My brother met a monster in the closet. He’s lucky he got away.

I was 14 and my brother was 12 at the time.<br><br>Our parents were out to dinner, so my brother, my sister, and I were home alone.<br><br>We were all sitting in the living room playing games. My brother and I were fighting over a board game when I heard a strange noise coming from my brother’s bedroom. I looked over my shoulder and the noise stopped. It was probably just him messing around in his room.<br><br>A few minutes later my sister had to use the bathroom. She got up and walked down the hallway towards the bathroom. I watched her go and the moment she was out of sight I heard the noise again.<br><br>This time it sounded like someone was moving around in my brother’s room.<br><br>I immediately got up and walked down the hallway towards his room. When I got to his room, I looked in the window and there was a man standing right next to my brother’s bed.<br><br>I couldn’t make out any facial features, it was too dark.<br><br>But I could tell it wasn’t my brother. He was still laying in bed.<br><br>I didn’t want to wake him up so I opened the door slowly. I called out to him to see if he would answer me. He said he was okay and to let him sleep.<br><br>I was confused. Why was my brother sleeping with the lights off? Why was he sleeping in his bed clothes? And why was he laying all the way at one end of the bed?<br><br>I told him I was going to go call our parents to wake them up.<br><br>I walked back into the living room and picked up the phone to call our parents. Just as I picked it up, I heard the doorbell ring.<br><br>I got up to answer it and to my surprise, it was my brother standing in the doorway.<br><br>I thought a flash of panic had just flashed across his face.<br><br>“Bro, what are you doing here?” I asked him.<br><br>He looked confused for a second and said “I couldn’t sleep so I thought I’d come over and play some games.”<br><br>I didn’t know what to say. But I did know my brother wouldn’t come over to play games at 10:30 PM. He also knew we were all home alone. So he must’ve known my sister and I would be home alone. <br><br>I told him to go to his room and I’d get our parents. I got up and walked to the front door to open it and my parents were standing there. <br><br>I was shocked and confused. I asked them why they came home. They said they didn’t want to leave my brother alone.<br><br>I was even more confused. Why couldn’t my brother stay awake to babysit us?<br><br>My parents came into the house and asked us what was going on. I told my brother that he came over to babysit us and then my parents told me they were going out to dinner. <br><br>My parents and I looked at each other and my brother looked down at his feet in shame. <br><br>It turns out my brother didn’t want us to be home alone and he wanted our parents to know. He thought if he went to our house and our parents saw him there alone, they would know to stay home.<br><br>We all had a big laugh and my parents apologized for not considering us and they told my brother he did the right thing.