BOGEYMAN by Jessica Harris

Josephine is a naughty girl. Every night when her friends text her to go out and have some drinks, she would sneak out of her bedroom through the window and she will meet her friends outside, waiting. She will be back before 4AM, before her parents wake up.

The bogeyman doesn't want that attitude. We all know that the bogeyman is always there when children are being naughty. He is everywhere, watching the kids if they're being bad. 

One night, no party is happening. She stayed at her bedroom, watching movie. "This naughty girl has to be punished" said the bogeyman. Josephine, while watching movie on her laptop, with earphones on, she didn't realize that the bogeyman sneaked into her room through the window. The bogeyman is standing at her back, beside her bed. The worst part has been done, the bogeyman, killed Josephine. He cut her throat open and leave with no trace.

The next morning, Josephine's mom, Mrs. Spencer, enters her room screaming early in the morning. She saw her daughter bathing in her own blood. Mrs. Spencer called the police and started the investigation. They compared the killings in their town to other towns around them and they all have similarities. Naughty children, bad as the bogeyman called them. It's like Hamilton Howard Fish, or Albert Fish, or best known as the bogeyman is hitting again. 

After further investigation of the police, the bogeyman who inherited Fish's work is Darius Benedict Johnson. He is a serial killer that escaped the center he was admitted to. Darius was bullied, molested, raped by his own father and he saw her own father killed his own mother. After that, he ran away from her father and went to a facility, but growing up he was bullied by the children because his father was crazy and a killer. Those things had an effect in his psychological growth. 

After Darius was arrested, he was admitted in the center again and after a few weeks, he was found dead. He took his own life, hung himself and left a suicide note saying, he can't take it anymore and he did what he did because he wants peace.

This serves as mental health awareness that if we are going on to something that we can’t handle anymore, we can always seek for help. If we didn’t seek for the right help with our thoughts, we might end up losing our mind and develop some mental diseases that will affect our personality. As parents, we should always check on our children and try to talk to them. Ask them questions like how they are and what their thoughts are. Mental health is as important as physical health.

by: Jessica Harris

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