Human Again (A Jeff the Killer story)

20. Everyone has secrets

Emilie's pov

Days have passed since I've last seen Jeff. I will never forget how he tried to strangle me that day, and how I made him furious. I can't help but smile every time I remember how I tricked him. To say the truth, I was scared when he was strangling me but after all, I was right. He couldn't kill me.
I don't know how I found that conclusion. I think since the moment he saved me in the bar, and in the cinema, everything made sense. He likes playing with me, but he won't kill me yet. Maybe he has grown attached to me?

Ha ha.
I'm so funny.

I'm proud of myself though. Now I don't let him do what he wants with me. I'm replying, and I can be the one in control. Since more than a week, he has disappeared. It's only Anders and me in that huge manor. Sometimes, I meet new people in the stairs, but they're so scary so I just ignore them. My injury feels better too. I can walk as much as I want now, and I barely feel any pain. I have a huge scar on my stomach, but that's not that bad. I'm not the kind of girls who wear bikinis or crop tops anyway.

I'm talking much more with Anders as well. He's not that bad when we take time to talk to him and know him. He's just a little scary sometimes, but I'm used to it now. I can even say he would be a cool man if we weren't in this situation. I often talk to him when he's at home - he's often out to work at the bar -, but I have never tried to escape when he's gone. I know Jeff and him will find me, I have nowhere to go except for my place. Plus, he says that I might leave the manor in some days. I'm really excited to leave, I can't stand being here forever. I need to call my parents, Peter and my university so bad. I'm sure people think I'm dead by now. Therefore, I don't know what my life is going to be when I'll be back. I may be able to stay in Chicago to finish my studies here, but I will have to find an excuse for my 'disappearing'. I wanted to leave the city to escape Jeff, but hey, he's the one running away now. No problem to solve anymore!

"Hey Emilie."

I turn around surprised by that interruption, to look at Anders who's laying on the grass next to me. I'm laying in the garden, near the woods right now. I'm allowed to do what I want here and go wherever I want to, as long as I don't leave the manor too far. Of course I'm still a prisoner, but in a good prison if I can say. I can do whatever I want to, as long as I'm waiting for his approval to leave. Which is going to be given really soon!

"Hi Anders, what's up?"

"I just wanted to ask you how you were, I didn't see you yesterday. How's your injury?" He simply asks, looking at me and analyzing my emotions as always.

"It's better, I don't barely feel a thing. Thank you for curing me, I would be dead by now if you didn't help me."

"You shouldn't thank me, it's Jeff who brought you here."

"Sure, but he's the one who technically stabbed me." I slightly laugh at my own sentence. He only saved me to be his toy again.

"True, but you jumped on him." He replies with a smirk.

"To protect an innocent boy. You shouldn't try to make me thank him," I say, while giving him a small tap on the shoulder, "I'll always see him as a monster. He made my life terrible, showed me horrible things and you know it."

"I hope you don't talk about my bar when you talk about horrible things." He replies with a laugh.

"Well...a little. I'm not used to meet...murderers and bad people." I shiver at the thought. I'm not used of being nearly raped too!

"Sorry for that, you weren't prepared. I told bad things about you too, I thought you were just a poor girl. But you're interesting in a way." He tells me while looking in my eyes. I feel like he means it, we have grown to become...Friends? No, that's not the word. Acquaintance, I'd say. Really good acquaintance. I know that when I'll leave, I'll never see him again. But that's okay, the far I am from this dark world, the better I'll be. Even though I'll be a little sad at first.