Ive never been so scared in my life….

” No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” ~Edmund Burke

Thursday night was by far the most terrifying night of my life. My apartment has a lot of doors and windows… there is a door from the porch into my bedroom and one into the living room. There is also an outside entrance into my roommates room. I love how it lets the light in and feels so open… and it made moving really easy… But I will NEVER live and an apartment like this again!

Thursday night 11:30 – my roommate is working late, I go to bed.

12:15 – I wake up to the sound of a door nob turning… my eyes shoot open and I lay still hardly breathing staring at my door.  The shadow of a large man moves from my door to the living room door and back again, attempting once again to open my door… I panic! My heart races! I rip my phone of the charger and run to my roommates room to see if she is home yet… I make it half way there before my phone rings… my roommate

roommate: Where are you?

me: in the apartment, where are you?

roommate: Im outside

me: oh thank god! I though…

roommate (interrupting me): no, you don’t understand, there is someone at our door…

me: SHIT! thats what I thought… Oh my god.. what do we do?

roommate: Im going to see if i can scare him away…

turns out my roommate had parked and got about 6 feet from the door when she saw the man, and returned to her car to call me… after the above conversation while still on the phone with me, she pulls her car around , the man ducks down as if trying to hide… she begins honking and flashing her light and the man runs away… We call the police, then I call her again and stay on the phone with her until the police arrive (she was instructed to stay in her car until the police arrived).  I fall to the floor shaking and crying until I hear roommate and police man at the door.

Needless to say we didnt sleep that night… after work friday we went out and purchased baseball bats, pepper spray, and alarms for all our doors… We feel safer now, but its still hard to sleep… We have both been sleeping on the couch in the living room, baseball bats and mase near by.

I am so happy that I will only be here 12 more days… I worry about my roommate, and hope she can find someone to stay with her until she finds another roommate or as least can move to a new place.

I have never experienced fear like that in my life, not when I was in a car accident the almost took my life, not when I woke to my house on fire… Nothing compares to the fear I felt that night! thank god someone was looking out for us that night! I guess I am just going to spend the next 12 days of my life sleep deprived and looking behind me every other step…

I wonder how long until I feel normal again….

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