The Nightmare Continues.
I awoke at 5:55am, startled and covered in a cold sweat. I'd had another nightmare. I rolled over, expecting to find Troy next to me, instead just an indent in the mattress from where he had recently been lying. It took me a while to remember that he now has a directors job at the studio just up the road, I'm just so used to him always being here next to me just in case anything bad happens, which it never does.
A loud crash sounded through the minimalist apartment in which we have been living for the past two years, happily engaged. The crash made me jump at first but I soon relaxed when I realised it was just thunder, not some crazy burglar that was going to kill me in cold blood.
I figured I wasn't going to get much more sleep with this storm, especially as it was getting louder as it moved overhead so I decided to pass the time and make myself some breakfast. I gently pulled the bed sheets away from my sticky body and stood up on the hard, cold wooden floor. Another thunder clap sounded and I jumped, I need to distract myself I thought whilst grabbing my satin, plum coloured dressing gown and pulling it over my shoulders, to me if felt like a warm embrace. I clicked on the bedside lamp and began to brush my hair in the mirror, the blonde waves falling evenly over my shoulders. After about seven minutes of continuous brushing I was sufficiently happy that my hair was knot-free and set my brush back down on the unit, but not before I noticed the amount that my hand was shaking. I had two options for this, either Troy had forgotten to put money in the meter again so the heating was out, but then why would our lights still be on? Or the second option was the storm had cut the power, but again why would the lights still be on? As I was puzzling over this I heard a fizzle and suddenly was plunged into darkness. The lights were out.
I shuffled my way over to the cupboard, using the occasional glow from the lightening to find my way. The storm was starting to pass so there wasn't as much light now, I prayed that the lights would come on soon so I wouldn't be in complete darkness until sunrise.
The cupboard was not as far away as I first thought and promptly walked into it, making me jump even more. I prised the latch from its indent in the metal where it hasn't been moved for quite a long time. I felt around for the flashlight which was kept in here for emergencies like this, after about 10 minutes of tripping and getting caught up in wires I finally found what I had been looking for. The light came in handy while I checked the fuse box for any blowouts, that seemed okay. There was no signs of anything have blown up or short circuited so I closed it all up and decided it was Troy's fault for not putting money in the meter. I made my way out of the cupboard, following the single beam of light in front of me as guidance for any objects that might annoyingly place themselves in front of my feet and purposely trip me over. I walked a few more steps then stopped, On the back of my right leg I suddenly felt a searing pain travel from my knee downwards, I shined the light on it to find it had been cut! It wasn't the sort of cut that I could pass off as me being clumsy and just getting caught on something, it was a neat cut. A straight line going perfectly down as if it had been sliced, no jagged edges that would hint towards it being accidental. By now blood was pouring down my leg and onto the cool tiles under my feet, I needed to sort this out before I lost too much blood or it got infected.
After 10 minutes of cleaning up the slice on my leg and plastering the deep wound I finally got round to getting myself some breakfast, I decided bacon and eggs would be a good way to line my stomach and prepare myself for the day ahead. I got all the essentials out and lined them up in front me and started to heat the pan up on the hob whilst making myself a latte. Halfway through the breakfast process I heard the cat flap on the backdoor knock and realised the storm from earlier had died down, I could only hear a few rumbles in the distance but other than that everything was calm and the sun was starting to come up. Kat, my 10 month tabby cat, jumped up onto the work surface and startled me a little. I've had her practically since she was born, I bought her off my neighbour when hers had a litter. She is always so playful and loving, I put my hand out to stroke her head and she swatted my hand out the way. I thought she was just playing a game so I did it again but she did the same but this time hissing at me, this wasn't normal behaviour for Kat. I tried to shoo her off the work surface but she didn't run or try to jump off, she just looked at me. There we were, Me and Kat staring at each other, I wasn't sure what was going to happen but I was too scared to take my eyes off her. Her usual beautiful green eyes had clouded over so they were just deep black holes. I took a step back but as soon as I did Kat leaped at my face, claws flying everywhere and hissing at me. I was scared, I didn't know what to do. I grabbed a wooden spoon and saucepan and started hitting it as loud as I could in hope to scare her out the cat flap again, it worked. She ran outside leaving me alone in the silent house, I looked out the window to see if I could see where she went and was surprised to see her just staring at me through the window. She was balanced on the patio table, looking through the window with the deep black eyes like she had stared at me from the counter, I rushed over to the blind and pulled it down before going over to lock the cat flap. what the hell was going on with her?
My breakfast didn't really go down too well, the Kat incident had scared me more than it should have and I couldn't focus on anything other than getting through the day. My phone suddenly went off, leading me into a frantic dizziness as I thought of crazy ideas about what it could be, but soon calmed myself down enough to realise it actually was, just my phone. It was a text from Troy:Hey Babe, Hope your okay. Just to let you know I used up the last of the milk in the fridge so I was wondering if you could pop out and get some more? Ill be back in about two hours. Love you xxx Perfect! A distraction and a chance for me to get out of the house before Troy gets back and I can tell him about all the weird happenings.