The Story Of Us

Chapter 4

I wake up, to the sound of my phone ringing. I look to see the caller ID is Arizona. I check the time, seeing it's 2am.

"Hello?" I ask down the phone.

"Laura, someone's in my house." I hear her whisper softly, the panic evident in her voice.

"Okay, I'm on my way. The boys are asleep, they will be fine I'll let my neighbours know do they will watch them." I say down the line calmly, even though my heart was beating out of control thinking about her being there alone with a stranger.

"Just keep the line open okay?" I say.

"Okay." She answers me and I put her on loud speaker while I get changed. I put on a button up top and a pair of jeans, taking my hand cuffs and my own personal gun.

"Where are you?" I ask her calmly down the phone, I hear her sigh shakily.

"I looked myself in my ensuite." She says.

"Okay, do you know where the intruder is?" I ask as I walk out of the house, running to my next door neighbours and tapping on their door.

"I think they're in the loungeroom." She whispers.

"Okay, I'll be there shortly. Just hold on one minute." I say down the phone before muting the the microphone.

"Hey, George, I've got my boys and their friend in the house but a friend needs me, can you just poke your head in if I'm not back in the next twenty minutes?" I ask my neighbour.

George is an older man, in his fifties, his wife and him have lived next door for as long as I have been here. He smiles and nods his head, taking the spare key from me. I unsure the microphone.

"Have you got the bathroom light on or off?" I ask Arizona as I get into my car.

"The light is on." She says shakily.

"Okay, I know this is going to be scary, but I need you to turn the light off, and sit in your tub. This way they won't know that you are there." I say in seriousness.

"O-Okay." She says. I hear a small flip of a light switch and some shuffling telling me she is in her tub.

"Are you there?" She asks in a frightened whisper.

"Yeah, I'm here don't worry I'm coming up your driveway." I say. I turn my lights off before going up the driveway, to stop the suspect from getting frightened from the lights.

"I have to hang up now okay?" I say down the phone.

"No, please don't." She leads in a whisper.

"I have to. I'll be there in two seconds. Just trust me." I hear her sigh.

"Okay." With that I hang up and walk toward her house.

I inspect the front door, seeing that the door had been broken into. I pull out my gun, finger off the trigger and on the safety switch. I walk into the house, quietly scanning through the lounge room and then the kitchen, only to hear some noise coming from the master bedroom. My heartbeat quickens, knowing that Arizona is in there.

I turn the corner, turning the light on and pointing the gun at the black hooded figure, his back is turned to me but he freezes at the switch of the light.

"Police! Don't move." I yell out clear for him to hear. He puts his hands up.

"Get down on your stomach. With your hands behind your back." I order, he lays on his stomach with hands hands on his lower back. Walking to him, take out my hand cuffs and cuff him while telling him his rights, and searching him for any weapons.