It all started one evening when I was at home all alone in the night. No street lamps, no power, nothing, just the light of the full moon to keep me awake. I went to lie down to sleep as I heard something outside. As I tried to look very still I moved my head gently to see what it might be. The Moon shown down on me like a light from heaven making me not so invisible to whomever was out there. I looked but no luck, I could not see anything at all, and it was so dark and cloudy out. It was almost like clouds surrounded me, because it was such a foggy night. As I laid my head back down for one moment I felt as if something was watching me through my window. I dared not to look, so I covered myself up beneath the blanket and tried to fall asleep. I quickly glimpsed up at my clock, which read 12:49 am, through a small opening in my blankets. Before falling asleep I was thinking about my Audition tomorrow for singing to go into UCLA. As I said, I need to absolutely get as much sleep as possible I shut my eyes for one moment.
I opened my eyes from hearing a loud bang against my window. I peered through that hole in my blanket to see the time. The clock read 1:39 am. Turns out I had fallen asleep. Frightened to look to see what the bang was, I peered through my blanket again to see who it was. Not so scared anymore, I opened the door to let my neighbor in. He was a very nice and handsome gentleman that was checking up on me, seeing we were best friends. He wanted to make sure I was okay because he heard some noises outside. I told him I was but I was a little scared so he said he would stay over tonight to make sure nothing happened to me. As I laid back down he made himself comfortable on the floor.
I woke up at 8:00 am in the morning and took a shower. That's when Lance, my neighbor woke up. He wasn't too happy but he got over it. He came into the bathroom to go to the bathroom, and talked to me a bit. He told me how much I talked in my sleep, and how many secrets he knows from it. As he smirked I looked at him from in the shower and he said, "I would like to stay over again to get to know a little more about you when you sleep!" As I laughed he brushed his teeth. When I got done my shower he handed me my towel and left the room. I then heard him yell and swear because he had forgotten to eat before he brushed his teeth. I exited the bathroom while glancing at the message he wrote to me on the mirror with his finger. It said, "I hear the secrets that you keep, when youre talking in your sleep." With smiley faces on it. I exited the bathroom and went to get dressed. Suddenly Lance came up behind me and scared the Big Jesus out of me. He hugged me luck and gave me a kiss on the forehead. He left my room and I got dressed. I put on a Green tank top Lance had gotten me, and a pair of soft-leather pants. I came out as Lance gave me the famous "JOKEING AROUND ENTRANCE" by whistling at me. I told him to shut up and he did.
As I ate, Lance kept looking at me but he looked as if he were in loss of words. As I began eating again he yelled no. I asked him what he was talking about, but he exited the room with no comment. I followed him as he ran into my room and shut us in there. I asked him what was going on and he told me that he knows. He hugged me and said that whatever I knew he knew. Hoping that it wasn't about me having a crush on him, he looked at me and smiled. He knew that if we were to go out, then our friendship with each other would be greater but could have its consequences. I left the room acting like I didn't know what he was talking about, and he followed me.
I put my jacket on and asked him if I looked good for Auditions. He said yes but there was a problem. Turns out that last night someone had got killed at UCLA and my Audition was postponed until next month. As the Answering machine went off, I started to cry thinking that I was all ready and everything. I wanted to get it done and over with so bad that it made me cry. Lance hugged me and told me not to worry. He said, at least I have more of a chance to get in because I get more time to practice my song for Auditions. As I smiled thinking that Lance always makes me feel good, he wiped away my tears and told me to get back into my pajamas because I looked tired.
I tried to take a nap but I just couldn't. Wondering if I got my television cable back I checked it. Nope, nothing. So Lance and me played rummy 2000. In the middle of the game, my Friend Ashley had came with her boyfriend J.C from Florida. She had come for try-outs for the restaurants worldwide Hooters Competition in UCLA. As I introduced her to Lance, Lance and J.C, old best friends started talking and having a great time.
Ashley and J.C stayed that night in my guestroom. Ashley heard some weird noises that night and came downstairs to see what it was. She saw nothing and headed back upstairs. As she was going into her room she heard it again. Ashley being suspicious as she is went back downstairs and started to investigate. As she heard the noise again she found that it was outside. She opened the patio door and saw someone standing there in a black suite. As she asked who it was she couldn't see very well because she forgot her glasses. The man came up to her, as she thought he was Lance, and grabbed her by the neck. He opened his jacket and picked a selection out of his knives. He grabbed the big one and jabbed it into her stomach. As she yelled out, "Hey, J.C bought me this and look you tore it! You cut a diamond out and now it has blood stains all over it!" He then threw her on the ground and she screamed, "Look you just made me break my nail!"
The next morning I woke up with Lance on the couch, because J.C was crying because Ashley was missing. As I told him to try her cell phone he picked up the phone and hit speed dial to her number. It rang, and we heard it. J.C started freaking out and we looked under the bed and saw the most dramatic sight in the world. We thought there would never be such a disgusting sight in the world. There it was a bloody phone under the bed still ringing. J.C picked it up and answered it, and said, "Hey I'm talking to myself!" Being the dork that he is. He turned it off and started wondering where she could be. He got the urge to look outside for her. As we stepped onto the patio, we saw blood leading into the Small Woods. We followed the trail for 10 minutes and found her body. She was passed out from the blood she had lost. As J.C picked her up, she woke and we brought her back to the house. When we got their J.C bandaged her up with a cloth. Luckily it wasn't a deep stab. As we wondered who did this to her, she yelled, that she thought the man was Lance. But I told her he was with me the whole night. Then Lance said, if I'm a suspect then maybe I should tell you who I am. As we all gasped, he said I am a private investigator, and I have come here to investigate the killings that have been going on. J.C then said I have known all this time but I just couldn't tell. As I gasped frightened that he would leave me, because I had the biggest crush on him, he looked at me and asked me something I can't bear to say. As he whispered the delicate words in my ear I had sworn not to tell anyone.
Later that night Lance cooked us an amazing dinner at his house next-door to mine. It conducted of BBQ Hamburgers, Salad, and our choice of drinks. It was so delicious that I had to get away from it in order to stop eating. When we all were finished, I helped Lance put away the stuff and do the dishes. J.C stood by Ashley's side all night to make sure nothing would happen to her. When we were finished the dishes we went to sit down by the television to watch X-MEN, one of my all time favorites. As we turned the T.V to channel 4 for the movie to rewind, the news was on. I listened to see what was on today's special. As I listened, the news headlined finally stated that another person had gotten killed at UCLA last night. They did not know who the killer was yet. As I screamed in tears because it was the college I was supposed to go to, Lance hugged me. These killings really had been starting to get on my nerves, and made me scared of the dark. First they got a young lady then they tried to get Ashley, now a young man.
We then treated ourselves to X-MEN to take our minds off of the scary thoughts lingering in the back of our courageous thickheaded minds. We watched the movie until it got over. After that we decided to hit the sac, because we had a rough evening and we were so tired. As I laid down to sleep Lance gave me a kiss goodnight on the fore head and said goodnight to me as he headed towards the cot in his room that he had set up to sleep in so I could get his comfortable king sized bed. I felt so special when he gave me that kiss goodnight, wishing that nothing would happen to us before falling asleep. I turned the lights off and closed my white delicate eyelids.
I had fallen into a deep sleep. I had dreamed about the murderer killing Lance as he exited the bathroom of his house. "SMACK!" I heard as I woke up in a cold sweat. So scared of what I heard I started to pant and Lance came over to me and asked what was wrong. When I told him about my dream he was completely, or should I say officially freaked out. I told him about what I heard, that woke me up. So we then decided to check it out. We got dressed and went down stairs. We turned the patio light on and outside we saw a figure with a black suite on, run away. On the patio table there was a letter noting that whomever it was would be watching us. As me and Lance got freaked out we brought the letter back inside and went back to sleep. This time we stayed close to each other making sure that no one did something stupid or something suspicious.
When we woke in the morning, we showed J.C and Ashley the letter and explained to Ashley what we saw. As Ashley answered that that was the same person who stabbed her, Lance got a suspicious call from "his boss." After the call, Lance told me that he had some unfinished business that he needed to take care of, so he would have to leave at 7:00pm tonight, instead of spending the night with me like he promised. He made us all breakfast and we all went to the mall.
"Oh my gosh!" Yelled Ashley when we went passed Hot Topic in the mall. We so had to check it out. As we entered the store Ashley spotted the perfect Christmas present for me, and bought it. She wouldn't let me know so I bought her the necklace she had been wanting from there, and didn't tell her what I got for her. As she gave me her puppy dogface, Lance took us into Aeropastale where Ashley and me bought some new groovy pants with flames on the side, and shirts.
We went to the Orchid, for dinner. Lance consisted that he should pay for the bill, but I wouldn't let him. As we got back in the car to go home, Lance turned on the radio. That's when we heard, "Killer on the hunt!" We listened carefully and the radio had said that there was another killing in UCLA last night. It was another girl, which had been working on her computer when the killer sneaked in and stabbed her to death, then hung her with a rope over her bed, and on her neck they found fang marks. We were devastated, and frustrated because of this.
As I got home I checked my power again, nothing. So Lance and me decided to go look at the cable box outside. Ashley and J.C rented a hotel nearby, because they felt they were bugging me. As we stepped outside on the patio again, we both got this chill down our spine. Around the corner, I saw something and screamed. My cable box was ripped off, and inside was a bloody letter saying, I CAN SEE YOU! As we ran inside, I tripped on something and fell to the ground. Lance helped me back up, and I looked to see what I tripped on. It was a rope covered in blood. The only thing is though, is where did it come from. It wasn't there before when we went outside. We unlocked the door and went inside quickly. Luckily we had locked the door before we came outside so whomever put that there couldn't get inside.
Late that night, after Lance had gone to do his "unfinished business", when I was lying on the couch, I heard noises outside. Hoping it was Lance returning next-door, I quickly jumped up, and saw a black figure outside standing about 5 feet away from my window. Its eyes were glowing red and blood was dripping off of its mouth. It just was standing there, and kept staring at me. I fainted and woke up the next morning with Lance by my side, crying, because he didn't know what had happened. As he looked at me and hugged me, I told him what I saw and why I fainted. As he tried to stop crying, I asked him what was wrong. He said he didn't want anything to happen to me and he was sorry for leaving me home alone.
I got up and took a shower. When I got out, Lance had made me breakfast and picked out clothes for me. As I asked him what all this was for, he put his finger up to his mouth and told me not to worry, and that he had a surprise for me. A moment later, when I was done eating my breakfast he told me to go get dressed. As I slowly walked into the other room, he started the car. I came out of the house, locked the doors, and went into his car. As he put his foot on the pedal and got out of the driveway, he told me what he was doing. Turns out that he found out that the place was bugged, and the killer could here what we were saying. That is why he told me to be quiet and told me we were going to do something special. Even though we were going to go do something.
As I stepped out of the car, I asked what we were doing here. We were at the hotel Ashley and J.C were at. Lance said nothing and told me to stay in the car while he went to go get them. So I did. I sat back in my seat and Lance vanished inside the hotel. As I looked hoping he would come out soon, I saw someone coming towards the car. I locked it. The person whom looked like who I saw last night was staring at me. They took an ax and smashed the window open. I tried to run out of the car, but my seat belt got stuck on the latch. I heard someone, and looked up, the killer had vanished in thin air. I saw Lance and he asked me what I was doing. As I frantically looked around and noticed the window wasn't smashed, I told him nothing was wrong, and that I just was going to check on him to see if he was coming soon. As he asked me if I were sure I was all right, Ashley and J.C looked at me weird and ignored me the whole ride up to UCLA to visit his family and eat dinner.
That's it, I knew something was fishy about Ashley and J.C not talking to me the whole ride up. It really made me sad because today was my birthday. December 28th and I got no special Happy Birthdays. Not even from Lance, and he never ever missed my birthdays. As we pulled into the driveway, the house looked really dark. I thought they weren't home but I was wrong when we opened the door and everyone jumped out and said surprise when I turned the lights on. It scared me so much that I started to get visions of the murderer in my mind. As Lance hugged me and said happy birthday, I decided to just have a wonderful night.
"Ring.... Ring" went Lances cell-phone at 7:30pm. It was his boss calling him again. As Lance went to the other room, his mom asked me how old I was turning, as I responded 22 Lance came back out and said he had to leave to meet his "boss" somewhere. He said goodbye to everyone and left the house. I ran into the bathroom and started crying because it was the first actual birthday I had ever had, and I was supposed to spend it with Lance this year. "He had to leave on MY BIRTHDAY!" I kept saying I my mind. I decided that I was going to follow him to see where he was actually going. I jumped out the window and took Lances car he had already left there for his parents to use.
I drove away quietly so nobody would hear, and followed Lance down the road, stupidly with my headlights off so he couldn't see me. I tried to stay as far away as possible from him as I could, but it didn't work as I went around a corner, he stopped and saw the car. As he got out I tried to duck away from him but it didn't work. He opened my door up and asked me what I was doing. As I told him I wanted to go with him, he told me to get in his car and he would bring me, just because it was my birthday though.
As we pulled into UCLA I asked what we were doing here. He told me that he had to do some investigations and that I would be his "Guinea Pig." We stepped out of the car and opened the doors. As we stepped in, a whole bunch of police told us to get out. As Lance whispered something in his ear, he let us in and told us we would be there all night. Lances boss took us into a room and told us the situation. Before we got there another man had been murdered and that's why we were investigating now. As we walked out, I saw the paramedics bring the body out in a body bag. There was blood all over the white bag and it disgusted me out. As I hid my face on Lances shoulder trying to look away he held me tight. His boss yelled and said this isn't a romantic show, go take a look inside there, you might see something that interests you.
We entered the room that the man lived in, I saw the most disgusting thing in the world, there was a message on the wall written in the young mans blood. It said you're going to pay! On a desk below there was a letter, Lance put his gloves on and picked it up. It read, "Lance, I think you might now who I am. I have to pay you back for all these years I have loved you, but you never loved me. You didn't even pay attention to me. Now you are with that girl and I can't bear to watch you be happy and me sad all these years. That's right, all I think about is myself." Signed your love forever.
We exited the room, with Lance having no idea whoever it was. We handed the letter to his boss and he bagged it. They asked Lance if he had any ideas of whom it might be, but he just shook his head and blamed himself for all that has happened. Lances boss told us that we could leave now, and that's all he needed us for. So we left the building and went back to Lances parents house. On our way, we stopped to pick up Lances car he gave to his parents.
"We have been looking everywhere for you!" Cried Ashley as we entered the house. They asked where we went but we couldn't tell any of the information we got tonight. We just swiftly nodded our heads and said that we should be on our way home before it gets to late, completely to shocked to remember dinner. Ashley and J.C got into the car and we brought them back to their hotel.
We decided to go to Lances house tonight, because my house was bad luck to me and I was way to scared to go into that house after all that has been going on. Lance let me sleep in his big bed again, and I was so delighted that he gave me a kiss on the lips for the first time and he said goodnight as I drifted away to a sleepless night of fantasy in my mind. I woke up. Lance had been singing something in my ear, to fall asleep. As I turned my head, he asked me something so cute that I couldn't tell him no, so I said yes, you can sleep in the bed too. He said thank you, and made an excuse of his back hurting way too much.
The next day I woke up to him leaving a picture of himself sleeping by my head, because he had to go shopping. I got up and got in the shower. I took my shaver and cream out of my bag that I always carry around with me, and shaved, cleansed and washed my hair in the shower. As I heard a noise I flipped out and forgetting to wash all the suds out of my hair, I took a towel, and couldn't see very well. I saw a black blurry figure, and fainted on the floor.
Two hours later, Lance found me on the floor, and washed my face off. I had blood all over me from who knows where, and he helped me get back into the shower. He exclaimed that he doesn't want to leave me alone anymore, and he gave me pepper spray and a gun to protect myself if anything were to happen. I told him that that wasn't necessary, but he insisted. He got into the shower with me and helped clean the blood off of my face. We then became intimate, and he kissed me. We then heard a noise. We got out of the shower and went out to see what the noise was. It was just Lances dog Jackson, who jumped onto the table and broke a vase. We then went into his bedroom and got dressed. We laid down on his bed, and he kissed me. I turned over on my side.
I woke up and looked around. It was 12:00pm and I couldnt find Lance. I started screaming and yelling to see if he were there. All of a sudden he popped his head up from the side of the bed and gave me a kiss. He was just sitting there waiting for me to wake up. I then went over to the mirror to see my neck. It had been sore and hurting. I looked in the mirror and saw a hickey there. Lance had been making out with my neck while I was sleeping. I laughed, and he left the room and came back with a box in his hand. He got on my tummy and placed it there. He looked up at me and told me to open it, so I did. It was a silver bracelet with his and my name on it. I asked him what it was for and he told me that my mom had told him that I had always wanted one. He said that if I ever needed him and he wasn't there, just to look at the bracelet and it would remind me of him. He kissed me and I said thank you to him.
I went and ate lunch with Lance, and then we decided to go and see Ashley and J. C. We got our coats on after eating and Lance kissed me again. I didn't know why he kept kissing me like he was. He would kiss me like every half-hour it seemed. We went into Lances car, and we were on our way to the hotel Ashley and J. C. were staying at. When we went up into there room, they were gone. There was a note telling us that they had gone to the auditions for that Restaurant, Hooters. As I remembered about that, me and Lance decided to go back to my house to see if he could debug everything that you know, was bugged.
As we drove into the driveway, there was a note on my door. We went up to the house and looked at the note. It stated that whomever this person was, was apparently watching us, and they said that they were jealous of me. Wait, jealous of me, why. I told Lance that it must be a girl, because girls are the ones that are always jealous. But thats not the only thing that this letter said. It said that they missed the eyes of Lance in the nighttime, signed Lances lover, the killer. Lance got a little worried thinking that this killer was watching me and him at night, and told me that I had to lock every door in the house when he left, and that he was going to put the extra security to work in the house.
We opened the door of my house, and went to my room to get some more clothes and accessories. I put it all into a big bag, and went upstairs to get a drink. I took my strawberry smoothie drink and right as I was about to take a sip, Lance took it from me and said that it might be poisoned. He then took a sip and as he handed it back to me, he put his hands up to his throat, and fell to ground. I screamed and he got back up. He laughed and said, just kidding. I personally think that he did it cause he wanted a drink of it. I called him a stupid head, and said that that wasnt funny. After he was done laughing his butt off, he apologized.
I grabbed my c-ds off of the stand, and put them into my bag. I then went into the bathroom to get some more shaving cream, and some more things like tweezers, a brush, a toothbrush, etc That is when something hit me. It hit me right across the head like a knife stabbing into me, so painful so dreadful. I fell to the floor, and passed out. Lance came running as I screamed from the pain and fell to the ground. As he came in the same thing happened to him. He fell straight to the floor while he passed out next to my body.
I woke up in my room blood everywhere as I could barley see Lance still passed out next to me. I looked across the room as I saw someone run out of the room and I heard the front door slam. The killer escaped while laughing disgruntedly out the door. I could not move. As I looked around I found that I was tied to my bed and as I looked above me, knives hung from ropes. I then passed out again thinking this is the end.
"Oh my gosh!" Ashley and J. C. exclaimed as they walked in on me and Lance tied to the bed. Ashley screamed thinking that we were dead, and untied us quickly. Ashley and J. C. had been looking for us everywhere and decided to check here, thinking that we came to check up on stuff. They were right. As Ashley untied us, we woke. I felt as I were dead, and thought I was in heaven. While I had passed out, I had had a dream. Strange dream that was.
I fell through the bed, and sank into it, as if it never wanted to stop sinking. I fell through and through again and again, each time the same as before, but something had changed a bit every time. Every time I sank into the bed, the time had changed, as if I was in a prospect of Hell. It kept track of the time but not regular time, it was backwards, and it repeatedly sank me into a darkness of Hell. As I fell deeper and deeper into this hole, there were voices. One told me my future, which I could barely make out. Another reviewed my past. It said everything, even about Lance, and me and I had kept that a secret from everybody. But I had no choice to stop it. It was in control, and I couldnt stop it as much as I wished to. The last dream of me falling into this hole, I fell to the ground. Where it took me into this dark room of one light, projection. It showed my past and me. How much I did not want to watch it in excruciating pain, it seemed to hold me into place and kept my eyes open. It was gripping me and I couldnt breathe. This thing could control my body, and I was helpless. I sat there in dismay watching my prevalent past of horror.
I was young. Walking down a street, dark, cold, and not one sole to protect me. I turned a bend and there it was. My worst enemy in the entire universe although I never seemed to catch the face as it was dressed in black. There it beat me down as hard as it could, me struggling to get up, I just couldnt. I relived the experience. Time went into the past; the thing killing me, beating me to nothing. As it tried to grip me, I struggled to my feet and ran. He caught up holding a knife in his right hand. He again battered me to the ground. This time he rapped me and stabbed me as if I was a pincushion, yet this part had not happened in real life. But it was real as I relived it. I sat dying on the ground as the man in black ran. Lance passed me by as if he did not know me, leaving me there to die, to wait and die. As if I had deserved what had happened.
I cried, sobbing on Lances shoulder, he told me he would never let me die. We were safe now in Lances house. Struggling to get my breath again, Ashley and J. C. were horrified by my dream.
