Monsters were Everywhere

I had the typical childhood fear, I was afraid of monsters in the dark. The thing that made me even more of a wimp was that I wasn't just afraid of monsters under the bed. I was afraid of monsters everywhere. Anyplace I went and I had to go into a dark room by myself I would sprint to the light switch to turn it on immediately. Well, when I was younger, my sister's youth group would come over all the time. We'd have a campfire at our house and then we played flashlight tag. As you can see, my fear of monsters presented a problem. Flashlight tag is obviously played in the dark. Whenever we played that game I would not go anywhere by myself. The summer that the movie Signs came out we, as usual, had a campfire and everyone came over. I hadn't seen the movie yet so I imagined it to be this horrifying movie. We have a cornfield basically in our backyard. I was in my hiding spot, which was by the cornfield. The guys in the youth group always teased me, they never passed up the oppurtunity to do so. I was crouching behind the bushes when something jumped out of the field screaming. I hopped up so fast that someone would have thought the ground was on fire. I ran as fast as I could across the yard, I was near crying. Afterwords I figured out who it was that scared me and I punched them but still, I was the laughing stock of the evening.