Life,... It can be painful sometimes. You may not know this, but just as the poor cries, the rich also cries.
Here we are, living in a rented room. In our own little world. Who could think that we, the children of the most wealthiest man in city, could end up in such a place like this.
The room is small, that is the first negation of the room. Second, the roof. It really, really has a lot of holes, that we couldn't sleep when the rain starts falling at night and the same could be said at day.
And C, the door ain't the best, not even to talk of the window. Once you see the room, you will never wish for your enemy to Live in it.
Gosh, it really isn't a good place to call a shelter. But I and my sister feel so blessed to have that as a home. Home sweet home, we say!
I heard a knock on the door while I was busy writing a letter of application for a Job. My twin sister, is trying to cram in some wordings.
We both planned to help each other, I told her that I'll work, while she should continue schooling.
"Greg! this is the third month, you haven't paid me the rent fees." Our landlady said. This is the third month we'll be staying at her rented room.
I twitched my eyes and gave the woman a sad look.
"Ma'am, I'm sorry. I know it's my fault, but ever since I've been here, I couldn't find a Job." Greg said.
"What did that have to do with mah money. Heck, you gotta go back to your parents and beg them to accept you two back. Heaven knows why they forsake you in the first place!" The landlady replied as she made a way into her room.
"Can you just shut up!!" Greg shouted in an abrupt manner. The lady quickly entered her room without saying anything.
Greg was panting and he was angry as bad memories started coming back to him.
Merly, who had heard Greg shouting outside rushed out of the room to see what was happening. But sadly, she saw Greg weeping as he knelt down on the floor.
"Brother, Not again!" Merly replied.
After Mr Bennett was judged by the lawyer, he was taken into prison. And he never got the chance to see his twins anymore.
On the day Mr Bennett was imprisoned, several men came into his house, while Merly and Greg were sleeping peacefully in their jointed room.
Greg was just having a good dream of him watching a football match and his team was the winner of the game.
He has been watching a football match since morning, but his favorite football team were just unlucky in the match. And he was in a very sad mood, before he finally went to sleep.
Suddenly, in his dream, he saw some strange men with guns and book. He was so scared in the dream and he started running. But while he was running, he tripped on the floor and also saw that Merly, her sister tripped at the very spot he had fell.
The next thing, he saw a gun pointed at him and another gun pointed at Merly by Two men. As the Men were about to shoot, Greg shouted as he woke up to reality.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Greg tried to calm himself down, and he gave out a deep breath. "So it was a dream? Thank Goodness it was a dre.."
Before he could finish his statement, he saw the shadow of a man moving. He thought that perhaps it was his father who had came back from work, but he noticed that the shadow was becoming two, three and four.
"What a!" Greg silently said and tapped Merly to wake up. He told her not to make a sound as he showed her the moving shadows of the men. The light of their rooms were switched off, so the shadow was clearly visible to them.
"Check the whole place, they must be inside of this room." one of the men shouted. As he said this, Merly and Greg's heart started beating fast. In an instant, they started sweating so hard.
"I had a bad dream, I had a bad dream! we must get out of here together." Greg said to Merly.
Greg and his sister had a hole in their rooms. They buried the hole just in case they want to sneak out of the house without letting their father know.
Greg told Merly to pass through the hole first and he will be following after her.
The hole led to the side of their house.
As soon as they got out of the gate, Greg told Merly to wait for him nearby that he got some things to do before leaving. He saw a bus in front of their house so he assumed it to be the bus of those guys.
"If you are thieves, I will destroy you before you could steal anything from us." Greg said to himself.
He went into the bus at the front seat, he pulled out a lighter, the books and files that he could find in the car. He also saw a backpack with some stuffs inside.
He packed everything inside the backpack except the lighter.
He searched the back of the car and saw a filled gasoline keg. He carried it inside their compound, with the backpack on his back.
He poured the gasoline all around the house. To both sides, front and back, window and the door and everywhere he could pour it at. He poured the gasoline on the bus also.
He lit the lighter and burned a paper, and he said to himself, "I can't capture you and the only thing I could do is to burn you all alive."
He threw the burning paper towards the window of the house where the gasoline had been, but he hasn't burn down the thieves bus. In a speed of a light, the whole house had started burning.
Merly Came in rushing towards Greg and slapped him.
"Is this what you intended to do! To burn our only house!" she shouted, but Greg wasn't listening, he drew her outside the gate of their house and they hid behind the bus.
In a few seconds later, two men came out of the room and they rushed towards the bus they brought.
"The two men are certainly dead by now and the remaining are these men." Greg concluded in his mind.
As the guys got inside their bus in haste, they didn't notice that the bus was soaked in gasoline.
"Run!!" Greg shouted for Merly to run as he burned another paper and set the bus on fire.
The bus exploded loudly and that sound made people and neighbours around to view what was happening outside. They were shocked at the sight of what they are seeing, a burning house and a burning bus.
Quick, some of them had called the fire fighters while some people went to bring a water pipe just to stop the fire.
The men in the bus were beyond burnt. In fact, they were untraceable at all.
Merly and Greg had already ran out of the spot.
While Greg was happy, Merly was angry.
"Why did you do that!!" She shouted out loud with tears rolling down her cheeks.