It was a night like any othernight in the Loud house with just a small detail.
"Didn't dad told you how much time he would stay in his job mom? " Lori asked.
"No honey, he only told me that his boss asked him to stay to make inventory with him and that he did not knew until what time he would return. He also told me that we could eat whitout him. - Explained Rita.
Few seconds passed before the sound of Vanzilla's engine showed that Mr Loud was back home. As soon as he opened the door, the twins appeared.
"Hi Daddy!" Exclaimed the twins in unison, while the older sisters saluted their father from the table in a much serene way.
The youngsters Lana and Lola embraced the legs of their father, who showed a small smile at seeing such a wonderful scene, but it was obvious that in his eyes there was something that bothered him. His wife realized that something was not ok as soon as he entered the house, but didn't want to say anything because she knew how her daughters could react.
-If you already finished dinner, go get yourselfs cleaned and to bed because tomorrow morning you have school my girls.- Said Lynn speaking to all the girls and Lincoln as well.
All of Lincoln's sisters went up the stairs in a way that could be compared to a stampede of elephants with Lincoln all the ways to the end of the line. He also noticed something strange in his father and saw his parents sitting at the table.
-Lynn, what happened. - Asked Rita with a face of concern.
The Mr Loud was seeing the plates on the table for a few seconds without saying anything so after a few seconds, he looked to his wife and said.
-Rita, I almost died today -
His wife opened her eyes with a face of amazement staying with the mouth open.
-But how, what happened or what you saw. Lynn please tell me, what happened. Are you okay, you hurt? She said exalted with her voice cutting.
-We had already finished with the inventory with my boss. We exit the building together, but asked me to lock the door as he went to his car and leaved. Right after I locked the entrance, I felt something cold on my back and a breath on my neck. I was petrified, not knowing how to react. The man told me that it was the wallet, or my life. I tried to plead with him while he was still on his back. He told me it was my last chance and turned me over clutching my shoulder. I saw that it was not 1, but 3 men who were robbing me. I pleaded, asking them to please don't hurt me.I recieved a hard punch to the stomach leaving me without air and falling to my knees. – Said Lynn, taking a break to take air and continue as he watched his wife taking one hand to her mouth.
"I felt the cold metal on my forehead. I closed my eyes thinking that my last thought would be you and the kids. I did not hear the sound of the shot, but but the sound of something falling. When I opened my eyes, I was able to witness how a hooded man had killed the man that was pointing me with his gun. The other two took out knives out of their pockets, but this guy took them down with great ease. Once both robbers where on the ground, the hooded man pulled out what looked like a few knives of your wrist to end the life of those men. I was in shock, thinkign that I was next, but no. I couldn't see his face because of the hood that he wore and the darkness of the night, but as if they where two white lights, I was able to distinguish his eyes that stared at me. We didn't exchange a word, even though I wanted to thank him, but my brain could not react. After those seconds that seemed like days the hooded man began to climb the Wall, disappearing in the roof. I stayed a couple of seconds on the ground watching those men bleeding out on the floor. I stood up and took a taxi a few blocks away from the office. – He conlcuded the story that seemed straight out of a film of super heroes.
Rita, still speechless by the story that her husband just told her, stared at the nothing without saying a word. After a few seconds, she looked up to see her husband who was still looking at her to tell him.
-Lynn, I swear if this is some kind of joke i…-
-What I say is the truth Rita, could not play with something like this. - Said Lynn cutting off his wife.
Rita was still processing all, looking sideways at her husband.
"Dear, it would be best to go to sleep, tomorrow will be a new day and with time this whole matter will have been in the past as a bad story. Please, don't say anything to the girls or to Lincoln. - Said Lynn getting up from the table.
"Of course I won't say a word, don't worry about it. What I'm worried about is that you haven't ate. - Replied Rita as he grabbed the arm of her husband.
- With everything that happened, I don't feel like nothing more than to lie down on the bed and sleep. -
"Well, I only ask you to help me with the dishes so as not to leave the table all dirty. If the leave as well, girls might suspect something. -Rita began to pick up the dishes while he told this to Lynn.
After collecting all the dishes and wash them, they turned off the lights on the ground floor so they could go to sleep. Next day Lynn received a call from his office saying he had to go with great urgency to his office because they had found three persons murdered at the entrance of the building. After giving the necessary declarations, Lynn could return to his home as the entire building would be closed so no one could obstruct police investigations for the rest of the day. When he arrived to the place, Lynn gave a false statement, because no one would believe that a hooded man that appeared out of nowhere saved his life, much less that he had been the one who killed those offenders. He limited his self to say that the he closed the office with total normality without noticing anything strange and then went to his residence. After some other questions without relevance, climbed back in Vanzilla and returned to his home. The house was completely empty because all of the kids were in school and his wife in the job. Taking advantage of the silence that he couldn't enjoy since many months or years maybe, he sat on the couch in the living room and mused, what had really happened the night before, that thing was the man that saved his life, but that at the same time was able to kill three men armed so easily to later climg a wall clinging to God knows where and disappearing on the roof of the adjacent building. After a few minutes of trying to find some logical sense to the matter, he decided that it would be best to leave it behind and do not worry about the matter, as he had said to his wife the night before, whithout knowing what twists life had in store for him and his entire family.