It was the summer of only last year, that late one night I woke up, I knew it was past midnight because I had slept thirty minutes after midnight. I felt like something had disturbed and that never happened, nothing ever disturbed me in my sleep, because I always slept like a log and not even the loudest of sounds could wake me up at that time. I was disturbed and I couldn't go to sleep so I started using my phone. In no time I got bored of the phone and felt sleepy so I put the phone on the table and tried to sleep. I was almost going in deep sleep when I felt my bed shaking I woke up and stood at the side if the bed and saw that everything was fine. I thought it must have been a dream of a small Earthquake, so I sat back on my bed and drink some water and go back to sleep. But the jug was empty and that never happened as well. Because even if I didn't wake up in the night but I still filled my jug. I got up and went to the kitchen and found the windows open and glass shards everywhere, it was very windy so I thought the wind must have managed to thow off a couple of glasses and my brother who had a habit of opening any windows he could to let his nonh-existent friend out of the house. I gathered the glass and threw them in the dustbin and closed the windows but just when I closed the third one, I felt like I had seen someone sitting on a bench in the park beside our house. I opened it again and saw someone sitting on the bench and looking directly at him. I froze, it was a woman of the most horrible and scariest face I had ever seen, she had deep cuts on her face and angry looking eyes. I closed the window and ran out of the kitched to get into my room's safety. But when I left the kitchen towards my room, I saw that she was standing right at my room's door and looking at me. Luckily I was close to the stairs, I ran upstairs to get to my parents' room. I opened the door and got in closing the door behind me. But the room was empty and she was standing in the farthest corner, that is when it hit me, I had forgotten that my parents were not there and had left for my grandparents only yesterday. She was walking towards me and I was frozen, I opened the door and then closed it behind me. But only then I smelled something, like something rotten was close to me, I looked behind and saw her standing right behind me. I could see her murky colored eyes and maggots on her skin, I threw up on the floor and ran towards the stairs. Only when I got to the stairs, I saw her standing there on the end of the stairs. I turned back and she was there as well, when I looked down the stairs, she was there as well. It was like she was every where and I was trapped in my own house. Only then I felt cold fingers get my neck, choking me, I tried my best to shout but in vain, and passed out only to wake up in the hospital. My neighbors had heard me shouting and called the police, they had found me on the floor of my room, shouting.
I started to think that it was just a dream as the police told me, and my parents and little brother came as well. But only the day my parents came my mom called me upstairs to show me the dried up vomit on the floor, that I remembered to be mine.