Too Late

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I was walking home from the school football game with my earphones on full blast. I walked past the old rundown motel, just like everyday, when something caught my eye. I pulled out one of my headphones and looked around, I shrugged my shoulders and kept walking. I noticed it again but this time I knew I saw something. I sped up my pace and turned down the alley way that cuts through to my street.

I was almost half-way through the dark alley, when I felt a breeze rush past me. This time I pulled out both of my earphones and said, "is anybody out there?" I tried my hardest not to sound frightened, even though I was. I was now practically running now, and panting heavily. I was almost to the end when I heard a small cry for help. "Help," the cry was so soft it was barely audible. I followed the noise and saw a small figure on the ground.

The figure was stretched out on the dirty concrete with liquid around it. Then the moonlight shone onto the liquid revealing blood, and lots of it. The moonlight also uncovered the strange figure, it was a man. He was soaked in his own blood, and lay there helplessly asking for my assistance.

I was in so much shock that I didn't even realize what was going on. I pulled out my phone and pressed the power button. Nothing happened. "Hmm, that's weird." I pressed it over and over again. and still, nothing happened.

The man was still laying on his back groaning every now and then when he suddenly reached out his bloody hand and said, "Run. Sav-e you-rsel-f." I rubbed the strangers knuckles and said, "What no! I'm not leaving you. If I leave you'll die!" He shook his head in disapproval and said, "Go! No-w bef-ore it's to-o lat-e." I watched him struggle out those last words, when he let out his final deep breath. His hand went limp and his neck stopped pulsing.

I squeezed my eyes shut, holding back the tears welling up inside my eyes when I heard a noise. I looked up and saw nothing, then I thought about the stranger who had just died right in front of me. How did he end up like this in the first place?

Murder. He was murdered by someone and that someone is still here.

"That's right his murderer is still here, and yours is standing right in front of you." a dark figure appeared out of nowhere and then spoke, "Run."