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I shut off all the lights on my way back, then I close my bedroom door and cross the room in the dark, carefully setting my water down on the end table.
The glass doesn’t go right down. Something is under it, but it’s dark, so I can’t see.
I touch my phone on the nightstand to light up the area and gasp when I see the severed button from my shorts beneath the glass.
Where did that come from?
A fresh wave of terror floods my body, but I try to keep it at bay.
I tell myself I must have grabbed it. Maybe I mindlessly shoved it in my pocket, but I know it’s not true.
I couldn’t find that button.
I would have brought it home to see if Mom could sew it back on my shorts so I can still wear them come summer, but I wasn’t about to spend more time on that bed trying to find the severed button.
My heart slams in my chest because only one other person could have put it there.
“Hello?” I say, hating how my voice shakes as it breaks the dead silence.
The room is dark. I sense no movement.
No one answers.
My chest constricts.
I tell myself I should walk over and turn on the light to make sure the room is empty, but I’m too damn afraid of what I’ll find.
I swallow, listening again for movement. The sounds of someone breathing. Surely, I would be able to sense a person in this room with me.
I’m too afraid to listen for long, though.
As if ignoring the monster can make it disappear, I climb back into my bed like a kid after a terrifying nightmare. I pull the blankets around myself protectively and squeeze my eyes shut.
Please don’t be in my room.
I feel safer curled up in bed under my blankets, but I have no idea if I really am.
If he’s in my room, I can guess why he’s here.
At best, to finish what he started in the escape room.
At worst, to silence me permanently.
Please, please don’t be in my room.
I wait for the monster to emerge. For the bed to dip with his weight as he climbs on it with me, or the door to creak as it opens and a sliver of light spills in.
But nothing happens.
The air around me doesn’t seem to move.
No monster joins me on the bed.
My heart beats more regularly, and my eyelids grow heavy.
I’m safe in my bed,I tell myself.
He can’t get me here.
