Curtains

Tap.Tap.Tap. Diana shrunk back against the rotten wood door, suddenly questioning why she had ever let her friends convince her to enter the mysterious house at the end of the road. In her friend group, she was by far the least into Halloween. This had led to them calling her names, and she had decided then and there to prove that she was not afraid of what was creeping in the dark. She now realized that she probably should have just let them call her names.
The noise in the hallway continued, and it sounded like a low growl bubbling in a large creatures throat.
"This is all a dream," she muttered to herself. "I am going to wake up, and be in my bright room with no monsters."
Squeezing her eyes shut, she turned around and grasped the cool door handle in her palm. Slowly turning the knob, she peered into the hallway. A shadow at the end of the hallway became smaller until it eventually disappeared. She slipped through the gap in the door and raced up the stairs. All she had to do was get one of the aged lace curtains from the parlour, and then she would be free to leave.
Quietly, she began to take small steps toward the window. When Diana was less than a foot away from the drawn curtains, a throaty growl broke through the silence. She spun around, and realized she had only a few seconds before this monster was going to run in, so she shuffled into a small wardrobe.
Clutching her knees to her chest, she looked through a small hole in the wood. She could only see the wall opposite to the door, and a large shadow loomed across the wall. Diana let out a quiet whimper and began trying to think of a distraction. Before she could come up with anything, a brown eye covered the hole in the wardrobe. A deep growl came from the creature, and damp breath that smelled of rotten meat crept into the enclosed space.
"Please leave me alone! I don't wanna die!" Diana screamed, and the growling ceased. The creature, which she could now see was very large and hairy, backed away. It slowly crept out of the dark room, but not before turning around and letting out a large howl.
After the creature was no longer in the room, Diana scrambled out of the dresser, pulled a curtain off the rim of the window, and sprinted out of the house. When she finally fell onto her knees in front of the house, her friend Veronica helped her onto her knees and looked over her.
"What took you so long?" Veronica asked, shocked at her friends lack of composure.
"The curtain just was really stuck to the wall, and when I pulled it off a mirror next to it fell and scared me." Diana quickly sputtered out as the two girls began walking home in the dark.