Part 1 can be found here, if you’re interested:
Ann stood in the center of bedroom, bathed in the blue light of the television. Her senses were suddenly heightened. But why? Her ears rang, and she tried to tell herself that she was simply overreacting.
After all, Cedric would be home in a half hour.
But, the house seemed to breath around her. There was a soft shuffling sound from a far corner, downstairs.
Was it real or did she imagine it?
She scanned the room for her phone, then remembered she had plugged it into an outlet in the kitchen downstairs. She moved toward the bedroom door.
The house went dark. The television went black. The buzz of the air conditioner stopped, and Ann froze in the darkness. From the other end of the home came quick footsteps.
Ann moved to guest room across the hall, and as quickly slipped inside. She closed the door, while just outside she heard feet on the stairwell. They bound up the steps, and into her bedroom. Ann fumbled at a window as quietly as she could before the guest room door burst open, and she was blinded by a bright, blue light.