The Forgotten Kid
There was a kid at a birthday party who went missing during a game of Ghost in the Graveyard. He was supposed to be the ghost searching for all of us hiding, but he never found anyone and so then we started looking for him. We never found him. Ever.
Our parents said he never existed but we all remembered what he looked like (we couldn’t remember his name). There was also an extra present on the table downstairs with no “from” written on the outside, an extra chair and table setting at the big table, and the cake had been pre cut into 1-too many pieces.
Our parents swore up and down that he had never existed and we were making it up, but none of us believed them. It’s been a lot of years now and I don’t even trust my own memory of it anymore. But at the time I knew it was true.
Story credit: Reddit / BEETLEJUICEME