The Zalians have lived next door to you your whole life, and have always seemed like such average people. Mr. Edward Zalian had an office job in a marketing company, his wife Mrs. Lucy Zalian was a nurse, and their son Zander was a boy your age who was the quarterback at your local high school. They seemed like such regular people, coming to neighborhood block parties with burgers and lemon squares, coming to support Zander in your school’s football games, volunteering at the local food drive. They even adopted a corgi and named him Butterscotch. They just seemed like your average suburban family… You didn’t think they had any secrets.

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It was very late at night and you couldn’t sleep, cramming to catch up on your homework. By chance, you had glanced out the window to your neighbour’s house, only to freeze. Through the windows of the Zalian’s home, all the lights were a bright indigo. You assumed it was just LEDs, but that’s not what caused an alarm to go off in your head. You could have sworn you were hallucinating but…

The furniture inside the house was floating. The furniture was floating and there were tentacles moving around in the windows!

After a long time staring, the blue lights suddenly dim and the house goes dark again. Just what did you just see…?! What do you do…?