It’s a Monday morning in town. Around 4:30 AM in the morning to be exact. Nothing much is really happening. Just a few cars running along the road here and there, and the occasional squirrel noises. Besides that, nothing else is going on. At least, that’s what it looks like from my window. I see nothing else. I look away from the windows as I try to figure out what to do next.

As usual, I do my routine that everyone else does. Brush, Toilet, Shower, Change. After that, I go downstairs just so I can kill some time and do nothing. The time on my phone read “5:02”. It’s still pretty early out there. I thought to myself, “Maybe I should watch some TV to make the time fly faster”, so that’s what I did. Looking back, I barely remember what I was watching. It was probably some reality show starring some washed-up actor who was in debt from child support. What I remembered that morning though, were the noises.

As I was watching, a noise came from the front door. It felt like someone had a large wooden stick and tried to scrape it against the door. At first, I thought it was just probably nothing. Then the noise became louder as the scraping happened more and more. Eventually, I got so fed up that I went to the door and flung it open. Outside, there was a figure standing there. He was covered black from head to toe, except you can still see his eyes, which were white and beady.

I screamed and ran back into the house so I could hide. Two minutes later, I got out and saw if the figure was still there right outside the front door. And there he was, just standing there, waiting.

I walked back to the door, figuring that he probably wasn’t going to do anything to me. I looked at him, then I looked at where his hands were supposed to be. Instead of hands, it was these long sticks that drooped down as if he had no bones; and instead of fingers, a tiny white claw was the only thing present there.

“Hello?” was the first thing I said to the figure. The figure didn’t respond. He only responded when I tried to close the door. When I tried to do that, the stick-like hands blocked the doorway. I opened the door again, this time saying “What do you want?!”. The figure then widened his eyes. His eyes were completely white with no pupils. No longer beady, they looked like the brightest things I have ever seen. And then, there was a big white flash.

The flash came along with a loud noise, like someone exploded a bomb right in front of me. That along with the feeling that I had been lit on fire as my body suddenly started to heat up. I fall back, expecting the worst to happen, as I slowly black out seeing my hands melting and on fire.

However, as I opened my eyes, I realized that I was still sitting on the couch watching TV, as my mom was telling me to hurry up for school. I read my watch, it said “7:45”. “Did I really sleep for 2 hours?” I thought to myself. Well, I guess I did, and now it’s time to think less, because I gotta hurry up and get out.