Incident I will never forget

One day, a few months ago, I was alone in my house, when something terrible happened. I can still remember the incident very clearly.

My parents were not at home that day, my mother had to rush back to my grandmother house in Melaka because my grandmother had stroke and my father were still at work. My brother and sister are studying abroad. My father returned very late in the night. As I had some school work to do, I stayed at home and decided not to go back to Melaka with my mother.

I was reading my book in the living room. It was now raining heavily. After a few pages, I feel a bit hungry but i try to ignore it as I just had some snack few hours ago. After a while my hunger starting to disturb my concentration on the book I read. It was almost 11pm and I still not feeling sleepy. I remember my mother beef curry dish in the kitchen left over from lunch. I marked my book on the page I just read and place it on the dining table. I went into the kitchen and took the pot of curry, place it on the stove to reheat it then went back to the living room to continue my reading.
All the sudden I smell smoke and people breaking in from the back door. Apparently I fell asleep and burn the curry on the stove. My neighbor tried to break the back door to put off the fire that started to spread on the kitchen wall.
I was so lucky that the neighbor managed to put off the fire immediately when I fell asleep.

When my parents returned, I told them all that had happened. The thought of this incident frightens me even today. I became more cautious and really scared to touch the stove