It could have been anyone

I was startled out of sleep in the ungodly hours of the night, 1:45 a.m to be specific.

Someone just randomly rang our door bell.

Not just me, even my mom was. Trixie, on the other end couldn’t stop barking.

Too scared to move, I couldn’t even manage getting out of my bed. So I decided on having a whole venting session inside my head, “Yani why would mom be expecting someone at this point of the night and think it is appropriately right for her not to give me a heads up. This isn’t even funny. This is upsetting.”

I was raging mad and scared all at once.

Waited to hear her getting up, to invite her guest in. Nothing. I thought I’d hear something, maybe her on a call with whoever was on the door, but nothing. At this point my fear was  escalating.

The bell didn’t just ring once, it rang twice. So yes, there was no way I was dreaming about that. And Trixie can never go wrong.

As I was busy having a whole ranting session inside my head, at least my mom (God bless her heart) had the courage to get up, peep outside…see if she could get a glimpse at our uninvited guest, who’d decided to grace us with their visit right in the middle of the night. 

Mom even managed to check the entire house.  I imagine she was tiptoeing, too afraid to make any sounds because I didn’t hear any movements while she was at it.

Listen, I was too scared to even breath, I’ve never known I can be startled to this extent.

Okay I had all the reasons to be. Why? Around my village, there’s a curfew now. There’s been two cases of guys just being maimed carelessly, in our neighbouring village. Just around our market. So the authorities decided, “no, it’s getting out of hand. Let’s put a curfew on from 9:00 p.m.”

See the whole point why I would go crazy scared.

I decided, let me ping mom’s phone. She didn’t pick. My scare moved a top notch higher.

So I thought, okay probably she’s equally too scared to speak. I left a text, “Kwani nani anaring bell sahi mum?” 

In no time, she was here in my bedroom.

Her heart racing, insanely.  For a small second I felt so bad for her.  She was way pissed, more than I was. “Who could be that?” I figured it was safer, if I didn’t answer that.

So I called my sister in-law, “Umeskia mtu amering bell?” Her on the other side, sounding so calm like I am the annoying person who’d just startled her out of her insanely beautiful sleep said, “hapana, lakini nashangaa mbona Trixie anabweka hivyo“

She wasn’t helping, so I hung up.

I got up, mom following me. I decided on switching on all the security lights. In my head I thought, probably that was going to intimidate whoever the person was, if at all they had any ill motives. 

Haaah! Such a heroic move from me. Right?

Anyway it seemed to calm my mom down a notch.

We headed towards our back porch, see whether we were going to catch a glimpse of anything. But there was nothing.

We checked everywhere, the little courage we had mastered could allow, but there was nothing.

It felt odd, because our gate was equally locked. 

After a few minutes of probing and having nothing forthcoming, we decide to go back and sleep. But stay alert.

It was so awkwardly scary.

At this point, I was calmer though, so I got back to bed, read psalms 91, said a prayer then just lay in bed thinking.

Eventually I slept off, I can’t tell at what time, because I know at 3:00 a.m I was pretty much still awake.

I’ve woken up to a beautiful morning.  Too beautiful to even tell we had an encounter at night.

Though I’m just like, “who the hell could have been that?”

It could have been anyone, but again what are the chances that things could have gone horribly wrong?

Cheers