Pretending to be asleep doesn't work

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A young boy is sleeping in his bed on a usual night.

 He hears footsteps outside his door,

and peeks out of his eyes to see what is happening.

 His door swings open quietly to reveal a murderer carrying the corpses of his parents.

 After silently propping them up on a chair,

 he writes something on the wall in the blood of the dead bodies.

 He then hides under the child's bed.

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