Brandon was sitting in the living room playing Modern Warfare 2 on his Xbox360, just as he did on any average day after getting home from school. It was just him and his dog Athena in the house; another thing that was normal these days since his mom was a lawyer and usually worked late. He was laughing with his friends online as they made fun of this noob who clearly didn't understand anything about the game, when Athena started barking.
Taking off his headphones, Brandon got up to walk over to the front door to see if someone was there, but no one was. So he went to the back door to let Athena out, thinking that maybe she just needed to pee. While he waited for her to do her business, he grabbed himself a cup of water. While filling up the cup he heard what sounded like the house settling. It had been doing that a lot the last few days; especially the attic area and his moms room, which were directly above the living room.
After letting Athena back in, he went and sat back down on the couch. Just as he was about to put his headphones back on, he heard heavy footsteps coming from his moms room, immediately followed by Athena running up the stairs barking.
Knowing it was too early for his mom to be home, Brandon grabbed a knife from the kitchen just as Athena raced back downstairs, barked a few more times, and then back up the stairs as if she was beckoning him to follow her. Heart thumping in his chest, he quietly made his way up the stairs towards his moms room. Turning the knob slowly, he prepared to lunge on the unsuspecting intruder; but when he opened the door, no one was there. He closed the door and quickly checked the rest of the rooms upstairs, but the coast was clear. Turning to head downstairs he noticed Athena was just letting out a quiet whine while just sitting, staring at his moms bedroom door. Knowing there was no one inside, he told her to hush and went back downstairs to get back on his game.
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Brandon got off the school bus at his stop and began walking the rest of the way home. All of his friends had plans today so he was forced to go home and face whatever lay in store for him. For weeks now he had been hearing those heavy footsteps walk back and forth in his moms room. Occasionally there would be the sound of the doorknob being rattled as if someone was having trouble opening it. Every time he had checked though, there was no one in the house. He had started trying the method of just ignoring Athena's barking and the sounds coming from upstairs, by leaving his headphones on while he played his games until his mom came home. So far this had been working perfectly and he saw no reason to stray from this new routine.
When he got inside, Brandon noticed a note from his mom stating that Athena was in her crate upstairs (in his moms bedroom), and under no circumstances was he to let her out. Apparently she had chewed up one of his moms pairs of expensive heels. Not wanting to go anywhere near his moms room anyways, he went over to the freezer to grab a couple of hot pockets; since the note had also stated that his mom would be later than usual tonight and he was on his own for dinner.
Just as the microwave beeped, Athena started to bark and growl as the sound of the footsteps began. For a moment, he wondered if he should go up there and rescue her from her "time out" in the cage, but he quickly dismissed the idea at the thought of having to actually enter that room in order to accomplish the task. Turning on his console and grabbing his headphones, controller, and food, he headed over to his usual spot on the couch. Right as he sat down, he heard a sound that made him stop dead in his tracks.
Athena had stopped barking and had begun whining as the footsteps now accompanied the sound of her crate being dragged along the floor of his moms bedroom. Brandon listened in utter horror as the cage went from one side of the room to the other, just to repeat on an endless cycle. Refusing to give into his instincts and flee the house, he stubbornly sat down and began playing Call of Duty online to drown out the noise.
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It was a Sunday night and Brandon was finally laying down to go to sleep at around 2 in the morning. His mom had gone to sleep hours ago watching a movie on the couch after having spent the whole day cleaning the house. Feeling much more at ease knowing she was in the room right next to him, sleep did not elude him for long.
He began to have the most curious dream. He could feel himself lifting slowly out of his body as it lay asleep on the bed. Looking down he watched as someone else, or some thing tried to enter his body below. Then he suddenly slammed back into his body and woke up drenched in sweat. Shivering he looked at the time to see it was 3:30 in the morning. Not wanting to fall back asleep he stayed up watching movies while chatting with people online.
The next day at school was long and he had a hard time keeping his eyes open during classes. When it was finally over he tried to see if any of his friends wanted to hang out, since he didn't want to go home until closer to when his mom would be there. But all of his friends had things they needed to do today, so he was forced to go straight home. When he walked in the door he was happy to see that Athena was downstairs and not stuck in her crate again today (something that was becoming a bit of a habit for his mom to do).
His relief at seeing her out of the crate was short lived though; for not even 1 minute after coming inside the house, the heavy footsteps began to pace. Athena began to bark, racing up and down the stairs as the footsteps turned into angry stomps that stopped abruptly as they reached the door. Brandon watched as the doorknob began to rattle and then slowly start to turn. Athena stayed at the bottom of the stairs now as she barked. The door to his moms bedroom began to creep open and this was the point when Brandon decided he'd had too much. Running back outside and slamming the door shut behind him, he waited out on the curb with his backpack still on his back until his mom came home from work.
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