ONCE UPON A NIGHT

Once upon a night.
On a dark cold evening with power outage something that was not a new thing in this part of the world. With the shuttering of the windows and breeze blowing the trees in darkness so thick one could not even see his nails in front of him.
Voices thick as drumbeats resonated the neighbourhood, walking like ghosts in the night. They came to a halt outside a small storey mansion.
The kids were all sleeping in the same room that night. The two boys had fallen asleep watching television in there sisters room and there mum walked in and decided not to wake them up as even she was tired
It was a long day indeed, the wedding anniversary she planned was meant to just host a few people. it was just a ten year anniversary but it ended up not only over the roof high class but also a little extravagant. The guest started leaving as late as 10pm she had even expected some to want to sleep over but they all left luckily for her.
She walked down the hallway and peeped downstairs just to make sure her husband had locked the front door.
“Hey honey” she said as she walked into the bedroom, her husband was already under the covers.
“Hey are the kids asleep” he sat back up and picked his phone
“Yes, they are all sleeping in Armani’s room”
He laughed “they must have been really tired, are you sure she would not mind”
“Well, Zayn and Malik have been good boys lately” she said slipping into her nightwear and making her way to bed
“But she does not share her toys with them” he replied still on his phone
“Oh she does now, they are getting along better” she said now the bed
He dropped his phone and looked at her, “happy ten years anniversary mrs.Imran” he said and kissed her “if I could go back ten years I would still pick you only I would have us get married even earlier”
She was smiling like a two year old that was handed candy now “and I love you too, so much”
They fell asleep almost immediately
The atmosphere in the house was very quiet now, the neighbourhood which seemed to love this adorable couple and their cute children was also very asleep. Although they believe the couple was the wealthiest in the street, the couple would never admit it or even insinuate it till this night’s party
The night walkers surrounded the house now and surveyed for a while, then with a tilt they climbed the fence and were inside, now with the drum bass voices and death cold footsteps they climbed up the balcony into the couple’s bedroom and with a bang on the glass there almost perfect night came scattering down jolting the two lovebirds out of sleep,
“wakey wakey sleepy lovebirds” the first masked night walker spoke in the drum bass voice
“Who are you” Mr. Imran said practically shocked and still terrified
The night walkers started laughing ‘we are just night visitors, come on open this door’
With that Mrs. Imran ran out of the room with her husband grabbing their phones
Down the stairs they went,
“dial Mr. kamal, he should come help’ Mrs. Imran said trembling
Dialling practically all the neighbours phones and non seem to want to come there aid
And the next minute of confusion came a banding sound upstairs
The night walkers were in, and they came right downstairs
“You two are dead meat’ they shouted
one of them marches the kids downstairs as well
Arriving down Mr. Imran tries to talk but gets a huge blow to his face and his phone pulled out of his grip
“you think you can call for help, get this straight, nobody will come to help you”
He keeps hitting him and beating him black and blue
“stop you are going to kill him” Mrs. Imran screamed,
And what are you going to do about that” the drum bass voice again said pulling her phone out of her hands too. They finally leave her husband on the floor bleeding
She runs over to him on the floor
Some of men were upstairs ransacking the whole house, others were busy pulling out all there expensive electronic gadgets including the television
Zayn was already trembling and Armani held malik close to her bosom
“Madam” one of the masked ones said in the drum based voice again
Mrs Imran looked up from where she knelt beside her husband
“Lead us to your jewellery” commanded the masked drum based voiced one
Quietly she stood up and lead them upstairs
Upstairs they ransacked her entire closet and taking not only jewellery but also new cloths and bags
“where does your husband keep his money”
“i do not know” came her reply
Wham! a slap landed on her face
“You seem to have a death wish” he shouted
“I really do not know”
“Well then go ask him, we don’t have all night” he shouted
With that she goes downstairs only to get pushed by him
“get out of the way, i don’t have all day” he grouched “Bring him upstairs” he commanded the others insinuating he was the boss
With no mercy or inclination to the pain Mr. Imran was in they dragged him upstairs,
“You are hurting him” she shouted from the floor
“Bring her too” the boss ordered
When they all arrived in the room , her husband after few more slaps and kicks lead them to his safe and they empty it
Downstairs Armani and malik were already sulking gently when one of the night walkers approaches them Mrs. imran comes out just in time and screams “don’t touch my children”
They hit her again and again till she falls down on her face,
“That is to teach you to know how to talk to whom”
With that they gently file out of the sitting room through the main door, when out they fired a gunshot before leaving the compound
The imrans sit in the position the night walkers left them till day break, people then start to troop in,
“i really did hear them but i could not come out” they all said
But behind their backs they acted as typical envious people “they had too much money to spare , thieves only visit rich people” they gossiped.
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