That Night- What Now?

"It was the same routine every single night. Or at least for the last 78 nights. Drink warm milk with a teaspoon of sugar. Brush my teeth. Make sure the curtains are closed all the way to the very end (no gaps, thank you!). Moisturise. My pillow fluffed just the right amount. Set a redundant alarm for 6am. Close my eyes. Go to sleep.

All for what? I open my eyes to see it is 3:13am, every single night!

Every night in that moment, all I hear is silence. The silence is so loud, I barely hear my pounding heart. An eerie feeling creeps over me as I see through the (now open) curtains, the ice glazes over the windows from the sudden cold. A smell wafts through. One that is so familiar. I know what it is, I have definitely smelt it before, yet I cannot name it. All these days, I have never been able to remember it. I have tried day after day, night after night, still zilch. What now....?" 

Like everyday I again tried to sleep but , I was unable to sleep again after waking up that day When I am unable to sleep and I counted from 1 to 100 to sleep faster otherwise like every middle class guy I was afraid someone will come and eat me, this thought always killed me but that day nothing was working. I went to bathroom and was busy there for 5 mins but I heard some noises, I went outside to check. 

I checked every single room except my very own bedroom, my level of fear reached to all the heights in that frightening night and my voice was not even coming out from my vocal cord, My room was large actually the best room one can even imagine to hide, my parents made this when they were living with me but now they were working in a different city, I was living alone, I thought to call them but I didn't want them to wakeup and ask me what am I doing at 3 am of which I had no answer.

I gathered all the confidence I had and then went straight inside the room and in a very uttering voice I said, " if anyone is here leave the room otherwise today you will go to hell." You need to know the English which I spoke that day had many mistakes and I exactly remember what I said. Then I went to the right most corner or to the corner of ants and the thing that I saw was frightening, I saw no ants which deliberately scared me and that very moment the sound increased and I thought if anything could eat those cute little ants of mine it would surely kill me. 

I went to other 2 corners and I got some evidence that this might be an animal because I saw some footprints in my dirtiest corner and the very first animal which came to my mind was a reptile the snake or an alligator. I then went to the most awaited place and I had absolute nothing to say in my defense and was ready for my defeat and I saw a snake sized alligator and I ran so hard that I fell down and my parents helped me stand, I was in shock first seeing a snake sized alligator second they came after days without any saying or notice. 

Then they asked why was I running, I said there is a snake but they told me to clearly see it and I saw it was a soft mechanic toy that my brother was controlling sitting in my store room from last half an hour and all of them were sitting there since an hour. I then made tea and gave them biscuits to eat because morning almost reached and no one wanted sleep. I thought about those ants and then a realization came that they also must have gone to sleep .

I after giving them snacks went to my research class with my cosmos book by Carl Sagan and there the topic was reptiles and first animals which again came to my mind were the most loved alligators and snakes.