It was a couple minutes after midnight when Chris had woken up, the sound of his dogs' loud yelp caught his full attention. He had been woken up a couple of times when his dog would start to do a barking marathon. He blinked his eyes and sighed. He rolled to his right and picked him self up, making him sit on the side of his bed. One of his friends was spending the night and so he had to be silent to not wake him. He got off his bed and walk past his friend who was sleeping on the couch that he had set against the wall of his room.
Chris hadn't checked on his dog because he figured it was just barking at some animal that was running through his yard, but there would be no reason for his dog to yelp. He had one of the biggest dogs in his neighborhood. He walked out of room and closed the door with as little noise as possible. His room opened up into a hallway. It was a short hallway with only 2 other doors to go through. He took a right and walked into his living room. The living room was filled with little nick knacks and a big cherry stained coffee table in the middle of the room. He blinked his eyes trying to adjust to the darkness. He started to shuffle his foot forward but ran it into the side of the sofa. He screamed and then covered his mouth to muffle his scream. He rubbed his toe and kept on walking to his kitchen. In the kitchen was the back door. It was a thick door with most of the middle made of glass. In front of the glass was a curtain that was tied down at its bottom so it can help cover up the window. He slightly parted the curtain to look outside.
"So where are you at?" His back yard was fairly normal. His yard was fenced off by a white 5ft fence and on the other side was a little alleyway that a person could go through without cutting throw anyone's yard. He looked out the window for about a minute before he clearly spotted his dogs' dog house out of the dark. In front of the dog house was what he could make out to be a ripped dog collar that was still connected to the leash. The leash was made of a medal chain and the collar was just a regular soft material. He was about to go outside when he caught glimpse of something moving in the little ally. It looked to be some guy who was extremely drunk. He was staggering forward and looked to have a very bad limp in his right leg. The man walked very slow and wore worn clothes. Chris stayed there for a little while watching the man walk all the way down the alley way and come out into a street, and saw how the man just stood at the end of the alley and did nothing. Chris looked back to where his dogs leash was at. He wondered what had happened, but then he came up with a simple answer. He thought that his dog probably ran off to chase whatever he was barking at. It was not the first time the dog had done this. Chris did not think much of this anymore but was now wondering what the guy was doing. He looked over to where he was standing and saw the last part of the men's tattered shirt as he was shuffling around a corner of a building. Chris looked for about another two minutes to see if he could see anything else and then went to turn around to head back to his room.
As he turned he saw something move in the corner of his eye and by reflex he took a back step and was in a defense stance. "Who is there?" Chris asked in a low voice. The figure went on walking toward him acting as if he did not even hear what Chris had said. The person had come out of the shadows and in to the light. "Oh...It's just you Levi. What are u doing up?" Levi look a Chris and gave and little nod at him.
"I heard a small crash and someone moaning very loud." Answered Levi
"It must have been me when I had hit my toe on the sofa in the living room." said Chris while walking to the counter to get something to drink. "When I hit the table I moaned but I didn't break anything. Well no matter, lets just go back to the room and get some sleep; we have to go to the movies tomorrow with Corey and everyone else." After getting something to drink Chris walked to the room with Levi following him.
"Hey Chris I forgot to ask you. What Movie are we going to see? I was thinking of seeing a horror movie tomorrow, you know something to scare me. If not, maybe an action movie. "Levi had lain back on the couch.
"I don't know yet, I still have to call everyone in the morning and see what they want to see. Maybe that new one that just came out, with that one guy that played on Restricted Enforcer. Corey was telling me about one of the previews he saw for it. From what he said it looks like a good movie to see" Chris was now laying down, pulling the covers over his stomach and getting ready for some shut eye. He looked at the clock and saw it was 12:37 in the morning and thought about how he only had about eight hours to sleep. Chris moved around a bit until he found the position that he like to lay in. He looked over to Levi and saw he had already found his sleeping position. Levi was facing the back of the couch, leg up over the top of it. He rolled back his head and closed his eyes, but there was something wrong. He didn't know what was wrong with him. The closest thing that he could have compared it to be was when he was little and how he was scared of the imaginary monster that plagued him in the dark. He would pull the covers over his head and tucked the sheet under his legs. This was his way of keeping out every thing that scared him. He opened his eyes and looked around his room and for the first time in fourteen years he pulled his cover over his head and tucked it under his legs.