OMG We're being Robbed!!

As told best by Christina.... (8/19/08)

I wake up to this horrendous sound. I was half asleep as I heard it, so I couldn’t really tell what it sounded like, but it was a super loud boom or bang. I shot straight up out of bed, heart pounding thinking what in the world was that. So at first I’m telling myself, it’s ok, I’m sure that was just part of your dream, it just seems real, everything’s fine. But as I slowly become more and more awake, I get a little scared. I look under my door and see that the light is off so I know kristen isn’t still out there. So I turned off my fan to listen and see what I could hear. I heard the front door swinging open (creaking) metal dragging, and someone walking around. I also heard Nathan bark from downstairs. The Nathan part is significant b/c in the past there’s been horribly loud noises outside my door, but it was kristen taking Nathan somewhere. So when I heard that he was downstairs, I knew that it wasn’t a repeat of what’s happened before. Ok so at this point all I can picture is that someone has used a cro bar to break open our door (I was assuming the bang that I heard was the sound of the door popping open) and they were definitely in the house. In the past when I’ve heard noises, I’ve kept my head and looked out the window to see if something is really going on, but last night I was so terrified and sure that something was wrong, I immediately jumped up, checked to make sure my door was locked, grabbed my phone and went into the bathroom and locked the door. I dialed 911. The guy answers and I told him our address and that I thought someone had broken in. I described what I heard and he said he was sending someone. Im standing in the bathroom, in the dark with a towel wrapped around me b/c I was just wearing my bra and underwear. You guys, I cannot describe to you the terror I was feeling. I could barely breath. As im talking to the guy, I’m panting like I just ran 5 miles. I kept whispering and telling him how scared I was and to please hurry. He kept asking me questions to keep me distracted. He asked me if I could hear anything and I told him no, but that with my doors closed and the air conditioning on that it would be hard to hear anything. I am seriously so panicked I cannot describe it to you. I kept waiting to hear the sound of my bedroom door being kicked in and I thought it would only be seconds before they got into the bathroom. 911 guy had asked me if I could hide in a closet, and I started to worry that going in the bathroom wasn’t the best move. I thought seriously about taking everything out from under my sink and seeing if I could wedge myself under there. It was like a dream, I kept thinking is this actually happening, this is insane, this is like a movie, I can’t believe this is happening. I also thought should I call angela and kristen but the 911 guy wouldn’t let me get off the phone and I told myself that the best thing I could do was get the police there asap. 911 guy asked me about my roommates and I did say that I had roommate who stayed up really late and that it’s possible this whole thing had been her, but he said it was ok and that he’d rather I be safe than sorry. Ok so within like 3 or 4 minutes he tells me there’s 1 unit on the scene. I said what should I do. He said just stay there till I tell you to move. I wait and he tells me there’s 2 units on the scene. Couple minutes later he tells me that I can go to the front door. SO I leave my bathroom, put on a robe (still on the phone with 911 guy, had zero inner monologue and told him I wasn’t wearing any clothes) I open my bedroom door and as I do I see kristen’s door closing. I’m thinking wtf are the police in the house or was that a burgaler going downstairs. So I go to the front door..it’s locked. I unlock it, open and like 5 police men are standing there. All 5 of them shine their flashlight in my face. The say ma’am are you ok? I said I don’t know????

Meanwhile this is all going on kristen is down in her bedroom... on to the story from her viewpoint...

I am getting ready for bed. I put Nathan and Dewey on their bed and was squatting on the floor kissing them goodnight and covering them up when I see something someone shining a flashlight into my sliding glass door. Nathan was facing away from the door b/c surely he would have seen it and barked. I immediately froze and just sat there for a minute scared out of my mind. Once the person moved away from my door I peek out and see nothing. Ok so starting at this point, I am experiencing the worst panic of my life. I've never been more scared. I slowly walk upstairs to look out the dining room window into the backyard. Once I open the basement door to come up I peek out and see all these flashlights outside of our front door coming in from the front porch (this is right before Christina came out of my bedroom and opened the front door). More terror sets in…I turn, runs downstairs put on pants and grab Nathan by the collar and charge up the stairs. I have no idea what I was thinking other than my dog will bark and scare them away. At this point Christina is standing with the door open and all the policemen are shining their flashlight into our house. Right after they asked her if she was ok, my door flies open and Nathan charges out, while I'm practically riding on his back. All of the policemen immediately shine their light on me – Christina didn’t look at them but is also sure some guns were drawn - and I starts screaming AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. At this point Christina thinks I see her and she screams too. The conversation then went something like this...

Kristen: “What is going on??”

Christina: “I don’t know what is going on?? Did you hear that noise?”

Kristen: “what noise?”

Christina: “did you make some sort of really loud noise.”

Kristen: “ohhhhhhhh oh my gosh yes. Oh my gosh im so sorry. that was me.”

Christina: “are you kidding me??? What the he*l happened???”

Back to Christina narrating...

Now the police are seeing that everything is ok. One of them hands me dewey, who had run at the front door and says take this dog, we have a canine out here. There were 6 policemen/women and a canine. We said we were sorry and they start to leave. Kristen yells after them that we’re so sorry and it was her fault, she had made a terrible noise. Apparrantly what had happened is since last night was trash night, kristen had a big metal clothes rack that she wanted to throw out. So she dragged it up stairs and accidentally dropped it right in front of the front door. She was hoping I didn’t hear it b/c she felt bad b/c it was so loud. She gathered it up and took it out, leaving the front door swinging and then eventually Nathan came running up so he was walking around upstairs too.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you guys we sat on the couch for like a half an hour laughing. I still can’t stop laughing when I picture kristen’s face, so terrified as she charged up the stairs and swung open the door riding nathan’s back. Ughh and then as funny as it was, I seriously cannot tell you how scared I was. I have literally never ever been even close to as scared as I was last night. I think kristen felt the same way. It was surreal, I really thought that I was going to die or get raped. Omg it was horrible and hilarious all at the same time. All night after we went back to bed I kept waking up and just laughing. Ughhhhhhh but it was SO SCARY. I told kristen that no matter what, if she ever makes a noise that loud, she needs to knock on my door and let me know it’s ok. I still can’t believe it all happened, so insane.

Meanwhile, while all of this is going on, Angela sleeps. The end.