Horror Story Part 5

You wipe your sweat palms on your pants as your mind races, the creaks on the stairs are getting closer and time is running out. You turn off the flashlight hoping your eyes have adjusted enough to see. You don’t want to risk the light giving away your position; you step lightly toward the entrance hall hoping to sneak a peak at the stairs.

As you come closer to the edge your mind starts playing tricks on you. You see things in the dark, eyes and hands watching, reaching. You hope it’s your mind playing tricks on you, you hope. You stop just before the open frame and lean forward barely letting your eye peak around the corner. Moonlight is coming in thru the top of the front door affording you a little view of the stairs. The angle is bad but something is there, the light isn’t forgiving but you can see a frame of a human. It looks human at least; tall, thin, strands of hair catch the light and seem to sparkle. It stops suddenly, the stairs creak and the figure shivers in place.

Its head twitches and it begins to turn in your direction, you freeze for a moment you want to see the face but it might see you. You jerk yourself back around the corner and try to steady your breathing. What was it? Breathing steady thru your nose you listen to even the slightly pin drop, nothing. You want to look again but you have a feeling its still looking, so you ever slowly begin to move toward the other room hoping to get a better angle. Almost dragging your feet across the floor dust filling the air threaten to make you sneeze you approach the doorway of the room where you first noticed the footprints. You take a quick look at the backdoor, still closed you picture the dog sitting patiently staring.

As you come to the archway between the rooms you stop and listen again, still nothing. You move closer to your left once again leaning barely peaking, the angle gives you a limited view so you lean deeper. You see the other frame, the entrance hall the tip of the banister then the first step. You slide your feet a few inches and prepare to lean deeper, the second step and the banister going ever upward. You look up and down but see nothing, it hadn’t moved beyond the third step; you are around to breath a sigh of relief when you see something move. You tensing up and try to move your head back but your neck cramps and you can see a foot come forward.

You bend your knee and snap your head back around the corner; you heart is beating so hard you can feel it in your throat. The foot you saw wasn’t on the stairs; it was moving into the room just behind you, when did it come off the stairs? Why didn’t you hear anything? More importantly is what to do now; it’s only a few feet away and possibly stepping closer. You need to think fast and move faster if you don’t want the thing to see or get to you.