The Knock

Chapter 4

The first day. I had woken up early for school, got dressed and was ready to go out the front door when I saw a figure pass by the kitchen walls. I turned to see and saw the grumpy man staring at me. I looked at him and he started to walk towards me. I didn't know what to do, and was frozen in shock at the same time. I stood there, and didn't move. Slowly he approached me and finally we were standing in front each other face to face. He looked at me laughed and then said in a grumpy voice, " have a good day at school." He let out his hand and I saw my lunch bag dangling from his fingers. Then I smelled the worst thing i had ever smelled in my entire life. I grabbed my lunch bag and then realized, that he was the smelly one. I quickly opened the door and ran out. I turned to see if he was standing at the doorway, and he was. Waving to me like my father. I ignored him and continued down the sidewalk.

I got home from school, completely forgetting everything that happened this morning. I walked through the front door. My dad had his suitcase in his hand, and my mom was nowhere in sight. "Hey honey, I'm about to leave for work. Moms already at work. Mark's upstairs in his bedroom. I think you can handle everything in the house." Said my dad.
" um dad? Who's Mark?" I asked.
"The man staying with us for a bit. You didn't know? Oh well now you do. Ok bye honey." And with that left through the front door. I started to walk up the steps when I felt eyes staring at me. I looked up and through the railing, I saw a man standing staring directly at me. Mark. Mark was looking at me. " um... Hi mark... How was your day?" I asked.
He smiled, then said " wonderful. It'll be better now that your here." Then left. As he walked into his room, I saw a glimpse of the inside. It was horrid. The bed sheet was messed up, the curtains were half closed and open, and the stuff we had put into the closet, was all spilled out onto the ground. I rushed to my room and locked it. I took my laptop out and started watching videos on it. Almost two hours passed and I decided to put my laptop away. Then I opened the door a bit, and peeked out. Nothing. I saw the door to Mark's room wide open. He wasn't inside. I heard rattling downstairs, and knew it was him. I stood by the railing and peeked at what he was doing. It was like he was looking for something. That got me very curious. This wasn't his house, and he didn't have any belongings of his here. As he looked around he started to move out of sight, so I moved too. But i accidentally stepped on a loose floor board making a creak. It caught his attention. I quickly hid behind the doorway, as he looked around. He knew it was me since we were the only ones in the house. After that, I didn't hear anything. So I left for my room. But before I did, I took one more glance at mark. This time he was eating out of our fridge like an animal. 😳