I almost did the same thing myself.
Shortly after I married my wife she woke me and told me she heard someone downstairs. .
There should have been no one else home because both step kids had gone to spend the night with friends.
I grabbed my Colt 1911 and went down stairs. The light in the stepson’s room was on. I pulled back the hammer on my Colt and spoke in a loud firm voice “Is that you Eric?”
He stepped out of his room and turned a whiter shade of pale as he stared down the barrel of a loaded firearm and a stern faced stepfather.
I really didn’t think it would be Eric because it was after midnight and the dead of winter. He had walked home 3 miles in about 15 degree temperatures in a light coat. I thought he was smarter than that. But since then he has proved me wrong again and again.
“I thought he was smarter than that. But since then he has proved me wrong again and again.”
Most kids will do that.