Silent Hill 4: Oh Mother.
Chapter Three: Umbilical cord's
"It was really weird, too. I'm not sure why I dreamed of something that happened to me when I was like, 12?" Kris mused on about the dream she had as she leaned against the wall. She watched as Eileen closed the little mail box with her room number on it. She poked through the few letters that she had gotten and looked up at her red headed friend. "That is really weird. So this actually happened to you?" Eileen inquired curiously.
"Yeah, I remember when I got home that day I ended up telling my dad and got in huge trouble. He yelled at me how it was really dangerous that I sat with a bum in the subway. How I could have been kidnapped or hurt." Eileen nodded as Kris went on. "Well, they had a point. You really could have gotten hurt." Kris gave a small laugh. "You want to be a mom someday don't you, Eileen?"
Eileen found herself blushing. "Um, someday, yeah." She took another glance at Kris's poorly bandaged hand. "I still can't believe that happened to your hand. You should really go to the hospital and get it checked out and tell Frank about your windows." Eileen advised while sharing a worried look. Kris gave it a good look over and shrugged. "It's not really as bad as it looks. I just ripped up the skin a little. If anything it'll bruise and bleed a little more."
"How come you do that?" Kris looked confused. "Do what?" She retorted "You always try to be so tough all the time. Like nothing ever hurts you." Kris couldn't help but laugh again. "Because, I don't like looking weak. I don't need someone to protect me. I seem to do just fine on my own." She puffed out her chest to mimic a brave and heroic stance with her hands on her hips. They started at each other before breaking out in a small fit of laughter together.
They came to a stop when they both heard the sound of someone knocking. For a moment, Kris's body became stiff. Was that kid back? She then noticed Frank standing in front of room 302. "Maybe Frank found something out about Henry." They approached the super, who looked to be lost deep in his own thoughts. "What's going on with 302?" Eileen asked.
Frank looked up, recognizing the both of them. "Oh, well, I, uh….just tried to open it up, but it looks like something is…uh, blockin' it from the inside." He paused for a minute while staring at the door before looking over to Eileen. "Well, it's not the first time." He added.
"You…You mean the guy who lived here before?" Eileen asked and gave Kris a worried expression.
"Yeah…And, it wasn't just him either….There's…uh, somethin' wrong with this whole apartment…" Frank bent over to slip a piece of paper under the door while Eileen mumbled to herself for him so stop scaring her. She glanced up and down the hallway and it made Kris think. She also found something wrong with this whole place. At least now, she knew she wasn't the only one that felt that way.
"Well, anyway. I just slipped a note under his door….Don't worry about it too much, girls." He had noticed how Eileen had wrapped her arms around her shoulders in a small way to comfort herself and Kris had been staring at the door with a small look of worriment.
"There are a lot of…strange things in this world…" Frank then got a strange distant look on his face as his eyes hazed over slightly. "The umbilical cord I keep in a box in my room…Lately, It's started to smell…terrible." He spoke in a sort of monotone like he was in a trance.
Both, Kris and Eileen exchanged confused and disgusted looks. "Huh? Umbilical cord…?" Eileen slowly repeated not sure of what she just heard. Kris was glad that Eileen asked because she wasn't too sure she heard that correctly herself.
Frank seemed to shake off the strange state he had been in and shook his hand at the two of them. "Oh, forget I said anything…" He slowly turned and started to walk off back down the hallway without saying another word to them.
"But still, those noises…." Eileen mumbled to herself. Kris reached out and took a hold of Eileen's shoulder. If she hadn't, Eileen would have just stood there staring at Henry's door. It was starting to scare Kris. That guy's room gave off creepy vibes and she didn't want to stand around it anymore then they had too.
The two of them also turned away from the door and walked over to Eileen's apartment. "…I'm worried about him, Henry I mean." Kris glanced back down the empty hall. "Huh, I thought you were talking about Frank, cause that umbilical cord thing kind of freaked me out." Kris grumbled back. "Yeah, Frank too….but still. Was I the only one that felt like we were being watched?" Kris shook her head in response. "No, I was…sort of getting the same feeling too."
They stood in silence a little longer before parting ways. Eileen went inside her apartment and Kris started down the hall. Her mind started to spin with all the strange things that had been happening. She ended up stopping in front of Henry's door again. "I hope your okay in there." She mumbled. Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw something smeared on the wall. Hand prints. This caught her attention and she turned her head but saw nothing. The wall seemed fine, a clean white wall as always.
Kris sighed as she walked back to her apartment. "I need to take a nap…."
