Invaded

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I've never been a light sleeper, when I go to sleep I'm completely checked out of the world there's even been times where I fall asleep in class and I don't hear the bell ring until five minutes later when the teacher pokes at my limp body awkwardly. Tonight was different though it must've been about three in the morning maybe four when I heard intriguingly loud foot steps down stairs, it couldn't have been Vanessa cause she "needs her beauty sleep" and my mom was on her new sleeping medication. So that leaves my dad but why would he be wearing his work boots at this time of night? I had to investigate so I got outta bed and started rummaging through my closet to find my three and a half foot long samurai sword my uncle gave me for my fifteenth birthday not exactly the typical gift for a high schooler but I never complained.  I never thought I'd have to use it, I just assumed it'd be something my wife would make me give  away in a garage sale ten years from now but this was the time to put it into good use,  I felt like a ninja. I started opening my door very slowly desperately hoping for it not to creak, I peeked out the door looking into darkness except the dim moonlight shining from the window at the end of the hall creating a creepy shadow of the big tree outside, can this get any more like a cheesy 1960's horror film? I made my way down the hall towards the stair railing, the cold floor was making me walk on the heels of my feet and I looked like a mentally challenged penguin, so much for being a badass ninja. I got to the stair railing and looked down, all I could see was our vintage rug my mother got from Peru last year and the moonlight that shined through the front door's window let me see barely into the kitchen. I saw a shadow start moving towards the kitchen so I laid on the floor looking through the metal bars of the railing hoping I couldn't be detected, the figure moved and stood on the rug looking around as if trying to figure out where to go next. My grip on the sword became very tight to the point where you could see the whites of my knuckles, I tried to focus on the face of the burglar and I just couldn't put it together until I realized what I was truly looking at. This being was about 5'9 maybe and you could see every bone, ligament, and muscle on it. Its head was bigger than its body which made it look like a bobble head considering how skinny it was, I could just about see the almond shaped eyes that were pitch black, they looked like black holes into nowhere. At this point my heart was beating out of my chest; it was so loud I was scared the being could hear it, until it walked away into the direction where the garage door was making absolutely no noise what so ever. Laying there on the cold floor paralyzed with fear I wasn't sure what to do, but I heard something coming up the stairs I put all the effort I could into getting myself to move and I ran back to my room locking the door behind me. Now I was panicking. I heard jets flying outside; faint screams than a BOOM in the distance, when I ran to my window and looked into the night, it was complete chaos.

The quiet town I had grown up in looked like world war three, the most noise we've ever gotten here is the occasional fire cracker in a mail box put by groups of delinquents on New Year's Eve or the 4th of July. I was mesmerized by the destruction, it felt like I hadn't blinked in hours yet it had only been seconds, I could see my neighbors running around in panic and cars lined up trying to leave, you could hear men honking their horns and shouting cuss words to get people out of the way. My world was in slow motion yet everything was happening so fast if that even makes sense, I didn't know what to think or what to do. All I could do was stare, frozen in shock.

I looked across the street and I saw Mrs. Hendrickson running out of her house towards her Audi A7, of course she would have the best car on the street. As she got to the door to her car she fondled through her key chain then dropped her keys (the stereotypical white girl from any horror movie ever made) when she bent over to get her keys I saw the tall skinny figure I had seen in my house come up behind her and before I could blink my eyes she and the creature were gone. I was breathing short rapid breaths and I could feel my heart beating in my throat, was I hyperventilating?  I heard a few more jets and helicopters fly by and I could see the explosions coming from down town, I looked up at the sky and I saw this large craft hover by slowly. It must've been at least a mile long, it was indescribable, it had lots of tiny lights all over it and it was in the shape of a very long sharp triangle.  It flew over my house then stopped and just hovered there for a few minutes, I looked down and everyone was looking up at it even the aggravated men in their cars were compelled to stare. The next thing I knew I was on my knees with my hands on my ears, this excruciatingly loud buzzing sound went off coming from the UFO. I felt like my brain was melting inside my head and I could feel wetness around my ears, it was blood. I couldn't bare it anymore so I ran inside my closet shutting the door with my foot keeping my hands on my ears, the sound made you cringe like when a fork scratches on a plate. Then it stopped. It was complete silence, no planes, helicopters, or faint screams. It was the kind of silence that would make someone go insane, I took my hands off my ears and just sat there horrified and before I knew it I was unconscious.