One day my dad and his wife asked my sister and I if we wanted to go to this haunted house in Mission Valley. I said yes but I was really nervous to go because I knew how scared I was going to be. I told my sister if she really wanted to go because I would’ve stayed home with her if she changed her mind but she wanted to go. It was like 8pm and we were in the car on the way to the haunted house. I started to get really nervous and started to overthink if I actually wanted to go. It was a 10 minute car ride and once we got closer to it I didn’t want to go anymore because of how terrified I was. But the one thing I was dreading the most was the chainsaws because of a past experience I had at a different haunted house. 

When we got there I did not want to get out of the car. I heard a bunch of people screaming and running out and heard the noises of the chainsaw. We all got out of the car and I immediately went over to my dad and made sure I was close to him because I thought being close to him I would be less scared. Once my dad bought the tickets there was no going back from there since you couldn’t refund your tickets. There was a long line of people waiting to get in and there was this group of people in front of us who started talking to us and saying how they’d already done it and it’s not scary and that I would be fine and to remember that it is all fake. I did not listen to them. The only thing I tried to listen to was that they are fake and they can’t touch you. Waiting in line just made me more and more scared, nervous, and anxious hearing everyone yelling and the chainsaw noises. We were next in line and I felt like I was going to throw up because of how nervous I was. It was our turn to go in. I was originally supposed to be with my sister but I couldn't. I needed to be with my dad because I was so scared and I felt safer if I was with my dad. 

We walked into this first room where there was a tv explaining what not to do and where the exits were etc. My dad’s wife and my sister made my dad and I lead them but I made them lead us through because I was not going to be in the front first I wanted to be in the middle but it wasn’t possible. I’m going through this haunted house with my head down and holding onto my dad really tight. All the actors noticed I was the most scared one so they targeted me and came up to me. One of them said “We got a scared one” another one was breathing on me and I yelled “GET AWAY!” Somehow my dad and I were in the front leading everyone. 

We finally got closer to the end and I did not want to go. You needed to go through a maze to find the exit that made me so scared because I hated the mazes and I heard all the chainsaws going off. We started going through and a bunch of people were just jump scaring us. Then all of a sudden we were in a deadend and the chainsaw guy pops out of nowhere I immediately started crying. Of course I was the one who got stuck in the corner with the chainsaw guy and my dad just left me so I had no one there I was so scared. The chainsaw guy finally let me escape and I ran to the exit where my dad was. I couldn’t believe that he just left me knowing I am terrified of chainsaws and hillbillies.