Hickory Dickory
Val smiled to herself as she drove up her drive today was her first day off in months although she had spent the morning getting groceries there was something nice about being able to take your time doing it. She carried the bags into her home, it was spotlessly clean only because she slept there and that was about it placing the bags down in the kitchen she glanced to the time making sure she wasn't running late her friend was expecting her round for coffee. She froze though hearing a dark voice that sounded like it came from her living room.
"Val...Oh Valerie what have you done."
She didn't live with anyone and she didn't recognise the voice she cautiously walked through her house but couldn't see anyone her heart started racing in her chest as she hear the voice coming from the kitchen instead.
"How do you sleep at night Valerie? Please do tell."
She swallowed there was something sinister about the way her name was said she slowly walked back into the kitchen only to hear the voice echo through her once comforting home.
"I know your secret Valerie and I do not like it one bit...you must pay the price for what you have done and the suffering you have caused."
The blood drained from her face as she ran to her house phone only to find the cable cut she was in a state of panic now as she ran to the nearest window she had to get out only to find the windows had been sealed. Fear gripped her when she heard the front doorbell it was her only escape so she ran towards the door in a cold sweat and answered it to a delivery guy.
"Ma'am I have a parcel here for you if you could please sign on the line."
He held out his clipboard for her and she signed her hand shaking nervously as she did so her heart still pounding in her chest, the delivery guy was seemingly unaware of the woman's distress it was only then she noticed he had a set of earphones in and was possibly in his own little world. He took the clipboard without checking it and handed her the medium sized box she was surprised by its weight. Once she was back inside she paused her heart still pounding in her chest figuring it had all been part of her imagination only she couldn't remember ordering anything. Opening the box she screamed in terror at the block of frozen rats and mice that had begun to thaw and the note that lay so delicately on top.
"Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
And you were done."
Val looked towards the clock just as she heard it start to chime; each note hit her like a brick as she caught a glance of a dark figure in her hallway mirror, it was the mouse mask and the terrifying red eyes that stopped the scream from leaving her throat. She didn't even hear her cell ringing in the kitchen she was frozen she couldn't move the note slipped from her fingers bloodied, as she crashed to the ground.