I have cold sweat trickling down my forehead. My heart is a beating drum in my chest. I can hear the creaking sound of someone coming up the stairs. I have so many escape options in my head, but I know none of them will be successful.
I was just sitting in my game room playing Call Of Duty because my parents weren't home and it was raining outside and the thunder was terrifying. I like Call Of Duty because I can talk to people through my headset and it helps distract me from the fact that I am home alone in this gigantic house. I hear something scraping on the window beside the TV, but I just shrug it off as a tree. My gaming room is on the second floor of our house, my room is next one over. I have a door that connects the two together and there is a gigantic oak tree in the front yard, just in front of the windows. The tree has big branches so the scraping sound happens a lot. This time it sounded different, but i just shrugged it off, it was raining after all. I'm in the middle of an ambush, "HOLY COW!" I freeze, there was a flash of lightning angles in front of my house and my yard lit up. I have curtains in the window, but with the flash of light i can see the silhouette of a person in the window holding a huge knife scraping something into the window. I am playing with my normal group of people, a couple friends and some I have met through the game, but the go to the school in the next county over. They are actual people, our mothers made sure being paranoid and stuff. One of them notices my silence,
"Justice you okay?"
"Uhhh, Yea, totally." I know my voice sounds all choked up. I am scared crapless. Quickly thinking I send a text to the group chat we have for emergencies, like if one of our headsets break.
J: Dude, I just saw someone with a knife sitting on my roof. They don't know that i saw them. I am too scared to check downstairs. HELP!
I get an instant reply from Danni, the only other girl in our mission.
D: I've got my car this weekend, B over in 10
I get a couple others about how it's late and their parents won't let them come since its raining. I expected that, I hope Danni gets here in time. Ten minutes is a long time, I end our game and I switch the tv to cable and turn on the news.
Child Napper Escaped From State Prison: Keep All Doors And Windows Locked And Children Inside!
My heart just dropped. The state prison is thirty to forty-five minutes away. Could that be who is on my roof? I switch the channel and turn up the Tv and stalk into my room. I leave the gaming room how it was when I was playing. I have an attic in my closet, nut that would be too easy to find. I have one of those beds with the different compartments for books underneath. I know I can easily fit, but i have junk in there. I used to help my dad when he was a boy scout instructor, so I look around for my old day pack because I have mace, knives, and a airsoft gun. I quickly check to see if I have Co2 in the airsoft gun and load the ammo. I slide open the cupboard, it is taken with old skateboards, school binders, and random books. I take out the skateboards and there is a perfect space for me to slide in behind the books. I keep my 28 inch deck, slide the door closed and out the board in front of my face so I won't be noticed if the man comes into my room and checks the bed.
I hear a bang coming from downstairs, oh God. I quickly try to call my parents, no answer. We literally just disabled ADT last month because we thought we were in a nice safe neighborhood and break-ins or kidnappings hardly ever happen. Just my luck, go me. I hear one final bang and the creaking of my back door opening. I am filled with dread. I can hear a couple things being shuffled and shattered downstairs and I have to cover my mouth so I don't let out a peep and try to steady my breathing. I have cold sweat trickling down my forehead. My heart is a beating drum in my chest. I can hear the creaking sound of someone coming up the stairs. I have so many escape options in my head, but I know none of them will be successful.
I heard the thud of someone stepping onto the last step. The Tv is silenced. Crap. I'm going to die alone, literally. Whoever is in my house, is stepping lightly. It's almost as if they wanted me to know they were in the house before... This isn't going to end well for me. I can't hear anything, but I can feel the presence of someone else in my room. I hold my breathe. My bed goans as if someone is sitting on it. I hear a deep inhale... Are they smelling my sheets?!? What a creep! My closet door is suddenly slammed shut, I almost yelp, but I have my hand over my mouth.
"Where is she?" I hear muttered. F^@k. I hear running and my front door being opened with ease. Someone with a key must be here. I check my phone and see that Danni set a text saying she was pulling on my street. She has been over plenty of times before so she knows where my spare key is, we have one of the door knockers that lets you hide your key in there, it's pretty cool actually.
"SIS! IM HOME!" Sis? She must be acting. I quickly catch on, but i'm too scared to come out. She begins talking really loud.
"Oh, yes mom! Justine is here somewhere! When will you be home?"
"In a few? Yay! Will Aunt Sarah and Uncle James be with you?"
"I'm so excited! This is going to be one big, happy family reunion! I'm going to go find Justice now!"
It sounds like she is on the phone having a fake conversation with someone. Her voice becomes louder and more clearer as she comes up the stairs.
"Okay mom, I love you too, bye!" There is a pause. "JUSTI-" She gets cut off and I hear the worst blood curdling scream. Whoever was in my house must have found Danni and tried to take her. My door is shut and I can hear a struggle to keep it closed. Thankfully I hear the lock click and Danni lets out a breath of relief. My phone starts the vibrate, It's my Mom. I quickly answer it when I hear Danni scream, "Justice, he's in there with you!" as the door to my bed slides open. S#!t. I grab the mace as books start to be thrown around my room. Danni is repeatedly banging on the door trying to get in. I see the most horrific face I have ever seen. I spray the mace at this guys face and I try to get out of my hiding spot. The man quickly recovers as Danni burst into the room. The man lunges at me as Danni does the same to him. We are in a dog pile as the man reaches for his big knife and he swings it down into my thigh.
I cry out in agony as the gigantic knife is plunged for a second time into my leg. Danni struggles but finally rips the knife out of his grasp and divides it into his back. Now it's his turn to scream in pain. Danni goes for a second round and then rolls him off of me. She dials 911 and is on the phone with an operator. The last thing I remember is Danni telling me to stay awake and to not close my eyes.
I wake up to the sound of a very obnoxious beep. I inhale the smell of sterilizing alcohol and bad food. I sit up and see that i'm in a hospital and i'm very annoyed because of the beeping and the breathing tube in my nose. I rip it out which cause another annoying beep to happen and nurses swarm into my room. The check my vitals, they leave and a doctor enters.
"Justice-Lynn, do you know what happened?" COuld this get any worse?
"Just Justice please, and yes. I was home alone when someone broke in, but I had a friend come help me and then I was stabbed, um... Yeah?"
"That is correct. We are lucky that the criminal missed one of your major arteries in your leg. You should be able to leave in a couple of hours. The wound is not that deep, but can affect your walking. Would you like crutches or a wheelchair?"
"C-c-crutches, please." I'm so pathetic.
"Great," He stands up and walks to the door, "You may now have visitors."
My Mom, Dad, Danni, and my neighbor and her son come into the room. I am instantly ambushed with hugs and kisses. My parents then explained to my how Robert, my neighbors son whom I have had a crush on since forever, was coming home late and heard a scream coming from his house. He ran inside and told his mom while he called the police and she called my parents. Danni said that when she entered the gaming room, she saw a figure behind the couch and when she screamed he got up and ran into my room. I honestly thought that was Danni in my room trying to escape the man. Danni called the police, who were already in route, thanks to Robert, and when I blacked out the man got up. He still had his knife in his back and tried to go out the window in my gaming room, the one he was at during the storm. He pulled back the curtains and the police rushed upstairs and handcuffed him. He is being moved to a more secure facility now. But, that isn't even the bone chilling part... On the window was scraped the word, DIE, repeatedly. I think my parents are getting new windows and re-installing our security system now...
