Aditi Tanwar, Class IX C
I was awakened by a storm brewing outside, in the middle of the night. Suddenly, the lights went out and I recalled, to my horror, that I was all alone at home that night. I am always scared when I am alone at home, specially in the night. I tried to call my parents but their number was out of reach. I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn’t. I stopped thinking and closed my eyes.
Suddenly, I felt something poking my eyes. I opened my eyes and saw the curtain shining with white light. I also saw the outline of a person holding a torch and a knife in his hands. I jumped out of the bed in fright and screamed in horror. Just when I screamed, the light and the person disappeared in a flash.
I ran downstairs to use the landline to call my mother but the phone was dead. Had the phone line been disconnected? I ran back towards my room and while running up, I felt I stepped on something eerie. I was not able to see clearly in the dark but I saw red eyes shining at me. I screamed again and ran to my room.
I locked the door and lit a candle for some light. I took the candle towards the window when I saw something written on the wall. The words read ‘Don’t tell this to anyone, otherwise…’ Just when I finished reading it, the text vanished. Lights came back and everything became normal.
I kept thinking and a hundred questions ran through my mind – why did the person scare me, who was he, how did he enter the house? I wanted to tell my mom everything when she returned but I was too scared. I also thought that nobody would believe me. So, I felt forgetting all this would be the best. But now that I have written about it, I cannot think of anything else.
