Cold breeze kissed my bare nape and I shivered as my worries gone worse.Our little house has never been quiet like this. My brother Lucas stood beside me and caress my shoulder as if he's trying to comfort me and tell me that everything's okay. We stood side-by-side while watching our home completely engulfed by silence, as the sun's slowly setting with gracefulness in the west.
"Mom? Dad!" I called out to my parents. I already shouted for a hundred times but I never got any response. Minutes passed, I heard a clashing noise of collision from the house. I was alerted and about to run for the door and see for myself what is going on but I was immediately stopped by Lucas.
He faced me and put his two hands on my shoulder in such comforting way,"Listen to me. Stay here for a while and let me check the situation inside the house," he paused for a while as if he's struggling to find the right words to say to me. "And no matter what you hear from the house as long as it's not my signal for you to come. Do not come into the house. Do youunderstand me?" he continued and looked in my eyes intensely.
I did not realized that my eyes were streaming with tears until my older brother wiped it for me. He forced to smile to make me feel less worried and it did helped a little. Then he gave me a tight hug and caress my back before leaving me. I watched his back as he strode to the house and tried to open the front door, but he can't open it. So he walked around the house to try the backdoor and I was left standing alone at a distance from our home feeling useless and weak. minutes later, our house was still in silence and I still got no signal from my brother. I have no idea what is going on right now. I just felt very terrible. I feel that something bad is happening inside the house. My knees were trembling and I feel no strength to stand at all. I sat on the grass helplessly. I browse the environment. The atmosphere was windy and stars in the sky was starting to dominate above. The surrounding is getting darker but there's still no signs from the house.
A sudden thought came to me. What if I followed my brother and check things out? But he ordered me to stay put until I receive his signal. This is making me crazy, how could I not do anything? What if bad things really happened? I grabbed my hair out of frustration.
I made up my mind.
I took several steps towards our house. I am hoping to hear something. If they keep me outside the house, does it mean they were preparing something out of my knowledge? My birthday is tomorrow, is this a surprise that they are preparing? Why I haven't thought about it earlier? I pushed all my worries away, then walked straight to the front door.After couple of steps, I heard a strange noise inside the house. It's avoice of a man, wailing in pain! I can't be wrong, it's Lucas' voice!
"Lucas!" I shouted his name as I ran towards the front door but I can'topen it. I twisted it many times but it won't open, so I hurried to run around the house to search for the backdoor. But my steps automatically stopped when I saw a man came out from our backdoor and he seemed catching his breath after a long run or something. I can't recognized him properly because the light didn't hit his face. He kept on looking around as if he was searching for something.
I stayed in my position, wishing that he won't see me. There's something about this man that made me feel weak, my body was frail at the moment. I fear this man, whoever he is, I hope he doesn't did anything wrong to my family.
I thought I was going to collapsed the moment he started to took a fewsteps toward my direction. I held my breath and trying to conceal mypresence. But he suddenly stopped when he saw something pass through me, he saw something behind my back that made him ran at the opposite direction.Thank goodness. Then I released a heavy sigh.What was he saw behind me? I was curious so I turned to look and there'ssomething really there not very far from me. I gaped when I saw three cloaked in black individuals suddenly vanished from my sight leaving notrail.
What was that? Am I seeing things?
I pushed away the thoughts of the vanishing creatures and hurried into ourhouse. Right after opening the backdoor, a shocking scene came into sight.I saw my brother lying on the floor with blood flowing from his head. I wastotally stupefied. I covered my mouth with my shaking hands with disbelief of what I am seeing in front of me. My eyes suddenly became blurred becauseof tears. I can't afford to see it. I don't want to see it!
I walked toward him immediately and lifted his head. I put his head on my lap while my tears were unstoppable from streaming.
"L-lucas" I uttered his name in cracked voice. "Wh-what happened? Who did this? Is it the man that I saw who came out from our house just now?" I rapidly asked him while my tears trickled on his face. I cried very hardwhile hugging him. I called his name continuously hoping he would respondto me.
I felt a liquid wet my foot. It's blood. But it's not coming from Lucas.
When I turned my gaze to my left side, I felt that my world is crashing down. My heart has been torn to pieces.
"M-mom? D-dad?" I stuttered. I let out a loud shout of grief.
What would you feel if you see your parents dead in front of you?
I think I'm going to be mad in this situation. I don't know what should I feel or what should I do. My emotions were mixed up. The only thing that lingers in my mind now is 'why?'
I saw my mother with a knife in her chest being stabbed deeply, dead on thefloor with her eyes wide open. My father's situation was brutal and merciless, there's a hammer planted in his head.
My parents were dead… in front of me.
Right now, I am living my worst nightmares.