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 Caleb’s Diary

Name: Caleb Kowalski

Age: 12 13 14 15 16

Birthday: 10th March

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Friday 22nd March 2013

It looks like I haven’t written in this thing since a week ago. Better start writing.

Today, I received the Academic Excellence Award at whole school assembly, along with about ten more students in my grade and a number more from the other grades. Unfortunately, one of my friends, a guy by the name of Caesar, was absent from receiving his award. However, everyone knew about his story long before this assembly.

Seven days ago, he was hit by a car when me and my circle of friends were walking home with him, as he was walking slightly ahead and he wasn’t watching where he was going. The story made the headline on the newspaper.

STUDENT AT LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL KILLED IN A HIT & RUN

We identified the car as a yellow Mazda RX-7 FD with the number plate M86-GJC. Its most striking feature was that the front end of the car was damaged, like it was involved in a head-on collision. One of the pop-up headlights was up, and most of the front bumper was crumpled like aluminium foil, with sharp fold edges and corners. The bonnet of the car was also slightly open, not even bent in the slightest, like a laterally moving blade. The crumpled front crushed Caesar’s legs and the bonnet cut deep into his torso. It pushed him over and treaded its left wheels over him, crushing his body. It was a disturbing sight. I don’t want to write more about this, except his funeral was held four days ago, on the 18th, and that the car was never found after the 15th.

Apart from the award receptions at assembly today, there was a new girl at school today. Her name was Kate Wilkinson, and she was quite cute. Her long, brunette hair flowed down her shoulders. Her face was similar to that of a petite Lolita doll. Her little nose was quite small and cute, which complemented her smaller-than-average stature. Her lips were small, but they were ripe and red, and they turned me on. Another thing to note were her striking ice-blue eyes. When she said hello, her voice was so high pitched and sweet! It made me go mushy.

Later that day, during maths class, I asked for her number, and she wrote it on a small little piece of paper that I still have in my pocket right now. Her number is 0406-650-430. As I returned home, I called that number, hoping to hear her sweet voice once again, and ask her on a date. She picked up, and we had a short, sweet convo before I asked her on a date. She said yes! I’m going on my first date with Kate Wilkinson starting 10:30 tomorrow!

Saturday 23rd March 2013

I was standing in front of the clock tower in the city centre, our meeting spot, waiting for Kate. She arrived a minute or two of me waiting for her. She was dressed in a brilliant white dress, with a broad sun hat to top off her youthful, innocent appearance.

We greeted each other. I complimented her on her nice sense of fashion, and she complimented mine in return. First, we went to the top of the clock tower to have a full view of the city. There were binoculars situated throughout the top deck that we could look through. I offered her to look first, as a gentleman. After she finished looking, it was my turn to look through the binoculars. What I saw through those binoculars chilled me to the bone.

It was that RX-7, the same one that killed Caesar. In the full focus of the binoculars, it looked as twisted as ever, with its one single pop-up headlight up and looking at me with a menacing glare.

I pulled my head back from the binoculars. My forehead broke out in a cold sweat. After seeing that, I did not want to be at the top of the clock tower anymore, with nowhere to escape to. We both took the elevator back down to ground level to escape the clock tower, making sure Kate was safe from the person in the RX-7.

We had an early lunch at a Japanese restaurant. It was fitting for us right now, because the portions were small and not overbearing. After that, we went to the cinema to watch a movie. I bumped into my friend Kyle at the cinema, and the three of us had a chat about things and whatnot. After that, we saw Kyle off, and Kate and I watched a romance movie together. However, it wasn’t my type of thing, so I fell asleep.

While I was asleep, I saw the RX-7, sitting in the middle of a dark wasteland. I was unable to see through the windscreen. As I watched this nightmare unfold before me, I saw Kyle, dressed in a black cloak, open the passenger door and step out of the RX-7. As soon as he got out, I saw Caesar step out of the same car door, standing next to Kyle dressed in an identical black cloak. Kyle said a sentence that sent a shock through my spine.

“Sorry, Caleb, I’m with Caesar now.”

I woke up next to Kate during the ending credits of the movie. It was just a car and two people I saw, one that I knew was dead, but that nightmare scared the hell out of me. As soon as I considered the reason Caesar appeared in the dream with the RX-7, it didn’t take too long to figure out what happened to Kyle, if anything happened to him.

After the movie, we went shopping. We bought matching bracelets for the occasion, symbolising our feelings for each other. After shopping, I walked Kate home. She had to direct me, because I didn’t know where she lived. We finally stopped outside her apartment. I asked her if she loved me. She said she did. I said I loved her too. We kissed, and then I saw her off. Apart from the thing involving Kyle and possibly the RX-7, today was the best day of my life.

Monday 25th March 2013

At school today, Kyle was absent. Mr. Cahill, our homeroom teacher, announced that Kyle died on Saturday. This confirmed that the dream I had in the movie theatre was true. A feeling of dread started rising within me, like I was next. Oh well, as long as I don’t see the RX-7 or the driver, I’m safe. Unfortunately, I don’t know who the driver is or what he/she looks like.

I arranged a meeting with everyone in my circle of friends, including Kate, to talk about the RX-7 killer. The surviving members of the circle are myself, Kate, my best friend Ivan, his girlfriend Maria, Alex the glasses guy and Lucy, who was Kyle’s girlfriend. I told them I saw the RX-7 the day I saw Kyle at the city, and that they had to watch out for the RX-7 and its driver.

As school finished, we all walked home our own separate ways, with the orders of running if we saw the RX-7.

Later during the night, I read the newspaper I got in the mail. The headline story was about ten murders in our city. TEN. That made the current situation of us finding the RX-7 killer worse. I looked at the victims, and sure enough, Caesar and Kyle were on the list. The other eight were people I didn’t know closely enough. However, this meant there was someone out there who was definitely killing

I got a text from Kate. In my mind, I was thinking it was going to be another date, possibly to Seven Flags or to Mount Abbott, but when I saw the text, I knew something was off kilter. It triggered my protective instincts instantly.

To: Caleb Kowalski

From: Kate Wilkinson

‘Save me.’

As soon as I had seen the text message, I rushed to Kate’s apartment, fearing her safety may have been compromised. I saw the RX-7 parked there, which was not a good sign. I saw a man in a black cloak entering the apartment, so I raced in there to stop him. I couldn’t reach the elevator he was in, so I took the stairs to the 5th floor, the floor Kate lived on. As soon as I got to the 5th floor, I accosted him so he could spill the beans. However, he wasn’t helpful, despite being cooperative. He said he was a volunteer at a special education school, and he just came back from doing a play. He also didn’t own the RX-7 either, but he owned a Subaru Impreza. He said it was because he preferred four wheel drives over rotary engines.

After that situation, I made my way to Kate’s door. When I opened the door, I saw Kate standing in the middle of the room, almost in a trance-like state, staring ahead into empty space. I called her name, and when she turned around, that was when everything went downhill.

Her eyes were blank, pure white spheres, surrounded by a purple ring on her eyelids, branching out erratically. The branches reached out, spanning the rest of her body like a cocoon does with its pupa. As it spread, the infected purple colour that covered her began changing to a pale, chalky white. Her hair, a healthy chestnut brown, and her fingernails, a soft pink, blackened to a deathly colour.

During her grotesque transformation, she uttered two words, words of pain and sorrow.

“Save me.”

Eventually, what used to be my girlfriend became this horrific demon from the depths of hell, or at least it looked like one. It was something you would not want to see, including the process of transformation.

I remember nothing after that, because that was when I felt an excruciating headache and fell unconscious.

Tuesday 26th March, 2013

I woke up in Kate’s apartment today, in her bed, with her. I don’t remember anything from last night, so I was desperately hoping I hadn’t done her like a dirty rag while I was drunk (If I ever was drunk). I was a bit late for school, because I had to head back to my place to pack up and head back to school.

As I walked inside the classroom, an image flashed into my mind. This time, there were three people in black cloaks standing next to the RX-7. As the image faded, I realised I was staring directly at Lucy’s empty desk.

So it was only me, Kate, Ivan, Maria and Alex. Five of the original seven. Eight if you include Kate.

Ivan and Maria said they were going to be spending the night at a hotel, so they left first. Alex said he had a doctor’s appointment he had to go to, so he left, but he left in the same direction that Ivan and Maria went.

Denying myself of any suspicion of any of my friends, I went with Kate back to her place. I was kind of up for ‘it’, if you know what I mean.

We did our maths homework, and then we started playing video games. When night fell, we ate dinner. After dinner, I started feeling a bit warm; it was a warmth I wanted to share with Kate.

Kate was probably feeling the same thing. She led me to her room. It was a decently sized room, with a desk and chair, a queen size bed and some cupboards. We hugged and kissed for a minute or two…

…And then we had sex. I couldn’t help myself. Let me just say, it felt GREAT. We were inseparable. We were both combined as one. After I let myself loose inside her, I stayed on top of her, framing her face with my hands. We proceeded to get naughty again, for a second time. As I let loose more of myself inside her, I felt a gripping force tighten itself around me, pulsating rapidly. We both hugged each other lovingly. I was crushing her body and she had her nails dug into my back.

When our bodies calmed down, I pulled out of her. It was 21:31, and we both slept in the same bed that we woke up in this morning. That made me think, ‘Why did I wake up here?’

Wednesday 27th March, 2013

I woke up to the sound of Kate crying. It was still dark, so I looked at the digital clock across her bedroom to check the time, which was 00:47. I turned over to look at Kate, but that was when I realised she was crying in her sleep. Somehow, this was quite unsettling for me, as I had just seen her very happy and bubbly a few hours ago, when we were getting it on.

I was going to wake her up right at that moment, but what she said in her sleep rendered me hesitant in doing so.

“Why… did you have to make me kill my friends?”

Those words sent a shivering chill up my spine. ‘She killed them?’ I thought to myself. Oh, and the second part… oh the second part… she was talking to me, right? Talking to me in her sleep?

“I have not succeeded in finding true happiness…”

This voice sounded a lot deeper than Kate’s voice. It was an unnatural bass voice, comparable to that of Darth Vader. It had a tone of sadness, but it was gradually getting louder, getting angrier. What was more unsettling was that it was coming from Kate.

“…I want to kill everybody… all the people who caused me to suffer… all the people who eventually led to my ultimate sacrifice… without anyone to hold me back, I can now kill countless people who caused my misery, who made me into this… demon.”

I shook at what I heard. I had a feeling the RX-7 killer was strange, but I never knew he was a paranormal entity… I think I’m hearing things…

My phone started vibrating quietly. Phew, safe. If my phone hadn’t been on silent as a countermeasure to not get caught with my phone in class if I ever received any messages or calls, I would have been in deep shit right now.

I slowly slid out from under the sheets to check my phone. ‘Please, please don’t be dead, one of you,’ I said in my mind, wishing for my remaining friends’ safety. When I opened my phone, I saw that I received a message from Alex. I opened the message, and sure enough, it was exactly what I didn’t want to see.

To: Caleb Kowalski

From: Alexander van de Wall

‘I tailed Ivan and Maria to their love hotel. Later, I saw Kate going in there by herself. When she left, I went in there to investigate the scene. Sure enough, there was one single butcher’s knife plunged through both of them. They’re dead, Caleb, and they were killed by Kate. I’d watch out for her if I was you.’

My best friend… Ivan… he’s dead? No… it can’t be…

My memory of last night returned to my head. I saw a pale, demonic figure with blank eyes that looked like Kate. As I turned around to look at Kate, I saw an empty space on the bed where she used to sleep, and I saw a pale, demonic figure with blank eyes, that looked like Kate. ‘It’ was staring right into my soul, with eyes that looked like they couldn’t see. I couldn’t move.

Something snapped within me. Whether it was excessive adrenaline-induced fear or the sudden realisation that my girlfriend was the RX-7 killer, I made a run for it, grabbing my pants and shirt that were on Kate’s desk chair.

Who knows whether she was tailing me or not, I never turned back, but I was able to make it out of that apartment alive and clothed, and I saw Alex standing on the street in front of the apartment, fully illuminated by the moonlight above.

I rushed over to him, happy and relieved that I still had one friend who was alive. I told him about a demon possessing Kate and telling her to kill us. I also added the fact that I got laid. He told me to “get the fuck out of here” because Kate was bound to come for us sooner or later. At that moment, there was a loud, piercing sound of a turbocharged engine. As we both craned our heads to see the source of the sound, we saw something so horrible, something we never wanted to see again.

The yellow RX-7 zoomed around the corner of the street with the speed of a cheetah, headed directly for us. Sure enough, its driver was that creature, the one that spawned from Kate, that I saw tonight and last night.

We both ran for it. Me and Alex. We had just cleared the curb when it decided to jump the RX-7 on the curb as well, driving on the sidewalk.

I could never reach Alex in time. He was hit, crushed with the mighty force of a speeding car. He fell over, and the RX-7 ran him over, flattening him into a sickening pancake mess of a corpse, leaking red pools of blood… so much blood…

I fell on my knees and cried. Alex was my only other friend who was still alive, and now he was dead. I knew I was the last one left. I knew I was going to die soon.

The door of the RX-7 swung open with such force and intensity, I thought it would break off. Out stepped that monster I saw in place of Kate. It was a horrible sight. Waxy, chalky white skin deprived of oxygen and blood, shrivelled black hair and fingernails, and oh those eyes… I don’t want to see those eyes ever again.

It walked over towards me. No, it FLOATED towards me. Fear was struck inside my gut. Something was desperately nagging me to run, to turn and hightail it outta there, but Kate… she was still there, I knew it.

She… it, touched down a metre in front of me, the wind blowing away dust from its standing position. It craned its neck sharply and stared at me, like a predator looking at its prey in curiosity. As I watched, its blank eyes stirred and a red laser dot appeared on the centre, glaring at me with high intensity. Finally, it spoke.

“I know who you are, Caleb Kowalski,” it spoke with the threateningly alarming Darth Vader voice I heard not long ago. “There’s no use running away anymore.”

After hearing the thing speak, I had calmed down enough to have faith that it would not instantly kill or torture me. I proceeded to ask, “Who are you? What did you do to my girlfriend?”

It spoke again. “I’m just a lost soul with memories of my life and no identity. Your girlfriend just happened to be a lucky vessel I chose to complete my goal. Unfortunately, she has a part of you inside her, so I can’t kill you if she is my vessel.”

This monster… it fit the profile of a soul gone wrong and unable to be saved. I asked one more question.

“What do you want?”

There was silence before he answered.

“Happiness. All I wanted was happiness, but I never got it. Everyone stole my happiness, and now I must make them suffer to get my happiness back.”

After its moping speech, it started having some kind of seizure. The red dots of light on its eyes vanished. It jerked so violently… it shook like unstable ground… watching it having a seizure was so horrible, but I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

The white colouration started receding, darkening back to its original shade of purple when it came closer to its eyes. Its hair changed back to the chestnut brown colour of Kate’s hair I was familiar with. Same went for the fingernails returning to their original pink. As the purple discoloration faded away, the whiteness covering its eyes stirred and parted to reveal ice-blue eyes.

I was relieved that Kate was back to her normal state, but she pitched forward to the ground, her head falling on my shoes. I bent down to help her get up, but she rolled over so that she was on her back, facing up. Tears were rapidly flowing down her cheeks. It began raining gently.

“I killed yet more…” she whispered in misery.

Her eyes glanced up and noticed me, standing over her.

“Caleb… you know?” she asked me, her fear of losing me evident in her eyes.

“I know enough, Kate,” I told her. “I know about the demon that possessed you. I know that it made you kill our friends. Caesar, Kyle, Lucy, Ivan, Maria, and Alex.”

“Please don’t leave me, Caleb!” she was sobbing louder than before.

“I won’t leave you, Kate,” I promised her.

I leaned my face down to kiss her while she laid on the ground, with rain splashing our already drenched faces.

After the kiss, we both sat on the concrete in front of the apartment, mourning Alex and the others until dawn. We were huddled up, with our jumpers acting as a shelter. As we saw the first glimpse of the Sun, Kate stood up. She turned to me and said her last words.

“Thank you for loving me during my time here. I have to go now. We will likely never see each other again. Goodbye.”

With that, she walked off down the street towards the main road of the neighbourhood. I watched as she faded into the sunrise, and vanished.

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Friday 29th March, 2013

All I remember was that I was at school. Everyone was mourning the deaths of Caesar, Kyle, Lucy, Ivan, Maria and Alex. It was quite a depressing scene, indeed. No one remembered Kate, and everyone kept avoiding me, like I was the plague.

I also remember being at the cemetery, standing in front of each of my friends’ gravestones, wishing them well up in Heaven. My only goal now was to find Kate, the girl I love, and be with her forever.

And then I left.

… … …

Monday 26th January, 2015

…There was a girl standing there, in the snow, dressed in a black cloak. She was holding a little child in her arms, well and healthy. The girl had striking blue eyes. The child’s eyes, however, were showing tiny pinpricks of red light from its pupils. The girl shrugged her cloak off, and when I saw her long, chestnut coloured hair flailing in the wind, her petite doll face, a face I recognise from the only photograph I have of her, shining brightly in the early morning Sun…  