Beautiful Dreamer

Robbery August 20, 2011

I was sitting at home watching TV. It was the middle of the day but there was no one else in the house, bar myself and the cat. The program I had been watching finished so I got up and went into the dining room. This room looks out into the back garden and I could see a man walking around the garden. I opened the door to ask him what he was doing and I saw that there were three people in the garden; two men and a woman. They had broken into the shed and were in the process of stealing everything inside.

I think I shouted something like, “What are you doing?” and the two men turned around. I don’t know where the woman went or what she was doing. One of the men told me that they were stealing everything we had and they’d be moving on to the house when they were finished in the garden. This may not sound very threatening written down but I was terrified. He also said that they were going to burn down all the trees and shrubs to make sure nothing else would ever grow again.

I started arguing with him to try to stop him from burning everything down. I asked him to think about how the plants were helping him to breathe at that moment by producing oxygen for him. While he thought this over, I grabbed a large butcher’s knife and a saucepan from the kitchen and stood in the doorway to the garden. I told them that if they tried to come into the house, I would kill them.

The guy who had been doing the talking laughed and said that I wouldn’t have the guts. He started walking towards me and I swung the knife at it. It grazed his arm and just about broke the skin. He jumped back clutching his arm as he realised I was serious. He reached inside his jacket to grab his gun and I stabbed him in the chest. The other guy was too shocked to move as I ran through the house and out the front door.

I ran four doors down and started banging on the door of Sarah’s house. Her mom opened up and let me in as I explained to her what had happened. I asked her if I could call the police on their phone and she said that I could of course and handed me a toilet roll. I looked at her and she told me to hurry up and phone the police. I thought she had gone completely crazy but I pressed the toilet roll where I would have done if it had numbers on it. To my utter surprise, it started ringing. It turned out that Sarah’s house had a new security system installed where any object could be used to phone the emergency services.

When I got through to the police and told them what had happened, they replied that they were already aware of the situation and the robbers had been rounded up. I asked them if they were absolutely sure it was safe for me to return to my house and they assured me that it was. I thanked Sarah’s mom for the help and went home. When I got there, my mom had come home from work. She was examining the back door because they had broken the handle and it wouldn’t close. She was relieved that I hadn’t been hurt and the worst thing we would have to do was repair the door handle.

I woke up feeling really scared after all this.

Dreamer xxx