I awoke with a start, was that a noise from down stairs, I couldn't tell. I looked at my alarm it read exactly midnight, wait there it was again it sounded like a floorboard creaking. Then I heard a thump as if someone bumped into something, now I knew there definitely was someone in my house. This was great I had just moved into this neighborhood and one of the reasons was to get away from crime.
My aunt had warned me that being a black man in a white neighborhood was dangerous, did this mean that someone was in my house to do me harm. I reached for the phone beside my bed but then remembered it had not been turned on yet and my cell I'd left downstairs, what an idiot. I could now hear whomever it was sneaking up the staircase and I thought again, of what my aunt had said. I searched in the dark for some kind of weapon to defend myself in vain. Now they were coming down the hall so I hid behind the door. I could feel my heart beating in my chest as the fear made my hands tremble. I saw the shaft of light coming from a small flashlight first and new the person was at my bedroom door.
"Mr. Avery, are you there?"
I was hearing a girl's voice and it confused me, as it didn't sound threatening at all. Then I saw that I was now standing behind a female form as she searched my bed with the beam of her torch. I could easily see that she was smaller than I was and with surprise still on my side I made my move. I launched at her and while wrapping her arms with mine I drove her onto my bed under me. She screamed as my surprise attack frightened her,
"Please, please don't hurt me I just want to talk to you."
I took her flashlight from her and shined it in her face; I could tell she was just a young girl.
"What do you want, and why are you breaking into my house in the middle of the night?
No longer frightened of her I got up and turned on the light.
Still on my bed, she turned over on her back and lay there, staring at me while I did the same to her. She was very pretty and very young, she had striking blue eyes, or maybe it was I just didn't see that many blue eyes in my old neighborhood. She had short blonde hair, I think it is called a pixie cut, that framed her face, and with the light sprinkling of freckles across her nose, she made me think of Tinkerbell. The girl was wearing a halter top and tiny shorts that showed off her muscular legs. As I glanced down her body, I could tell it defiantly was the body of a young girl; her little breasts disappeared as she lay on her back. She did look sexy though and I knew if I didn't get her out of my house and quick I would be in big trouble.
"Mr. Avery, I'm sorry I just wanted to talk to you and..."