STRANGERS

Liya immediately grabbed their home phone and dialed Yuki’s number, her tears started blurring her vision as she frantically explained what was happening.

“Aunty Yuki, please, you have to come. Mummy….. She’s not okay,” Liya cried into the phone, her voice thick with fear.

Junior, who was traumatized by his own confusion, cried even louder than his sister.

Yuki could hear their cries over the phone.

That was disturbing.

“What’s happening, what happened to Angela?”

She asked.

“She came home…staggering and was crying, then she told us… she told us that Uncle Jace is dead and that it’s her fault, other things we can't understand. We don’t know what to do…”

Lia got the bowl and a towel and started cleaning Angela up.

Yuki sighed in relief.

“Calm down honey, nothing is going to happen to her, Okay?”

Yuki replied.

Liya nodded readily.

Just then the doorbell rang, interrupting their phone conversation.

The twins exchanged some fearful looks, wondering who that might be.

“I think they are t