[ WP ] You are a monster under a child 's bed and you 're hatching a plan to get the parents to stop scaring you away .

It's kind of cliche, but you ever think about how, before you were born, it's just nothingness? Not like being asleep. Pure oblivion. Well, that happens to me every night. Just lurking around under the kid's bed, spooking him out – it's like food to us monsters, you know. We do it to survive. Ca n't directly interfere with the kid, of course. 
 
 So there I am, scaring the bejeezus out of the kid in his dark room. But then after an hour or two, what does he do? What does he do every night? He hollers to his parents! So then I'll be sitting there crestfallen under the bed, I'll hear steps plodding up the stairs, and before I know it, poof! I'm gone. Sun sets the next evening, the kid settles into the bed, and poof! I'm back. No monster should have to go through that. It's humiliating. 
 
 You can mark my words, I'm putting an end to this. So here's the plan, right? I've been hatching this one up for a while now. Usually, the natural thing for us is to shift around a little, make the kid feel like stuff is moving. Classic! But, tonight, I'm thinking about breaking the rules, letting the kid hear a whisper or two.
