Chapter 2: The Old Lady
An old lady stood in front of them with a tray with cookies. She wore a black and green dress, a green collar, golden earrings, and black sandals. Calmly she said:
"Come in my dears, come and sit down."
She grabbed Jame's hand and pulled him toward the inside of the house, Seamus followed them.
"Do you want any cookies? I made them myself."
The cookies looked weird, they were red and had some parts blue; but both mans were hungry, so they decided to take a few.
"Just one." Said James grabbing a cookie. "Thanks."
"I'll take four, I'm really hungry." Said Seamus.
The cookies had an awful flavor, like blood, it was disgusting; but they didn't want to hurt the old lady's feelings, so when they finished eating the cookies they said:
"Wow, just like I like them." Said James.
"Yeah, what's your recipe?" Said Seamus.
The old lady smiled and said:
"Oh, it's a secret, so I can't tell you. You're sweaty; you can have a shower here. Why were you running, I saw you from the window."
"We were being followed by a giant spider." Said James.
"Right" said the old lady in a mysterious tone. "young people and their imaginations." She murmured, more to herself.
She went through a corridor and after a while came back.
"Here you have some towels, go and take a shower. The bathroom is right there on that corner, after that, you can stay here for tonight." She said pointing at the left. "I'll be in my room watching Cops, my favorite TV show."
"Ok, thanks." Said Seamus.
The lady went through the corridor once more and disappeared from view. James and Seamus looked at each other and after a while, James finally spoke:
"Isn't this weird."
"What?"
"This, I mean, how could this lady know that we were looking for a place to stay just for tonight."
"I don't know, maybe she heard us talking. If she saw us from her window probably she heard us too."
"But there are no windows in this house. Something's wrong."
"Relax James, she's just doing us a favor. Go on and take a shower first, you need it more than I do. I'll sit here and wait for you to finish."
"Ok." Said James. He walked toward the bathroom, went inside, closed the door, took off his clothe, got inside the shower, turned on the water, took the soap and started washing himself.
Twenty minutes passed, James was still in the bathroom, when he heard someone screaming:
"Ah, no, James, help me, James, noooooo, ah"
James quickly got dressed and out of the bathroom. He saw Seamus still on the floor.
"Seamus, SEAMUS, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!
Seamus was dead.
"Don't worry, you'll be with him in a minute." Said the old lady, who was standing beside the dead body, holding a knife covered in blood.
"You did this, DIDN'T YOU!
The old lady nodded and said:
"Of course I did, and I also sent the giant spider."
"But… why?"
"Why? Because it's my hobby."
"Killing people is your hobby? You're out of your mind."
"Not only killing people, I like to scare them with a little help from my giant pet spider, kill them and eat them."
She walked toward James, stabbed him in the chest several times and said:
"This was for my giant pet spider, and also for fun."