Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26391248-20150516131731

The knock on the door took over the house; my mother walked over in a slight rush and swung over the door. A man in blue stood with a car behind him matching the color of his shirt reflecting the late sunlight. “Hello, ma’am” he greeted taking a step in the house,

“Please sit” my mother directed him to the couch next to mine as she sat down on the wooden chair next to the T.V.

“Now I understand you have a stalker Mrs.…?”

“Powel” My mother replied she said grabbing a mug of coffee she left on the chairs side table she left earlier.

“Right, so what can you tell me about this stalker?”

My mother turned to me in a somewhat angry way, I tilted my head slightly in confusion why her displeasure with me. “Well, it started a few weeks ago” I continued “I remember for two maybe three days a black van with a white slashing decor across the side slow down near me and speed up after a few seconds.” The officer pulled out a small pad and pen and scribbled into it “did you see the driver or any passengers?” I rolled my tongue thinking to myself.

“No, the windows were black so I couldn’t look into it.” The officer scribbled rather quickly into his note pad

“Any one with you, or walking with you?” the officer asked.

“Yes, girl I like to talk to.” The officer stopped writing and looked at me with a shine in his eye

“So how did you know they were looking at you, and why you haven’t you called us earlier?” I remain quite for a few seconds until I finally open my mouth

“Well, we found the van parked outside the house earlier today, it disappeared a while ago. And I guess I forgot about when I was in an argument with my mother.”  I replied being as honest as I can while the officer wrote down his final scribe and scratched the back of his head finally standing up “Alright, we’ll have a sweep of the area for the van you described and we’ll send officers to the girl’s house, if you’ll identify her for me that is.”

“Yes she’s the girl who lives just down road… only house on it other than this one.” “Thank you, call again if you see that van again” he nodded and left going back to his car

“Why do you have to embarrass me like that” I squint my eyes at her “how?” I asked habitually “saying we argued like that” she rolled her eyes

“It’s not like we don’t.”

She waves her hand shooing me “just get out of here” I sigh and stomp out of their fighting a slight anger over her ignorant remark ‘she’s not even concerned about me getting killed’ I thought thinking about that van. I went into my room down the hallway and shut the door behind me; I took my bat and started swinging it around playing with it passing the time. I quickly realized the day was getting late so I decided to stay up later. I try to stay up later than normal, you know try to sat awake as long as I can so I started playing my Xbox which I was slightly bored with due to not getting any games… and being unemployed. It eventually got late enough so you couldn’t see very far, I played on the volume being mute not wanting to wake my mother. My playing was interrupted by a rustle in the bushes down in front of my window some feet away, I felt my heart jump from hearing it thinking the worst case scenario so I scrambled for a small flashlight that I always keep in my closet and aim it at the window keeping my distance. The shine goes through the window but I need it at the bush, so I inch closer until I’m able to identify nothing is there as I clench my flashlight, I heard that rustle again making me recoil but I try to stand my ground.

I twisted the shine down to the ground and saw the most terrifying thing I saw in my life; for a second, whereas I thought was some terrifying monster turned out to be a brown rabbit. I weighed a sigh of relief looking at the rabbit for awhile observing the cute looking creature speed off from the light into the distance of the planes. I was suddenly swept with a feeling of thirst realizing he didn’t eat last before the officer shown up, still slightly shaken from that ‘encounter’ I took my flashlight and headed out towards the fridge. I opened it up looking for something yet looking out the window in darkness expecting a face to show up any moment. I took a breath realizing that I was slightly paranoid I slide behind the fridge door turned to the fridge and took my food and closed the door, exposing the window in my field of view. He store at the window for a few seconds before realizing something; I froze in place and started shaking in absolute fear, outside the window he saw a silhouette of a head with the shine of a wide eye with the smallest pupil I’ve ever seen. Above it he saw he saw the most crooked fanged smile above the eye he quickly shone the light on it in a flash to expose what seemed like to be a black skull with an eye with flesh around it, He quickly screamed and rushed to my mother’s room screaming. His mother quickly got up and asked him what the matter

<p class="MsoNormal">“There’s someone outside!” I screamed at my mother.

<p class="MsoNormal">I thanked god this wasn’t another generic ‘It was a dream kind of moments’ as my mom quickly got up and reached for the phone and told the dispatcher the situation. “Stay inside and hide in the closet!” she pushed me in and went in with me hugging me as close as she ever had in a long time, it was quite… I prayed it stayed this way. Just when I thought we were safe I heard a loud crash in the around where my room was located fallowed by a high pitched blood curdling scream that had to be from some sort of animal, or at least borderline inhumane my mother closed her eyes and started sobbing, I did too. What else was I supposed to do? I felt heart pounding even felt my mother’s threw her sweater; it went back to the silence until I noticed something even more horrifying then the eye in the window. I finally noticed the single eye threw the darkness of the room in the crack staring right back at me; I went to scream but the doors swung open before I could only to see the figure of a tall ghastly creature leaning over me and my mother. It made that same yell we heard earlier until the frequency was unbearable that I felt a jump in my heart to only come to the conclusion of blackness.

<p class="MsoNormal">The first sense to come to conciseness was my hearing, I felt a little throbbing and it hurt but I was able to make out a tink… tink... tink… the tinking happened at a constant speed making the rest of my senses succumb to conciseness. I opened my eyes to a welcoming soft slew of darkness in every direction with a soft cool wind come in from the left of me noticing I was in a chair; I didn’t try struggling due to being fatigued with my heart still pounding and with almost guaranteed bonds. But what I noticed first was the sight of a feminine figure in front of me, staring deeply into my eye with that single pin point pupil. The flesh was surrounded by a mask of a black skull with the right eye made to look like an empty socket; around her neck was a choker with yin and yang on it. But what set me off the most was that bat she held in her left hand tapping the concrete ground. It was twisted and bent; as if I wasn’t nervous enough I started sweating more to where I was able to smell my own b.o I spent a couple seconds staring at her and her at me before I was able to notice the reflection of mirrors everywhere shrouded in the dark. They were set up so I could see every inch of my body and hers; I looked at her back to notice she had long scruffy pure white hair coming from the back of her mask.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Who are you?” I try to ask calmly but unable to avoid the shaky voice.

<p class="MsoNormal">She tilted her head somehow in the exact same way as I did before “Count the number of times you see me tap the bat on the floor” she replied swiftly with a rather soft voice.

<p class="MsoNormal">To spare myself the pain I obeyed her order and started counting ‘one… two… three’ as I counted I saw a flashing red and blue light pass by but the girl didn’t seem to notice. I thought when I noticed a dark shadow loom over me, black slimy fingers rubbed against the side of my face with emphasis on my temples. While trying to keep count I shivered and started scouring my sight threw the mirrors to find one so I can see who’s behind me but I wasn’t able to find it,  I was at about the fourteenth trink when I started to hear a loud ringing coming from inside my head. The smooth fingers pressed their thumbs on the back on my skull and the ringing got louder until I was unable to hear anything anymore and my sight turned black, I was about to start to scream until it was interrupted by a sudden stop. I looked to see the girl walk through the door as if she left even though she was just here a second ago, she stared her eye right into mine.

<p class="MsoNormal">“How many did you count?” she confronted me.

<p class="MsoNormal">A bead of sweat ran down my cheek “t-twenty seven.” I manage to say

<p class="MsoNormal">She started taping the bat on the floor making that same tink, “try again” so I started counting again ‘1… 2… 3…’ the fingers came back and that ringing accompanied by them. The same volume came and I shut my eyes as hard as I can loosing count, I couldn’t take it anymore so I widened my eyes at the thought of my mother that I just remembered.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why are you doing this? Where’s my mother!?” I scream and shake myself

<p class="MsoNormal">The mask stared at me for a few minutes finally answering

<p class="MsoNormal">“She is safe.” She simply answered

<p class="MsoNormal">“Then why are you doing this to me!” I returned her gaze with a hatred I’ve known before when arguing with my mom.

<p class="MsoNormal">“They are unbalanced” with that simple answer I felt something leap inside me, as if telepathic, the figure behind my somehow grew a larger shadow as if leaning down. I could hear its warm breath on the top of my head. I wanted to look up but my bonds kept me from turning my neck up, after that the bat started making the noise so I counted again. The ringing came back but the fingers weren’t there, the ringing as expected by now increased in volume but didn’t get to the volume it was before, I counted up to fifty three before it came to a sudden stop. That’s when I heard the sweet bliss of the pungent sirens from earlier met my ears; they came closer until I saw the flash of blue and red outside. I twisted my head to try and look at the girl and I saw return my stare at me, the fingers snapped next to my head again and the ringing came back stronger than ever. I felt a sharp pain break through my head and my heart leap as it did before my eyesight started to blur and darken, it made sense now why she wanted me to count the tinks, she wanted me to stay awake, to focus on something; I started to feel a liquid ooze come from my ears. The skull mask glanced at me and said a quite “she is balanced.” The last I saw of her was the footsteps she took descending into the darkness to get wrapped by long thin skeletal black arms with the same fingers that were on my temples a minute ago disappear. Then I saw a strong beam of light with my mother and men in suits behind.

<p class="MsoNormal">And just before my eyes turned to black, the last thing I saw was my own mother crying.

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