She was standing there in the dark, too still, too quiet\u2014like she didn\u2019t expect to be seen.<\/p>\n
For a second, I couldn\u2019t move. My heart pounded so loudly I thought it might give me away. Then she slowly turned her head and looked straight at my window.<\/p>\n
And smiled.<\/p>\n
I stumbled back, fumbling for my phone, my hands shaking so badly I could barely dial. By the time I looked again, she was gone.<\/p>\n
The police came, searched the yard, but found nothing. No footprints, no sign of forced entry\u2014just silence. They told me to lock my doors and call again if anything happened.<\/p>\n
But something had<\/em> happened.<\/p>\n The next morning, I noticed my mailbox was open. Inside was a single envelope with my name on it, written in her handwriting.<\/p>\n My chest tightened as I opened it.<\/p>\n \u201cYou should\u2019ve said yes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n That was it. No signature. No explanation.<\/p>\n I called my son immediately. At first, he didn\u2019t believe me\u2014until I sent him a picture of the note. His voice changed after that. He promised to talk to her, said there must be some misunderstanding.<\/p>\n But deep down, I knew better.<\/p>\n Because that night, just before I went to bed, I heard it again.<\/p>\n A soft tapping\u2026 right at my window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She was standing there in the dark, too still, too quiet\u2014like she didn\u2019t expect to be seen. For a second, I couldn\u2019t move. My heart pounded so loudly I thought it might give me away. Then she slowly turned her head and looked straight at my window. And smiled. I stumbled back, fumbling for my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}