Slowly turn around

You slowly turn around and look behind you at the door to your bedroom. Through the open door you don't see anything amiss, except of course the perpetual mess of laundry that needs to be done piling up, your cluttered desk full of homework and stuff you have been working on instead of doing your homework, your beloved books spread out everywhere instead of neatly tucked away in your bookcases... but all that is just as you expected it.

What you hadn't expected was the lights to go out, leaving you in darkness.

"Oh dear", you manage to think to yourself before the old night-time terror rises to the top of your conscience. It is dark and you are not in your bed. You will never make the leap to safety in time!

But what are you really worried about? There are no such things as monsters under your bed, after all. You are an adult now. You don't have to be afraid of the dark. It's just a temporary black-out or a blown fuse, nothing to worry about at all.

Except, that dripping noise is louder now and much closer. Also, there is a smell. You have a nagging feeling that you are not alone in your bathroom anymore. You gotta do something!