PANICKED

8

CHAPTER 8

I stand still unable to move or breathe repeating his last words in my mind. I can't kill Alex. I can't kill anyone.

He hands me the shard of glass and say,

"Do it now."

How do you even kill a person with a piece of glass? Is that even possible? I'm sure it is but I have no idea.

"Take it and slit her neck." Leonardo says seaming to be reading my thoughts.

"I- I- I can't." I saw as my voice starts to quiver.

"You must or your the one that has to die today."

Those words make me realize what I actually have to do. I must take the life of a girl who has done nothing wrong.

If I kill her I just killed a girl. I would've ended the life of a human being. I could never live with myself. But on the other hand if i don't murder Alex I have to die. I don't know how I would die or what would happen to Alex afterwards. Leonardo would just find another girl that looks like me and torture her too. Leonardo's obsession won't stop anytime soon and more and more girls would continued to be tortured and killed because of me. All because I wouldn't kill Alex.

I look up at Alex as she is struggling to breathe obviously in an immense amount of pain. She has lost her tongue and now some of her teeth. Her head has a bulging bump on the right side and tear stains down her face. She's barely alive now.

Alex heard that Leonardo asked for me to kill her and her eyes widened but not with fear she seemed to be okay with it. I've only known Alex for a few hours but I can tell she's not a bad person.

I look down at the piece of glass in my hand and back up at Alex. I walked towards her shaking nervously and with fear. I whisper to her "what do you want me to do?"

Her response was a nod.

She wanted me to kill her. She wanted me to end her suffering. Alex didn't want Leonardo to torture her any longer. I could tell that by just her nod.

I took a deep long breath and told her,"I'm so sorry all this has happened to you. I'm doing this to end your suffering."

Tears rushed down my face for the thousandth time today while Alex looked up at me and nodded again.

Leonardo put his hand on my shoulder and said,"punishment wasn't meant to be easy or fun. Do it now. It's her time to go."

With these last words from Leonardo I took the piece of glass in my hand and dug it into the right side of Alex's neck already stained with blood. I made sure it was deep enough so her pain wouldn't last long.

I dragged the impaled glass to the left of her neck several inches.

It looks deep and long enough.

Yep it is.

Blood instantly begins to seep no flood out of her neck. She gasps a breath. And another. Blood didn't seem to stop coming out of her body.

The entire bed was soaked in blood.

Now the floor was beginning to fill with blood as well.

I always learned in school how much blood was in our bodies but you don't believe it until you see all of it right before your eyes.

Alex grasped for air and let out her last breath.

Blood was still pouring out and didn't seem to ever stop.

Alex was lying dead in a sea of her own blood but she was no longer was in pain she was in a better place, walking the streets of gold. She could talk now and eat and move freely in heaven.

After what seems like ages her blood stopped.

I was standing in a room that was covered in blood with a girl I just murdered less than 2 feet away from me.

Leonardo clapped his hands and said with a smile,"congratulations! I didn't know if you could do it but you did! Oh you did and did it well!"

After his words I collapse to the bloody ground. And pull my knees towards my chest and rock back and forth realizing again what I had just done.

My heart starts to race.

I begin to hyperventilate.

I try to cry but nothing comes out.

Leonardo walks towards me and places his hand on my shoulder. He takes my hand and lifts me to my feet.

I sit down in the seat I was in earlier. I watch as he walks towards Alex.

Leonardo picks her dead body up and throws it over his shoulder. He walks to the closet and throws her back into her cage without a care in the world that she's dead.

Leonardo slams the cage door shut then shuts the closet door.

His blue shirt is now red. He's literally soaked in Alex's blood.

He leaves the room and returns moments later wearing a suit and tie.

He's a little dressed up for a kidnapper I thought to myself. Wait. He looks familiar.

I saw him in the cafeteria at lunch when I was kidnapped.

The innocent attractive looking male I saw yesterday is no longer innocent or attractive to me.

How did I not realize this before?

Leonardo also known as the man at the cafeteria, walks to me looking all dressed up and fancy like and says,"I'm proud of you."

"You shouldn't be I took the life of someone." I responded

"I've done it many many times. It gets easier."

"You kill people often?"

"Oh yes but only the ones that annoy me. Not you! ... Yet."

Leonardo takes my hand and walks me out of his room and into the kitchen.

He opens what I thought was the pantry but actually had stairs leading down.

It smells even worse down here wherever I am than it does in the kitchen.

I gag as I hold my nose not wanting to breathe in this intoxicating aroma any longer.

"Ta da!" Leonardo says as we reach the last step of the staircase into the unknown room.

I gasp as I look at the pile of dead bodies in front of me that look exactly like myself.