Chapter Three
Chloroform
"Swiggity Swail, look who's got mail." Dan laughed as he handed me my usual letter.
"That doesn't even make sense, Dan." I said as I ripped open the letter and pulled out the drawing. My heart started beating against the side of my chest as I read aloud the saying that was in red ink. "Forbidden fruits taste the sweetest."
Dan leaned up against the counter, his arms crossing. "Well, that isn't creepy at all." He pulled the letter from my hands and stuffed it down the garbage disposal, turning it on.
"What do you think it means?"
"I don't know." He said as we watched the paper go down the sink. "I don't care. If it happens again, we'll alert the police. This is hedging on stalking. We don't want it to go too far."
I watched Dan. There was something about him that was kind of off and I don't think it was my sudden feeling of paranoia that was getting the best of me. He was acting strange, for some reason. Almost nervous.
"Everything alright?" I asked as he powered up his laptop.
He glanced at me. "That girl, the one in Starbuck's. She gives me the creeps."
I thought about Eden, sweet, little, innocent Eden. She was odd looking, sure. But, I don't didn't think there was anything remotely bad about her. "What do you mean?" I hedged.
"How did she know we were at Starbuck's?"
"She said she lived around here." I shrugged, a thought occurring to me. "You don't think she's the one sending these drawings, do you?"
"She might be."
"I don't believe it."
"Believe what you want. She still gives me the creeps."
I shook my head and looked towards the sink. I couldn't believe that Eden would do something like that. She seemed so shy and awkward. Aren't stalkers supposed to be bloodthirsty monsters?
I woke up to a text message that vibrated against my face, startling me awake. The little screen blinded me as I looked at the unfamiliar number and then the text. I jumped to my feet, and ran across the hallway, shaking Dan awake.
"What the fuck, Phil?" He groaned and rolled over.
"Dan, someone sent me a text message."
"Orgasmic."
"No, but look what it says."
He opened one eye and then popped up taking my phone. "Forbidden fruits taste the sweetest." He read aloud. "Meet me in Sentinel Park."
"Should we go?"
He looked at me, his eyes wide. "No, I'm calling the police."
"Dan! Maybe they just want to meet us. Maybe we can put a stop to all of this if we just talk to them." I suggested.
"Why would they want us to come out at-," He looked at his nightstand clock. "2:37 in the morning. It seems a bit suspicious, don't you think?"
"I think involving the police would be a bit rash."
"I'm not going to the park at 3am, that's dumb. Even if we don't get murdered, we'll definitely get mugged."
"Then I'll go." I said, standing up.
"You can't go alone! What if something happens to you?"
After some arguing, we changed clothes and started walking down to the small park that was a couple blocks from us. I pointed out if they did want to mug and/or murder us, they would've chosen a bigger park or at least a more secluded area. I convinced him it was just probably a nervous, socially anxious fan or even a prank from our friends and we could put a stop to everything without involving the police, which was the last thing that I wanted to do.
We crossed the threshold of the park and Dan stopped and sighed. "Nobody's here. Let's go home."
I looked around, the park was empty and dark and the swing set swayed back and forth in the breeze, making a creepy noise. A couple bats flew overhead, screeching and I turned to Dan.
"Maybe you're right."
"I know I'm right. Let's go."
Like a flash, my mouth was being covered by cloth and I gasped for breath. The cloth smelled sour, like milk that had been left out for too long.
And then everything went dark.
Hi cuddly cacti! Some updates!
I'm going to thank my wonderful followers at the end of this fic, because I can see now it's going to be a short one, like a novella. It's almost done, so I will probably be finished with it in the next couple of days.
I'm kind of basing this fic around the Saw movies: you introduce the characters, you introduce the protagonist, there is some creepy mystery, then BAM! blood, guts, gore and then somehow they escape. Sounds pretty legitimate, right? I think so.
Thank you for reading my first ever horror-fic.
To my Love is Blind fans, I have the first couple chapters done of the sequel and should be uploading that shortly after this is done.
Ta ta!
