In the woods

The cat

After the moving van left the house I moved my stuff into my room. Then my mom got a call from my grandma. She was calling to tell us that she was coming over this weekend. My Mom came into my room to tell me that grandma was coming but she wouldn’t tell me why. I had to get the rest of my things from outside like my toys from the car and some other boxes that were left on the step. I looked off into the woods and as I did I saw a cat. The cat was a calcio with the most distinctive yellow eyes.

I called the cat over by saying “Come here kitty-kitty.”  or “Come here you.” after time and time again the cat came over to me. I bent down on to pet the cat and as I did the cat went “Meow” as it did I could tell that something wasn’t right about the cat. The cat sounded funny but it wasn’t only the way it sounded, it was the way it looked. She didn’t look or act like a stray cat she acted like a house cat. Mom called out the window saying “Are you done grabbing your things?.”   “Almost Mom!?” I said with a scared voice, because as I turned around the cat was gone. The weirdest thing was the cat left without a trace, no marks, no sound, nothing.

Scared out of my mind I ran into the house. I thought about going to Mom to tell her about the cat but she would never believe me. I ran right to my room and the rest of that night I stayed in my bed and looked at the ceiling. When I finally fell asleep I was woke up by the most heart stopping noise ever. The sound of something at my window. My eyes shot open and I didn’t move I waited for the best time to run or to look out my window.

A minute later the sound stopped and I walked quietly to my window to see something I thought I would never see. A boy outside my window. I ran down the wall to my Mom’s room. I jumped onto her bed yelling . “MOM WAKE UP PLEASE” I cried trying to get her to wake up “WHAT IS IT? ARE YOU OK? WHAT HAPPENED?” she screamed in a scared voice. I told her what I saw and she called the cops. When the cops got to the house some of them walked around the house and two of them came into the house to  question me. I was so scared, my head was spinning, and I had a feeling that something was off.

I told the cops where I saw the boy and the cops tried to reenact what happen but they did it wrong. After the cops left, my Mom told me to sleep in her room that night and I did. Later that night I had a hard time falling asleep no matter what I did, I couldn’t sleep. The next day I was getting the rest of my stuff from the car. I was waiting for the cat to come back but it wasn’t there so I thought that the cat was at it’s house.
Then I heard a faint “Meow” from the woods and I was starting to walk to the woods and as I did my Mom called “STAY AWAY FROM THE WOODS!!” “But Mom I can hear a cat and it sounds hurt.” I said back to her. Then I looked back at the woods and what I saw was not a cat and it wasn’t the boy, it was a man. This man was tall and old I wasn’t able to make out his face because I ran into the house and ran into my Mom’s arms and cried.

Once again she went to call the cops but before she did she ran to the door and locked it. She ran all around the house to make sure the house is safe. We ran upstairs and locked ourselves  in my room because I have tinted out windows you can see out but you can’t look in. Mom hugged then went to get her phone but she left it downstairs Mom said in a soft voice “Wait here and don’t move no matter what you Ok?” “Yes, Mom I love you.” “I love you too.”. Mom walked down the stairs. I stayed in the room waiting for he to come back.

I heard the sound of tabing at my window and I knew that if I moved I would be telling the man where I am and I’m not going to do that. Mom came back up stairs and grabbed me and told me to lock myself in the bathroom and to not come out until the cops come. I cried to my Mom trying to get her to stay with me but she left and that was the first time she left me all by myself. I waited for her to come back. Sitting in silence waiting for my Mom. I never thought I would miss her this much. I wanted to cry as loud as I could but I couldn’t.

My Mom was gone for about a hour I was so quiet that I couldn’t even hear myself breathing. I thought that my Mom would never come back. Then I heard someone coming up the stairs but I said nothing. The person shut the door behind them and walked over to the bathroom door. I waited so long to see my Mom but this person wasn’t my Mom. The footsteps were too heavy to be my Mom, it was the man. My Mom would never wear her shoes in the in the house but this person was. I knew that this would not be the cops because I didn’t see the lights or hear the sirens.
My heart stopped when the footsteps stopped at the door. Then right as the person was reaching for the door handle I heard one thing I thought I would never would be so happy hear, the sirens. The Person ran out the room but before they did I heard them mutter “You can’t hide forever.” After the man left my Mom ran into the room with cops I was never so happy to hear her. I through the door open and ran right into her ams. My Mom cried when I was in her arms. The cops came over to me and my Mom trying to calm us down. The officers wanted to ask me some questions. I answered all the questions I could but one of them I couldn’t answer, about the man. It was what he looked like.

My Mom was so scared to leave me alone. Most of the reason was because of me. I was to scared to leave her side. After that night I would never be capable of going anywhere by myself. The woods never looked the same after that night.