I woke up that morning thinking I was finally safe. The strange noises from the night before had stopped, and everything seemed completely normal. Then I pulled back my blanket and froze. Tiny, perfectly round spheres were scattered across my white sheet. They looked almost deliberately placed there. My chest tightened as I leaned closer, afraid to touch them. Were they bug eggs? Parasites? Something I couldn’t even identify? I grabbed my phone and began searching frantically, my hands shaking as I compared pictures and descriptions. Every possibility made me more nervous.

Then I found something that made my stomach drop. The images on my screen looked almost identical to the tiny spheres covering my bed. They appeared to be stink bug eggs. But that discovery created an even more disturbing mystery. Stink bugs usually lay their eggs in clusters on leaves and plants, so why were they on my bed? I stared at the strange little spheres, trying to figure out how they had gotten there. Then I noticed something near my bedroom window that I hadn’t paid attention to before…