Sweet but psycho

Chapter 15

He was done earlier than me and I promised to come over when my class was over. About two hours later I knocked on his door. He didn't open or opened itself, I felt something was wrong. After a bit of trying and pushing I managed to open it.

"Mort? Mort?! Where are you?", he didn't answer. I went down the hallway towards the cage. The door half closed, I pushed it open, he was standing there, the cage open, he didn't move.

"Mort? Are you okay?", I went closer.

"What happened?", but he just stared at the sky.

"Do you notice something?"

I looked around but everything looked the same, just quieter, then it hit me.

"Where are they?", I was shocked when I realized the doves were gone.

"I don't know."

"I'm sorry. Oh god, it is my fault, my mom found out and I told her you have birds.", I felt the panic rising in my body.

"It's not, stop crying. I noticed a woman on the other side of the street, she probably heard us."

"My mom said Lizzy told her she heard us, you're right, but I could've denied it."

"Panicking about this now doesn't help us, we need to find my birds."

"But how did they get in here?"

"There's a door on the back of the room, they probably knew where the cage is by seeing the glass roof, I just didn't thought they have that much intelligence."

"How do we find them?"

"Good that you ask. I have an idea. I rented a garage near here, and some people here have one there too. That's the only place big enough to keep 50 doves.", he turned around and I thought I could see him wipe away some tears.

"I swear to God if they damaged one of their feathers, I will make their life a living nightmare and I will be the demon they dream of every night for the rest of their pathetic life.", he sat in the old Bentley.

We drove about 15 minutes before we reached a small parking lot with a row of garages next to it.

He looked around, no one was there, just an older guy giving us weird looks.

We walked to the garage, he got the key out and wanted to unlock the huge heavy door, but to our surprise it wasn't locked. He pushed it open and checked the lock, looking for hints of a break in, I walked in, and a disgusting smell hit my nose, it smelled like raw old meat.

"What's that smell?", I asked looking for a light switch, but I didn't get an answer.

He walked a few steps and looked to the ground. I found the light switch and when the lights went on, I saw the huge mess.

On the ground a red and white bloody mess, Mort standing in front of it, tears streaming down his face, he fell on his knees and picked up a small red, white mess, I didn't understand what it was at first but when I went closer, I saw the few black feathers on her chest. Paloma. I looked around, blood covered feathers everywhere. The smell, it was the slowly rotting meat and the metallic smell of blood.

He started crying, pressing the small body on his chest, screaming. He let her down and pulled his hair, screaming and sobbing uncontrollably. I kneeled next to him placing my hand on his back, trying not to cry too.

"No! NO! The voices, they are coming for me! Go away! Leave me alone! I won't follow you into the darkness! No! Help me!", he cried. I didn't know what was going on, but I pulled him in my arms, he pulled my shirt grabbed my neck with the other hand. It was like he was trying to hold on to something to not get dragged away by an invisible force.

I held him as tight as I could, I didn't know what he was scared of, but I wanted to show him he's safe.

He cried even harder with every minute, his face covered in blood and black eye shadow. I pressed his head against my chest, trying to calm him somehow.

It went like this for an eternity, when he finally calmed down from exhaustion, I brought him to his car and drove to his house. He just took his jacket off and went to bed.

"Can you stay with me?", he asked with tired, empty eyes.

"Of course.", I laid down next to him.

I spooned him from behind, he moved a lot, cried a few tears from time to time, but when I pulled him as close as I could he seemed to relax.

But then I woke up the next morning.