Stalk

As she crept down the staircase she could hear the wind blowing in from her bathroom window.   “Hello?” The woman called as she reached the middle of the staircase. When she got no response she stopped walking. “If someone is down there you should know I already called the police!”
There was no answer.
The woman continued down the stairs and slowly opened the front door. Armed with nothing but a lamp she was not prepared to fight an intruder, if there was one in the house. As she walked down her front stairs she began feeling like someone was following her.
The woman began to walk faster. She didn’t dare look back until she reached the sidewalk. As she turned her head the woman screamed in surprise. Standing behind her was her cat, Butters.
“Oh. I must have left the window open.” The woman sighed before picking up her cat. She laughed as she walked back into her house and shut the front door. As she walked into the bathroom she made sure to check the closet and the shower before closing the window and locking it.
“You scared me.” She told her cat as they walked back upstairs to go back to bed. As she turned the corner to enter her bedroom she heard the bathroom window open.