by Kellie Webster

Created on: November 03, 2008

"Come home quick, we've been robbed," the text message declared arriving with a beep on the cell phone.

"What's up?" Jodi asked recognising the alarm on her best friend's face.

"We've been robbed," Sarah barely spoke as she felt the blood rushing from her face.

"Robbed? But it's 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Who'd be so brazen to rob you in broad daylight?" She replied.

"I, I don't know," Sarah stammered dialling her husband's cell phone.

"Hello," barked the voice on the other end.

"What's happened? What's missing?" her panicked voice managed to say.

"I don't know, I was on my way to another job, and I thought I'd swing by and surprise you. Only your car wasn't there and I noticed the door ajar."

"I'm at Jodi's with the kids. Much damage?" she asked.

"Well the place is a huge mess, stuff strewn everywhere, I think they knew what they were looking for."

"Did they take the plasma?" She asked. They'd only had it three weeks. An early Christmas presents for themselves and their four kids. It had cost them an arm and a leg. Gone! And there was no way the insurance would replace it in time. With only a couple of weeks to go before the 25th December, they'd have to watch Carols by Candlelight on the 45cm portable on Christmas Eve.

"No, they didn't," he cocked his head around the corner. "I can see it from the doorway."

"The doorway? Okay. What about the computer? My camera?" she looked down noticing she wasn't wearing her wedding ring or her engagement ring today. "My rings, are they on the sink?"

"I haven't been inside, I've just called the cops, you have to come home to get finger printed so they can dust for prints and compare ours."

"Okay, bye," she said as she hung up.

"What did they take?" Jodi asked following her to the front door.

"Not sure, Pete thinks they were after something specific, says there's stuff everywhere."

"Oh Sars I'm sorry, go, leave the kids with me."

Sarah felt the blood rush back to her head and had to steady herself before she started driving home. Robbed three weeks before Christmas, how could it happen. Maybe they found the gifts hidden in the roof or in the back of the linen closet. James was getting a Wii, that's worth a lot to thieves, especially at this time of the year. She thought of all the other expensive items she'd already bought and hidden around the house. Oh and then there was her laptop. It was her life, it was her salvation from her rare quiet times when the kids were all at school.

"Robbed," she said out loud as she peered at her rear vision

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