One day during the summer going into the eight grade my friend Jimmy from school gave me a call and said if I can have a sleep-over at his house that night because his parents are out of town and they said its ok. I said sure and rode my bike down to his house since it was pretty close. I brought a jacket because it was cold and a phone charger for my phone. We were playing video games the whole day and went to the backyard and played soccer for most of the day. We eventually ordered pizza and brought some chips from the pantry and settled down to play video games again. 

Jimmy and I started to get a little bit tired and Jimmy insisted that we should prank call a random number just for fun. I said sure just for the heck of it and went to do so. I told Jimmy to put star sixty seven before you dial so the person doesn’t see who it is. When we were dialing random numbers, no one answered until about the fifth call, we wouldn’t doubt the failed calls because at this time it was about 11 o’clock at night. Once we finally got an answer, instead of a hello that we were hoping for, we got a, “Yeah” in a deep voice. Jimmy’s laughter in the background made me stumble upon my words and eventually burst into laughter. After a couple of seconds I got my act together and went on with the call as the guy on the other side was silent. I said, “ Oh my gosh! I haven't seen you in so long! We have to catch up, do you want to grab some McDonalds tomorrow?”.  He responded with, “What's your name kid” I responded with Bob. He then said, “Are you sure it’s not Jimmy?”.

 We both froze in fear and I quickly hung up, dropped the phone, then pooped my pants. Jimmy and I were extremely scared and even checked the recent calls to see if we had caller ID blocked and it was. For about an hour we were contemplating what we should do. I said to call 911 but the buttons on the phone weren’t working! I was thinking to myself if I should just leave on my own but I was too scared because it was about midnight and not safe that late at night. Jimmy and I just decided to stay in the living room and stay awake with a movie on the TV as we were very paranoid. 

After about 5 minutes we started to hear footsteps type sounds by the front door. We were scared out of our minds at this point so JImmy and I went to the closed blinds by the front door and lifted them to to see if there was anything behind the door. Once we lifted the blinds we saw a tall man wearing all black with a hoodie on and a little slouch with his back. He then turned his head extremely fast and looked at us. We screamed and dropped the blinds then quickly ran upstairs to keep on trying to call 911. I quickly grabbed a kitchen knife from the kitchen since we were near it and went with Jimmy upstairs. We both went to Jimmy’s room and went under his bed and untucked the bed sheets so it covers us under the bed. The phone finally started to work and so we called 911 and told them everything in 10 seconds while we were panting and quickly hung up on the operator once we heard ,”BOOM” we heard the front door burst open and hear a loud scream from the man. 

Jimmy is panicking and I’m trying to calm him down by telling him that the police heard what is going on and is coming now! That calmed him down a little bit. We heard the footsteps of the man walking up the stairs and the man eventually walks into the room we are in and you can hear Jimmy's huffing and puffing of his breath. We see the shadow of the guy move to behind the bed and we have a brief pause for about 15 seconds. Quickly the man pulls Jimmy from under the bed from his legs and starts screaming and he is holding Jimmy in a headlock taking him downstairs. I get out of the bed with a kitchen knife and stab the man in the back two times with the knife and he immediately screams in agony and drops Jimmy. I take him to the window of his room and I say we need to jump knowing it is on the second floor. I heard the man walking back at us while I was pushing Jimmy to jump quickly. He was too scared so I pushed him out of the window and I jumped quickly after. I twisted my ankle really bad and so my plan was to go to this big bunch of trees a couple houses down the house, and so we did. Both limping as fast as we can to the trees. Once we got there we immediately got down under a log and kept an eye on anyone coming out of the house. After about 5 minutes we did.

We saw the man hobbling towards us and we immediately started to panic since I dropped my knife somewhere when we jumped. We started to hear police sirens in the distance and had relief. When he started to notice the sirens he quickly ran into the dark. When the police arrived there were paramedics and multiple police cars and a police helicopter in the air flashing a light doen looking to the guy. We had called both of our parents and they came as fast as they could. Jimmy’s parents came the next morning since they were out of town. My mom insisted that he'd stay at our home that night until his parents came home. The police told us before we left that they will do a DNA test on the blood they found on the floor from the man and contact us in the morning. And so they did, the man that it was, was a prison escapee that went to prison for kidnapping children our age in our area. Now that man was never found and since out incident, he took 3 more kids.