false alarm

Last night around 3am I woke up to a loud *bang*. I sat up and asked TJ what it was, but he didn't even hear it. Then I saw a shadow of someone walk into his parents' sitting room attached to their bedroom. I told this to TJ who then jumped out of bed, rummaged through one of his drawers, and then crept into the hallway James Bond-style to see what was going on. After surveying the bathroom and his brother's unoccupied room, he came back and told me that the bathroom door had been shut with the curtain covering it once he entered. He threw it back to see if someone was in there, but thank God, there wasn't. He then asked me about the sitting room. I had called it their closet, 'cause it's really just a little adjoining room thing and I didn't know what they usually called it. I also remembered seeing a shadow walk out of their room just after the noise, so I thought maybe his dad had gotten up to see what it was. TJ wanted me to be backup to him for when he checked out the sitting room, but after thinking over my theory about his dad, I just walked right in and peeked into his parents' room. His mom was wide awake and gave us a "hi guys" and wondered why we were in the sitting room staring at them. Apparently what happened was the wind blew the bathroom door shut, and that's what the bang was. TJ's dad had gotten up to go close the deck umbrella, so that's the rummaging we heard downstairs. After our hearts stopped pounding, we got to bed, but still couldn't really sleep until around 4am. TJ gave me crap for scaring him by having him check, thinking there might have been a giant rat or something. He said he was gonna have nightmares of a giant rat jumping out of his parents' closet when he opened it. I then took the opportunity to tell him that Splinter was not coming to get him, and gave him a scenario of the rest of the Ninja Turtles running up the stairs to the rescue, with Raphael informing him that the pizza will be here in 5 minutes. I think that worked to calm him down and then I got to sleep for the next two hours before my alarm went off.