Through the dark--Diane

It's hard to think everything is gonna be alright at such a time like this but all she could do is hope. She wrapped her arm around the three small children as they hid down in the cellar. She looked up trying to remember if she locked the door she looks back down as she hears the small whimpers of the 8 year old , they hear the heavy footsteps of the men upstairs. She quites the children so the me didn't hear them. All she knew is that they were three big men so when they broke in from the from the mom's room and stayed there she ran grabbed all the kids and rushed them to the cellar she called 911 but didn't know when they would get there because the signal cut off . In her head she repeated
" I will take a bullet for these kids "
One of the little girls looked up and you could see her tearful and scared eyes as she asked
" what's happening? Are we going to be okay?"
 The older girl didn't know what to say so she just said
"yes we're going to be alright"
 even though we had our doubts she wanted to give them hope. All that was heard from upstairs was glass shattering at random times so we would sit with our hands over our mouths hoping our cries would be muted as they got more and more terrified. The jiggling of the handle silenced their cries and they hoped they would walk away from the closed door. They did for the time being and it relaxed the group as they heard the heavy footsteps retreating to the loft space above.
"Oh gosh I pray they grab what they want and just leave"
 Everything had gone dead silent once again and the oldest out of the three children spoke in a hushed voice
"Do you think they are gone?"
"I hope so" the young boy said after"
 The babysitter prayed that they had gone
 Just to feel safe although she knew that the nightmares would only begin once everything had ended. They hoped the police would arrive or at least the parents who had gone to a charity event hours prior and weren't due back anytime soon. She did text them but never got a response back so all she could do was forget them and worry for the safety of the children she's looked after since they were in diapers.
 Everything was still quite until they heard the door start to rattle as if someone so desperately wanted to enter no one Spoke a word not a sound was made The babysitter thought what if it's the police what if it's not so she told the children to go to the farthest corner and hid together and not make a sound and they did . She carefully walked a couple of stairs up to try and see who it was and when she saw her heart skipped a beat it was one of the men trying to get in his all black outfit scared her so she didn't make any noise and tried to quiet lay make her way back down the stairs. When the mans shattered the glass in the door and tried to open it that way that's when her mind went to survival mode and she ran down the stairs to get the children into a better hiding spot under the stairs where the would not be seen. She knew the man would come down and he did so she begged and pleaded for him to take what he wants and leave so that's what he did.
The three kids were found crying under the stairs their memories now contaminated with fear and hurt all they could hear was the screams of the girl who would do everything for them. The children no longer would sleep in the dark they always had to have the lights no not matter what in fear that if they didn't have any lights on they would not make it through the dark and someone else would get lost and never found .The three men left and the girl was never seen again.