I wake up in the middle of the night because I hear something coming from downstairs. I’m so scared that my legs won’t stop shaking while I go check.
Once I’m downstairs, I start walking towards the living room when I hear a loud noise behind me. I turn around and notice a broken plate on the floor. As I’m slowly getting closer to the plate, with my heart pounding, all the lights begin to turn on and off very quickly. I start running towards the kitchen, where everything is really quiet, and I can’t see anything. I am terrified and I want to leave but I can’t. I don’t see anything but I have the feeling that somebody is watching me. When I turn around, I start screaming very loud: a shadow appears out of nowhere holding a knife and running towards me. I race up the stairs to get into the neighbour’s house. While running, I feel its steps behind me. I go outside to the terrace and then jump into the neighbour’s terrace. Fortunately, the door to get in is open.
I start running through the hallway until I go inside the first open room I see. I don’t hear steps behind me, and I don’t feel the imminent danger anymore. When I look ahead, I see something that catches my attention.
I’m in a small room full of books and stuff. There is one lit book in the middle of the desk, so strange that I have to take a closer look. When I get closer, I notice that it’s open. I start reading, and it mentions something about the powers of an evil creature, who can transform into a human, to hunt us down and take all our vital energy. To do so, the creature attracts the person with its mind control powers to its habitat, where it’s isolated from everyone and gets tortured. When the creature is in front of its prey, its eyes shine with a strong yellow colour that leaves you immobile to kill you.
Right then, my neighbour appears in the middle of the room.
“I’m glad you’re here,” I tell him. “There’s someone in my house trying to kill me, please help me!”
“No one is going to help you,” he says.
“What do you mean?” I ask confused.
The man slowly gets closer while I back up until I bump into the desk with the lit book. When he’s near me, I notice his shiny yellow eyes and that’s when I realize that all the strange things that happened to me tonight had been made by him, with the sole purpose of making me come here to kill me because that is what creatures like him do.
He’s about to kill me and all I can think of is how stupid I was to get out of bed to see what that noise had been.
Student: Cinthia Rodriguez
Level: Pre-intermediate
