Chapter 8- Mary's Dream

"It's you who had been disappearing all these days and not me", she fumed on him with anger. " And now your son is following your footsteps, something you gotta be proud of", she went on. Jake tried to convince Mary by all means but she wasn't ready to accept his excuses since all of them have been repetitive and she had lost trust in his words. "Maybe we could have a talk with him", replied Jake patting her shoulders. Mary was disturbed as her family life wasn't the way she expected. People moved on in their own ways. She married him knowing that he was an accomplice to the underworld drug trafficking. As a person, she admired Jake for his honesty with her and over the years she had developed that confidence that he would be by her side even when the world splits apart. That was something, maybe too much optimism that turned way opposite and it was hard to face the reality. Jake's mysterious disappearances without leaving behind any trial or prior indication had left her to handle the family all by herself. Without any money, she had resorted to all means to earn the bread for the day. All she wanted was to educate her child and make him grow civilized. Their child Jason had got acquainted with a few of the bad guys and he was into drugs. Under its influence, he crossed hands with a few of the local underlings and he went underground fearing for his life. One fine day, a man had forcibly entered their house, searching for Jason when Mary was alone and desperately that guy had fired few shots all over the place. She had to answer the detectives who arrived at the place post a complaint from the neighborhood. It was then he got a message from Jake to meet him at the motel past the City square. Jake started back again promising her that he would be back in two days and then they would have a talk with their son. She had no other option than to curse herself and she drove back home. It was then that she bought that dream kit hoping at least this would be her companion at home. She went to bed with the band on her face covering her eyes.

**************Dream***********

She was crouched on the sofa as he could hear that thundering sound from the Glock. The guy was dressed entirely in black with a mask covering his face except for his eyes. The eyes were transfixed on her and it was cold. She was afraid and she made attempts to shout but nothing came out except her breath. There were three more guys who were searching the house thoroughly calling out her son's name. They were equipped with Glocks and shotguns. The main guy had a distinct dragon tattoo on his right arm and it had her eyes caught on him. After having a thorough go over they left the place and she heard their jack riders rattling through the mud roads. The next day she woke up and she realized that she had a dream but was unable to recollect it and she decided to check on the kit for its capabilities. She watched a video that showed her being crouched onto the sofa. She saw few guys dressed in black with weapons in their hands search through the house looking for her son and they walked out after creating a ruckus with her house. She was left unable to either trust this stuff or to ignore it as some random prank this kit does. Mary went out that Sunday for the weekend fair to equip herself with the essentials she needed for her week to go peaceful. She reached home late at night and switched on her TV and sat back on the sofa leaving her shopping bags scattered on the floor. She could hear a knock at her door. As she went to open the door the wood splattered and a bullet whizzed entering deep in her chest with the blood staining the walls. She felt her vision beginning to blur as she made an attempt to see the people around her. The forensics and the police arrived at the place and they looked around at the mess. The police suspected it was a burglary attempt by the local thugs. Forensics couldn't find any lead with the fingerprints or the hair strands. What puzzled them most was the CCTV footage that revealed a group of people disappearing into thin air in their jack riders. That was the last recorded scene after the murder at 9:30 pm. The postmortem report revealed her death was at 9:20 and was due to loss of blood caused by the gunshot.