I once had a childhood school friend that threatened to kill me in my sleep.

I've never had too many experiences I could deem creepy in my life. Honestly I live a pretty mundane but fun life. However I had an experience with an old aquaintance from school that kept me pretty paranoid for a good bit of my childhood years.

I won't give anyone the real names of these people, so I'll just call the girl in this story Jess. For a while during my school years, starting in elementary up to middle school, I went to school with Jess, I wasn't friends with her, but I knew her and I wouldn't turn down any time to talk with her. She was always very odd in the way she presented herself. She was always dainty and sorta kept to herself. It may be odd to say, but she had an almost ethereal vibe to her. Blue eyes, complete albino white hair, and was always soft spoken. Very "princess" like. Anyways, I always occasionally approached her, but nothing much else for a good while; you know the usual early childhood school acquaintance sorta dynamic.

One day I was at our local park during the weekend when her and her little brother came to the park, it was a bit of a surprise, but a welcome one. I played the usual park games with them, caught up, and in general just had a good time. Eventually, we ended up playing hide and seek, I was the seeker if I remember well. I found her little brother, and we eventually found her at the top of the slide. Our towns park use to have a giant frog slide where you could sit on a platform on the top, and go down three different slides. We found her and as she ran up the ladder when we caught her going down the other end, her tone shifted; like completely shifted. She had an unnerving stern expression, a stark contrast to how she was acting before. She then, without warning, said "I'm going to kill you" to me. Seeing her have this sudden change and verbal threat towards me genuinely scared me and made me feel like I did something horribly wrong. I ran to hide somewhere in the park for what felt like half an hour.

Soon enough, she eventually confronted me and came clean. She apologized and revealed to me what she had apparently been keeping from me. She revealed to me that she was actually a vampire. No, I'm not making this up, she told me straight up that she was actually a vampire and was keeping it secret from everyone to not "reveal the truth". This is where I need to bring up a crucial detail about this girl. For all of my time knowing her, she genuinely whole heartedly believed she was a vampire. To this day I don't believe this was some sort of screwing with people for shits and giggles. She genuinely believed it, eventually told the "truth" to one of my close friends, went into disturbing detail about what she didn't during the night; and constantly made sure I didn't tell anyone.

The reason I say that is at that park, on that playset that evening, she told me straight to my face that with her "powers", she could see what I was doing 24/7, and if I told anyone, like friends, teachers, or even my own parents; that she'd come to my house in the middle of the night and kill me. I know this sounds really stupid, but to me as a really gullible young kid, I couldn't tell what was real and that wasn't, so as far as I knew, she was genuinely threatening me.

I left that park with the knowledge of this idea she set into my head, and it genuinely affected me. I kept the secret for years, even after she left the school. I was genuinely torn with decision multiple times in my life. Fighting between telling my mom and not telling my mom; since I felt so horrified about what she might do to me either way. Eventually, years later, I came to learn that it wasn't real obviously, but the years I lived with that paranoia in the back of my mind can't be taken back. Even my current friend group agrees about how odd of an individual she was and how off-putting she felt.

I know how stupid I seemed back then for genuinely believing it; but honestly I reacted in the most realistic way I could. It may have been complete bs, but the idea of someone threatening you to come to your house and kill you in your sleep isn't normal. Wherever she is, I hope Jess is doing well and I hope she eventually grew out of this "phase" she seemed to be in for a good while.