The Sleep Cycle: A Short Story

For as long as i could remember ive always stayed up through out the night till the sun rise and its light would beam its rays in and i would finally get tired, ive tried plenty of times to change my sleep cycle. I am known to be pretty fearless standing up for other people even risking my own life, well im just pointing out that im not afraid of most things. so normally im up pretty late hanging out with my two dogs after my roommates go to bed its usally silent unless they left the tv on and make me turn it off for i don't really watch tv and even if its on i just zone it out anyways im way more into nature and stuff like that being alone the forest is no big deal for me either knowing the sounds and smells of the forest is just my type …show more content…
my friend matt loves to try to scare me telling me that my cell phone wont charge because its probably a ghost sucking the energy out of it i just tell him shut up lol. ive never really been scared of ghost even im the kinda guy that will be waiting in the dark alone for my friend to pass by for a while, well anyways im sitting here its pretty silent my dogs are dead asleep like normal at these hours unless i move my foot they think its time to play everytime i get up or move ,well i start to hear this tapping sound on the window to my left . now its its probably just a bug or idk a bat for i am in AZ and there is plenty of bats and i do have my light on so maybe its hunting some pretty big bugs near my window right so after a while i hear it again but its different this time and much louder to the point where it made me jump that time and my dogs woke up pointing their ears to the window just before laying back down. i tell my friend im hearing sounds and he said i should look out the window witht he lights off im like nah i just brush it off as being some bugs or something not caring about loojing but it happens again and this time my german shepherd gets up to sniff around just before laying back down and hes uber lazy! so this kinda got me into the idea of looking out the window i get up and turn off the light so i can actually see out side if there is something and all i see is pitch black well i just give up and that's it nothing, i tell my friend and i don't hear any sounds again for the rest of the night. The next night comes im talking with