasped, shocked that he knew who I was. "How do you know my name?" I asked again as I trembled and backed up against the wall. "I know everything about you. And your fears." He replied as he put his hands on the wall and stood inches from me.

I thought he was gonna kiss me at first,but instead,he lifted me up with some kind of black sand. Then a black horse slipped through the ceiling and nuzzled Pitch as he pet her mane. The horse was made of black sand too. Pitch took a handful of it and showed to me. "You see this?" He told me. "I call this nightmare sand. Gives people nightmares." He blew it into my face. "So...you're the one who's been giving me nightmares lately?" I gasped.

"Why," He answered."Yes. It's me. Who else?" Then he got on his horse, grabbed my wrist, and then I was sitting on the horse as well. "What are you doing?" I asked for the fourth time. "I want to show you something." Then we vanished from my house and we found ourselves outside and in the sky! "You see," Pitch told me as he showed me the houses below us. "Everyone has something they're afraid of. Which means they also have nightmares of their own."

I trembled even more violently as I saw that it was a long way down. That's one of my fears:high places. "See?" Pitch chuckled. "You're afraid right now." I looked up at him and said, "Please put us back in my house. Where it's safe." Pitch grinned, "As you wish." Then just as the same way we went outside,we found ourselves back in my house. "It's been fun," He said as he put me down on my shaky feet. "But I'm a very busy Boogeyman, so I must be going. It indeed has been a pleasure to meet you." Then he slowly grabbed my arm and kissed my hand before he vanished into thin air.

I touched the spot where Pitch kissed and sighed. I can't believe that just happened to me! Meeting the Boogeyman himself. I laid myself back on the couch and tried to go to sleep without trying to have nightmares. Sandy, help me.