[ TT ] Every night , you catch your neighbor staring through your curtains and it scares you . Tonight , you 're going to repay the favor .

The first time that Caitlyn noticed the neighbor it jarred her. She did n't know why they were staring at her through their curtains. Her first thoughts were the basic ones, that he was peeping on her when she was changing or otherwise trying to spy into her life. 
 
 Caitlyn had a specific hatred of nosy neighbors ever since she had received an anonymous note in college asking her to *keep it down, please*. Since then she had kept a special place in her heart solely for her hatred of passive-aggressive notes and gestures. 
 
 The neighbor looking at her through the curtains, however, was something different altogether. Far from being passive aggressive, it seemed only the latter in a way that chilled Caitlyn to the bone and made her feel strange and uncomfortable. For the first time in her life she felt like leaving a passive aggressive note of her own, something hanging in the window that said *I know what you're doing* that she hoped would make her neighbor stew or squirm uncomfortably and put away his spying devices for good. 
 
 Instead, she hatched another plan. One day she drove all the way to Brooklyn, leaving her friend in her house out of the paranoid feeling that the neighbor was perhaps thinking of breaking and entering. She borrowed her brother's telescope. Once back home she set it up, staring out the window at her neighbor. Through the telescope she could see him staring right back at her. 
 
 It gave her stomach a pleasant twist of pleasure at the man's startled expression when she first took a glance at his face. Then his face hardened, the lines of his mouth turning down as he in turn peered into his telescope and looked at her. 
 
 She looked at him and he looked at her. He looked at her and she looked at him. 
 
 Neither had the resolve or desire to quit. 
 
 And so they sat and stared, each waiting for the other to admit their fault. 
 
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