Home alone around midnight, hear knocking against the bathroom window.

We live in a house, in a pretty sketchy neighborhood on the outskirts of Tokyo. We have a pretty hard to open bathroom window but it’s enough to see some random strangers hanging out around our house. <br><br>We live in a small neighborhood with around a dozen houses, so it’s pretty noticeable when someone strange is lurking around. The houses are also packed pretty close together, in Tokyo, I didn’t notice this much when I was a child but since I moved to the US for college, I can’t help but notice how cramp and claustrophobic everything feels in my hometown. <br><br>The houses are so close that our neighbors could literally (and have) lean into our windows to take a look around. <br><br>One night when I was home alone, I remember it was in the middle of the winter but it was really hot (I think my mom had forgotten to turn off the heater) and I was sweating while laying in bed. <br><br>Around midnight I hear knocking on the bathroom window. I knew it couldn’t be my parents because they would have yelled or texted me to let them in. <br><br>I immediately knew it was someone from the neighborhood working with the theif that had been around, and had been casing our house for months. <br><br>The knocking was slow and in long intervals, (like every minute or so) and was not consistent. I knew then that it was someone trying to get me to open the door, thinking it was my dad. <br><br>I didn’t know what to do, but something told me to stay calm. I never made a noise, and I locked all of the doors and windows. The knocking just continued. Soon it sounded like the person had put there elbow against the window and was just tapping their fingers. <br><br>I couldn’t sleep and was sitting up in bed, eyeing the doors until I fell asleep. And when I woke up the next morning, I told my parents. <br><br>They said that during the winter months, the cold weather made all of our doors and windows a bit more difficult to open. <br><br>But never try to mess with a house you don’t know. The family living there might have been messing with the doors and windows to make them stronger.