Ann and I

25.Unleashed

Ken

Before I could rush to save her, to stop her from eating this poison. She bit into it!!!!! . I kept pleading... Telling her not to.. And I knew that she could hear me... But she wouldn't even look at me. A knot of pain comes undone.... And like a sudden flood of the memories.. Painful memories... Fear.. blasted me in my face .. !!! This man ... This man... It was his face that I saw last. Last in this world before going... Before drowning. A deluge of memories drenched me cold they are so many.. Piled on one another.. I see myself going to school, I see this man smiling a repulsive smile. And . The sweet he gave me to eat.. Was... Oh God! Oh God! It was same as he has given to Ann!!!! And then.... And then. .... He had tied my hands and done..... I shrieked in pain.... I am shrieking now but it only reaches the ears of those like me who are standing terrified near Ann. They are whimpering with fear and pain that this monster has caused them. I look at Ann. She is asleep now like I was. The man is leering at her. Touching her cheeks, rubbing his long fingerd hands in glee and checking his camera. He can not sense me or others present in the room as he closes the window that I have broken. The world is spinning around me. I have to save Ann from this monster..... But how!!! How!!!........ The omnious sobbing of the dead victims continues... Their tempo rising.. Deafening me.......... Ann!!!!!! Ann!!!!!! I start shouting and screaming.. My... Wounds have opened up and the white pus is covering my face. The pain has returned.. My dumb fear... When this man laid his clammy hands on me... The way he stifled my mouth... The moment I stopped breathing... The way he laughed after drowning me in that cold dark water with a heavy stone around my neck. And Ann... He would do the same to her!!!. She is not even lookin in my direction. Just slipping through my head... Sitting there with her hands tied up. Chewing the obnoxious sweet. My vision is blurred by tears. I howl in anguish .... The children.. Those shadows around Ann hear me and start swaying... Mourning her coming doom and the wind outside responds to me. It howls in rage....a deafening Crack of lightened whips the sky and it has started bleeding rain...
But the monster is unaffected. He is leering at Ann rubbing his hands gleefully and scavenging with his repulsive greedy eyes. He chuckles like a hyena clicking his tongue. Ann has eaten that spiked sweet... Like I did. May be like all of the present victims. She has closed her eyes and is now resting her head against the pillow.
" sweet baby... Did you like it?? Did you like the sweet?? "
The serpent croons in her ears.
She is nodding.... As if under a trance... Almost smiling...No no no Ann wake up!!!!!! Wake and run!!! . I reach near chanting her name... If only I can wake her up.. The kids are weeping more now... Crying.... I HOWL... WAKE UP ANN ANN ANN ANN.......the air screeches and a deafening roar of lightening roars so mighty that even the monster is distracted for a while...
" thank you very much. I think it'd be better if you flavor it "
Someone whispers as the voice of thunder subsides and I turn to see the room completely silent.
***
Ann is sitting bolt right in her bed. The rope which held her hand is somehow broken and with one hand she is tightly holding the warted neck of that ghoul. He is gasping for breath, his face puce colored. Ann... Is holding him by neck. I stand awed. She turns to me with the same sad smile and as casually as she has talked to me for the first time...
"Hey ken. I missed you "
And then she dangles the man in her hand as a rattle and starts laughing......