Miles

We don't see him.

**Miles** is the protagonist of *Fears to Fathom: Home Alone*. He is a 14-year-old boy who was left alone in his house for the weekend due to his parents leaving on a work trip for that weekend.

## Biography

Miles faced a terrifying experience when he was 14 years old, being home alone. It was the middle of the summer, his parents had left the house for that weekend due to a work trip, which meant he was all by himself for the weekend. Also, his sleep schedule was really messed up around this time, since he would sleep and get up just about any time of the day, though he did plan on fixing that. Miles wakes up at around 8pm after a nap, having some homework left to do for school. He plans to eat something before getting to work, as he wouldn't be able to focus and pay much attention otherwise.

After reading a text message from his mother, he discovers that she cooked some lasagna for him being left in the fridge. Just as he notices that the sun is fully setting with the day coming to a complete end, getting very dark outside, he discovers a stranger is on their front yard idling around. After growing anxious, the man slowly walks away, with Miles being relieved that it might have just been a weird person, or maybe he could have just been looking around for whatever reason. Maybe he's in the process of buying a house, and he thought Miles's parents' house looked nice.

Miles dismisses this strange encounter and proceeds to place the lasagna in the oven after watching some TV. While eating, he receives a text from his friend who was supposed to come over tonight that he has to call it off. As something came up leaving, Miles, all alone, plans to do his chemistry homework and head to bed right after.

After a few hours of hard work, Miles finishes with his homework with the time being half past 12. Miles observes the dark, empty streets through his bedroom window and heads to bed after. About half an hour, he starts feeling thirsty, forcing him to go downstairs and fetch a bottle of water. As he drinks some water and goes back to his room to get some rest, he gets a text message from his mother sending him a picture of a person covered in the dark in front of their house in concern to whom this person is and how his mother got this picture. Miles asks his mother who sent the picture to her, his mother explains their neighbor observed the stranger creeping around their house as if watching Miles through the windows.

Knowing his home alone, the same person Miles noticed earlier in the day idling around at their front yard anxious and worried. His mother instructs Miles to lock all the doors and wait until the police arrives. As she called 9-1-1, Miles is about to find a way to survive this situation. He hears something thrown at their window, breaking it into pieces. Soon after, he hears the doorbell ringing non-stop when the mother texts **Miles** that it's their neighbor Paula and that he should open the door for her.

Unsure what to do, as Miles starts believing that there's an intruder in the house with a stranger breaking into the house with him throwing a rock through the window, Miles freezes in his place knowing that his best bet of survival is taking shelter with Paula, as the intruder might harm him before the police arrives.

Just as Miles plans to walk down from his bedroom, he hears the floor squeaking from his parents' bedroom, located right next to the staircase. As he gets closer to the stairs, he witnesses in horror the bedroom door opening and the shadow of a figure projecting outwards being fully shocked and frozen in fear. He rushes back to his room, taking shelter until the police arrives, as surely that's when he would be the safest. Luckily for Miles, the police arrived soon after with the intruder seemingly escaping from the house as if he climbed out of the window, as Miles successfully manages to go down to the main door without the stranger coming out of his parent's bedroom, it's later revealed that if Miles would actually listen to his mother and go down to Paula, the intruder would intervene and stub him upstairs. Unknown to what he would do to him, that would also be the case if Miles would open the door for the stranger.

After receiving the picture from his mother without their neighbor's help, Paula and the quick reaction of his mother calling the cops, Miles would probably not be alive now or at least be harmed in different ways. It's unknown what the intentions of the intruder were, but it's clear that he had been watching Miles for a while, ensuring that he's home alone in order for him to break in.

The intruder was not a typical burglar trying to steal anything, he didn't want to cause damage to the house, he didn't seem to be an arsonist nor did he seem to be a squatter in his intentions, it is just that he had been observing Miles for some time indicating that his target was no other than the 14-year-old miles. This stranger had sinister intentions for Miles, planning to carry out his actions against him. It's possible he was a predator noticing that Miles is home alone waiting for the perfect time to break in and take advantage of the situation, which is why he was investigating and scouting earlier in the day, waiting until late at night.

After everyone goes to sleep with streets clearing out before he breaks in, in fact, it's likely he had been watching and observing Miles from early on from the beginning of the weekend when his parents left for the work trip. A possibility is that this stranger could have even been a neighbor or resident of the neighborhood who knew of Miles and kept a close eye on when he would be left home alone to make his move, or even maybe the stranger tracked Miles's IP address and located his residence. He seemingly waited for Miles to fall asleep to break in and do whatever twisted plan he had in mind.

## Personality

We see him like a brave kid. He don't has a heart attack, when intruder was at his home. He also can be rude to his mother, when she was very caring to him, because he 14 years old.

## Trivia

•Some people think that he's can be not a boy, and call him "they/them".