Worst Nightmare

It has been a long day. Work was hectic and classes felt like it took forever to end. I went home, opened the door and heard a big banging noise upstairs. Approaching the steps, I heard something opening and closing several times. I tip toed up the stairs so I would not make a lot of noise. My bedroom door was cracked open with a piece of wood. I looked throuh the cracked door and saw him, my ex husband.

"Why are you going through my stuff," I said bursting through the door.
He was shocked.
"Why are you here?," he said.
"What do you mean why am I here," I said. "I live here."
He turned around and slid something in his pocket.
"What the hell did you just slide in your pocket?' I said.
I looked around and saw that my key that i kept in a wooden box hidden in my chest was gone.
"Give me that damn key, it belongs to me," I said.

About two years ago, we got an divorce. We split everything down the middle. I got the guest house, my house, the mercedez and we both shared the visitation with our daughter. He wanted to sale the guest house for more monwy. Our lawyers agreed to give me the guest house.

He broke into my house and tried to still the key before I got home to even notice it missing.
not press
"My house is a mess because of you," I said. "I am pressing charges."
"Go ahead and press charges, I will tell them," he said.
"Don't do that to your daughter, that isn't the truth," I said.

Earlier July, he tried to ccuse me of abusing our child. He said he would not press charges until he has to. He threatened to take full custody of our child with no visitation.

"Call the police and I will do it," he said.

Outside of my house I heard my neighbor pull up in his driveway.

"Dom't even think about it," he said. "He can't do anything to help you.

he turned around and picked out the window to see if my neighbor went into his house. As soon as he turned around, I sprinted down stairs to get the phone in the kitchen. He ran right after me.\

"Now you have really pissed me off," he said screaming at the top of his lungs. I quickly grabbed the phone and ran into the coats closet on the other side of the dining room.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are," he said in a soft voice.

I could here his footsteps getting closer and closer to me. I peaked out of the door to see him with a knife in his right hand and a balled up fist with his left.

He creeped closer to the door.

"I smell you," he said walking closer to the door."That's the perfume I bought you 5 years ago. I remeber it like it was yesterday. You made me happy but now, you've made me crazy.

The light went out has he stood in front of the door. I took a deep breath and opened the door, kicked him in his knees, sprayed him with pepper spray and ran out to my neighbors house.

He opened the dor.

"My ex husband is trying to kill me," I said panting
"Come in and go in the basemnet, I will handle it from here," he said.

My neighbor grabbed his gun and ran outside.

I ran to the basement and locked the dor behind me. All of a sudden, I ear a gun shot. There was a window right above me near the wodden cabinets. I climbed up to only see my ex husband laying on the ground, lifeless.
Police arrived on the scene and asked me questions on what hapened. I was so stunned that I really couldn't answer them.

"Just know that I am glad that I don't have to deal with him anymore," I said in relief.

I still remember that night like it was yesterday and I will never forget it.