The Nightmares

What Mr. Conor and his wife saw on the floor was a total nightmare. Patrick was lying on the floor bleeding profusely! When Patrick pulled the trigger, the gun had a strong reaction which the 5-year-old Patrick couldn't handle. The gun tilted upwards and the bullet hit the steel clock hanging on the wall and rebounded back. The next thing Damon saw was Patrick falling straight on the floor.

It was all too fast, all within a fraction of a second, and there laid Patrick in a pool of blood. The bullet hit straight on Patrick's forehead and he died on the spot.

All of this was witnessed by the little Damon and he was scared of guns ever since then. Damon was just 3 years and this whole incident had left a huge scar in Damon's Life and he feared guns the most after that incident. He suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after that incident. He woke up having nightmares about Patrick.

In his dreams, he saw Patrick with a gunshot wound on his head and he was bleeding. He pointed the gun at Damon's forehead and said " Damon, I caught you. Now you have to die!". After saying these words, he pulled the trigger.

These dreams haunted Damon for quite a few months. The same dream repeating every day. He always woke up wetting the bed and started crying. "Brother is angry(boo).....He caught me(boo)...... He shot me... (boo)". After months of Cognitive Behavioral therapy, he stopped having those horrible nightmares. *FLASHBACK ENDS*

Mr. Conor was just a few steps away from the bank, he could feel his heart pounding against the ribs in his chest.

MEANWHILE IN THE BANK:

There was another gunshot (the one which Mr. Conor heard on the call). But it wasn't Damon that was caught but a female receptionist. The receptionist tried talking the robbers that she had to use the restroom but the robber got annoyed at that. The receptionist was clinging onto Vin's foot, so he pulled her hair and said with rage in his eyes " Take your filthy hands off my body! ". The receptionist was terrified and instantly pulled her hands back. Vin then crushed her hand under his feet and said " I guess you didn't hear what Ben said. Anymore sound and you die!" and started walking away.

Vin suddenly had some devious idea and he took his steps back to the receptionist and said " So you have to go loo right?" Then he shot her leg and said " Now you won't be able to go to the loo yourself.". The receptionist started wincing in pain but couldn't make a noise because if she did then she would die this time.

Vin then put up an innocent act while blinking his eyes innocently as if he had done nothing wrong!

"How sad, I was going to let you go to the loo if you were to go alone but I can't send another person with you. what if you try to escape from here ?". He then started walking away with a sense of some ridiculous victory he had achieved.

Damon was terrorized at the sight. Anxiety started kicking in. He dropped his phone in fear and the call ( with his dad) ended abruptly and then again the connection was lost! He started getting agitated due to anxiety. Damon was feeling breathless! He tried calming himself so that the robbers wouldn't see him but he just couldn't calm his nerves!

He thought to himself " So this is how I die? Suffocation because of my anxiety? Such a bad way to die for a human being. Sorry, dad, I couldn't talk to you, I couldn't say my final words. I couldn't express how much I loved and admired you. I couldn't say what a wonderful father you have been."

...In all of these chaotic thoughts, he hit his head on the dustbin (behind which he was hiding). The robbers heard some noise and turned to look in the direction from which they heard the sound....

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