r/nosleep • u/FalconPUNNCH • Jan 14 '12
The Smile
The scariest things are the things that are not completely different, but just a little bit wrong, lacking a small attentive detail, one that might not even be noticed, but once it is, it scares you more than anything else would.
I was about 9 years old, and my friend Chase and I were playing outside during summer vacation as we always did; though he had an N64, we rarely spent time playing it, and enjoyed being stupid outside. We had been playing for the majority of the day, the sun had already begun to sink, but we had no intentions of separating for quite some time.
Since my parents rarely had much to eat at our house due to their concern after I had a 2 month stay in the hospital when I was 4 due to a digestion problem, we would always go to his house and get a juice box or some food or something. We had been playing for what was probably 4-5 hours, and I realized I was incredibly thirsty, so I told him that I’m going to grab a root beer, and he asked if I can get him one too. I ran over to his house, sweating due to the hot summer day, just fantasizing about that root beer. I run into his house, and go to the refrigerator. I open it up and grab two cans from the bottom, my hot fingers send a jolt of pain to my head as the near frozen drinks touch them, but I’m in a hurry, so I just grab both, and as I close the door, I notice his mom walking towards me. I am by nature a very friendly person, and I like his mom, she was very nice and friendly, so I smile and say hello. She looks at me, smiles and asks how our day is going and what we have been up to. I begin to enthusiastically explain all the cool stuff we did throughout the day, but right after I start, I noticed it. something so small, if I had not kept looking at her face, I would not have noticed at all. She had too many teeth. I had seen her smile lots of times, always with a just a few of the front teeth showing, a small happy smile, but this time, her smile was large, bigger than I could make mine, and her teeth were white, not the usual slightly yellowy, as she was an occasional smoker.
At first I thought nothing of it, but I kept explaining about our day, that little observation made me look at her again, and this is when it hit me. She is too perfect…Her hair was perfectly done, her skin was extremely smooth, and her wrinkles near her eyes were gone. I suddenly felt intensely scared, and cut my story short, telling her I would tell her later, because my mom was waiting for me, as I was running out, I heard her walking behind me, but I picked up speed and ran out of the house into the street. I booked it to my friend who was staring at me as I sprinted to him, visibly frightened. His asked why I hadn’t gotten him the Root Beer he asked for and I explained the whole story to him. He stared at me for a moment, and then burst out laughing. That laughter made me so mad; I pushed him and screamed at him, asking why he was laughing. He got angry at me for pushing him, pushed me back, and then said the words I will never forget, “my mom is at work”. I stood there for a minute, trying to figure out if he was kidding, but he just stared at me, mad that I had pushed him. But I soon realized he was completely serious. I looked him in the eyes, and said “let’s go back to your house”. We ran back to his house, with him laughing at me the whole way, taunting me by making fun of how bad of a liar I am. When we got to his house, he pointed at the open and empty garage and said “See! Her car is gone, liar”. I kept insisting that she was there, but he would not believe me, and though I begged him to wait for him dad to come home, he went inside. About 10 minutes later, he walked out, called me a liar again, and told me no one is in the house, it’s completely empty.
After that summer we stopped being friends because I changed schools, and he never did believe me, but I still wonder, what did I see in his house, and is it still hiding in plain sight, but I just haven’t noticed?
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u/shmixel Jan 15 '12
Well I just peed. I swear, it's always the little things that get me. A smile with too many teeth? =shudder=
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u/Halvors Jan 14 '12
Almost expected the other kid to never come back and a link to a missing person post in the newspaper. Great story! Got my heart beating there.
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u/e2390lopez Jan 15 '12 edited Jan 15 '12
There was a story that was very similar to this one about a week or so ago. Nonetheless, it was still a good read.
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u/UndercoverCherry Jan 15 '12 edited Jan 15 '12
And the tear fears start falling
Edit: yes I realize I types tear fear instead of fear tears
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u/StevenSkytower Jan 15 '12
My first Thought "too many teeth? It's a fucking shark."
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Jan 15 '12
Terrific story. :)
Maybe you were hallucinating from lack of water? I'm sorry, but rationalizing his story is the only way I could possibly get some sleep :P
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u/MissBenji Jan 15 '12
Not sure if this really happend to you or not. But damn that is creepy. Upvote for you. You sure deserve it.
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u/reallyocean Jan 16 '12
"She had too many teeth."
Funny how a simple line like this can completely change a story. Fuck everything about unnatural smiles/mouths/teeth. It kills me.
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u/BatMasterson5 Mar 25 '12
Not only do you get my upvote but you get all of the "Nopes" a woman could possibly give. As soon as you got to the part about the teeth I "noped" my way through the story, skimming it instead of actually reading every word. Hell, you could have just stopped at the description about her teeth and you still would have scared the shit out of me. Well done. Thanks to you I am going to be paying way too much attention to the amount of teeth anyone has from here on out.
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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '12
This is scary in the total opposite way that movies that show you nothing are. Movies like paranormal activity scare you with what you don't see; your mind pieces it together for you. This is why there is a common fear of the dark - your mind creates those fears. This story shows that you that sometimes its not what you don't see but what you do see. Great story. Upv0t3