Wow years ago and you didn't find time for paragraphs.
I posted this elsewhere a few years ago on Reddit for another thread, but thought the story was good enough for this sub too. I also edited it a little bit for clarity.
I am female and I was 16 when this happened, there were two incidents that happened before the really scary incident. We lived in a fairly new residential neighborhood and night about 10 PM I was laying in bed doing homework and I heard this tapping/scratching at my window. My mother wasn't home that night and my father was already asleep.
I jumped out of bed and ran into his room and said, "DAD! Someone is outside tapping on my window!" My dad who thought I was being a hysterical teenager peeked out how own window and said, "Eh.. it was probably a tree branch or something." He then went back to bed. My father was a lazy bastard, I tell ya, couldn't even be bothered to go look out my window or outside, never mind the fact there was no bush or tree near enough to touch the window. I was creeped out, but I double checked no one could see in my bedroom and that the curtains covered everything & went back to bed.
A few weeks later I am sitting in the living room - it's just me and my mom home. I had just finished taking a shower and I was lounging in a towel while talking to my mom and painting my toenails. Suddenly we both heard a tapping/scratching noise at the side window. My mom was pissed She immediately jumped up and went outside where she confronted a man. The man walked off. She ran in the house and called the police. The police came and they caught the guy a few blocks away and my mom identified him as the man who was peeking in the window. The man claimed that he was just back there between the houses because he had to take a leak. The police said, "Okay..so if you took a leak, where's the urine?" There was none. He was hauled off to jail, for at least trespassing, I'm not sure if he was charged with being a peeping tom or not.
Fast forward about a month later. I woke up in the middle of the night because my cat suddenly jumped off the bed. I heard a slight noise in the hallway. I tip-toed to my bedroom door and peeked out and THERE HE WAS -- THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN PEEKING. THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP* was all I could hear, it was my heart racing. The moment I saw him, he was standing in the doorway of my little sister's room WITH A GUN IN HIS HAND and he was just starting to close the door.
He had a gun in one hand and a bag in the other. That wasn't the room he wanted. I was sure I was about to die a horrible death after being raped. I've never, ever had an adrenaline rush so big in my life -- not even years later when I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane to sky dive a few times. I was suddenly and powerfully ALERT -- I'm telling you that I had super strength, hearing and sight. It might be my imagination, but I swear I could see, hear and smell better than normal -- and effect of all that adrenaline.
Within a few seconds I considered my options. Scream? He had a gun. My father would come running and get shot. Hide in the closet or under the bed? He'd find me. Try and fight him? He had a gun. This was before cell phones and I didn't have a phone in my room. So, without any hesitation, I quickly I opened up my window and jumped out, bare feet onto the gravel. I am the kind of girl with ZERO upper body strength, and yet I was able to get up and out that window, quickly and quietly, with hardly any effort. Landing on the gravel in bare feet didn't even hurt a tiny bit.
Did I mention that I was completely nude? Yeah, I slept in the nude. What can I say, it was summer and warm.. I ran balls-out about three houses down to a neighbors house and banged on the door. Let me tell you, as a 16 year old girl, the thought of anyone seeing you naked is horrifying beyond belief. But.. in that moment, I didn't care for one second. I went three houses down because I didn't want the creepy man to hear me banging on a door. When I didn't get an immediate response, I went to the next house and banged on their door. The whole time I'm terrified for my family in my house.
Finally someone at this house answered the door quickly and I just got out "Man in my house, Call the police! Man in my house!" They called 911. The police where there really fast -- they came in without lights and sirens and they caught the guy in the house IN MY ROOM. This is what he brought with him: A gun, a bag (rape kit) that included rope, tape, two exacto knives, a couple of dildos, bondage porn magazines, bleach, condoms, lube, ball gag, pliers, and.. maybe some other stuff that I can't remember off the top of my head.
Luckily it never went to court, he was did a plea bargain and got 25-life for a whole slew of charges. He's still in prison and will be for the rest of his life because a few year after going to jail, he got a life sentence for committing a murder while inside prison. The DA who had handled my case called me to tell me. Thank god. I didn't sleep well again for a number of years. I would wake up numerous times per night at the slightest noise or even hint of noise.
It wasn't until I got a dog that I was able to sleep. I let my dog do his job -- warn me of any noise - and now I can sleep. It didn't hurt that I also got a gun and keep it near me when I sleep. I took a gun safety class, lessons, and I go to the range every month without fail. I will kill any mother fucker who comes into my house in the night.