A spook named Fear

24.10.2017

When I was a little girl my auntie Violet was telling me a lot of stories and one of them was a story about Fear...

Fear was a little boy in a little house in a little town where everybody was happy except of him. He was afraid of everything and everyone so he didn´t talk to anyone. His parents died in his early age and he was all alone. Evereybody around him was laughing but he didn´t know what is like to be happy. But still nobody liked him because they thought he was strange. They whispered "Who is this boy?", " Why is he always so sad?", "I heard he doesn´t have a family anymore" and "Oh poor boy" when he was passing by.

But one day, when he was like 17 years old, he was crying on the bench in park where everyone else was happy and suddenly one girl came to him. "Hello" She said smiling at him. It was the first time someone voluntarily spoke to him and he didn´t know what to do. He stopped crying and tried to smile back but he couldn´t. The girl sat next to him and put Her head on his shoulder. She didn´t have to say anything, they were just sitting there silently and they were feeling the warmth near their hearts although it was very freezing evening. They both fell in love...For Fear it was so unusual feeling and he was so happy with Her and for many years he wasn´t sad at all but then something happened...

They had a meeting in the park. Fear was waitng for Her on the edge of park next to the street. He noticed Her walking on the other side of street and he waved. She saw him and started to run across the road. A crack sounded and suddenly She was lying on the floor in the puddle of blood. He ran there and took Her in his arms. She whispered "I love you to the end of times" and died in his embrace.

Fear was crying for three days and three nights and then hanged himself. And since that time he hates all the world and wants everyone to be sad as much as he was and Fear´s soul sits on everyone so all the world is afraid of something because of him. But we can defend ourselves infront of him and the way of protecting us that is being happy because that is what he hates the most.

Lucie Dvořáčková