The visitor (Nightmares at Night Part 3)

Samantha had just woken up when someone went down stairs. She looked at the clock and realized that it was 5 AM in the morning. She wondered who had gone down stairs so early. It could have been her father but he was unemployed. She considered getting up although she was very tired. When she put a foot on the floor, she heard an unusual scratch, which she had heard some nights before, under her bed. A cold feeling of fear started filling her body. There was something under her bed! Samantha lay in bed and fell asleep again.

The next morning, she went down stairs carefully. Nobody was in the house; she was completely alone. The experience she had last night was stunk on her mind. Now she was alone and vulnerable. The phone which was in the kitchen rang. She ran to answer the phone but it stopped ringing before she gets in the kitchen.
-It wasn’t important. –Somebody talked behind her. –Nobody is important now.
-What are you doing here? –A young man was sat in a chair –It’s supposed you should not be here.
-is that the way you greet your brother? I’ve been escaping from the police.
-I don’t want to know what you’ve been doing. You are a criminal now!

Her brother Sam had killed a man two months ago when he was escaping from the asylum. Two doctors, who had witnessed the murder, declared that he had beheaded the guard. Her mother told Samantha not to allow her brother in the house. Even though she loved her brother, she had to obey her mother. Sam wasn´t allowed to be there.
-I’m so sorry Sam, but I can’t allow you to…
-I can help you. –Sam interrupted his sister. –I know what is going on here.
-What do you mean? –She was getting scared again.
-I know you feel strange things at night. Steps, scratches, everything is the same.
-It was you! You’ve been here all those nights! –She got angry.
-Please listen to me! Don’t get upset so that I can explain everything.

Samantha felt her blood going so fast through her body. Her legs were trembling since she was nervous, angry and upset. It was all a mixture of feelings. She wanted to know what her brother knew but her pride and fear were stronger than her. Her brother, whom she loved a lot, was staring at her. He wanted a chance. Those eyes, which made Sam look crazy, were trying to convince.

-You’ve got five minutes. – Samantha said to her brother.
-Thank you. Well, let’s come to the point. What you’ve heard all those nights is not from this world.
-Sam, please! You’re crazy. You should have left this house when you arrived. – It was clear that Sam was insane.
-What I lived that night was real! What you have felt is also real! –Sam was going out of control. –You must believe me! Those things that appear at night are not from this world!
-I haven’t seen anything! You are insane. You are not the man who used to be my brother!
-I don’t care!- Sam had said everything he needed to say. - When you need me, I’ll be here. –Sam left the house and her sister stayed in the kitchen crying.

She wanted the life she had before all those accidents. When she stopped crying, she took a decision. The noises that she heard the previous nights would be her sign. She would investigate everything about this mess.