On holiday in a villa abroad. Two teenage kids with us. Back of the villa has an undercover patio, beyond which is a pool.
the house is in a gated community and also has a large gate at the front which is operated with a fob. Basically it’s quite secure.
So Tuesday evening we are getting ready to
go out into town. Patio faces west, sun still
on the patio. Everyone is inside getting ready. Im
actually ready to go out but I’m sitting at the dining table looking out to the pool, which is probably 10 metres from me.
at this point I see what appears to be a teenage girl walk across the patio, right next to the sliding doors, which are open. It’s quite windy and as she walks past, the wind catches her blonde hair, and the setting sun then catches her hair and he hair glints. She’s wearing a strappy green top and she’s walking from right to left.
my first thought is that it’s one of my kids, but immediately discount that because I know neither has brought a green strappy top, she’s also not as tall as they are.
i then actually shout my kids, who both reply from inside the house. So it’s not them. Husband is in the kitchen, I tell him somebody has just walked across the patio, he runs out to
check, there’s nobody there. The left hand boundary (that she was walking towards) has a gap where you could theoretically squeeze
down the side of the house and back around the front, but you could not get out without opening the electronic gate. There fences have no gaps, they are lined with tall conifers in the garden nextdoor.
two mornings later, DH is woken by somebody walking into the bedroom and walking back out at 8am. Our kids haven’t been getting up until about 11. We ask them, it wasn’t them. It wasn’t me.
Would you be freaked out? I couldn’t sleep after that