𝙎𝘾𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙈: 𝙇𝙊𝙐𝘿𝙀𝙍

Chapter 4 - Headstart.

The Next Day.

Ben was out, taking his daily jog. Everything was weird lately to him, he had been pretty on edge about everything going on lately but didn't wanna be too vocal about it. His jog was going good so far, but he couldn't shake the weird feeling about someone always having their eyes on him or that there was somebody watching him. He has his earbuds in, he's playing a good running playlist he had put together for himself. When he hears the music stop, and a notification reads out into his earbuds. "Call from an unknown number, do you want to answer it?" Ben is pretty confused, who could even be calling him at this time? All his friends know this is around the time he jogs, but he brushes it off. "Sure." The call immediately starts, Ben continues to jog while he asks, "Hello?" The voice replies, "Hello, Ben." Ben slows down his pace a bit, "..Hey um, who is this?" The voice calmly responds, "Someone." Ben asks, "Do I know you, "Someone"?" The voice replies, "Sure you do, you have for a while." Ben continues jogging, "Alright, well whoever this is..wanna stop pranking me? I'm doing my jog, you can do this later."
The voice responds, "I know you're jogging, but this is important." Ben says firmly, "Tell me who you are first." The voice chuckles, "We'll get to that, don't worry..I wanna talk first." Ben asks, "About?" The voice replies, "The murder that happened, isn't it eerie? Such a usually safe town, really caught people off guard, didn't it?" Ben lets out a laugh, "Okay, very funny. If you're trying to scare me, it's not working. But I appreciate the effort." The voice chuckles, "I'm not trying to scare you, just like how I wasn't trying to scare Kara or Kiara." Ben slows down his pace, "If this really IS the person who attacked Kara, you really suck at this. You literally failed to get her, kinda pathetic if you ask me." The voice goes silent for a second, "You say that like you could get away if I got you." Ben smugly responds, "Because I probably could." The voice chuckles, "You know, you're being real smart now. You're always the nice one with us, you never act like this in front of my face." Ben stops, "..So you are someone in the group." The voice chuckles darkly, "Took you long enough to put that together." Ben scoffs, "Look, I didn't ask for any trouble. I haven't done anything to anybody in that group." The voice whispers, "You sound scared, Ben. What's wrong, cat got your tongue?" Ben stammers, "Just leave me alone." The voice asks, "You would like that, wouldn't you?" Ben swallows, "Why are you doing this? I haven't done anything to you." The voice replies, "Some people have to learn from other's mistakes." Ben stands still, he's in a mostly wooded area now. It's pretty concealed, it doesn't help him feel any safer at all. The voice continues, "I thought you were jogging, why'd you stop?" The hairs on the back of Bens neck stand up, "What..?" The voice chuckles, "You heard me." Ben says sternly, "I'm calling the police on your ass, fuckface." Ben taps twice on his earbuds, hanging up on the caller. He reaches in his shorts pocket and takes out his phone, he begins to dial 911 and start to run again. It rings for a while, "Pick up, pick up.." The other line finally comes through to Ben, "911, what is your emergency?" Ben responds, "There's someone stalk-" Ben gets cut off by the same masked killer that attacked Kara and Kiara jumping out from behind a big tree, Ben jumps back, dropping his phone in the process. The killer swings their knife at him, he ducks out of the way just in time and kicks them in the groin. They grunt in pain and clutch their crotch, Ben doesn't take any chances. He immediately turns back and runs in the other direction, his heart is racing very fast. Ben feels his pockets for his phone, not realizing he dropped it earlier. He looks back, "Fuck, fuck, fuck..." As he looks back, he sees the killer quickly run up behind him. He continues to run, they chase closely behind him. He yells out, "HELP!"

Ben turns a corner, he sees a small playground type thing. He rushes onto it, trying to slow down the killer. He begins to climb over the metal gate on the playground, when he feels a knife go through his calf. He screams loudly in excruciating pain, the killer twists the knife. Ben pushes himself away from them, but it only causes him to fall from the playground. He lands on his other leg, causing it to completely snap. The bone now sticking out, Ben lets out a horrible cry in pain. The killer looks down from above, Ben tries to crawl away, but due to his legs both being messed up badly, he can't do too much to help himself. He yells out, "Fuck...Please, somebody..!" He hears the sound of wood chips crunching under someone's feet behind him, he turns his body over. It's the killer, Ben puts his hands up. "Please, wait.." The killer chuckles, they bring a voice changer up to the mask. "I've waited too long already, Benny boy." They look down at Ben, he turns over again. Not giving up just yet, he continues to try and crawl, but it only makes his legs hurt worse. Ben grunts in pain with every movement he makes, the killer follows him closely behind. Almost taunting him. They then bring their foot up, and stomp harshly on Bens already broken leg. Ben screams loudly, "GODDAMNIT!" Tears fall from Bens face, the killer grabs his shoulder and turns him over to face them. They kneel down to his level, Ben glares back up at them. Through their mask, he sees a set of eyes. He definitely recognizes them, but he's sure who they belong to. He musters up, "Who the hell are you?" Theres a pause, then the killer brings up the voice changer yet again, "You'll know soon enough, I'm doing you a favor. You and Kiara will get an early start to knowing who I am, the others will have to wait." Ben coughs, "F-Fuck you." The killer chuckles, they bring their knife up, Ben squeezes his eyes shut. But, then they stop, they have an idea. "You know..I actually have a better idea, it'll make you go out in style." Ben is confused, "What..." The killer stands back up, they grab Ben by his arms and begin to drag him towards the swing set. Ben watches in terror as he can't really move due to his legs, the killer lifts him up with all their strength, takes one of the swings..and begins to wrap the chains around his neck. Ben pleads, "Wait, just think about this for a second.." The killer tightens the chains, then they finally speak, without the voice changer, revealing to Ben who they really are. "I have thought, Ben." With that, they drop Ben, letting him hang from the swing set. Ben grabs at the chains, he chokes roughly. He gasps for air, and then the killer sends their knife into his stomach. He lets out a weak groan, they rip the knife across his stomach, completely ripping it open. Blood fills Bens mouth as his insides begin to fall out, and he stays hanging from the swing. The killers chest rises up and down, they take a step back, admiring their work they have just done. They reach under their robe, they pull out a phone from their back pocket. Bens phone. They unmute themself, then bring the phone up to their ear. "Sir, I asked "What is your emergency?"" The killer beings the voice changer back up to their mask, "Bens emergency has been fixed." The operator asks, "Who is this?" The voice chuckles, "Exactly who you guys are looking for." The killer hangs up on the operator, they chuck Bens phone aside. They look back up at Ben, still hanging from the swing set. They quickly wipe Bens blood off their knife, then rush off. Quickly disposing of what they had just done, keeping their name clean from any damage.