Footsteps at the backdoor

Hello Friends my name is Tanmay and i Lives in Delhi. This “Footsteps at the backdoor “happened last year when I was preparing for entrance exams for some of best engineering colleges in India.School & tuition’s consumed a lot of daytime so I had no other option than to study late at night. That day started in the usual way,school then tuition’s.I returned home from tuition at 7:30 p.m. I was exhausted.I took some rest, had my dinner & opened my books at 9:30 p.m.My parents & brother went to bed in the adjacent room at around 10:30 I think.It was a chilly December night so with soft,warm quilts & blankets on their body,they quickly fell to sleep. Here I hadfinished covering 2-3 topics & decided to go further. There are many parks in mycolony near my house.They are full of trees,plants,bushes.On the backside of my home, there is a narrow street.If you want to enter it,first you have to go through a metal gate which is closed by our block’s watchman sharp at 9:30 for security reasons.Guards then patrol our block for whole night. Here I realized thatI was not able to put more efforts.I looked at the clock & it showed 12:30. I decided to call it a day & closed my books. I was feeling quite thirsty so I opened the fridge which is near to the back door of my home. I took one chilled bottle out.As soon as I opened the cap ofthe bottle, a breeze started flowing & I could hear the sound of dry leaves fallingin the street behind my home. Suddenly Iheard the sound of crushing of those dryleaves by human foot like someone is walking on them.I assumed him to be the watchman & continued to quench mythirst.Suddenly a thought struck my mind.If watchman has to enter the street,he has to open that metal gate & we could clearly hear the opening/closing of that gate.But I didn’t hear it! I was lost in all this then suddenly the footsteps became louder & closer.I put the bottle back in fridge & tried to listen carefully.At this time,footsteps were loudest & then suddenly stopped exactly at my backdoor. The breeze stopped flowing & everything was dead silent.I don’t know why I did this but I went closer to that door & stood 3-4 steps from it as i was a little scared too.Itwas so dark that I was unable to see anything outside.I waited but no one knocked.To my horror, suddenly a strange human figure like a shadow passed through the door & came towards me at a blazing speed! When it was like one step away from me,it suddenly vanished! All this happened so fast that I couldn’t even scream.All I did was turn back & place my hands over myhead like in a defensive way.Now everything was normal. No breeze, no footsteps.I was so freaked out that I rushed to my room,covered my whole body with blanket & slept with lights on.I didn’t even tell my parents about this because I know they will just say “it’s your mind only” and all that.Moreover I am normal just like before,no change.I