Unfamiliar sounds
She heard a sound, the creaking of the stairs. Nancy felt her heart race. Rationally, she knew it wouldn’t be some ax murderer waiting to kill her. But the alternative was possibly even scarier. She took a few steps back into the hallway to get closer to the stairs. The sound was getting louder and Nancy knew she would soon be standing face to face with the truth. A truth she might not be ready to face at all.
She counted the steps, she knew there were fourteen steps in the staircase and the current count was six. Soon she would be able to see feet coming down and she would know the truth of what happened to her grandfather.
But as she came to learn very soon; Nancy was not ready for the truth that was about to be revealed.