Cold Winter Nights--Devyn

It’s a stormy friday night and my parents decide to go out and have a date night, leaving me alone in the house. “Don’t worry honey you’ll be fine” mom says soothingly. I ask what time they will be home but get no response instead my dad says jokingly “Don’t wait up sport, and keep the dogs inside they will protect you from any danger, if intruders come in they will lick them to death”. I try not to freak out when they leave me behind in a hauntingly empty house so I try to drown out any fears by watching my favorite TV show. However, I can't shake off this unsettling feeling that someone, somewhere is watching me. Deciding it is just my imagination, I carry on about my business, until suddenly my dogs start barking uncontrollably at the back door. I start to question “Stupid dogs they scared the life out of me, why do they get so freaked out about rain and lightning?” so I let them out. They stop barking, feeling relieved I went upstairs and start reading a book then all of a sudden the power goes out. “What the heck just happened?” I asked myself when suddenly I hear the front door get kicked down. “Oh crap! there’s people trying to break in!” my fight or flight instincts kick in and I sprint into my closet and crawl up into a ball and pray they don’t find me. I soon realize in my cowardly attempt to hide I forgot my cell phone on my desk, “Well there goes my only chance of survival, if only I kept the dogs inside, they would have scared them away by now.” . They rummage through my entire house and eventually reach my room. I try to shorten my breath hoping they won’t hear me or check the closet. I hear footsteps nearing the closet where I took refuge in, and just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse my cell phone rings. “Just leave it we cleared out all the valuables anyways, time to go.” I hear them say. “Hold on, I just want to check the closet here for anything we might have missed” says one of the intruders. “Fine, hurry up” the other one says, the footsteps continue on. Well if this is the end, I might as well go out fighting. “If they’re gonna take me out I’ll be sure as heck to take one of them down with me”. The intruder puts his hand on the door knob, “Okay here we go on three, 1, 2, 3.”