Darkness

Previously

…As the flashing blue and red lights began to paint the outside of the house, casting eerie shadows on the walls, Dean and Alyson stood at the window, two witnesses to a darkness they had never imagined. The popcorn was forgotten, the comfortable evening shattered. A new, terrifying reality had just begun. They had seen something they shouldn’t have, and the chilling question lingered: had the killer seen them too? The night, which had started with the promise of easy companionship, had just delivered a nightmare, and the lingering scent of burnt popcorn was now overshadowed by the metallic tang of fear.