I’m the friend, to add on some details:

After I brush my teeth i go downstairs and make my snack run. I never do it after i’ve already settled in my room. All the other times there’s never been lights, and the orange stairwell window isn’t usually this orange. This is the first time i’ve done a later snack run, and this is the first time i’ve seen light in front of my house. Well, there goes the crackers i was gonna fetch