lucyoncolorado

In which burglars burn down my house...

R and I are driving back into town and as we get to our neighborhood we see smoke coming from the direction of our house. When we turn on our road, we see that our house has been burnt. It is still standing, but it is missing a wall, the house is blackened and smoke billows up from the roof. J and E come outside too. They have just noticed it. We are all really upset, but we walk inside to see what we can salvage. J notices that the door has been busted out and we see that there are things scattered all around the house. We realize that burglars broke into the house and stole some things, then they burned the house to cover up their actions.

I walk into the study and open the filing cabinet. My passport pouch and important papers are safe. I gather them and we all walk outside. By now, our other neighbors are over too. Everyone is sad, but I tell them that there wasn't much in the house that was of value. Then R announces that he'd forgotten to pay the home owner's insurance so we were not covered for the fire. I'm shocked and upset. We've lost everything.

I decide to go back into the house to see if the zodiac that my grandmother made me survived the fire. R and the others won't let me re-enter the house. They say that it could collapse on me and bury me alive. Everything has been lost.