The Eyes.

It was New Years Eve way back in 1992 and I was eight years old at the time. My parents had been invited to a party, my sister had been asked to babysit, and the same had been done of my brother. At first my mom was hesitant to leave me home alone at night, which I was able to convince her that I would be quite capable of keeping the house in one piece. Besides, my sister was babysitting for the family next door, and my brother was babysitting for the family across the street.

It was a pretty uneventful night, where I went back and forth from playing games on my Nintendo and watching movies that my mom had rented for me and while I was watching one of the movies I had to pause it to go relieve myself. After coming back down from the bathroom, I had crawled under my blanket and hit play on the remote to enjoy my movie once more. When out of the corner of my eye I saw a head appear at the top of the living room window. It was only for a brief second because as soon as he peered in and saw me he quickly vanished from my sight, I could not see all his face however as he was wearing a ski mask. What I do remember quite clearly and vividly were his eyes. Pale blue eyes.

At first I thought I was seeing things, but not too long after it happened my brother called from across the street and asked me if I saw a guy peeking in the front window because he saw him from over there. Even after he said that I did not want to believe it for whatever reason and I denied that I had saw anything. I know that I did though and ever since that moment if I was alone downstairs I had to shut the blinds, or the curtains so I would not have to have those eyes peeping in on me again.

Being the bright kid that I was, and being able to remember those eyes I was actually able to figure out who it was exactly. Living in a small town there are only so many people who would have been tall enough to have their head be at the top of the window and only one of those tall people had that specific type of eyes. I never did mention it to anybody though, not until I just typed it right now.