I Think The Thing You Said Was True

I remembered last night's dream as I started my shower this morning. I was just soaping up when I heard knocking coming from the other room. This isn't unusual as a particular acoustic property of my apartment makes noise coming through the window from the alley behind echo off the front wall so that it seems to becoming from the front of my place. Normally this wouldn't have bothered me, but then it all came back.

I was in the shower when I heard a thump at the front of the house. Again, this is not uncommon so it didn't bother me. Then, suddenly, it was dark. It was not as though the lights had gone out, but more as though the light had simply been drained from the room. I turned forward towards the shower curtain and I felt the heaviness of a presence just on the other side of it. I had heard nothing enter the room, no footsteps, no breathing. I was scared, but not terribly so. I searched for a weapon, knowing I would fight and that it would be futile. I felt resigned.

The presence shifted forward and wrapped itself and the curtain around me. I felt its weight on me, preventing me from moving. I was more confused than scared. What was this and where had it come from? Again, resignation washed over me. I awoke face down in my bed just as a long, tired sigh rushed out of me from the back of my throat.

I've been reading too many vampire novels. I turned onto my back and went to sleep again.

Back in the light of the morning, I turned off the shower, listened for a few minutes for the sound to recur, and then cranked the faucet back on and went back to my business.