The Window

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I am Sally and I was 15 when I was traumatized for the rest of my life. I thought I was safe in my own home, but now i realize that you are never safe, wherever you at. This is my story...
It all started one night while i was in my bed, trying to go to sleep. I was on my queen sized bed, facing the opposite side of the window. I was slowly drifting off when it started. 3 knocks on my window. 3 really loud knocks, too! I turn around to face my window and see nothing. It must have been the boys on my neighborhood trying to mess around. I was still a little frightened though. So I repeated the same phrase over and over,"I am inside, they are outside. I am safe," until I fell asleep.
But that wasn't the end of my night. An hour later, I heard more knocks on the window. This time, there were 4 very loud knocks. I almost jumped out of my bed in fear, I was sleeping. I look over and see nothing yet again. I closed my eyes and say those words again,"I am inside, they are outside. I am safe." But by now I knew I would not be able to fall back asleep.
I close my eyes and try to block out everything around me. But the knocks kept coming. More knocks, closer together, and louder each time. At first they were every hour, then every half hour, then it ended up being 5 minutes apart every time. Throughout the whole time, I was repeating the same phrase over and over,"I am inside, they are outside. I am safe."
Finally, after hours of torture, the knocks stopped. I slowly open my eyes and turn to face the window. When I sawsaw something. I was so shocked that I was scared into silence and stillness as I stared at it. Before me stood a strange man looking at me. He was right next to my closed and locked window. When he saw me looking at him, he replicates the same knocking as the last couple of hours. Then he said,"you're inside. I'm inside. You're not safe," and I knew then, that I wasn't...

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