Along Came a Murderer

Being Watched

I've been feeling paranoid more than ever. I've locked myself in my room, and haven't come out at all. This way, I can't get anymore notes. And everything will start feeling better.

I heard a knock at the door. "Alice, you've been in there for 5 days and haven't eaten anything. Please, come out. I want you to eat."

"I-I can't! They'll find a way to get to me! They're watching me!" By the tone of her voice, I could tell that she was very concerned.

"Alice, I'm coming in." She somehow unlocked the door and then walked in. She looked at me sitting in the corner, shaking. "Alice. Please. Talk to me. You're really starting to worry me. I don't want you to feel like this anymore."

She walked over to me and sat down. I scooted away. "I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to end up back there again!" She grabbed my shoulders. "Please! Talk to me! Why have you been acting like this?"

"I'm scared, okay? I'm so flippin' paranoid because I've been finding notes everywhere, and I don't know what they mean! And not to mention, I found the pocket knife I used to kill that man on the bus in my pocket! I have no idea how it got there! I'M LOSING MY MIND AGAIN!"

I started having a panic attack. "Alice, please. Calm down-"

I reached for my knife and raised it over my head. "A-Alice?! Putt the-"

I started having flashbacks. I was back at the bus with the cops in front of me, telling me to putt the knife down. This flashback seemed too real. "Put the knife down!"

I snapped out of it. I can't stab my wife. But I can stab myself. The knife was by my side, now. I looked into my wife's eyes. "I'm sorry."

I stabbed myself. She screamed and ran over to me. "What have you done?! Why did you do this?!"

Everything around me became a blur.

A few minutes later, I found myself in a dark neighborhood. The man I saw at the park was walking towards me. I looked down at my stomach. No blood, no scar... nothing... Where am I?

The man was about 4 feet away from me. "What do you want?" I tried to sound tough so that he'd leave me alone.

"I wanna talk to you. See how things are going." Does this man even know who I am? If I have to kill him, I will.....

"I'm done with all of this crap. Just leave me alone, and let me live my life." He laughed a bit. "Why are you laughing!?!"

"If I leave you alone, you'll end up dead in 20 minutes." He motioned me to follow him.

"No! I'm not going anywhere! We can talk right here." He laughed some more. "You've got guts, Alice. Too bad they're about to get ripped out of you."

"What?" All of the sudden, I felt the back of my head get bashed up against something. I had woken up while being put in an ambulance.