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Creepypasta: Under the Tree

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Creepypasta: Under the Tree

It was Christmas Eve and Reggie was dead bored. Alone in his family’s cavernous, too-empty house, his mind began to wander about as to how he could get back at them for leaving him alone to watch the place during their last-minute shopping. They’d certainly be gone for many more hours. The nerve of them! He’d already gotten their gifts well in advance. It just didn’t seem fair to Reggie that he should have to pay for their thoughtlessness.

And then it hit him. That was it! A gift.

Reggie hauled a two-part oaken box his family used for storing old video games out from its dusty corner. After laboriously dragging both pieces under the tree and clearing them out, he climbed inside one of them with a flashlight in hand so he could see what he was doing. He then hefted the second segment over his head, letting it nestle over the lower half in a perfect fit, and sealed both parts together with a length of duct tape. Wouldn’t they be surprised to come home Christmas morning, open it, and find ever-mischievous Reggie inside, the one gift they always took for granted.

It was only when Reggie had finished sealing himself in, now trapped in the claustrophobically-confined space with no room to even flex his fingers, that he realized his plan had one small oversight: while he had been sealing the box, he’d forgotten to give it any airholes.

“Oops…”
Written with the prompts "scarlet Christmas" and "prank gone wrong" as suggested by :iconkrakens-oracle:.
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angeluchiha7's avatar
oops is right?....... now  are going get yourself out of this one kido?