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Open The Door
I stare at my front door bewildered when the knocks were growing louder with a familiar voice.

"Open the door! Hurry up! A strange person is stalking me!".

It was midnight. The rain was pouring heavily along with loud thunderstorms.

I gulp still gawping at the brown wooden door. I knew the voice. It was like hers. Mikayla, my roommate.

She walked out just a few hours ago telling me that she was going to meet her boyfriend James, and would be staying up there tonight as well she would be back in the morning.

But I wonder what just happened to make her come back so earlier.

Did she and James end up in a fight?

Or did she forget to take something with her?

I wanted to open the door but the different forms of loud bangs made me wonder was it certainly her?

She never banged on the door so wilder ever before. Mikayla used to ring the bell once or twice and wait for me to get her.

But, today it was different. She didn't hit the bell or wait patiently for me to get her. Every loud bang startled me. It was like she wanted to break through the door.

" Open the door!"She screams again while the sound of the rain increased. "Hurry up!".

A tiny bit of panic urges within me and I stand my feet grown roots to the spot.

Should I open the door?

What if it was her and she wanted to come in urgently?

Too many troubling thoughts whirled around in my brain.

The sudden ring tone of my phone blasts in the quiet surrounding making me jump frightened.

The screen flashed Mikayla's name. Without further consideration, I pick up the call.

"It's not me! Don't open the door! Don't open the door!"

"What?" the words automatically flow out of my mouth in utter...