Watched

Chapter 9

Sally

I finally felt relieved after a while. The whole thing seemed unrealistic to me. I still didn't know why the hell our security guard was watching us? And why did he send such creepy letters? My mind came up with millions of questions, but I couldn't answer any of them. The most important thing was that we were safe and not being watched anymore. After I had changed my clothes, I grabbed my mat and entered the balcony to meditate for some time before sleep. Mum taught me this habit since I was fifteen years old. She had always told me that meditating every day before sleep, helped a lot with calming your nerves when you were in a stressful time.

"No, no! This is so fucking crazy!" The familiar voice of Josh yelling reached my ears and caused me to shiver from fear. His voice was so furious and I could hear that he was breaking some stuff.

I hastily stood up and rushed inside to see what happened. It seemed like nothing was good at all. As soon as I reached Josh, I leaned down unwillingly to avoid the vase which he threw across the room. My eyes widened in shock as I was so close to getting hurt by it. Josh gasped, realizing that he would have hurt me just then.

"What's wrong with you, Josh? What happened?" I asked, slowly walking towards him to let him free the second vase which he wanted to break.

"I'm done with this shit," Josh rebuked.

"Just tell me what happened."

Julia, Nick and Daniel joined me when they heard Josh screaming and breaking things.

"Here, read this text message," Josh said as he handed me his phone.

I looked straight into his angry eyes. I instantly understood that there was a fatal matter behind his exasperation. I took his phone to read the text message. My blood pressure lowered as I felt a strong shiver hit my whole body. My brain stopped thinking as my eyes expelled a couple of tears down my cheeks.

"It must be a nightmare. It can't be real," my words pathetically came out of my mouth accompanied by sobs.

"What's the matter? Give me this phone," Nick shouted, snatching the phone from my hands.

"Damn!" Nick yelled in disbelief.

"The damn person who watches us isn't the security guard," Josh snapped.

"What the fuck? So why did the delivery man tell us that it was him?" Daniel asked.

"He was such a big dick. A very big liar," Nick shouted.

"What does it mean? We are still being watched, huh?" Julia asked and her voice was shaky as hell.

I pulled her for a hug and tried my best to calm her down.

"I'm not gonna live like this anymore. I can't believe that our lives have become worse than hell since we came here. I will book a return ticket to San Francisco. Fuck university. Fuck education. Fuck everything. I want to return to my family and home," Josh cried as he took his phone from Nick by force.

"Josh, no! We can't return to San Francisco right now. Are you crazy? Whoever is watching us absolutely will know if we go back to San Francisco, and maybe track us there and hurt our families too," Daniel huffed.

"So what should we do now, huh? Sit down and wait until the sender comes and kills us all?" Julia yelled as she pulled away from me.

"We should go to the police station again and report this message. They must help us to discover who the real sender is," I quickly said.

"The police will obviously take a lot of time until they find out. We might get killed before they could," Julia shouted.

"But Sally is actually right. We have no other choice. At least, the police will try their best to find him, but we can't do anything by ourselves," Daniel agreed with me.