Patio

This morning I woke up at about 4am to the sound of conversation. I first thought it was our next door neighbors, who enter their place through the back door. But then I thought, no that sounds much closer than that. I realized there were people on our patio, which as it is a private patio in a closed residence, was a little bizarre. I tried to wake Marc up "there's people on our patio!" to which Marc responded sleepily "I guess that's okay" and then went right back into deep sleep. I went into our kitchen to find two women probably my age sitting on our porch having a smoke and a conversation. I turned on the light and they were ready to bolt like startled animals, but then thought better of it. I opened the door and probably more than a little gruffly said "uh, we're sleeping" they smiled sweetly, apologized politely and left.