My family and I went to another haunted house two nights straight. Yesterday’s one was presented by the local community college so we needed to pay for each booth. Today’s one was presented by the local Fire Department and the community so that everything was offered completely for free of charge to everyone.
We visited this one last year. We liked it very much. We knew it was well organized just like last year.
They didn’t betray us. It was a real fun. Same as last year, this event was supported by many local volunteers.
Their main event was its haunted house. They decorated and arranged the entire building of Fire Department into a scary haunted house.
We needed to wait in a long waiting line to enter the haunted house.
What the cool thing about the local event was that we see our neighbors here and there. The family standing before us lives in the same street of ours. The family standing behind us lives in one street away from ours. Our kids go to the same school. They are all friends.
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While waiting in the line, we started chatting with our neighbors. For these past several days, I didn’t see the man who lived with them. The mom is a single mother of four children. The man started living with them two years ago or so. I don’t know what the exact relationship with the mom. Probably he was her boyfriend and a dad for their new born baby.
This man was very gentle and friendly. He told us he was looking for a job, so we exchanged our phone numbers. We wanted to give him any information of job opportunity for him.
What the mom told us was shocking.
According to her, the man is a two-faced. He is friendly and kind to others outside. That was exactly what we thought about him. However, behind the door, he is abusive and cruel. He gets out of control whenever he gets drunk. He had beaten her and her children. The mom got the authority involved. Now the court issued an official restraining order to him so that he is not allowed to come closer to them. At least I am glad they are now protected by law.
Although I have known him and talked with him for these two years, I never noticed his hidden personality. I wonder how we can notice the other people’s true face.
Her story was scarier than the haunted house. All in all, living humans can be the scariest beings than anything else, right?
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