Melissa climbed down the stairs to the ground floor.
“Mum, Dad? Where are you?” She shouted.
Where are they, she mumbled more quietly to herself.
It was 11a.m on a Sunday morning. Normally her parents would be at home, enjoying the peaceful Sunday morning. But not today.
“Oh well, I should just leave a note for them on the fridge and head out now.”
She grabbed a notepad by the phone and scribbled down a note. She was shocked by the sight that greeted her when she entered in the kitchen, intending to stick the note on the fridge.
There, lying on the kitchen was a frying pan, with half-cooked eggs. Her father’s coffee mug had spilled coffee onto the wood-panelled floor. But it wasn’t the cooking utensils that shocked her. It was her parents’ blood-covered bodies, lying at grotesque angles on the floor. Her parents’ lifeless eyes were filled with shock. Their bodies had been cut open and Melissa could see the insides of their bodies.
She swallowed back the bile that was rising, and ran into the living room for the phone. Her tears were threatening to rise any moment and she could not find the strength to punch the correct buttons for the police.
After several rings, the receiver finally picked up.
“Good morning, what’s your problem?”
“M...my parents are dead. I woke up this morning and found them dead on the kitchen floor. I suspect that they were murdered. Plle...please send help!”
She could hear the panic in her trembling voice, but her listener made no audible reply.
“He…hello?”
“Good morning, what’s your problem?”
It was then that Melissa realized that she has been communicating with a computerized programme all along.
“God damn it,” she screamed into the phone. “Where are all the police?!”
She quickly ran upstairs to change from her date wear into a tank top and track pants. She then threw on a pair of running shoes and grabbed a backpack. She threw all her necessities and some spare clothes, her laptop, laptop changer, mobile phone, and all of her lifesavings into her backpack.
She then snatched a car key and drove out onto to the street, swearing to hunt the police down and get them to investigate on her parents’ murder while she stays over at Ivan’s home.
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The Grey World
TerrorMelissa woke up one morning to find that the world had changed. Her parents and neighbors were all dead. People were killing one another and they were all split into different 'clans'. It was said that there was going to be a war between all these c...
