THE SCAR THAT NEVER BLED

|OLD PARTNER|

Marliyn POV:

NOVEMBER 21TH 10:22AM
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I meet the smell of the disgusting basement again as I rose from my slumber.

I couldn't bare the feeling of cold air controlling my entire body.my head was at the end of the bed and the rest of my body was curled up,my knees hitting my chest.

I got woken up by the sound of stair creaking?. I got distracted and turned to where the sound was coming from, everything else around me was a blur but...

The black phone wasn't.. strange

It was almost like my eyes were a camera only focusing on one item. I looked up towards the phone.It looked like a rotting lung that was breathing I furrowed my eyebrows and slightly lifted my head up at it "stop it"

"Stop what?" A voice came out of nowhere.i jumped up and there was the grabber. Squatted down against a wall, infront of me,under the tiny window.as I jumped up I realized my jean fly was done. It wasn't down before the grabber got me.

"What are you doing down here?. And why was my jeans unzipped" i felt chills consume my skin and my breath was shaky, I wanted to sob right there

The grabbers face suddenly changed to a panic expression

"How are your eyes?"

"They hurt"

He nodded "i-

"You still didn't answer the question"

He furrowed my eyebrows

"Why...why were my jeans unzipped.And what are you d-doing down here"

He took a exhale and got up from the wall, about to leave.

"ANSWER ME, YOU FUCK!" I screamed at him. But he just kept walking, soon the door shuts and makes a loud clang

After that, I let out a sob, placing my head down on the mattress, still being on my knees. I got flashbacks of my father.i told myself it wouldn't happen again and it did

I wanted to ask God why,why me always, why did he make me live this way, make me live in a household I always felt a burden in.I always got told by my mother I was Satan's daughter. Maybe it was true.

I always thought of my life as a nightmare, not the type of nightmare that has the boogeyman hiding in the closet.but the type of nightmare that has me caged up inside that has me surrounded by the void and felt like I couldn't breathe, like a old house that's getting overrun by vines, vines on the house that spreaded out like veins.

I suddenly cut my finger on something that was sticking out from the mattress. I did not let out any agony, i didn't even whimper or whine. I watched as the red crimson made a circular puddle from the wound.

I lingered around the area again and hovered my wrist over it. I do it quickly and slashed my wrist. I felt a tear dropped from my eye and down my cheek. I was desensitized, I felt like a ghost in my own skin.

I atleast did it 4 times. My wrist was on fire. Blood leaked down my hand . My wrist was twitching and my hand was slightly shaking and I felt a lump in my throat, I wanted to say sorry, sorry for everything I've done.

It was my fault my mother left, it was my fault my father got murdered, it was my fault my brother went missing. I ruin everything I touch. I pushed all my friends away.

Suddenly I heard a muffled phone ringing in the distance. My eyebrows furrowed together as the ringing got louder each second that was passing. Was I dreaming, was I going crazy, or was it real?

I turned my head towards the phone and the ringing was no longer muffled. This wasn't a dream, this was very much real. I got up from the mattress and stood infront of the phone.

I picked up the receiver and put it up to my ear
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"Hello?" I said into the phone.

"MARLIYNNNNN" a disembodied voice came on the other side.

In immediate shock I put the receiver back on the stand and back up into a corner. I put my head on my chest, I could feel my heart, I swear it was about to jump out of my chest to how fast it thumping

The phone rang again. This time it sounded like it was getting louder and louder the more I decided to stay in the corner.

I decided to walk towards the phone and restart what I started. I spoke into the phone again

"Hello?"

"Don't hang up" the voice on the phone spoke

"I won't.who is this?"

"I don't remember my name.. It's the first thing you lose when you"

"It's the first thing you lose when you what?"

"You know when" i heard their nose snuffle, sounding like their was trying not to cry

This was totally ludicrous. How in the hell was I talking to somebody through a phone that has the wire cut. I then thought how do they know my name?

"How do you know my name?"

"We met once" the voice spoke again

"Where?" I replied

"November 3rd, Mr Mitchell's science class, we were partners"

I did some thinking back. November 3rd. That was the day we did frog dissections. A girl came up to me wanting to be partners.. was this Bella T.?

"Bella, Bella Thorn?"

"Yeah,y-yeah I'm Bella"

"I saw your abduction on the news"

"Probably everyone did huh?" I heard her let out a low chuckle

It was quiet between the 2 of us for a while. I didn't know what to say, I might as well have went mad I was literally talking to a corpse over a phone!.

"How'd he get you?"

"I vaguely remember but I'll try.I think I was walking down, Rosedale or Leonard Street, I was on my way to the hospital to visit my mother, well anyways I took a short cut but then that fucking van came out of nowhere"

"What did your mom suffer from?" I asked

"Doctor's said it was Leukemia. Said it was fatal in her condition said she didn't have long to live. My mother is going to die thinking I didn't care enough to go see her"

"Marliyn?.."

"Yeah"

"In the hallway, the third section. There's a tile that's lose. Dig down into the foundation,I tried but there wasn't time for me to dig up and out the other side.the dirt should still be soft for you dig it"

"Alright thank you Bella"