Keith And The Old Man

Chapter 1

Awoken by my very rude alarm. I stumbled to get up and get ready for work at the head of the city. I headed for the shower and stripped, nearly slipping on the cold tiles.

Whilst showering I began to think about the day ahead of me. I was thinking about the old house in the forest, I was called out by an old man that is over 110 years old. No one really knows his age but all we know is that he has lived in that house for his whole life.

I began finishing up in the shower when I decided to quickly shave. I looked in the mirror at the green eye that glared at me, the other is covered by the messy fringe that covers the main part of the left side of my face.

I sighed and ran my hand through the bird's nest that laid upon my head and turned around, no longer interested in the way that I currently looked.

I began the get dressed and ready for work. I was going to be working in the old man's basement, which I wasn't too fussed about. The old man seemed ok over the phone, I have heard people say that he has skulls all over his house, it also looks as if there are real dead bodies all over the floors in is house.

As I started to walk out the door past the T.V. as I heard Donald Trump making a ridiculous remake as always. So I found the closest thing to me which happened to be a sock, picking up the sock I threw it at the T.V. I screamed "GET A LIFE TRUMP" as I walked out the door. I wish that Donald was never in the election. I grumble and kick it shut.

I walked to the elevator at the end of the hall and I waited until it was on my floor. The elevator came and I hoped in them pushed the button to the ground floor. I waited until the elevator stopped, I walked out, then I walked to the door and headed for work. I wanted to talk to my boss before.

Whilst on my way to work I called up Zephyr (my Boss) and asked him if I could talk to him when I get there. Then I hung up to gain my concentration back on to the road.

I got to work and saw that barely anyone was at work because of the massive floods that we have had. So lots of people had to evacuate. It was ok except for the fact that I have to work twice as much. Then I saw Zephyr at the door and he said "Hey what is it that you want to talk about????"

We started too walked to his office and as we got to the door he asked "Are you ok???? You haven't been yourself lately!!!" I looked up at him and slowly gave him a shy but scared look.

Replying to him slowly "I keep thinking about my life ahead of me, I have barely any friends and people thing that I'm weird, making them not want to talk to me at all. From my count I only have one maybe even two friends and you're the main one that I'm counting." I started to look towards the door wishing that now was the time to leave but I knew that it wasn't.

Zephyr saw that I was almost in tears, he walked over and just hugged me. "I know how you feel buddy" he replied. I know that he is an out of the closet gay and I'm bi but I don't like him in that way, even though his hugs are the best. I don't know what's going to happen from here. With my mind rushing as it is I feel tears starting to stream down my face. Zephyr looked up at me and to my surprise he kissed me. He let go of me and I fell to the floor. He came and sat next to me then pulled me into his lap and said "I'm here for you whenever you need." I started to reply but all that came out was stutters, I tried to speak again finally the words came "I-I lo-love y-you."

I calmed down realising the time, I walked towards the door when Zephyr pulled me into him and kissed me. He let me go and head to work.

I was working on my own for this job because there were heaps of jobs that needed to be done and I was asked for specifically by the old man. I started to question myself wondering what the old man's name is or if anyone knew.

I was on my way to the house which it would take me around about ten minutes to get there. So I was deciding what I was going to start with. The drive seemed to take forever but I knew that it wasn't.

I finally arrived at the old man's house. The old man slowly walk out the door when he realized that I had arrived. The old man told me what was wrong and I went in his house to have a look and see what was happening for myself. The whole of his basement was practically water there was a leak in the water pipe.

I started to walk to my truck to get the tools to fix the leak. I grabbed a new pipe and my tool box from the back of my truck and started to head back in to the house.

When I got to the door of the house the old man shot through the door and offered me a drink, I refused the offer like many would do. I walked to the front of the house and turned off the water.

I walked back inside after turning off the water and started to work back on the leak. All of a sudden I heard the door slam behind me.

I tried to open the door again to get another spanner. Unfortunately the door was locked, I remembered the scout training that I had done when I was about 12 years old so remembering that I learnt how to pick a lock I grabbed the tools that I needed and unlocked the door.

I walked out the door to get the tools that I need when the old man came out holding an axe in his hands. He started chasing me after I realized that the front door was locked.

He was running after me until I fell, he saw that I was hurt thinking that now was his chance to kill me but I took advantage of him being old. I started to crawl away slowly but the more I was moving the faster I got. I ended up going all through the house on the floor. I'm really exhausted from all this moving, yet he wasn't at all.