After examining the spot where the blue box was, the sun had set in the sky. Diana walked back to her house wondering where it had gone.
"What were you doing over there? Walking around in circles looking around the ground. What was that about?" Donna asked her.
"Oh, nothin'. Just... thinking." She replied and went up the stairs to her room.
Her room was large and painted light blue with a double bed, a desk with a computer, a television, a bookshelf, and a window seat. She realized she left her TV on and sat down in front of it looking for the remote. The weather was still on and it showed it was suppose to be raining at the moment, but there was nothing.
She finally found the remote and clicked the TV off. She changed into her pajamas and crawled into her bed. She almost immediately fell asleep.
A few hours later she woke up. She turned over and tried to fall back asleep, but she wouldn't. She turned over again and looked at her clock. It was blank. She sat up and whacked it a few times. It clicked on but it was all fuzzy. 1:04 AM it read. She flopped back down onto her back and shut her eyes.
Her eyes sprung open a few minutes later because there were footsteps on the stairs. Not normal sounds like her mother's stomps or her father's shuffle and occasional stumble, but they were soft and creeping like. She shuddered and sat up clicking her nightstand light on. She crawled out of her bed and grabbed the vase off her desk. She clicked the light back off quickly and crept over to the corner farthest away from her door.
Click
Her door opened silently and something slowly crept in. Her heart started pounding.
I should've grabbed the phone. She thought slightly panicking.
The thing was by her bed and a light scanned it over. It beeped and a metallic voice came from the box.
"No life form compatible" It said.
The creature holding the box made a weird gurgling noise and her lights turned on. The thing looked directly at her and she gripped the vase tighter.
"What the hell are you?" She spoke. It quickly thrust an arm into it pocket and Diana took the distraction.
She ran towards the door and threw the vase at the thing's head. The door shut before she could reach it. She rattled the doorknob but it was locked. She started pounding at the door but no noise came from her pounds.
She quickly turned around as the thing pointed a gun-like thing at her and something hit her neck. She reached up and pulled it out, slowly sinking to the ground. Her vision started blurring and the thing brought the box out again. She shielded her eyes as it scanned over her body.
"Life form compatible." The metallically voice came again.
Her eyes were slowly drooping and a wave of exhaustion came over her. She tried to crawl away from the thing as it started coming over to her. She made it to the window and tried crawling out onto the roof, but she didn't have the energy.
The thing grabbed her by the leg and pulled her from the window. It picked her up and she passed out when they reached the door.