Things I should mention before I tell this story: 1.
My house was realativly modest
in size 2. We had a chain link fence bordering the backyard. 3. Behind the house is a few miles of woodland. Okay so I was in 5th grade at the time coming home on Valentine's day weekend. It was a pretty typical day, my mom was at work and our family friend who we will call Tyler was "babysitting" us. My eldest sister was coming down with the flu and my mom had to work over night, so Tyler had stay overnight. Around 7:30 my younger sister (who i shared a room with) was sent to bed, a few hours after probably around 9 or 10 I decided it was time for me to sleep too. My younger is woken up by some banging outside and goes to get Tyler, he concluded that the noise was just her imagination and that she could come in the guest room with him if she wanted, he told me that if I hear something I should come get him and me and my sisters should hide. I go back into my room and lay on my bed, a little on edge, and then I hear the thumping. I dashed out of my room and told Tyler he woke up my older sister who was on the couch and told us to go into the bathroom with a kitchen knife and lock the door. Tyler went to my parents room to grab the rifle my step dad kept in the closet, I couldn't help but follow him I then stopped when he walked out on the back porch as I was scared, he yelled some threats out and told me it was safe to come out with him. First he walked to my window to find the board that blocked off under the house was standing vertically and there was dirty shoe marks from where someone tried to climb through the window. Second he checked the fence to find it had been cut by pliers and the gate to lead out of the backyard had been kicked open. This is not the best story ever (as it happened 6 or 7 years ago) it is also my first one. If I need to clarify on anything please tell me, and thanks for reading!