I'm Already Inside

A seventeen-year-old girl heard her phone buzz at midnight. Unknown number. The text said: "I

can see you through your bedroom window." She lived on the second floor. Emma was home alone

while her parents visited her grandmother in the hospital. She convinced them she'd be fine for

one night. Now she wished she hadn't been so confident. She pulled her curtains shut and locked

her bedroom door, heart racing. Another text arrived: "Closing the curtains won't help."

She called the police but they said they couldn't do anything about a text message. They'd send someone

to patrol the area. Emma grabbed a baseball bat from her closet and turned off all the lights,

hiding in her bathroom. That's when she heard it. The sound of someone trying the front