Sighing, the girl continued to stare out at the trees of the woods that almost surrounded her house. Her parents had just left to go on a trip to her aunt’s house. (The girl had begged her parents to let her stay home because she hated her cousins. After a day’s worth of discussion and pestering, the girl’s parents let her stay home.) A clap of thunder broke her from her trance as rain began to fall harder on the window.
The girl rose from her perch on her windowsill in her bedroom. She grabbed her phone from the bedside table, unplugged it, and made her way down the stairs. The sound of her foot steps on the wooden stairs echoed throughout the house, not helping the fact that she was starting to feel anxious about staying home alone. She grabbed a bag of popcorn --like one of those Orville brothers one-- from the dark and musty pantry and placed it in the microwave. Shutting the appliance’s door with a bang that was magnified by the quietness that was starting to suffocate her, she punched in a couple of numbers and waited for the popcorn to finish popping.
While she was waiting, her eyes wandered over to a window by the kitchen table that was pushed against the wall. On the other side of the window was the forest. It was almost as though the forest was beckoning her, pulling her into a trance she couldn’t seem to break out of.
Beep... beep... beep. The sound of the microwave screaming at her filled the deafening silence. The girl practically jumped out of her skin, but the sound had pulled her out of her trance. She opened the door, with a breeze of heat hitting her face, and quickly pulled the popcorn bag out of the microwave and let it plop onto the stove below it. She gave it a couple seconds to cool off and grabbed it and headed to the living room. On her way to the living room, she passed another window that faced the woods, and swore she saw something quickly dart into the forest. At that moment, she realized just how alone she was.
After the moon had shoved the sun out of the way, she got up from the couch and went to the kitchen to grab something to eat from the same dark and musty pantry she grabbed the popcorn from. (It felt as though the bag of popcorn that she ate seemed to have been a day ago instead of only 3 or 4 hours ago.) Before she got up, she left the tv on a random channel just to have noise in the background so she wouldn’t be as freaked out. She was beginning to regret the decision to stay home. Even though she despised her cousins. The emptiness of the house was getting to her and she swore she saw things moving around in the woods. The fact that she wasn’t anywhere near another house also didn’t help with the fear that was creeping its way into the back of her mind. 
As she walked by the window by the back door, she glanced outside --out of habit-- and saw what looked like a floating pair of blood red eyes through the deep darkness of the forest. It looked as though the forest itself had suddenly grown a pair of terrifying eyes that cut through the darkness like a knife. She was confused about what she was seeing and blinked a few times thinking it was just her imagination playing tricks on her. But it wasn’t. A wave of cold washed over her body, but she just brushed it off and headed up the stairs. (Though she brushed the eyes off thinking that she was just freaking herself out over the fact that she was home alone, a little part of her knew that this wasn’t her imagination.)
Kicking the bedroom door shut behind her, she yanked the curtains shut over her window and pulled a book off of her bookshelf in the corner of her room. She had barely even started reading the paragraph she had last left off on when she heard a noise that sounded like that back door being opened. The one that faced the woods. The slow creaking filled the void of silence and was one of the most terrifying sound you could hear when home all by yourself. The girl immediately started to panic. She rushed over to the door and locked it as quickly and quietly as she could -which was pointless since whatever was in her house already knew she was in there- and pulled her phone out of her pocket.