last night...

i got tired of sleeping decided i'd fill you in on the craziness of last night. i woke up (i should say jumped up) about 2:45 from what must've been a bad dream, and heard this strange screaming noise. i was sweaty (gross) and a little out of it due to the time and my pain meds so i told myself to calm down for a second. i thought this noise might've just been in my dream or something. i live on the third floor of our house, right above my sister, but our windows face our side yard and while they are four stories up i can hear everything down there. i was of course freaking out because it sounded like there was a crazy man standing in the yard screaming "ah, ahh, ah" over and over. i listened again to make sure it wasn't an animal (0nce i heard belle fighting a racoon, that was not pretty) and i called my dad in a panic and told him to come upstairs and not turn any lights on (i guess i didn't want this person to know we were awake?). in my head i created a picture of someone who had either just been hurt badly, someone who was insane or someone who wanted to get attention so they could rob our house or something. my dad looked out the window but couldn't see anything and everyone agreed it sounded like a man screaming. this may sound dumb, but i was freaking out. the noise continued for at least fifteen minutes. i made dad call the police and of course five minutes later this "screaming" had stopped. dad went and met them outside, he said there were three big guys with heavy duty flashlights and another car patrolling behind the house. i was certain they were going to find someone who had been shot, or beaten up or with a gun or something in our backyard, i was holding my breath... well they didn't find anything. dad said the police probably thought he was crazy or something and then we both realized there is a hawk that lives in the backyard? haha but he didn't tell them that cause he didn't want to look stupid. i couldn't sleep and all this excitement caused my throat to start bleeding (sorry tmi, the whole tonsil thing) so mom came and slept with me and i watched mamma mia. i'm such a baby but i'm still convinced there was a crazy man out there.