A frightening moment

These few days of the continual downpour really make me worried and a qualm of fearful feeling always stay intact. From my neighbor deliberate speech, she told me the monitor lizard ( the four legged reptile which always comes out during the wet season looking for food ) was in my compound a month ago.

I still remembered vividly that 2 days before the 15th day January 2007of the Chinese lunar calendar, while mopping the downstairs floor, I heard a peculiar noise from the kitchen. So I went to search around to see where did the noise come but to no avail. While I continued my chores, that strange noise came just from the piano, an eerie feeling of an invisible intruder might like to play on the piano. A frisson feeling of frightening thought of the monitor lizard which appeared in front of me gave me all the strength my legs could carry to go upstairs to my boys’ rooms for help. Luckily, they were all at home while still in their sweet slumber land. They all thought mummy might be suffering in the bout of insanity. Only then the slithering noise it came from the staircase did they understand why I screamed for help. When Daddy came home for lunch, he tried to search and ended up the thought that it had gone away and no mention of it then.

Just two day that following evening, was the “Chap Goh May” after the dinner out, we were again invited by the neighbor to join them. ( only meant to have wine section with them ) As I went upstairs to my bedroom and straight to the dressing room ( luckily had not taken off my cloth ) I switched on the toilet light which is adjacent to the dressing room, thinking to brush my teeth, that slithering creature came into sight near to the bathtub. One could imagine how I felt at that moment. Really, without hesitation I closed the door of the dressing room before I ran out of the bedroom screaming and speechless when Daddy caught hold of me. Rather a bit so disappointed only to hear him said I was only hallucinated by the reptile. But all the boys were there to support me. We were all set on the battle field and found the reptile hiding behind the luggage’s rack. We all took turn to hit it to our heart content but eeeee…. the bloodstain and the stinking smell from the blood made me vomit.

My neighbor even sarcastically uttered that they would cook me a bowl of the reptile soup when they came to collect it. Already, I have the phobic of it sight and could not sleep for several days, and I wondered how it came into my bedroom. The only thing I observed that the reptile habitual movement always turned right way. Hope the spouse of the reptile that my neighbor deliberately quoted will not come for revenge this round.