Human tales

We Are Eating People

I picked up Rebecca's call and told her that I'd be coming over in a few minutes. I rushed out of my house and drove to the cafe. Rebecca and I have been great friends since our childhood school, we did almost everything together. But it didn't last long, her family flew away to Italy while we were in primary school, we grew apart in terms of distance and communication. And now that she's back here for a while, I hope we can spend a good time together and catch up, I'm so excited to meet her.

I parked my car and tried calling her but I felt like someone was staring at me, I couldn't see anyone so I focused myself on calling Rebecca but suddenly someone shoved me towards the wall from behind and when I turned around I saw a fair and tall woman with brunette hair, tall legs, pale green eyes, perfect chiselled muscles everywhere and she was dressed in total black like a racer I was awed by her.

She looked like a goddess, but wait she pushed me. Not a goddess anymore I guess, I shouted back "who the hell are you? Why did you push me?" she just laughed and said, "don't you recognise me, slider?". Slider? Isn't that what Rebecca used to call me when we were kids? .Oh wait!!! It's her. "Rebecca, is that you? I almost couldn't recognise you, holy crap! You've changed a lot. You look jaw-dropping". She just smiled and said, "Nah, don't flatter me, you look beautiful! I've missed hanging out with you". We then headed into the cafe.

"So what have you been doing in Italy all this time?" I asked her. "Nothing much, stopped my education midway and started a business of my own. I own a packaging company over there. What about you, what are you up to?". "Oh me? I'm a home baker". She chuckled and said, "Since you've always been the sweet one being a home baker makes a lot of sense I guess". "If that's the case, you've always been the tough one. Do you sell drugs and deliver dead bodies in those packaging boxes?".

She stopped eating and gave me a spine chilling look and whispered, "Now that you know my secret, let's just keep it between us. okay?" Then she smiles faintly and resumes eating. She makes it sound so real, could she be saying the truth? What if I'm in danger, maybe I should call the cops. That's risky, I should slip away from here and get out of her sight, or maybe fly away somewhere far and remote.

A hysterical laugh pulls me away from my thoughts, I see Rebecca laughing insanely, she then says "which island are you flying to? Let's go together". "How did you know what I was thinking?" She again laughed and said, "you always over imagine things, I could guess that easily, looks like you didn't change much from back when we were kids".

We then went for a walk in the park nearby, we sat down on a bench and we did a lot of talking and a lot of catching up, that is when a car catches my attention, it had a sticker on it quoting 'we are eating people', I point it out to Rebecca, she finds it weird too. We go near that car and make some lame jokes on it. Then I take out a sticky note and write down 'are you a cannibal?' on it and stick it beside the quote. We then head back home.

* Somewhere in the world in a dark room, a person calls a strange number. The line gets through, and he responds in a hoarse voice, "Thomas, some stupid person put a stupid sticky note on my million dollar one of a kind car and I don't like it. Now, I want you guys to find out who dares to do so, and teach them a good lesson, and also another thing master satan is back, so double up our disguised men in the city. I want eyes and ears everywhere". "Yes boss, we got it." and the line ends. Thomas grunts and shouts at his subordinates "did you hear what the boss said? Now, quickly get up and don't sulk around". Then he says to himself, "why does he react so much for a sticky note and also Who asked him to publicize so openly that he does eat people for real?" *

Rebecca and I hangout more frequently now, but what I find odd is that I see that car with that tag which I've seen at the park more frequently almost every day, it makes me feel so worried and insecure. Rebecca notices me and asks what's going on in my head, I tell her about the car. She then just laughs and says, "don't worry too much about such trivial things, it must be coincidental".

"But if you insist, I could ask my men to keep an eye on it and deliver that body neatly decorated just in case things go south. By the way, do you want everything intact on the other way round?" I just laugh and respond "do what most of your clients prefer these days". She then says "oh! they mostly consume the package by themselves, but I don't think you'd prefer that". I laugh uncontrollably " A cannibal? You're kidding me, right? They are just in the movies. Do you eat them too?". She responds seriously, "No, they don't taste so good, but their blood sure tastes great". We both then laugh like lunatics and then go for movies.

She flew back to Italy after staying for a month or so. I would definitely miss her. Rebecca left but the car never did. So I decided to put on a disguise and follow that car and guesswork my doubts. All I could find is that where the car was parked at first, that area had the word 'psycho' engraved on it (which didn't lead me anywhere), excluding that I didn't really find anything after a month of following that car. So I gave up and got back to my normal daily schedule but what I didn't notice was that I was being followed this whole month.

* in the middle of the night a man calls a private number, "Satan, someone's been following me in disguise for a month, I found that person's whereabouts. What do you think I should do?". Satan replies, "you fool, do I have to teach y'all everything?. Here's our basic rule listen to it carefully: we find 'em, we catch 'em and we finish 'em" then she ends the call. *

I was heading back home from work on a cloudy evening, it looked like the clouds would pour down at any given moment. I heard someone calling me. So I hurriedly turned around. Before I could see anything, a masked person hit me on my head and I flaked out, and when I woke up, I was in a small room cuffed up to a chair, that place stank like a drain. I tried to free myself but nothing seemed to work. Some guy who looked like a bouncer came in and said, "hey woman! Stop that would you? You're doomed, consider yourself dead. So shut up and sit down till our boss comes".

I couldn't help myself but shout. "Hey! Where am I? Why did you bring me here? What do you want from me?". That bouncer guy got annoyed and shouted back "I asked you to shut up, didn't I? And about where you are, don't you remember taking a picture of the entrance of our hiding/killing spot? How do you think we could let you get away with something like that?". I got confused and asked and asked "what spot are you talking about?". That person glared at me angrily and said "don't pretend! And stop trying to act like you know nothing". I panic and say " you got the wrong person, I don't know what you're talking about". He just ignores me and slams the door shut.

After what feels like waiting for an eternity, a short and stout person comes into the room and hits me with his gun without mercy, he then says " how dare you mock me? You first make fun of me and then follow me?" He then turns around and points out to his subordinates and says "we shouldn't waste our time on such futile beings, let's get it over with".

After I pull the trigger and get rid of that filthy person I turn around and say, "Thomas, clean up this mess. We have a lot more important people to kill unlike someone with no sense of humour".

Rebecca finds out about her friend's death and how someone killed her and that her body was found in a drain. And the drain's lid was engraved with the word 'psycho' on it. The police suspect it is the work of some psychotic killer. she gets very disappointed and angry. She then quickly thinks of something, calls a person. On the other side of the line a person replies cheerfully, "hello Satan, good morning!! I found the person who was following me, I found that person and finished that person. But, I'm sorry that our base 3 was exposed, we can fix it. It stinks anyway." he keeps blabbering continuously, Rebecca interrupts him and says, "Steve, did you know that the person you killed was a friend of mine?. Come to Italy immediately. I need to talk to you 'in person'". That guy lost his cool and immediately started crying and pleaded for forgiveness, "b..b..boss, I'm so...sorry, I didn't mean to ki..kill your fr..friend, no one has ever...ever seen you if I knew that the other per..person was you, i.. I'd have steer cl..clear" "hello? B..boss?" "p..please don't ...please don't k..kill me".
What he didn't know was that the line was cut right after Rebecca asked him to fly over to Italy.

THE END