The nightlight created many shadows on the walls and it gives you the feeling of uneasiness.  She saw the man's shadow coming around the corner before she saw him. Leila was beginning to move towards the supermarket which was working round the clock.  it was the only place open at that time. It was her friend's birthday party and she had gone and stayed there hoping for her brother to pick her up at one. It was the nineteenth birthday, typically they used to make cakes and drinks and stayed there until the next day. Some of them go to work, others go to their schools and most of her friends spend the rest of the day sleeping. At two o'clock in the morning, she told herself to walk home.

The distance between her house and her friend's house is about fifteen minutes' walk. Darkness fell over the place. The street lights were dim and the rain that fell the day before, lessened their light and the vision became difficult. Fear struck her and she started to quicken her steps. She walked with a spring in her step. There were footsteps behind her and she knew that she was being followed. She could not dare to look back. Her pursuer coughed and she realized something. A cough is familiar to her but she could not dare to look back and see who it was.  

Leila was not used to such parties and staying late at night. She used to go to bed at ten or eleven at night. Her big fear is night. Her mother kept telling her to study her lessons, eat her dinner and then watch TV for half an hour and then go to bed. It was heard that children who stay awake at night, they will encounter ghosts and unearthly creatures. That was a long time ago, but the idea of fear grew with her. She is now eighteen, but still afraid of the dark. She used to have nightmares and hear sounds in the night. She would scream and her parents would come to her help. They used to wake her up and tell her to steady herself. It was only a dream, a bad dream, that what they used to assure her. Her childhood was a horror story.

 Her pursuer coughed again and again. She could not take it any longer. She began to scream and ran to reach the supermarket. To her surprise, the main door of the supermarket was closed but there was an open window by the side of the door. A face popped from it and told her what did she want? Her scream became louder and she told the man inside that there was someone who was following her. She pleaded for him to open the door to let her inside. The man refused, saying that it was forbidden to open after two o'clock in the morning. Leila became hysterical and her shouts woke many neighbors. She told him to open the door or that man would come soon and hurt her. The man pulled the shutter and closed the window and went inside. An intense feeling of fear struck her. Her pursuer was coming nearer and nearer. The immense uncontrollable fear began to increase and she turned once more to the window and began to hit and shout. The man came from behind and held her hands and told her to stop.

She turned to find her brother smiling and telling her that he had caught a cold. The car had been broken. He could not make it at one. She hugged her brother and began to cry.