The Window (standard:horror, 840 words)
Author: Justin_Mullins	Added: Apr 14 2004	Views/Reads: 3499/2416	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A girl is haunted by a sourceless voice in her room.

Jamie and her family lived in the country. Her nearest neighbor lived
about 5 miles away. The area where Jamie lived was usually pretty 
deserted, aside from them. 

In every bedroom she has ever had, she always sleeps next to a window in
her room. Jamie had always loved sleeping next to a window just for the 
fact to be able to stare out at the stars on the nights she couldn't 
fall asleep. Tonight started off no different than any other night for 
Jamie. But, soon, it changed. 

"Good night everybody!" Jamie called out to her family as she headed
towards her bedroom. Jamie entered her small, green painted bedroom. 
Jamie had things typical to teenagers room. Stereo, tv, mirror, 
telephone, etc. Jamie combed her short brown hair before she turned out 
her bedroom light and jumped into her bed. Jamie fell asleep and slept 
peacefully through most the night. About midnight, her telephone 
started ringing. At first, Jamie tried to ignore it thinking that 
whoever it was, they must have had a wrong number to be calling this 
late. But, it kept ringing and ringing. 

Jamie, fully awake by now, decided, if nothing more than to get them to
quit calling, to answer the phone and try to straighten out this 
caller. Jamie reached over to the nightstand beside her bed and picked 
up the phone. "Hello?" Jamie asked into the phone, wondering why her 
parents hadn't answered. Jamie didn't know what to expect on the other 
end of the phone, but, this suprised her. 

"I'm watching you," the voice said in a ghostly whisper. 

"What? Who is this?" Jamie said. 

"I'm watching you," the voice said in the same tone. Jamie, frightened,
slammed down the phone onto the hook. 

Jamie pulled the covers over her head. But, she began to think. Whoever
this wierd person was, had called on the phone. The voice, which 
sounded as it could have been either male or female, said it was 
watching her and she lived miles from town. And she knew it wasn't her 
parents because they were asleep. 

"Must be a prank phone caller," Jamie said as she tried to go back to
sleep. She closed her eyes, and rested peacefully for a few minutes. 
Suddenly, the phone rang again nonstop. Jamie grabbed the phone to tell 
this prank caller to stop this stupid game. 

"Whoever this is, stop it!" Jamie yelled into the phone. 

"I'm still watching you," the ghostly whisper said. 

"Oh yeah?" Jamie said non-believing. "Where are you then?" 

"Outside your window," the ghostly window said slowly. Jamie dropped the
phone back on the hook quickly. 

Jamie did a small forced laugh. <He or she had to be lying> Jamie
thought. <How could they be outside my window right now?> 

Then suddenly there was a loud........TAP......TAP.....TAP. Jamie's eyes
widened and she jumped out of her bed and ran towards her parents room. 
"MOM!!!! DAD!!!!!!!" she yelled as she ran into their room. 

"What is it Jamie?" her dad asked, rubbing his eyes. 

"Somebody is outside my window!" Jamie yelled. 

"Maybe you were dreaming," her dad said. 

"No, I was wide awake!" Jamie said. 

"David, go take a look, so we all can get some sleep," Jamie's mother
said. 

Her father sighed. "Ok, let's go take a look, shall we?" he said.
Jamie's parents got out of bed and followed her to her room.' 



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