The Knocking ✓ (#Wattys2017)

Smart choice but not a smart move.

Thursday, 7.23 pm. 

The girls stood still by the stairs, not saying a word just hearing the door bell sound echo throughout the house. What should they do? Maybe if they stood here and didn't move a muscle Eva would go away. Maybe she'd think that the girls were on their way to the police already? Zoell took a deep breath and you could hear her tremble. The girls looked at each other and Zoell pointed upstairs. They turned around slowly and stared walking towards Zoells room when they heard keys jangling. 

"Maybe your parents are coming home early?"

June looked at Zoell with big, hopeful eyes. They hear the keys unlocking the door and then the door flies open. A pair of heels can be heard walking into the house. They stop and everything becomes completely quiet. Zoell feels her heart beating faster and faster and she's scared that Eva will hear it beat so she put her hand over her heart as she feels the tears coming. 

"Mamas home, come out and play Zoell." Eva shouts form downstairs.

A silent laughter echoes through the house. 

"Hide!"Zoell whispers loudly.

They girls run towards the balcony as they hear Eva walking towards the stairs. 

"The key is downstairs and we can't get out from here. You have to hide June, I'll lock myself in my room and I'll send help through my computer." Zoell whispers, 

She hugs June, hard. This could be the last time she'll ever see her. Zoell could be dead in less than an hour.

Zoell then turns around and starts running towards her room and then she locks the door. She opens her computer and sits down behind her bed. 

"Do you think that I'm stupid Zoell? I turned off the WiFi so there's no need in trying anything. I'm older and smarter than you so why don't you just come out, hm? Come on little rose, come out."  Eva's voice echoes through the house as she gets closer and closer to Zoells room.

Zoell can hear Eva walking up the stairs, slowly. Zoell looks around, why didn't she have a knife or a gun or something in her room? She picks up a few books and goes back to her hiding place behind the bed. She closes her eyes and tried to think, what can she do? She's stuck in her own room. The ironical thing is that she has often thought about situations like this. What she would do if there was a war and someone got into her house. But at this moment when someone was actually in her house, she could not come up with anything. All she could do was sit in her corner, wait and hope that when Eva got in she'd hit her just right with one of the books. 

"Hey I know this is Jasper and your game but..."

Knock, knock, knock

Eva knocks three times on the door. Then she laughs. 

"I still got some humor left, you better come out before I lose it all. I can promise you that that isn't a pretty sight." 

Zoell prepares herself, she stands up and holds her four books tight. 

Don't fuck this up Zoell. 

She walks towards the door and quickly unlocks it before walking back a bit. The doorknob starts moving and the door opens. 

"Well look at you being a..." 

Zoell throws the first book and it hits Eva in the head. 

"Being a bad ass bitch, yeah." She smiles as she runs towards the door. 

She jumps over Eva, drops the rest of the books and starts running. She doesn't get far before someone takes a hold of her ankle and she falls and hits her head. The room starts spinning and Zoell slowly turns around so that she is laying on her back. Next to her head stands a pair of black heals, she looks up and sees Eva standing over her with the book that Zoell had thrown. 

"The bible, smart choice but not a smart move."

She takes a strong grip of the book and strikes Zoell in the head as hard as she can. The room turns black and Zoell's out. 

Thursday, 8.01 pm. (June)

June is ironically sitting in a wardrobe, Zoell's parents wardrobe. She is covering her mouth and listing to the fight between Eva and Zoell outside. A loud smash is heard and June starts sobbing, she can't help it, she is shaking and hyperventilating. Someone says something and there's another loud smash. She hears Zoell squeaking. 

She's dead. Omg my best friend is dead and I'll be dead soon as well. 

She starts crying even more but she quickly stops when she hears someone walking into the room. The wardrobe door slams open.

"I'm guessing you're not here to sell cookies?"

June looks up and sees Eva standing with a big cut on her forehead. Eva touches the cut and sees the blood. 

"Typical.." Eva says.

She sighs. 

"The only day when my makeup looks really good, a little, naughty girl has to throw the bible at you. All though she does look a tad bit more, well, worse." 

She starts to laugh. 

"You killed her, you monster!" June screams whilst crying. 

"Stop with the tears, I'd never kill my own child. Just, hurt her, a bit, a lot." 

"She's not your child, what are you talking about?" 

"She will be, now what do you say about helping me get her over to my place? And then you can go and visit Jasper and see how his doing whilst I have a little chat with Zoell?" 

She grabs Junes arm and pulls her up from the wardrobe floor. 

"I'm not going to help you do anything!"

June isn't afraid anymore, now she's just pissed. She looks at Eva and slaps her across the face. Which makes Evas head turn. When she looks back at June she doesn't look like herself anymore. For a moment it looks like she's about to kill June.

"Now that wasn't very nice, was it?" Eva says, a bit of frustration can be heard in her voice. 

She slaps June across the face which makes June fall to the bed, her lip and cheek is burning and she can feel the taste of iron inside of her mouth. Eva sits down on the bed next to her, she comes close and whispers in Junes ear. 

"Now if you don't help me, I will kill you and I'll enjoy every single moment of it." 

She looks up at the hook where Zoells parents lamp use to hang. 

"Maybe I'll hang you from that hook? And then I can stand here and watch you squeak. Or maybe I'll take two toothbrushes and shove them through your eyes, and then we can send them to the donkeys in Mexico. Hm? Now are you going to help me, or not?" 

June stands up and they walk out in the hallway together. 

"OMG!" June screams.

She runs over to Zoell whom is laying on the floor with blood running down the side of her face. She tries to get her to wake up by gently hitting her other cheek. 

"Zoell? Zoell please wake up!"

"Oh darling she's out. I don't think she'll wake up until maybe tomorrow. Now let's get going, I have a family gathering coming up!"

June turns around with tears in her eyes. 

"You can't do this to people. It's not right it's not." 

"Did you want me to go and get the toothbrushes? or some rope maybe?" 

June stands up and looks at Eva. 

"You are pure evil, you know that right?"

"Thank you darling, but it's bit late for compliments now, don't you think? Now lets go!"

Evas eyes are glowing with excitement as they pick Zoell up and starts walking towards the stairs. 

Sometimes life does actually go the way you want it to.

Eva thinks to herself, she smiles as she looks down at Zoell.

Life if good.