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-Look At Me,
submitted by Theatre Guy.

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This happened in my junior
year of high school.

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One evening, my mother and stepfather

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had gone out to some event.

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I had stayed at home to
work on a paper that was due

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the next day and spent
the whole night working

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on the desk in my room.

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While I was working, I was
wearing these great headphones

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that I had gotten for my birthday.

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The kind that are noise canceling.

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My parents left the house around 6:00 p.m.

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And the whole time they were gone,

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I sat at my desk blasting
music through my headphones

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and writing my essay.

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I never left my desk.

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My parents returned around 11:00 p.m.

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At some point, late in the evening,

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seconds after I hear them enter,

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I hear my mother shout my name.

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Adrian! She screams.

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What on earth happened here?

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Confused, I get out of my chair

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and start walking through
the house to them.

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I get to my parents
and my mom looks livid.

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She's pointing at the carpet
floor yelling, was this you?

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Did you have friends over?

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I looked down, the carpet is ruined.

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It's covered in muddy footprints.

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I frantically explained
to her that I have no idea

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how those got there.

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I spent the whole night at
my desk working on my paper.

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I watched as her face goes from anger,

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to confusion, to fear.

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We realized that someone else
must have entered the house.

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Quickly, we scan the footprints

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trying to make sense of the situation.

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It only takes us a few
moments to figure out

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where they start.

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Our back door which we
usually left unlocked.

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Then we noticed something else.

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The footprints started at the back door

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but there are no footprints
exiting the back door.

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We hear something pounding
through our house.

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We hear the front door get
torn open and slam shut.

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Wham.

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We all run to the garage
and lock the door.

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My mom starts shouting at
the police through the phone.

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Please, come quickly.

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Someone's broken into our house.

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After what seems like
hours, the police arrive.

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An officer stays with us in
the garage as his partner

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goes through the house, room by room.

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His partner tells us that
it's safe to go back in,

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that there is no one in the house.

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Then she asks us,

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whose room is down the
hall and to the left?

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My parents look at me and I
tell the officer that it's mine.

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She asks us to follow her down the hall.

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As we go, it's easy to see the footprints

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weave through my house from the back door.

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They go through the living
room, through the small hallway,

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into my parents room and then
turn around toward my room.

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They stop at my doorway.

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Then the police officer points at my door

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which I had left open the whole night.

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On it, in black Sharpie
was written the following:

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my log, 8:47, I see you.

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8:53, you forgot to lock the back door.

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8:59, you seem focused.

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9:24, turn around.

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9:47, look at me.

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10:15, look at me.

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10:37, look at me.

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10:49, look at me.

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For nearly two hours,

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someone stood in my doorway watching me.

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To this day I shudder

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to think about what would have happened

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if I had ever turned
around and looked at them.

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(eerie music)