Ch. 12 Who are You
Jennifer was in a deep sleep until she felt someone touching her. She twitched a little but was still mostly asleep.
The person kept touching her but in a more sexual way. The person felt her shoulder down to her thighs.
As Jennifer kept feeling someone touching her, she twitched even harder. "Who's…..who's touching me?"
The person laughed. "Such a pretty girl. Pretty enough to eat."
When she heard the person say that, Jennifer immediately shook herself awake. When she opened her eyes, she looked around and found herself in a cage. "Huh?...where am I?...how'd I get here?"
The strange man then felt through her hair.
Jennifer snapped her head back and saw who was touching her.
It was a man who looked worn down and starved to death. He looked severely anorexic and his ribs were visible. He was very boney and his hair was messy from long-term abandonment. This man was clearly dying from starvation.
When Jennifer first saw him, she screamed and scooted back. "Who?...who?...who are you?"
The man looked at Jennifer with such a sad face. "Please…..I'm hungry….I'm so hungry….I need…..fffooood!"
Hearing the desperation in the man's voice scared Jennifer half to death. She had nowhere to go. There was nobody there to help her nor did anyone knew she was there. Jennifer then got up and ran to the cage door. Jennifer tried jerking the cage door back and forth in a hope to open it but it wouldn't budge. "No!...help!...somebody get me out!...is anybody out there?" The feeling of hopelessness began to manifest inside her. Was this "the end"? Would she die from a cannibal? Was Jennifer going to be eaten alive? Tears flooded her eyes.
Watching Jennifer at the cage door, the starved man crawled over to her and grabbed her ankle.
When Jennifer felt herself get grabbed by that man, it was like her worst nightmare come true. She looked down, saw the man and yelled, "No!...let go of me!...let go of me!" She then tripped and fell but continued fighting.
The man then tried to climb on top of her. "I'm so hungry!...I need fooood!"
But Jennifer wasn't about to be another human being's dinner. She had to fight for her own survival. "No!...get off me!...get off me!" She kicked and screamed. She kicked the man off her even though he was starving to death. Jennifer managed to get back on her feet again but this time she remembered something. She remembered that ham she picked up from the fridge. Jennifer was going to save it for herself later but now that she had encountered this man, she had no choice but to give it up. So Jennifer reached into her pocket and pulled out the ham. "Here! I have some ham for you!"
"Please!...anything!...anything!" he begged eyeballing the ham with such desperation.
"Here take it!" Jennifer tossed the ham on the ground.
The starved man immediately grabbed the ham and devoured it.
When he seemed satisfied, Jennifer decided to question the poor man. "So…..who are you exactly?"
"I am Simon B…Barrows." he replied.
"Simon Barrows? You mean Mr. Barrows?" Jennifer was stunned. 'This is supposed to be Mrs. Mary's husband? But why? Why would she do such a thing?' she thought to herself. "Oh!...I feel so bad for you!" Jennifer just stood there and watched the man continue to eat the ham.
Simon was so hungry he ended up consuming the entire thing.
Once he was done, Jennifer turned around and looked at the shed door wishing someone would just come through and rescue her. But nobody knew she was there…..not even her friends. Maybe her friends were all killed. But for some reason, Jennifer had a feeling they were still alive somewhere. She sighed, grabbed the bars and rested her head against the bars of the cage.
Simon then laughed.
Jennifer heard him and turned around. "Huh?"
"Right now…..it's watching you." he said in a creepy voice.
"What?" Jennifer frowned. She felt so confused.
"The cradle…..under the star." Simon said.
"The cradle…..under the star? What are you talking about?" she asked thinking that he was a complete lunatic.
Simon laughed again and no longer looked at Jennifer.
At this point, Jennifer thought Simon had just lost his mind from starvation and was just talking nonsense. 'Wow!...this man really is crazy! I wonder why he was thrown in here in the first place.' she said in her mind. Jennifer leaned against the bars and sunk down to the ground. There was absolutely no hope left.
"Jenny!" yelled a voice.