Heroism and Harshness

Chapter Eighteen

Becky, who ran away when the mysterious man came, dashed across the creaking shack. After a minute of rapid running to the left side, she came to a dead end. Now being trapped, she pleaded that the man will look in the closet so she could escape.

The man came as Becky saw what he looked like on the back. He was fat as she assumed that the "fat" was really muscle. He had a torn brown bag that was hanging off his back with a shot-gun hanging out of it. The shot-gun scared Becky as she had seen guns that belonged to guards but she never seen a shot-gun.

Thankfully, she lucked out as the man checked the closet and Becky snuck away in the nick of time. She dashed through the broken hallway with creaks so she knew that the man knew that she escaped when he got distracted so Becky picked up some speed.

After dashing through the risks of the hallway, she saw the stairs. Becky thought that she should dash up but then he'd eventually find her. Becky then scanned the room for anymore hiding spots. There was some broken furniture like an old table that had wood broken in the middle. It kind of reminded her about the Hub. Becky looked more as she saw a desk that had one tiny drawer but wasn't enough. She couldn't look anymore because if she went any farther, the man will find her.

Becky turned around as she was gonna hop up the stairs when she found a hiding spot. There was a cupboard under the stairs as Becky dived into there. She then shut the door to the dark and small cupboard under the stairs.

As soon as Becky did that, she thought she was safe but then she noticed something wasn't right. Something that was right in front of her. Beck gasped as she scooted back a bit before she bumped into the wall. She felt a crack form into the wall and she got more nervous.

Becky then blinked a few times, hoping that the thing she saw will go away. Instead, she actually saw it more clearly. The thing was shining in her face as her eyes adjusted to it more clearly. She saw a colored screen that brighter her face. Becky then knew what it was. She had seen a screen at Princess Addie's but never right in front of her eyes. She had no idea how there was a screen at this old shack when there weren't any light bulbs.

But sometimes, Trey doesn't make so much sense as she didn't know that much. Ten years in prison, doing the same routine every single day. She didn't know what most things were until now. So it wasn't surprising that the screen made o sense.

The screen got divided into red lines where they turned out to be boxes. There were four boxes. They had the time on the right corner.

Becky then looked in the grainy boxes as she saw some blurry rooms on each screen. In the top right, she saw a broken room with a plant. On the top left, she saw a huge closet with a chair next to it. The bottom ones were only rooms where she had already seen. The room with the closet where she hid from the man and the room where there was that messy room. She then wondered why was there a screen in the cupboard in the first place?

But, as she looked down at the bottom boxes, she saw a moving image. She saw a black thing move, assuming it was the shadow of the man moving across the vast hallway. Becky's heart started to pound! She knew that it would be seconds until she will discovered by the man and will probably be killed. Maybe she won't die by The Execute.

Finally, after a few minutes of the shadow of the man searching through the furniture where Becky was scanning, he then turned around as Becky saw what he looked like.

It turned out that he had a mask that was just a big leaf, with eyeholes cut out for him to see. he wore a stained shirt that had rags on it. The man then came closer to the cupboard as Becky grew even more scared!