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One day Timmy was home alone because his parents went to work. Timmy doesn’t like to stay home a lot especially at night. It was a cold Friday and it was seven o-clock.
Timmy lived in a neighborhood with three other kids. The kids didn’t come outside much and the neighborhood was mostly old people. Timmy was scared because he watched a movie the night before and all the people in the movie died. Timmy went downstairs to get something to eat and saw something run in the backyard. At first he thought it was a dog but it wasn’t.
What he saw was a person, a person that was tall and wearing a sweatshirt. Timmy ran in the house and locked the door. When he saw the man, he was crouched in the corner of the fence. The man stood up and began walking
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towards the door Timmy was at. Timmy tries to call the cops. His phone is dead. He runs in his room and locks his door. Timmy was really scared and didn’t know if he should jump out his window. He couldn’t hear the man and started to think he left but he still waited to check. He waited for ten minutes and figured the guy left. Timmy went down the stairs to check for the man and the flower vase on the counter was gone, but that’s all that was gone. Timmy continued to look around his house for the man and was still scared. Timmy grabbed a flashlight out of the closet. Timmy ran back upstairs as fast as he could and went into his room. Timmy was just about to try to call the cops again when he heard something, it was the man walking up the stairs stepping very loudly. At this point the man was almost up the stairs and there wasn’t much Timmy could do. Timmy opened his door quickly and ran down the hallway into his dad’s office, he didn’t look back once. Timmy locked himself in the office and couldn’t hear anything anymore. Timmy was starting to sweat and ws even more scared. He didn’t understand why the man just walked towards him and didn’t try to do s thing. Timmy went to check for his cell phone but it was still in his room. He grabbed his dad’s office phone and dialed 911. The phone just made a long weird noise. He threw the phone down and tried to get on his dads computer but he didn’t know the password. Timmy knew the only way he could call anyone was with his phone but he didn’t have it. Timmy heard a noise, it sounded like the shutting of a door he thought it could be hi parents but wasn’t sure. Suddenly the lights turned off and Timmy couldn’t find his flashlight. He searched for it but couldn’t find it. He heard a noise, it was his flashlight falling to the ground. He grabbed it fast and turned it on. The man was in the room across the desk from Timmy. He threw the light at the man’s head and ran down the stairs to go outside. He opened his front door and ran to his neighbors. He hit the door hard and rang the doorbell but there was no answer. The man was standing in Timmy’s driveway. The door opened Timmy told him there was a man in house and that he was trying to kill him. His neighbor opened the door quickly and let him in. the man was a man named Billy. The doorbell rang two times. They froze up and the only sound they could hear was the TV. They heard something sliding along the window very slowly. Billy grabbed his house phone and dialed 911. It worked they could hear the operator asking what was wrong and where they are. He told them a man was outside and is trying to kill them. The man broke the window. Billy dropped the phone. He walked through the broken window and said something. Billy and Timmy couldn’t hear what he said.
Billy ran towards the man to stop him and Timmy ran into Billy’s backyard and it leads to the woods. He could hear Billy yelling but couldn’t turn back. Timmy ran into the woods it was dark and the only light was the moon and stars. The yelling stopped but he kept running deeper and deeper into the woods. He was running so fast he tripped on a root that was sticking out of the ground. When he fell he cut his arm on a stick. He stood up and ran, he knew there was a field around because he had been there before. He could see a lot in the distance but it wasn’t in front of him, it was behind him. It had to be the man. Timmy thought to himself about the guy and couldn’t understand why the man won’t give …show more content…
up. He was almost at the field but he was out of breath and slowing down. He wanted to walk but he knew he couldn’t or whatever happened to Billy would happen to him to. So he kept going he didn’t stop once. He was right outside of the field. He ran faster the man was gaining on him but the man dropped the flashlight. Timmy ran into the field and didn’t stop but he was out of breath he had to. He stopped he couldn’t run any longer. He couldn’t see the man but he could hear him breathing heavy. Timmy started running again he could see a little house but there was no lights. Timmy made it to the house and realized it was abandon the man was walking far behind him now.
He didn’t know what to do he had no more options. He picked up a rock and ran even more. Timmy was hoping that if he can out run the man the man will give up. The man yelled out something, he said he killed Billy. Timmy didn’t know what to do so he threw the rock but he missed. The man started running towards so he picked up another rock and threw it. He hit the man right in the face and he fell. He grabbed a big rock and ran towards the man and started hitting him in the face. The man was covered in blood. Timmy got back up and ran away to the road in the distance. He made it to the road and there was a car driving by. They called the cops and arrested the
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