I hope this is the right place, I mean I haven't told anyone before about what happened yet.

So I will lay down a little back story. I live in a nice little house with my wife and 4 year old daughter. We have our master bedroom at one end of the house and bathroom next door to that. If you then walk up a long corridor you will reach my daughters room.

My wife works ungodly hours as a midwife so when she's sleeping we have to keep very quiet as to not disturb her. This mainly involves using the bathroom before bedtime as we do not want to wake her, which is in close proximity too our room. We will do our business in there, very quietly. I usually don't even flush. 'Shhhh' we'll whisper to one another, this has become 'a thing' now. Then we'll exit the bathroom, turning the light off. We keep the corridor light off all the way to my daughters room so as not to wake my wife.

So last night we were finishing in the bathroom. 'Shhhh' my daughter kept saying as I brushed my teeth. We then turned the light off, suddenly enveloped in pitch black. 'Shhhh, I whispered groping air for her hand. Finally I found it and she replied, 'Shhhh', half giggling. As we made our way through the black, along the corridor I felt cold., very cold, more so than usual. I asked my daughter if she did too, as I squeezed her small hand softly, it felt freezing. 'Shhhh' she replied, I should have guessed that response. We finally reached her room and I let go of her hand to open the door. I push it open and almost have a heart attack, a new chill runs through me like a blade of ice. There sitting on her bed is my daughter. 'I beat you back Daddy', she says holding up a book. 'Let's read this one tonight'.

I felt a lump in my throat as I turned and heard it, now fading back down the corridor. 'Shhhhhhhhh.'