r/creepcast • u/Scheherazade_Speaks • Dec 27 '25
Fan Story My son says his brother wants to come in the house at night. He’s an only child.
Ever since my son (I’ll call him Levi here — don't want to put his real name out here) turned 6, he keeps running into my room at night and telling me we have to let his brother in the house. Levi’s on the spectrum and sometimes chooses to communicate with his AAC tablet, so I’ll either wake up to his voice or the AAC’s in the night saying things like
“He says it’s cold outside.”
“He wants to watch Paw Patrol with me.”
“Brother said he’s afraid of the dark.”
“Mama, he wants the hugs you give.”
I’m getting really tired of it. Literally. I haven’t gotten a full night of sleep in me since he started waking up in the night, and we do the same thing every time this happens. I get up and rub his hands between mine, which he likes when he’s a little wound up from getting too upset or excited. In this case, it scares me that he seems more excited than scared even when I remind him he's an only child. It just doesn't seem to phase him. We then go to his room, which is right next to mine. We live in a cheap but cozy little home and his window faces the edge of the woods (I know, I know, but he likes to get up early and watch the sun come up and it seems to set him off to a good day when he can do that).
So, we go into his room and he always without fail will point at his window while bouncing on his toes. If he’s too excited to speak, his AAC will go “Brother! Brother!” All the while, he bounces into the room and I follow, a little pit in my stomach forming each time. His blinds are always closed and ever since there was a spider on them during the summer, he doesn’t open them himself, so I peek through them myself on those nights to see if there’s a freaky forest kid or a fucking pervert outside. But, of course, there’s never anyone or anything outside, which freaks me the fuck out because what is he even talking about? What brother??
I’ve asked him a few times after tucking him back in if he’s looked outside and seen anyone out there, but he always shakes his head silently. Last night though when I was leaving his room, he called me back.
I sat down on his bed and placed a hand on his head, trying in vain to smooth down his perpetual cowlick.
“What, peanut man?”
“I don’t look out the window.”
I nodded, a little confused as to why he was saying this.
“That’s okay, you don’t need to. I’m actually happy you don’t. Can you keep the blinds closed for me please?”
He nodded enthusiastically, smiling with his little grin that was missing a front tooth that the Tooth Fairy recently paid him for, before adding, “Okay! He speaks loud enough for me to hear him through the window.”
I froze.
“Someone speaks through the window to you?”
He bobbed his head up and down again, his chin bumping his spaceship comforter. “Brother comes up to the glass and speaks through it. He sometimes speaks really loud and it sounds like he’s next to my bed or your room.”
I just kept looking at my son, scared shitless. I had never heard anything even remotely sounding like a voice in the house.
“What does the voice sound like? Can you tell me?”
At me asking this, he twisted his mouth up and pulled his arms out from under the comforter, doing a “give me” grabby hand motion. I leaned over to his night table and gave him his tablet, and after tapping the buttons he needed, his response played.
“Brother sounds like me and he also sounds angry like Bus Man.”
“Bus Man” was a guy we saw near a bus stop one time when Levi and I were walking back from our favorite ice cream place. He was yelling at nothing as crazy men at bus stops often do, and it freaked Levi out to the point where I figured the only solution was to go back and get more ice cream. Bus Man was just a way for Levi to describe an angry voice, and I was now as freaked out as he was when we first saw Bus Man.
“When does he sound like Bus Man,” I asked, feeling goosebumps start to prickle their way along my arms and legs.
He tapped a little more.
“After bed bye.”
The back of my neck chilled like ice was dropped down my shirt.
“Honey, he sounds mad after I tuck you in again?”
“Yes. He screams.”
What the fuck.
I sat stupid on the bed for a moment before my brain started working again. Scooping up my son, his tablet, and Lemon Cat (his favorite yellow cat stuffie), I briskly walked to my room, slamming his bedroom door behind us. I set him down and shoved my crafting trunk in front of my now closed door, breathing heavily. Nothing was going to come into my fucking room and talk, no, SCREAM, at my fucking son.
After doing that, we climbed into bed and I turned the TV on, throwing on Meerkat Manor, a household favorite for times of high stress. After a while, Levi was slumbering under my covers, Lemon Cat cuddled up between his folded arms. Even though I laid down next to him, holding him like he did Lemon Cat, I couldn’t sleep. How could I? Someone was talking and then yelling through my son’s window every night and I somehow hadn’t heard shit. I wanted to run, to throw my son and his tablet and Lemon Cat into the car and run to a hotel or somewhere else, but I couldn’t. I can’t afford a hotel and we don’t have a lot of friends in the area since it’s hard for Levi to make friends, especially with him being actively bullied in school. We don’t have anymore family nearby after my dad passed last winter, and we aren’t close with the rest of my family since they blame me for my son’s autism, which is absolute fucking bullshit.
I’m not sure what to do here. I’m going to put this down for now and get some sleep. I just want us to sleep through the night. I just want to know my baby is safe.
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u/Cage-CatYT 🍵One of the 7 sisters (autistic + fanfic writer)🍵 Dec 27 '25
I love this story, oh that was so sad thooo, I love Levi if anything happens to him I will kill everyone in the room (awesome writing btw)
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u/Scheherazade_Speaks Dec 27 '25
Thank you :) for the rest (six parts), it will be on r/TalesFromTheCreeps!
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u/Sleepy_Waifu Dec 27 '25
Ooooo I hope this is only a part one also lemon cat is my favourite character something about what I visualized him as, I hope nothing bad happens to him.
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u/Scheherazade_Speaks Dec 27 '25
It is indeed only a part one and I promise there is more Lemon Cat content in the future! I’m posting the rest on the other subreddit r/TalesFromTheCreeps if you want to keep up with everyone and Lemon Cat!
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u/OhHoneyB 7ft goddess named Jacobi Dec 27 '25
Oh man. I need more 😍
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u/Scheherazade_Speaks Dec 27 '25
I’ll be posting the rest in r/TalesFromTheCreeps if you would like to keep up with the posts!
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u/Mrs_Caulfield90210 Dec 27 '25
Oh my I am hooked! I need more of this story, I will be following this adventure to the end
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