"I have been robbed!"
She was a hundred percent sure it had been there, she had it and suddenly it was gone, all gone.
Tears welled up in her eyes she couldn't stop sobbing.
Why me?!
She panicked as she thought about what they would say to her.
"Calm down, think, when was the last time you saw it, who took it as she was... where... where had she been at that moment?"
She sat at the kitchen table, clenched the dishcloth in her fists while she struggled hard to remember.
Surrounded by the mess she tried to think of what she couldn't recall and had to.
They will come and get you.
"Better clean up first before they get here..."
"I need to tidy up the mess if it all looks fine no one will notice it and I am safe... that's what I'm gonna do, perhaps I'll even find it."
"Cheer up girl."
Relieved she stood up and started cleaning the kitchen it felt so good to be busy for sure she would find it.
As Marie rang the doorbell and Nell didn't answer she decided to walk around to the block and have a look at the backdoor it might be open.
Since the kitchen door was open - it all looked so clean - she went inside calling her friend.
The long walk to her friend had taken her an hour she could use a strong cup of tea with sugar and cream.
As Nell didn't respond on her naming she decided to have a look in the living room big chance she fell asleep in her chair she wasn't the youngest.
Nell sat on her bed.
She tried hard to figure out why it was put in the living next to the dining table, was there something wrong with her bedroom upstairs?
Footsteps sounded in the hallway they came closer... startled she gazed at the slowly turned doorknob... the door squeezed... did the burglars come back for more intend to kill her?
Do not move, sit still they might not hear you please, be invisible.
She made herself small closed her eyes and kept her breath.
I'm invisible no one can see or hear me, they cannot harm me, I'm invisible they can not see me, I...
"Nell?"
It was a familiar voice, shy she opend her eyes, stared at the face.
"Are you alright love, I've been calling for you, didn't you hear me... forgot our appointment... I've got pills."
"... It happened so fast, I couldn't help it I'm so sorry I... they robbed me."
There they were again... those tears... she couldn't help... not stop it, although she cleaned up she hadn't found it, they robbed her again.
"Did you leave the door unlocked again!"
"No, I would never do that you know me."
After tea-time, Marie gave Nell her pills and Nell took hers out of the cabinet above her to please Marie and there it was her precious book stolen.
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