Night Fright

Night Fright

                                                                                        - Edida Meher Manish

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Shily and Shineetha are twins who lived in a lonely big two storey building with their parents. They had no neighbours near their house. Shily and Shineetha  were 12 years old.

Once their parents wanted to go to the wedding of their friends. They had left the two twins in the house as to look after their house.

They  switched on the television and started watching a T.V. program “CID” in “Sony”. After it got over they switched off the T.V.

Then Shily heard a sound of clanging in the kitchen. She said to Shineetha, “Did you hear that noise from kitchen. I think a thief it trying to come in.” “I also think that but we should not let the theft to happen”, said Shineetha.

“But how.”

“We can call 100 to the police. They will catch the thief.”

“But we are not sure.”

“Then let’s see what is making that noise.”

“Are you a fool. If there is really a thief and if he sees us, he will kill or kidnap us.”

“Then let’s phone mom and dad.”

“Mom and Dad will call the police if we tell them this. Morever  we are big kids and we are going to be teens. We should solve this by overselves like CID people.”

“Then let’s silently go to the kitchen with pindrop silence and see who it is.”

“Let’s do that.”

They both silently went to the kitchen. Shily suddenly felt the cool fresh night air on her  face. Then Shineetha also felt the cool breeze.

Shineetha said,“I think the thief  had opened the window and that was the reason of the clang! clang!”

“Let’s quickly close the window and run.”

“Who will close the window. I will not close the window.”

“Me too.”

“Let’s go to the bedroom and call our parents.”

“I also agree to this.”

Shily called her parents in the phone and said,” Dad a theif is in the compound of our house. Please come home quickly. We are very afraid of the thief.”

They sat on the bed holding their arms tightly and sat for an hour. Nearly after two hours we heard the ting! tong! sound of the bell.

They ran very fast to reach the door. Thier parents were standing there.

Mom said, “Where is the thief?.”

Shily said, “I don’t know. He has not entered the house.”

Dad asked,”How did he look?”

Shineetha said, “We didn’t see him, but we saw the kitchen window open and heard the noise of some utensels which fell down near the.”

Mom said, “No thief has come to our house.”

“What?” We all asked

“Yes, I forgot to close the window in the kitchen and the utensels must have fallen because of the strong wind outside which  might have got in from the window.”