The mystery Arsonist

By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire.

Who could have wanted to burn my son and I alive in my aunt's house? I wondered.

The moment I saw the fire flames covering up all the leaves area,I panicked.i was so anxious whether my son and I gonna make it alive or not in that horrible incidence. After the argument I had with my husband last week Friday,I decided I should come to visit my aunt to cool myself down. We were always arguing about small matters and he made them to be big. It has been a year not visiting my aunt all because of my husband due to his insecurities and she had now renovated her house. I quickly went to my son's bedroom to fetch him up. They was lot of smoke in the house ,and I couldn't see the way towards my son's bedroom properly.i was busy coughing and felt the heat of the fire burning my skin.i approached my son's bedroom I called him but he didn't respond.could he be died?I wondered.i called him multiple times but no respond.He had asmah. I thought maybe he suffocated from the smoke and died on the scene. I was getting to be more scared. I approached near where he was lying on the bed.i checked his pulse on the neck, luckily I could feel it.i quickly took him out of that room and placed him on kitchen entrance from the dining room. The fire heat and flames were getting more stronger.i rushed to the dining room to see if they is no path I could use to escape with my son I saw big windows with security bars. My son and I couldn't fit in them so I quickly rushed out to the kitchen near the dining room area since the celling was about to collapse. When I looked around in the kitchen,I was a back door but looked locked.i didn't know where was my aunt putting her spare keys. I got furious.As I was about to exit to the passage near the kitchen,I looked back again.i saw a doggie door on the kitchen door.i was excited that my son and I gonna make it alive. I quickly went to pick up my son where I placed him. He was burned on the arms . The fire flames quickly closed up all areas from the kitchen entrance.i rushed towards the doggie door and pushed my son out to the garden near it. I also followed him. Unfortunately that time the fire had caught so much area in the kitchen.i got burned on my feet. The moment I got out,the whole house was covered with fire. I crawled hold my son towards the garden watched the house burned down. As I was sitted on the garden,I could hear the crowd mumbling from the other side of the house.i heard my aunt screaming and busy calling my son and i. I couldn't went to them since I was heavily burned. I stayed there with my son. Few hours later,I heard the paramedics sirens together with police vans and fire fighters. I was relieved that my son will finally get help he needed. He was unconscious. The fire fighters stopped the fire and went in to check us. They didn't find us in. They thought we were dead.i could hear my aunt crying and screaming from that other side.i was helpless. Luckily some fire fighters came to the back of the house. They saw my son and I . They quickly called the paramedics to assist us. They alert the people that they had found us. My aunty came rushing to where we were. They putted my son on a stretcher and took him to the ambulance. They placed me on the other strecher and on my way too to the ambulance. As I was about to approach it,I saw a angry crowd beating up someone.i asked my aunt what was going on.She said: if love is this way,she hate it. It is your husband.One of my neurbour saw him lighting up the house using petroleum. After that he ran. That neurbour went after him Calling out other neurbours to assist him up. They found him hiding in some bushes near our town. They beated him up from the bushes way towards our home . When he was asked why he did what he did he said he wanted to kill his son for you to feel the pain he felt after you left with him. He wanted both of you to suffer . I was surprised.i was more glad that his plan didn't work out since the day he planned to burn my son alive,I knocked off earlier from work since his son didn't feel well and didn't went to school.so I managed to safe my son. When I looked at him heavily bleating,I could feel sorry for him. But the moment I thought about what he did,I wished they could have killed him . The paramedics placed me in the ambulance and my aunty went with us to the hospital. My husband was taken to the hospital too.few days passed and we were discharged. My husband was arrested. My son was okay after all. My aunt rented a new house somewhere in town. She fetched us from the hospital and took us in her new home. The court date came . My husband was charged with 1st degree attempted murder for two people. He was given life sentence to the jail. I was sad that my son will grow up without his father since he was just 12 years old. But I told myself he is better off without him since he could have given him a wrong man figure in his life. My son

Went through a lot because of him. He almost died due to his revenge on me. I could let a psycho to raise my son up. He was still young to die. I hope my son will forgive his dad one day about what he did to him