Bad Dreams (ON HOLD)

Chapter 1

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I was startled out of my sleep in the ungodly hour of the day by a violent knock on my door .                          
           I leapt out of bed with such speed that brought me immediately with the door . I twisted the key out of the door and luckily the door gave way and I rushed out.   
    "Cliff,Cliff,Cliff !" I heard voices calling me behind as I was flying down the flight of stairs. Before I could recover myself I was completely out of the building.The people calling came after me and got hold of me , What is chasing you? They asked me with fear written over their faces. Already neighbors and other passers by on their way to work gathered around and were falling over themselves to have a glimpse of me.
"If he is a thief,let's beat him" they started shouting. But the man that held onto me tried explaining while protecting me from being beaten by the blows raining on me from the crowd. "He is no thief! He is no thief! Please," pleaded my protector. "I came to tell him that my wife just put to bed. "That is a lie," the crowd shouted frantically at him. "He is trying to cover up for him" .
My friend tried to be more explicit. But the crowd took it with little or no compunction. Just then a stone of about the size of a tennis ball cane singing through the air and landed on my friend's face . He then let go of me and ran in the direction that the stone came from.                  
Some of the crowd rushed wildly after him shouting, "Thief ! Thief ! Thief!,hold him! Beat him" . The remainder of the crowd got hold of me and started dealing with me . Stones,clubs , blows and all sorts started coming on me. I struggled to free myself but a blow fell on the back of my neck and in the next instant I was sprawling on the ground.  "He is pretending," came a voice, and the next thing that came on me was a heavy boot on my head . With that I lost a hold of my consciousness.

To be continued...