I came home late that night, tired and ready to collapse into bed. As I walked past the hallway, I saw my roommate slip into her bedroom, wrapped in a dripping wet towel. Her hair was soaked, water trailing on the floor. She didn\u2019t say a word. She didn\u2019t even look at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was strange \u2014 she always joked after showers. But this time, she practically ran<\/em> into her room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Five minutes later, I heard the front door open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She walked in from outside<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fully dressed. Dry hair. Not a drop of water on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I stared at her, confused. Her face instantly changed. The color drained from her skin. She looked past me toward the hallway, her eyes widening in fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then she whispered, trembling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGrab your keys. Go to the car. Lock it. Call 911. Right now.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n My heart dropped. I didn\u2019t ask questions \u2014 I ran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sitting inside my locked car, hands shaking, I called emergency services. Within minutes, police swarmed our house. They ordered us to stay outside as they moved in carefully, guns drawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When they came back out, one of the officers looked at us and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou did the right thing tonight. Someone was hiding in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n They found wet footprints leading from the bathroom to my roommate\u2019s room. They found a towel on her bed \u2014 not hers. And in the corner of her closet, wrapped in shadows\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n A man was crouched behind her clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He had broken in hours earlier. He had been watching us<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chilling part?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The person I saw entering her room \u2014 wrapped in a towel, avoiding eye contact, moving strangely\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Was not<\/em> my roommate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That night, I realized just how close we came to walking straight into a nightmare \u2014 and how fast one wrong choice could have changed everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came home late that night, tired and ready to collapse into bed. As I walked past the hallway, I saw my roommate slip into her bedroom,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7007,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/7007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cWeren\u2019t you just in your room?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n