Bump in the Dark

It was dark when I woke up. When I reached for my phone to check the time, it said 05:35. Although, the time I went to sleep, it hardly surprisd me I woke that early.

I dragged my hand across my eyes, turning on my back to go back to sleep, but froze. I'd heard a noise outside my door, footsteps on the landing. The way my room's set out is one big room separated into two, with my sister having to go through my main door into her bedroom. So with her in the room next to me, I assumed automatically that she'd gotten up for a trip to the bathroom. I closed my eyes, ready to sleep.

I was disturbed again by the returning footsteps. But there was no opening and closing of the door that I knew I'd shut before going to sleep, just the creaking of the floorboards outside my door.

What sounded like an animal pitter-pattering across laminate flooring flew across the landing. I sat up straight. I had only one animal in the house, a dog, but he was locked in our extension overnight to stop him chewing our belongings. The noise came again, this time back towards my room, crashing into the door, before flying down the stairs, crashing at the bottom.

It was over an hour before I went back to sleep, dreams full of monsters and ghouls unspeakable due to my penchant to read far too much Creepypasta in the dead of night. Never have I found out what it was, even now, months later. I'm just terrified it'll be back, and when it is... What will it do?

I no longer sleep.

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I knew if I wrote this at the top, people were less likely to read it. But this actually happened. Whether my sister sleep-walks, or whether I was just hearing things at stupid o'clock in the morning, I'm not sure.

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Credited to Nikkiesaur
Originally uploaded on August 6, 2012

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