IS IT A DREAM OR REALITY?

CHAPTER FIVE

I press the doorbell, it's not working
So I knock on the door one time,
The door is opening, I think she's Mrs Carroll, She is a woman who may be seven or forty-eight years old, and although her face is starting to show signs of aging, it is still beautiful.
The letters of beauty still distinguish her features. Beautiful eyes, a thin nose, and prominent lips.
I don't know how her husband could betray her, how could he not love her?
She seems fine now
maybe it helped her to be alone,
maybe she realized she was better off that way,
maybe she decided to live the life that was taken from her. 
I thought that I will meet a depressed woman or something like that,
I am happy to find the opposite of what I thought.
She opens the door for me in a sky-blue dress, which matched her snow-white complexion,
I say "Mrs. Carroll Harrison, right?"
She answers "Yeah"
She doesn't know that I already know her, but I do
"Here is your pizza, we are sorry for the delay, it was due to circumstances beyond our control"
I'm lying, all that I just said is a lie, it wasn't because of some circumstances beyond our control, it was due to the lack of responsibility of the delivery workers, I had to deliver the order myself and go through all this because of them, a  strange neighbourhood a rude man a woman acts as a witch a bird attacked me to protect his food and it ends with sprained my ankle, it all happened because they didn't care about their job and went to celebrate Ariel's silly birthday.
Mrs Carroll replies while she's smiling "It is okay... I feel like I just ordered it, but I know that the owner of the pizzeria, Marc right?
He employs just men in the delivery service, but here you are a pretty girl delivering my pizza,
Has anything changed for the last few weeks ?"
"Oh... About that, everybody in the pizzeria left early today, that's why I had to bring your pizza myself, and about Marc, he still in his principles conserving, employs girls at the delivery services" I say
"Mm I see..." she smiles and says
I give her the pizza, instead, she gives me the money then I wish her a good night
I turn to go
As you know my ankle sprained on the way over here when I was going through that dark tunnel,
it's not exactly a tunnel,  it's just a road, but I used to call it a tunnel because it's scary and it's like a tunnel, so I'm limping, I can't walk properly. 
She notices how I'm walking and she sees some mud at the bottom of my pants. 
She stops me by saying "Are you okay?
What's with the mud on your pants?
Did you have an accident on your way here and hurt your ankle?"
I turn to her and answer "Oh this... No, it's nothing, don't worry Mrs. Carroll"
I continue walking... She stops me again and says "You aren't okay, look at you, you're limping, and you'll hurt your ankle more if you continued walking"
I reply "It's fine, it's not that bad..."
Mrs Carroll speaks in a serious tone, her face expressions changing immediately "Come here, let me see it, I think I have something at home that can help your ankle"
I think I will be rude if I refuse her help again plus she seems very serious conserving my ankle, so I accept it
I go back to where she is standing, in front of her house door, and then she tells me to enter the house with her. She tells me to sit in the living room while she is looking for ointment for my ankle, to relieve the pain so I can walk to the bus stop and get home.
She has a refined taste in home furnishings, the sofa looks old but luxurious, a wooden table decorated with engravings, but covered with dust and roses on top of it withered.
I think she doesn't care much about the cleanliness of the house
Mrs Carroll comes with an ointment in her hand, she sits in front of me on the floor
I lifted my pants a bit so she can put the ointment on my ankle
She sees it and she says "Look at the condition of your ankle and you want to go without treatment, luckily I insisted.
  How did this happen to you?"
"Really Mrs. Carroll, you want me now to narrate that trivial incident?" I say in a low voice
"What?"She says
Then I say "Nothing... Oh... Yeah.... My ankle, in the way over here, when I was crossing that road which like a tunnel, a bird attacked me, I stepped on a small rock then I fell to the ground, and when I got up, I found my ankle sprained..."
She replies "Oh yeah, I see... That scary road, it's really like a dark tunnel"
"Oops, I forgot to get something to wrap around your ankle to relieve the pain, wait here, I'll bring some bandages now," Mrs Carroll says
"The ointment is enough Mrs Carroll, don't bother yourself, I think I can walk now, I appreciate your help but I have to go home I'm very late" I tell her
But she insists to bring the bandages
"Just wait, I won't be late, the bandages are here... I think they are here or here....(she's seeking them)...Oh I find them"
I bent down to check my ankle but after some time I notice that Mrs. Carroll's voice broke. 
I raise my head and say "It's okay, Mrs Carroll if you can't find them, my ankle is fine without them"
But nobody answers
I call her again "Mrs. Carr.... oll..."
And before I can finish pronouncing her name, I see a shadow in front of me of someone standing behind me, I can hear his breath, I can feel his body, it's a scary feeling, my body shiver and my breath stops, I don't know what's happening?
I don't know who is this person?
I try to turn, but I can't, my limbs are frozen, I feel a strange feeling swept over my entire body
And everything that comes after is dark...