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Something was aloof, I could feel the strange sensation creeping up from the bottom of my stomach. Something was not right. I closed the bedroom door behind me and for extra measure keyed in the security code on the door lock. I moved quietly into twins playroom room and peered out of the floor-to-celing glass windows that overlooked the patio and the backyard. Nothing seemed out of place; the backlight was switched on as I had left it, the twins play set that was scattered over the backard looked just as it had been left, the trees looked undisturbed except for the chilling winter breeze and the drive-thru of the street parallel to ours looked empty. But the unsettling feeling only grew stronger by the minute, it had been so since that morning.I looked out one more time before making my way towards the back room, closing the door behind me.
I walked into the dark room and stood still by the door without switching on the lights, taking in the deafening sound of silence and thinking that maybe I was being paranoid, it was not the first time I had been as such. Maybe. But, the thought didn't hold long for a loud thud brought me back to earth but before I had time to react, something struck me with such force that I was pushed forward towards the wall, my hands crushed in between my body and the wall. I tried to push back but the force resisted and pushed me back against the wall stronger, harder. That was when I finally realised, it was not something but someone who was pinning me. A rough hand pressed over my mouth, stifling the scream that was building through me and holding me stiff with my head pressed back to my attackers shoulder while I pushed and pushed against the attacker. But, a sweet voice silenced me - a voice I was very familiar with, a voice I was sure I will hear again; 'Avantika...hey' and I was thrust to my side, with my back pressed the wall and my eyes starring right into his face, the voice I vowed to never see again and the world went blank.