Watching You Sleep

I haven’t slept since this happened… because if you heard these noises at night,

you wouldn’t sleep either. It started two nights ago. I was watching a

movie when I heard something roll across my bedroom floor upstairs. I thought it was

just the house settling… until I saw my little cousin standing in my room. She was holding

my pillow. “…What are you doing in here?” (soft, way too calm)

“I thought you lost this.” She hands it to me… but the pillowcase is unzipped.

And she keeps staring at the floor… not at me. “Did you drop something?” She doesn’t answer.

Instead, she slowly kneels down and looks under my bed. Like she’s checking