BAT ATTACK

Around 2 AM this morning I heard a scratching noise. At first, I didn't think anything of it. I figured my fan was blowing one of my posters against the wall or something. When it didn't stop, my imagination kicked in, and thanks to the horror movie I watched earlier in the evening, I wildly thought that someone was outside my window, trying to break in. I turned on the light next to my bed and looked around my room. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Nothing was moving, I didn't see any suspicious shadows outside of my window. I was just starting to think that I had overreacted when a small, furry, gray-brown head poked out from the heating vent on my ceiling.

Naturally, I was shocked. It looked like a mouse until it unfolded its wings, squeezed out, and started flapping around my room. That's when I started screaming. I can't believe my roommate didn't hear me. If anyone DOES ever break into my room I'm going to have a serious problem, because apparently I'm incommunicado from my corner of the apartment. When she didn't come to my rescue, I called my parents. I felt bad, because it was so early in the morning and they live two hours away so they couldn't do anything, but I had no idea who else to call.

While they tried to calm me down and offer suggestions I wrapped myself in my comforter for protection and ran out of the room. The bat had gotten out as well and was fluttering around the kitchen and living room. We have two front doors; there's the one that leads outside, a little entrance area, and another door. I propped open the second one with a folded-up card table, but I couldn't find anything to prop open the second one while I tried to chase out the bat. I ended up running into my roommate's room and waking her up. Turns out she's no help because she's terrified of bats, so she called one of her frat boy friends.

He came over and THINKS he saw something fly past him when he opened the front door,and after a pretty thorough search of the apartment and couldn't find the bat. He left, and my roommate went with him, but of course I can't sleep. I never saw the bat leave and he only thinks he saw something fly out. I keep hearing random clicking and scratching noises that I'm not sure are just normal house noises or if it means the bat is still in here. I closed my bedroom door after they left-I'm in the living room and I was just too creeped out to leave all the doors open and leave myself open to attacks-so for all I know he's flying around in there again but I'm too scared to check, so right now I'm curled up on the futon watching Three's Company and trying to work up the guts to double check my room. I don't know what I'll do if it IS still in there, since I'm completely alone now and have no one around to help me.

This sucks. My landlord is going to get a VERY unpleasant phone call in a few hours.