Open Your Eyes

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Mike was a 17 y/o boy living with his 6 y/o little brother, Lucifer and their parents. Their parents were both teachers in the same school. Every night, Mike was watching horror movies but his mom didn't allow it, so she told him to sleep early. Since then Mike was watching these movies but every time he heard footsteps, he quickly shut down the PC and pretend to be asleep. These days Mike had heard that their new neighbor was a psychopath and one morning he told his family about the rumors. The next weekend their mom and dad had to go to a school trip from Saturday morning till Sunday morning. They would be left home alone 2 kids without anyone. His mom didn't like that, especially these rumors Mike was telling them about. Before they left his mom told him to take good care of Lucifer, lock the door and that they'll be watching them from the security camera. The whole day Mike and Lucifer were playing with their frisbee outside. Mike threw the frisbee to Lucifer but Lucifer's eye caught something and he didn't reach to catch it. The frisbee fell in front of a shadow, a man just standing there, watching them. Mike told him to stay here and he'll go bring it back. Usually in these situations he would run away like in the horror movies, but he didn't want to feel like a chicken. The man was smiling.

He went close enough and he stopped smiling

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He went close enough and he stopped smiling. He was frozen, just staring at him, looking tired. As Mike tried to catch his frisbee he said
- Excuse me, can I have my frisbee back?
No response. He got it
- Thank you, bye.
And he left. As soon as he went to his brother without looking back, he told him to go inside the house, have something to eat and sleep. After eating Mike turned off the security camera and told Lucifer to go to sleep. Lucifer couldn't sleep the past few days, he was having nightmares.
- There's a man every night in my bedroom.
Mike told him that there was nothing to be scared of so he should sleep. After 2 hours Lucifer came in the living room, where Mike was watching a horror movie.
- Someone is watching me.
Mike and Lucifer went upstairs but there was nothing.
- You can sleep. If there's anything I'll just beat it up for you!
Mike saying these words, Lucifer calmed down and finally fell asleep. While Mike was watching he heard a noise, so he replayed the past 3 seconds. This noise was not from the movie. Something or worst... someone was in the house! He went upstairs to check on Lucifer. He was covered with the blanket.
- Lucifer? Are you okay??
He didn't reply so he guessed he was sleeping. He went downstairs again but he heard his little brother screaming! He ran upstairs again
- Lucifer?! What's wrong? Are you okay???
He removed the blanket. Lucifer wasn't there!
- Lucifer!!? Where are you??!?!
He ran outside the house and saw the same man taking Lucifer with him in his car. Mike tried to open the door but it was locked. The man just watched Mike trying to get his brother back for 1-2 minutes. This feeling was awful. He went inside and called the police but it was too late... His mom and dad called like 7 times to make sure they were okay. He called them back but he couldn't say a word. They came home ASAP and told them everything. It was stupid of him to turn off the camera. It was weird how he got in the house especially every night.
- You were checking on me and Lucifer every night to see if we were sleeping...
But his mom and dad confused said...
- What are you talking about? We didn't check on you...
Mike was terrified! They could see who this man was from the security camera, but after 24 hours all of the material gets deleted. There was no way they could find him... So every time someone gets in your bedroom at nights, open your eyes! Because you never know who it is going to be.

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