After a long day at work, all I wanted to do was to go home and take a shower. When I got to my apartment it was pitch-black outside I could not even see what was in front of me. I decided to leave my car lights on while I opened the door to my apartment and turn on the lights from outside. As soon as I was inside the apartment I
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had a strange feeling as if someone was watching me. I looked around, but I did not see anything. In my mind I was thinking that I was having weird feelings because I was not use to being alone in the apartment.
Then I started hearing noises, I still thought that maybe it was just all in my head. All of a sudden I heard something break in the kitchen, that’s when I knew that it was not just my mind. There was really someone inside. Filled with fear I ran to the room to try to find the gun that my husband had hidden in the closet, but I could not find it. Whoever was inside my apartment knew that I had heard him/her. I was so scared, and I did not know what to do. I got under the bed hoping that the intruder would not see me. I had horrifying thoughts in my mind, and at the same time I asked myself if this person that was in my apartment was there to steal or to kill me.
Moments later, I heard footsteps heading to the room where I was hiding. Then there he was, standing at the door looking around. He was big, scary, and had a heartless face. He was dressed completely in black with tattoos of skulls all over his body. I thought I was looking at the devil himself. My heart started pounding hard. I knew I had to think of something quick, because I did not want to be killed by this heartless man.
As soon as he was walking by the closet I ran for my life. I was scared to look back, but I knew I had to. When I looked back there he was chasing me with a gun in his
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hand. I ran blocks away from my apartment, I thought that if I kept running maybe I would lose him. I was getting so tired of running, I could not feel my legs anymore. I ran to an alley, but unfortunately it was a dead end. That moment I knew I was going to die. Then he tackled me to the ground.
With an exhausted voice he asked, “Are you ready to die?”
I was speechless and without a doubt in my mind I knew this heartless man was about to kill me. While he was pointing his gun to my head I was having flashbacks of my life. Then when he was about to pull the trigger I woke up from that horrible nightmare that felt so real. I was breathing so hard, I felt as if I had actually been running. My heart was pounding so hard that it felt like it was going to fall off. I had tears in my eyes, and I was so grateful that it was all just a dream.
Overall that has been my most unusual experience ever. I have had nightmares before, but I had never had a nightmare that felt as if I had experienced in real life. This nightmare made me realize that anything can happen when you least expect it. I always here in the news about thieves killing people in their homes, but I guess I never realized the fear they go through.
