Doppelganger

       I was sitting on my bed, reading my favorite book. I looked at the clock on my drawer, 8:43 p.m., maybe I should get ready to bed. Suddenly, I heard my seven year old daughter screaming from her bedroom, "Mommy!"

        I quickly ran to her bedroom and saw her holding her blanket while looking at her closet. "Marie, what's the problem?" I said while coming to her bed. "Mom, there's a monster in the closet", she said, still terrified. Monsters don't exist. "Honey, it's just your imagination."

       I sat beside her and hugged her tight. "No! Mom, it's not just an imagination, I heard a knock coming from the inside of the closet."

       "You'd been watching horror movies, it might have gotten to your head," I sighed as I rubbed her back. "You should go to sleep." I was about to get up from her bed when hold my hand tightly. "Mom don't -" There was a loud knock from the closet. I look at her, wide-eyed and gulped. "Mom..."She whimpered as she began to scoot over. The knock began to get louder and harder.

      I stood up and went to the closet slowly, Marie was looking at me wide-eyed, realizing what I was about to do, she whispered. "Mom, stay here."

      I slowly walked to the closet as the knocking stopped. I was at the door when I heard a voice from the inside. I held the knob and quickly opened the closet, revealing another Marie, same clothes same face and same voice with the one on the bed. Shocked and horrified, I looked over the bed and saw the original Marie looking at me with fear,                 “Mom, what’s going on?” Suddenly, Marie from the closet screamed, “Mom, I’d been knocking in here! Why didn’t you open the closet?” She stood up and walked towards me, as I slowly back up. Am I seeing doubles?

       “Mom, what’s wrong?”

       Who’s the doppelganger?

She’s now outside the closet and stopped walking. I saw the original Marie looking at the doppelganger. She looked much more terrified than before and said, “Mom, who is she? Why does she look exactly like me?” The one in front of me smiled wickedly, she looked over Marie, and she began to laugh frighteningly. I ran over to Marie on the bed and hugged her tightly. She slowly stepped forward, the temperature in the room became cold as the lights began to flicker. I began to pray while Marie started crying.

       Her eyes was looking at us, she stopped laughing and smiled devilishly. She’s about a few feet from us when the door burst open. We both screamed and saw my husband, “Save us!” He just looked at us weirdly, he said, “I got the new light bulb. The furnace is broken though, I’ll call a handyman.”

       “What?” I looked at him confused, Marie already stopped crying.

       “Oh, hey Dad!” Marie and the person that came from the closet said in unison.

        He looked at me and Marie then to the doppelganger, “Maria, Marie, were putting on prank to your mom?”

      “Maria?”

      “Honey, why are you keep on forgetting that you have twins?”

      “Twins?”

       Maria came to me and hugged me as did Marie, “Sorry for the prank, Mom”

       My husband came to me and hugged me as well, “It has been seven years, yet you still forget, but I will not stop loving you, I love you.”

      “We love you, too, Mom,” Marie and Maria said, “Happy Halloween!” they sweetly smiled at me while I’m still in a state of shock.

       Then I saw the door slowly closed.

      “Yeah, I love you all.” I tried to laugh as fear began to kick in again. This is the worst and probably the last Halloween in this house.