About 11:30 last night, my whole street lost power. I called the electric company and they said that we wouldn't have power again until about 2 AM. So I do my best to finish my night time routine and get to sleep around 12:15. My brother (who's been staying with me) went to his room at the same time, then half an hour later got up to go smoke a cig before he went to sleep. And in the darkness he heard:
"Hey, psst, it's me"
Somehow in the half hour between me going to bed and my brother going to smoke, H had come into the house through the front door. The dogs were in bed with me, and I heard them bark, but I was so exhausted (and figured it was just brother moving around) that I told them to shut up and didn't investigate.
Brother: "Dude, what are you doing?" H: "I'm just going to sleep here on the couch" Brother: "Why don't you just go sleep with your wife? She literally went to bed half an hour ago" H: "No, I dont want to interrupt anything, I'll just stay here on the couch" Brother: "Interrupt? Dude just go lay down with her. I'm going to go smoke a couple of cigarettes"
So brother goes into the backyard and says he smoked a few cigs and then came back inside and H was no longer in the living room in the darkness. He said he assumed he was in the bed with me. There's no way he would have been in there, the dogs would have gone nuts. So I guess in the half hour brother was in the back, he slipped back out the front door.
I have no idea where he went. And his parents live over an hour away from our house.
Brother didn't tell me any of this until he woke up for work this morning around 10, and I was long gone. I noticed this morning that the front door was unlocked, and thought it was odd because I knew I had locked it last night before bed.
