Chapter 1,
Matt Hardy sat at his desk sorting through some bills that
had piled up while he was on the road, it seemed to him that being
home was now becoming less than a frequent visit. All the usual
letter's were apparent but there was one specific one that caught
his immediate attention. Staring at the black envelope he sat up
further in his plush chair, interest evident on his dark features.
Cautiously opening the familiar letter Matt saw a bunch of papers
spill out. A look of disgust and anger appeared on his face when he
saw the cut out pictures of his brother and friend fall out profusely
onto the carved oak desk, none of the photos looking all that
appealing with the crude drawings and red paint strewn across
them.
Matt then averted his attention to the typed out letter
laying lazily on top of the wooden desk, the creases of where his
little stalker had folded it apparent. Reaching over Matt skimmed
over the usual parts, this had been going on for a few weeks now and
Matt's worry began to show, for this girl was not just threatening
him. True he had gotten a few of these before but no one had ever
gone to this sadistic person's lengths.. No one. He then surfaced
his eyes onto the signature, a friend? What kind of 'friend'
would do this to him, was it a clue or just a creative way to pull
his leg? He didn't have much time to ponder that thought because he
was startled out of his thoughts by the sound of his brother loudly
entering the room and rudely snatching the letter out of his
surprised brother's hands.
"Jeff, knock it off, give it
back" Matt pleaded getting out of his chair and trying to grab the
letter back flailing his arms around, but to no avail, while also
noting he hadn't told anyone of these threats. When Jeff had
finally settled down enough to read the contents a gasp escaped his
dry lips, dropping his arm to the side he looked up at his brother
who had since found solace on the carpeted floor. Noticing he
wouldn't get anything out of Matt he slowly strode over to the desk
seeing the magazine clippings covering the polished wood admitting
another gasp from the younger man's lips. Peeling his eyes away
from the desk Jeff turned his attention to Matt who still avoided his
eyes; trudging over, Jeff slowly lifted Matt's chin up shocked by
seeing a frightened look in his brown depths, not a familiar look in
the least, which caused a worried glance to gleam into his emerald
eyes.
"How Long has this been going on?" Jeff questioned
the concern evident in his voice, letting go of his hold, which Matt
shrugged in response, trying to hide his fear.
"I'm not really
sure, I guess... maybe two months?" Matt estimated, walking towards
his office door and walking out in to the hallway, in which Jeff
followed.
"Two months? Why the hell didn't you tell me!?"
Jeff exclaimed, throwing his chipped nail polished hands in to the
air exasperated , in which Matt shrugged in response,
"I didn't
think it was that big of a deal... at first" Matt explained
furthering his journey down the hallway and into the kitchen while
Jeff followed worriedly, he couldn't believe anyone would want to
hurt his brother, he was always a good person, what could he have
done to anger someone so much? Arriving into the grand kitchen, he
spotted Matt sipping a glass of water, staring out the window and
into the star lit sky, a far away look in his gaze.
"How serious
is this woman?" Jeff asked, pulling up a chair next to Matt, who
took another longing sip before answering his question,
"I'd
say serious, she called me once before, and letter's aren't the
only things I get in the mail from her" Matt answered shuddering at
the thought of the dead flowers arriving to his house, the spiders
crawling out of the infested box. Seeing as how this didn't bring
all too great of thoughts to his brother Jeff let the subject go for
now, knowing it would be brought up again later, but yet he still
wondered what Matt had planned on doing about this stalker,
reminiscing back to that last
line.
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