Fear Runs Deep

Carmen

Hi, my name is Leo. I have to share Carmen's story. I am her friend. But! Um! Anyways, I had just started going to college that semester and I didn't have any friends at the school. I sat alone at lunch. Everyone I tried to talk to would just blow me off or ignore me completely. I have to admit it was kind of frustrating and depressing. One day in my trigonometry class we got a group assignment. The assignment isn't really important to this so I'm not going to go into that. I got two partners, Carmen and Glenn. Glenn is a nice guy but he was very bossy. Carmen is sweet, cute, and just wanted to do her part. I found myself admiring her glossy light brown hair, her bright blue eyes, and her adorable, perfect smile. She kept looking at me too. I was the one making her smile. After class, she asked me if I wanted to eat lunch with her. So, of course, I said yes! We kept spending our lunches together and we even started studying together after classes. She's very smart and knows how to make anyone smile. It was the last semester of school whenever she started worrying about money. She needed a little more to pay for school and textbooks. She didn't know what to do so she started selling pictures of her body online. She was making more money doing that than working in the local fast-food restaurant. I told her that it was a bad idea to be doing that but she kept on. More and more people started seeing her and she even private messaged some for higher offers. I told her that I thought it was wrong to be showing her body like that. She should only be showing her body to her lover. She still didn't listen. One day I woke up and she hadn't texted me. I thought nothing of it since we had an argument the night before. I walked to our first class and waited for her by the door so that we could talk about it. She never came. For the rest of the school day, she was just gone. After a week of waiting, we called the police. They got a search warrant to check her dorm room. They found that she had a freshly made bed and her backpack was gone. Her laptop was still showing her account. They searched her account and messages trying to see if they could find any hint as to where she could be. They didn't find anything. There was no trace of her. Her mom flew in from her hometown and we all searched the nearby forest. We searched for two whole months and still, we couldn't find her. Her mother was devastated. I know exactly where she was though. I knew they'd never find her and I knew I'd get away with it too. No one would suspect her best friend who joined in the search. I had warned her about the pictures. I had warned her about what could happen. Well, now she can't share her body with anyone else. It's mine and only mine, the way it should be. We were meant to be together. They will never think to look in the abandoned farmhouse basement where she lays on an old bed covered in her own blood. I put her in a nice dress and braided her hair so she'd look beautiful forever. Now I can see her whenever I want to and I'll always have a piece of her with me. It's one of her fingers with a ring on it trapped in resin and put on my necklace. It stays hidden under my shirt. No one will ever know. 

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Thank you guys for reading. Sorry, it's not better than it could be but I have some creepy ones planned. Some might even be a series about the same thing. But um yeah! Hope you liked it!