ring around Rosy

The Repairman

Mrs. Andrews smiled, her long viney fingers curling around her husband. Laughter echoed through the black space as I watched. lovely light singing followed as Mrs. Andrew closed her large mouth squishing something in between her teeth. tomato juice flowed down her neck. I watched on in amazement a fantastic sight, only I could see, only I knew...

That's when I woke up. The sun barley up, as I did my best to struggle out of bed. Danm alarm, why did he have to set it to 5:00 in the morning. I put my slippers on as I made my way to the bathroom. I twisted the shower handle ready for the feeling of nice warm running water. Unfortnetly, thats not what I got as I felt something cold and slimy sloshed onto my body. A smell I wasn't familiar with wafted through the air. I looked at my hand covered in... blood.

they were covered in blood... no, I was covered in blood. I screamed as the red driped over my body. I hurried to turn the shower off unable to fully comprehend what was happening. My scream was quickly joined by Tom's as his voice pirced the air. footsteps came up the stairs followed by banging on the bathroom door.
"ROSE?!? ROSE ARE YOU IN THERE?" Tears ran down my face as I looked in the mirror, my bloody body covered head to toe. I looked at the shower drain a small rose sat in the drain. its white bud stained red by the shower's droplets. I grabbed a towel try my best to calm down as panic set in my head.

"TOM! TOM THE SHOWER! THERES SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE SHOWER." I opened the door letting myself out Tom's eyes went wide when he saw me. I sat myself on the floor completely forgetting about our carpit. Tom crouched down putting a hand on my bloody shoulder, his eyes filled with fear.

"Honey? Are you okay? you didn't hurt yourself? did you?" I looked at the ceiling unable to think properly, Blood, I was covered in Blood. I never thought I'd be in this situation but if I was I thought I'd know how to handle it. Clearly I was wrong. I shook like a wet rat as we did our best to get me cleaned up. I looked at Tom scared.

"I didn't do it..." Tom looked towards the bathroom echoing my fear.
"I know hon, I think there's, something wrong with our plumbing." I nodded doing my best to peice myself back together. I looked at the Andrews house next store the desire for a nice, hot shower in not-blood growing as I looked on. Tom rolled his eyes.
"I saw that, I'll call a repair man later, he'll get it working right... just, leave them alone Rose." I smiled nodding reluctantly as I began getting dressed. Annoyed with my now blood stained clothes, and Tom, stupid Tom.

The repair man came to our house quickly as he began working on the pipes below our sink. he shook his head clicking his tongue disappointingly.

"well here's, the problem, something's stuck in the drain... I checked the layout of your pipes. looks like you and the neighbors are sharing the same plumbing. chances are the someone stuck something in the drain that's effecting the water coming through. the best course of action would be to check with them." I smiled as I waved to the Andrew kids, as they once again tried to break into the shed. The little girl stumbled into the house leaving her brother in the yard. Tom looked at me annoyed before turning to the repair man.

"Is there a way to fix this without getting them involved? my wife has... problems" I glared at Tom who looked away from me nervously. the repair man sighed.

"well, I guess I could try to detach the plumping so it doesn't effects you, but that's probably going to take A LOT more work, and time, probably a couple more resources..." Tom sighed opening his wallet as he handed the repairman some cash. I glared at the crook of a man as he happily excepted the money. Tom looked at his watch panic on his face as he rushed out the door.

"bye honey." I yelled after the man, Tom gave me a quick wave as he jumped in his car. I looked at the repair man.

"so how long is this going to take, exactly?" I asked hiding my irritation. he looked me up and down a repulsed look on his face.