DRUNKIN' MONSTER
by: Courtney Gagnon
Katy just got home from a long day of shopping when she opened the door and smelled the faint odor of smoke. She walked down the hallway, into her room and set her bags down. She was curious of what he husband John was doing because of the smell of smoke. She went into the living room where he was sitting in his usual spot on the couch. When he saw her, he got up and tried to kiss her but she could smell beer on his breath so she turned away.
She looked around and saw cigarette butts in the ashtray, beer bottles all over the floor, football on the TV and smoke in the air. All of a sudden she thought back to the last time he got drunk. He tried to hurt her but she called the cops just in time. That, she thought was a bad Christmas. But this time she couldn't make that call to the police, he cut the phone lines. She wasn't happy and by the look on his face neither was he. She was angry about the mess he had made and that he was actually drinking again. He was angry that his own wife had refused his kiss.
He started taking deep breaths like he learned in anger management. he also tried counting to 10, going to a happy place, ignoring it, but nothing seemed to work. Katy started backing up because she could see the anger in his eyes building up. He started walking towards her and she started to run. She ran down the hallway, which seemed to take forever and ran into her bedroom and slammed the door closed and locked it. She thought she was O.K now. But she was wrong. . .
All of a sudden he appeared at her door just POUNDING and POUNDING to where you could hear the door almost breaking into tiny shreds. She jumped out of the chair she was sitting in and wedged it in the door. He yelled "YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN LIKE A LITTLE MOUSE?" then she yelled back "YOU'RE A MONSTER WHEN YOUR DRUNK! STOP! JUST STOP! " then out of nowhere the pounding stopped. She was scared, she wanted a knife...
She silently pulled the chair away, and opened the door and left it opened so she could quietly get back in. No one was outside of the door. She started walking down the hallway quickly and quietly. She turned into the kitchen which there she grabbed a knife and hid behind her back. Now all she wanted to do was get out and get help. But that would be a problem because he locked all the doors. So she just scurried back to her room closed the door and locked it once again. Then she thought she went down the hallway through the living room and into the kitchen and didn't see him anywhere. Katy slowly turned around and there laying on the bed was john pointing the gun at her. The first thing that went through her head was "where did he get a gun?" he got up and walked towards her again. She backed up until she hit the bed and sat. he got close then crouched down to her level and held the gun to her chest and said that he would count to three and on number three he would shoot her. He started counting; 1….2….and before he could say three she took the knife out from behind her back and stabbed him in the heart ending it once and for all! A wave of relief flowed through her mind and over her body.
