Assignment 10 Siobhan

I was sitting on my living room couch staring at a blank wall, recounting the images of the Friday the 13th movie I had just seen. "Why did I watch a scary movie when I'm home alone?" I thought. "It's dark outside too. I'm so done for." Paralyzed with fear, I sat in silence, listening to every noise my house made as it breathed and creaked. My imagination was wild with assumptions as I paired different cereal killers with the noises I heard. The soft, distant noises came from a tall skinny man with a bald head. The gradual thumps came from a 6'5 man, 300 pounds hiding in the shadows of my house. All I could do was wait until my parents came home.
There was a knock on the door and my heart sunk. My family doesn't ever knock. They both have keys, and I wasn't expecting anyone. My mind scrambled with escape plans. I settled on grabbing a frying pan from my kitchen, sprinting up the stairs to my guest bed room, and calling my mom.
No answer.
The knock returned except this time at my back door. My heart pounded, like a crazed animal trying to escape a cage. Thoughts of my name appearing on the news raced through my head. I slipped out of the bedroom and stood on the top of my steps. My mail slot opened and peering at me were a pair of eyes just staring at me. Terrified I called my mom over and over. No answer.
I heard a muffled voice coming from downstairs. I slowly creeped into ear shot and discovered the voice was familiar. Way too familiar.
"Hey sweetie! Why didn't you answer the door? I lost my house key." My dad called up to me.
"Of course you did." I thought to myself.