I'm woken up last night by my wife running up the stairs. "GET OUR DOGS!" - she says, as she grabs one of them and bolts into the only room we have with a door. We are for all intents and purposes kind of glamping these days, since we've not finished our house, and last night that fact mattered a lot.
I get up still confused about the whole thing, not fully grasping the situation, her obvious tone full of fear, when four gun shots interrupted the silent night.
"I'll kill you!!!!" - a voice screams!
It was our neighbor Michael screaming to someone, and... shooting someone?
I checked my phone, I have a missed call, it's Michael. I tried calling him back but I'm not reaching him. I opened our security camera app and began looking around the farm to see if I can figure out what exactly is going on.
Not even a minute later I see Michael leave the farm in a hurry, and take off in the opposite direction of town, in other words, not towards the police station.
Instructing my wife to stay put, I walked over to the gate and ran into my uncle. He's also confused about the whole thing, and we are trying to piece the events together.
I should point out at this point gates are chained up, and everyone in the farm is awake too.
As I understand it: The security guard that works in the farm next to ours came in running through the back towards Michael's house at 1am. He claimed a group of thieves were breaking into the property and needed backup, if you will.
Michael then reacted by running towards our neighbors property limits, screaming as if he had clearly spotted the would be invaders and took those shots to make them take off running.
That being said, he never saw anyone which means that maybe he was never in any danger(hopefully this is the case), but nonetheless last night was crazy.
Michael got on his car and drove over to our neighbors place gun in hand with the security guard as his passenger, but found no one there.
I can't sleep, obviously, but I'm so tired I feel drunk. I'm pacing about attempting to think of a plan if something was to happen, when I hear another shot. No screaming this time.
A few cars, can't really make out how many, take off speeding it would seem and I can hear their engines quite clearly.
My wife texted Irene, Michael's wife, and learnt that the guard had made that shot to scare of some suspicious vehicles that hard parked in front of the property.
Now, I really can't rest...
I'm beginning to doze off, but any sound brings me back to enough alertness to react, when I hear a loud clank right in the house.
WHO'S THERE?? - I scream and I hear my wife say...
"I'm sorry it's me... bumped into a pan"
My heart racing at this point, my dogs barking and I'm trying to not react in anger, because it would not be right.
I feel like shit, probably look like shit, and as far as I know the cops never came.
I texted Michael ten minutes ago and he's not answered. I'm sure he's attempting to sleep a bit, since now with all the work being done in the farm, anyone attempting to sneak into here would surely fail.
What a crazy night...
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