We set an alarm clock for 1 o’clock in the morning so that at 1 A.M. we would be able to sneak out. So we dozed a little bit, and then at 1 A.M. our alarm went off. And — so we got dressed and we silently exited that trailer, very silently latched the door, and went out into the moonlight. And the moon was lighting up the whole neighborhood that night, it was beautiful. So, we walked down the hill, and we started walking down the street. We got down – far down the street, one of our neighbors was having a party. And we could see that there were a lot of people in there, and we could see they were drinking, and we were laughing because we were watching them through the window. They didn’t know we were outside.
And then we decided to cut between roads. So we started walking across some pretty dark, you know, backyards to get from one road to the next road and somebody threw a rock at us. And that really freaked us out. [Name] turned around and she said she saw the shadow of a man with his hand leaning up against the garage as he was making his way toward us. So, we were scared and we started walking home, but by now we were pretty far away. So we were walking down the road, and pretty soon, someone threw a rock at us again. And we started running. We ran and we — we ran and ran all the way back to the bottom of the hill. And then we had to climb that hill, and we were so exhausted climbing that hill, we sat down, we were breathing so heavy. We stopped breathing for just a second and we could hear footsteps running toward us.
So we took off running. We couldn’t see anybody coming, but we knew they were behind us. So we took off. We ran up the hill. We got in the trailer, we closed the door as silently as we could. And I remember there was just this little tiny lock. It was a tiny button that you just had to push in, and there was no way to test it to make sure that the door was locked. So we got inside and we both looked at each other and put our finger to our lips. And we were breathing so hard, we could barely catch our breath, but we knew we couldn’t say a word. We didn’t turn on any lights. We didn’t want whoever was chasing us to know that we were in that trailer.