Horror Nights
My parents had left three hours ago for a charity gala, leaving me, at sixteen, to babysit the empty rooms.
I had spent the evening in my bedroom, nestled in a pile of pillows, ostensibly studying for my history exam. But my focus was elsewhere. The house had been making noises—not the comforting creaks of settling wood, but sharp, deliberate sounds. A thud from the kitchen. The faint, rhythmic drag of something heavy across the floorboards in the hallway. I told myself it was the wind, the house reacting to the storm, but the knot in my stomach tightened with every passing minute.
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