My girlfriend at the time, KE, didn’t enjoy being home, because her single mother was out on dates a lot, which meant that she was home alone. So, she spent the majority of her time at my house. It was during one of these evenings, when we were there by ourselves, that I got the brilliant idea to scare her.
She was on her way to the bathroom, and I hid myself in the darkened doorway of my parent’s bedroom, which was just to the right of the bathroom. The moment that she flipped on the bathroom light, I jumped out and screamed, “BOO!” KE recoiled away from me and screamed, the terror obvious across her face. Then, she swatted me, as I laughed, before going into the bathroom to finish what she had started.
A few weeks later, we were once again alone in the house, and KE decided to get her revenge on me. So, she hid in the same darkened doorway that I had hid and waited for me to go to the bathroom. As soon as I turned on the bathroom light, she jumped out and screamed, “BOO!” Unfortunately for her, I didn’t have the same reaction as her. I screamed, but instead of recoiling, I sent a reactive punch straight into her chest. It knocked her backwards into the dark, while a look of horror crossed my face as I suddenly realized that it was her.
I rushed to her to see if she was all right. She was furious with me, and probably furious in general that she hadn’t come out on top with either of these scaring encounters. But she never tried to scare me again. They say people either have a fight or flight reaction when encountering a scary situation. She learned the hard way that night that mine is definitely fight.
