Runaway

The Key hole

It was late in night freezing outside and I came in along with Sherene my best friend and room mate. We went to our freshers party and got delayed we had to walk in the road and it felt like as if we were inside a snow globe. I thought to myself does life always have to be cold to us? why can't it be hot atleast once? Sherene somehow read my mind and said cause it's winter your idiot it's supposed to be hot! Whatever that's what I said, we reached our apartment and I could smell the sweet cupcake of Lucy our neighbour. Lucy is a pretty cute girl who just graduated outside college and is starting her job tomorrow I wanted to wish her the best but it was late so I decided to postpone it but it turned to be the biggest mistake I ever did and the one I regretted the most.

It was the next day I could see the sun peeking out and the little birds tapping my window it was time to start another day and time to go to college. I woke up and took a shower and made pancakes for breakfast. Suddenly remembered I need to wish Lucy, I headed out along with few pancakes but It was odd cause I could still smell the cupcakes, I knocked once and no reply and then again.....it went for around five minutes. That was strange I thought to myself Lucy is a nice listener and has got sharp ears but it was like she became deaf for minutes. Sherene came out hearing the noise my knock and we both together tried to knock since the knock be a little powerful but it was in vain. I didn't know what to do....Is she sleeping? Or in the shower? Or did she faint? My thoughts were getting worse each minute but I needed to do something we tried calling her I could hear her Ed Sheeran ringtone perfect being played. She was inside but why isn't she opening the door. I looked in the key hole....

And what I saw was horrible. Sherene behind me started telling me of rules that was against looking into people's privacy such as "key hole". But I was terrified when I saw it, Sherene seeing my gasped face took a look too in the key hole yet she was the one who spoke of rules. Her sofa was tore and there was glass pieces everywhere, her photo frame was broken we couldn't see much her key hole was small. I dialed the cops and informed them of the issue and they said they would come in Ten mins but we couldn't stand there outside Lucy's door having the worst thoughts going inside our minds. I noticed Lucy always had a spare key under her flower pot outside her door. I wanted to see if was I lucky and yes the key was there. I put the key in the hole and it was worse than we thought. Her sofa was torn and we could see the cotton flying everywhere I noticed her window broken and I came to thinking a thief broke into her house.

I couldn't come to think of how the cupcake smell still was covered inside the house. Sherene was near the kitchen making sure the gas was off and I went inside the rooms one by one, but she wasn't there in the first one and after came out of the first room I notice a trail of red liquid on the floor I didn't know if it was blood or sauce yet I followed the trail to the second room. I was sure at that moment my heart beat faster than ever and mind giving me Illusion of what I might see inside the bedroom. But I gathered up all my might and opened the door and there it was two legs hanging I looked up and found Lucy being hung with her wrist bleeding. That moment all I could hear was her blood dripping I felt like I was in a movie but it was not It was reality. Sherene was screaming my name from the kitchen but all could think was about Lucy and how she ended up here. I noticed that the blood trail was being continued inside the restroom too and followed it telling Sherene I was inside the room so that she stops screaming on top of her voice. I noticed that the trail in the tiles on Lucy's restroom and it stopped near her bath tub which was closed with a curtain and it made think that someone was behind it. I went close to the tub slowly without making noise and the moment I touched the curtains the light went off I held my breath and when the lights were on I let out my breathe only to notice a knife under my neck.