One Late Night

Chapter 13

Andrew was stunned . His very faith in reality had been shattered by what all had happened till now . He couldn't believe what his eyes were seeing and telling him . "Emma , are .....are you ok ?" he asked her , breathing heavily . Emma didn't respond . She just kept looking down . Her hair was covering her face , which was so pale that it seemed all the blood had been drained from it . Her eyes were bloodshot , and a permanent grin had appeared on her face .

 "Am I ok?" said Emma in a dual voice , chuckling . "Aaaaah that's a question your Michael should've asked me before brutally murdering me in cold blood !" she screamed . "Amelia please , I beg of you . Your quarrel is with me , let my Emma go !" said Andrew , close to crying . Emma let out an eerie blood curdling laugh before saying , "You still don't get it do you Andrew ? There was never an Emma , I have been watching you for a long time now . It has always been me Andrew . You think meeting a girl on the very first day of college and instantly making a connection with her happens just like that ? " 

 Andrew was shell shocked . "No it can't be . How is that ev...." Andrew stopped his sentence in between . He was suddenly reminded of all the strange happenings that had taken place whenever he was near or around Emma . Her maiden name she told him was Emma Ressnor , a name he found quite unusual . He had never met her parents as she had told him they had died in a car crash . It all made sense now .

 He couldn't believe he had been living a lie , and loving a person who had nothing but pure hatred towards him . "But I've seen the police records .... You look nothing like Amelia ." he said . "Nobody could make out how I looked Andrew . Michael heavily disfigured my face so that no one would recognize me . But if you still don't believe what I'm saying , perhaps this will help ." Emma's facial features suddenly began to change . In a matter of time , Andrew saw the heavily disfigured face that stood before his eyes . "Ring any bells now ?" chuckled Emma , still speaking in a dual voice . 

"Why ! Why me ? I never hurt anyone in my life . Why are you doing this to me ?" cried Andrew . "You were the most genuine of all the Wests Andrew . I didn't want for this to happen . I did warn you several times not to come here again , but you didn't listen . Do not expect any mercy from me West ! Your time is up !" shouted Emma . She lunged towards Andrew to grab hold of him .

 In a swift motion , Andrew turned the flashlight towards her . She shrieked in pain and fell behind . Then got up laughing and said , "That thing won't hurt me anymore Andrew . Robert told you not to look at me directly , but as usual , none of you in your family ever listen now do you ?" she grinned , tilting her head completely to one side and staring at Andrew with her bloodshot eyes . 

Andrew had gotten just enough time to reach the main door though . He quickly closed it from outside and locked it . He was just in time , as soon as he had locked the door , Emma had appeared on the other end . She kept banging on the door to bash it open but it wouldn't budge. She gave one last defiant look to Andrew before letting out an agonizing scream . 

She then simply looked down again , turned around , and started walking deeper into the corridor , disappearing somewhere in the darkness . Andrew was crying profusely . He got inside the elevator and slumped down . On one hand he was happy that he had survived this ordeal , but on the other hand he couldn't believe he had lost Emma , a person who had never even been there in the first place . The elevator had almost reached the parking lot .

He looked at the time , 3: 08 am . He had made it , he had survived . Andrew had made up his mind never to come here again . He leaned against the elevator door , placing his hands inside his pockets . Suddenly he felt something inside one of them . It was something soft and extremely velvety . 

He took that thing out from inside his pockets and , frozen in fear , kept staring at his hand . It was the very same veil that he had gotten in that box before , Amelia's veil . Suddenly , even though Andrew was leaning against the wall with no space behind him , he heard a whisper from behind him saying , "We're not done yet Andrew West ......". The elevator pinged as it reached the parking lot . The elevator doors opened , but nobody got off . Andrew wasn't inside it anymore. The elevator was completely empty .

A few days later , Andrew's body was found near the very same school where all the other bodies were found , his face heavily disfigured , his eyes plucked out , and a frozen expression of fear and terror on his face . The police declared it a suicide and closed the case . Emma wasn't heard from or seen by any one ever again ...............

I closed my laptop after reading this story on WebCom Pvt Ltd's head office, which has a huge reputation of being haunted , but I've never believed in such things . People say they have seen Andrew linger around his cubicle , telling people with a dark past to leave and never come back .

 What rubbish . I have my interview tomorrow with WebCom though , let's see how it goes . I close my laptop and head to bed for tomorrow without any worries . My family line is clean , and I've done nothing wrong. But is yours clean too ? Or does yours have a dark past like Andrew's?................

[ Author's Note : Do tell me how you liked my first story guys . This was indeed the last chapter of my story , 'One Late Night' . Please vote and comment on it . I hope you enjoyed reading it , I sure did enjoy writing it for you guys . If you liked this story be sure to go ahead and read my second book The Nexus and let me know what you guys think . So until next time , this is me signing off.....]