A Stranger in the House

Yeah,you heard me right,there was a stranger in the House,
in the middle of the night (around 5am if not mistaken..or should I said morning?)
Anyway, it was a 'fine' young yellow skinned guy , taller than me , around my age it seems, & dressed in a black & white colors jacket with hood over his head ( which he hoped to use it as a disguise , but you know what ? Next time, come with a face mask & perhaps wear a shade as well , that way, I won't be able to look at your face at all ;p)
I was coming out of my room ,walking past the living room, heading towards the fridge to grab some food ( which is just a few steps away from my room actually, & it's on the middle of the living room opposite of my room), at that very moment , the stranger sneaked out of the balcony ( which is another few more steps away from the fridge ,but same side as where my room is )
We have roughly 0.5 second of eyes contact ,in which both of our bodies are still in stationary at that short period of time , & our faces appeared to be in shock (but his look seemed more shocked & scared than I did;p)
But as 0.5 second passed by , the stranger made the first move by sprinting towards the staircase to go downstairs (which is across the living room , right in front of my room's door )
He ran past directly in front of me ,& he almost tripped when he reached the staircase,
but I was still in stationary state at that very moment ,but not until some 1 second or so later ,when my senses were coming back to me & I started to make my move on him.
( At that very moment, my body was telling me to CHASE him ,not just try to scare him off ,but to really chase him and catch him and hopefully do something about him .Seeing as how he already started fleeing away from me & leaving our compound, with no obvious sign of him carrying anything that belongs to our house , and judging from where I first sighted him ,which was on the balcony , I believed that he just sneaked into 2nd floor , and didn't managed to start taking anything yet as his presence has been exposed by me soon after that, so I have no reasons at all to chase him at that particular moment . I mean,he had not taking anything from our house yet , & he already get scared the moment I saw him & started to run away , there's no need for me to further 'chase him off' anymore .
But my mind wasn't thinking much , I already wasted around 1 second ~ 2 second period to process all those information from what I've observed start from the very 1st moment I saw him , my body simply forced me do something instead of just standing there .
Maybe it was because I wanna chase him & really make sure he didn't take anything from our house .
Or maybe I wanna chase and catch him and beat him for his attempt to steal in our house ,
But 1 thing I can be sure ,the stranger's body height & size & look somehow encouraged me to make such a move. I mean, if he was someone with much muscular physical appearance ,
or some black & fierce looking guy ( as normally we'd anticipated ,the typical bad guys)
I might be too scared to move at all if that was the case...
But my body was telling me otherwise for this case , he looked somewhat skinny, with no weapons with him at 1st sight , & I'm confident enough to really chase him and confront with him ...
That was why I made the move i guess...)

I started chasing him down the stairs , out of our front door ,without even wearing any shoes .
But the stranger was quick on his feet , & I'm not even sure what to do even if I do managed to reach him , so I gave up the chase the moment I stepped out of my front gate , & watched him continue running to a corner across the road and finally slowly fading away out of my sight.
My mind actually came back to me at that moment ,
"With his current speed ,I don't have much chances to actually catch up with him."
"Even if I do catch him ,what am I going to do?"
"What if he got his other friends waiting at the corner across the road?I'd be a dead meat if I chase him that far only to get gangbang by them and watch them leave helplessly"
"I am bare feet right now ,I don't really feel like chasing him across the neighborhood in that state..."
Of all the above thinking appeared inside my head , I decided to just leave him be.
Few of my housemates woke up and asked me what happened ,
I told them the scenario that just happened , & I've also found out more facts from another housemate , who is just staying in the next room beside mine ,
& his windows in his room has a clear view on the balcony .
It appears that he too wasn't asleep at that time ,
& he sighted the stranger moments before I do ,from his windows.
According to what he saw, the stranger at the balcony ,just outside of his room , were peeking inside the windows , trying to make sure whether anyone is still awake or what...
He was playing with his laptop on his bed , but he has switched off all the lights in his room ,
so apparently he didn't noticed my housemate in that room was awake at that time.
But as soon as he walked out of the balcony & into the living room ,that's where and when we both noticed each other , & thus the short chasing scenario started .

Mr. Stranger , I'd advice you next time you do plan to do your 'business' at night or morning , please be more prepared ,like do some 'research & observations' before hand and make sure the residents in your targeted house will stay sleep during your 'working hour', & wear a proper disguise and do bring along some kind of weapons with you just to be 'safe'..
As you know, the people in this house DOESN'T SLEEP during this 'golden hour' , and they will do WHATEVER NECESSARY TO PUNISH such 'unprepared attempt of thievery'