Lethal Love

8

~Lady Murderer~

"Momma, Papa!" A little girl said running towards her parents sitting under the tree.

"What is it sweetheart?" A woman with red hair said, picking up the girl.

"I saw a bunny, it was so cute and fluffy!" She giggled and hugged her mom.

Both adults laughed at the cuteness of their child. Her father ruffled her brown hair.

"I'm sure it was Tori." He then looked at his watch. His eyes widened for a moment. It was a short reaction, just a fraction of a second, before it was gone. "We have to go girls."

His wife and their daughter, who were painfully oblivious, followed him as they walked hand-in-hand towards their white two-storey house. It was made entirely of polished wood, mahogany and redwood, and glass. The stained glass shaped like a star glittered like a pretty fairy lights. It was an ancestral home designed by the father and right now it was their safe place.

They got inside and the father surreptitiously locked the door behind them.

"Papa?" Little Tori asked.

The father smiled gently at her as he ushered her to the living room. "What is it, my sweets?"

"Can we do firefly watching tonight?"

It was three nights ago when Tori had stumbled upon the small clearing just a few meters away from their house—behind The Rocks, twenty-nine steps down the riverbank, and into the woods until you get to the clearing. In the broad daylight it was just a place of trimmed grass and pebbles. At night, it was a light show extravaganza.

Something flicked behind the father's eyes, but Tori was too young to notice. "O-okay. Whatever my princess wants."

Not a moment later they arrived at the clearing, Tori giggled and started moving around looking for the fireflies in sheer excitement. While she was busy looking for fireflies she doesn't see the fear inflicted in the eyes of her parents. After a moment her parents went over to her and picked her up.

"I think that's enough firefly watching for now sweetheart. We have to return home now." Her mother states in a hurry, Tori tilted her head a bit in confusion but nodded anyways.

While returning back to their home, the father saw something that made him rush everyone back to the house. Tori was then placed down, looking up she saw her parents talking back and forth. Without a second thought Tori's mom immediately took Tori's hand and dragged her towards the secret passage, opening it and carefully pushing her inside.

"Tori, promise mommy that you will stay here and not make a sound okay?" Her mom holding her face tenderly, kissing her forehead. Tori still confused with what was happening, nodded. The mother then proceeds to close the passage way, looking back one last time. "And don't forget mommy and daddy loves you!"

Tori stayed put and looked at the dark passage way, humming to herself a loud slam was heard from outside the passage. Jumping a bit she took a peak at the small opening of the passage. She could see silhouettes, trying to figure out who they were, she then saw her father talking to Chris. Chris then laughs and took something from another person who was wearing a uniform of sort. A loud bang was heard then a thud of what sounds like a body falling, Tori then saw the body of her now dead mother. Wide eyed she covered her mouth, trying to stop the loud scream that was stuck in her throat. She then tried to push the wall that is separating her from the other room. She grunted as she cannot open the wall and let out a cry. She immediately clasped her mouth shut and held her breath as she sees the silhouettes stopped at what they were doing. Tori tried her hardest not to make a sound while the unshed tears kept on flowing. Not a moment later another gunshot was heard, her father was then on the floor, looking straight at where she was he mouthed 'I Love You Tori'. Then Tori slid down and covered her ears.

Seconds passed, the noise turned into silence. She wiped her eyes, which were stinging from the salt from her tears. It was eerily silent that it was deafening.

She walked towards the wall. Peeking again, the people were gone and the only thing left was the corpse of her parents. That's when she screamed.

Tori woke up in cold sweat, gasping for air. Remembering the death of her parents made her want to feel blood dripping from her hands. So standing up, she started changing in her black and red Lolita outfit, taking the knife under her pillow she went to where Gray was. He was awake and glared daggers at Tori. She clenched the knife until her hand went as white as paper.

Without a moment to waste she slashed his thighs, not caring if she heard him cry out in pain she was so in thought of the death of her parents she doesn't care about anything anymore. She then proceeds to slash his stomach to not caring where she would hit him. She growled and slashed harder with tears trickling down her face. She then stops and falls to the floor, raising her head up she screamed.

Gray twitching in pain, looks at Tori with wide eyes shocked to see her showing weakness. A few moments later she stands up and evacuate to the kitchen. He groans in pain and tries to put pressure on his stomach, but his hand was trapped. Darkness was swarming his vision, but before he could pass out he saw Tori walking towards him.

When Gray opened his eyes, he saw that his wounds have been patched up. Looking around for Tori he saw her looking through a photo album.

"Why would you patch me up?" He asked in annoyance, she kept silent. "Hey! Psycho! Don't you ignore me! When I get out of here-"

He didn't get to finish his sentence when Tori arrived in a flash holding a knife to his throat with anger shown in her eyes.

"Shut up! You have no right to call me psycho! You should be lucky I even considered patching you up! As much as I would love to see your corpse in my floor, I couldn't!"

She removed the knife and left, blood then trickled from the small cut that the knife made. Gray had a confused look on his face, not minding the cut. Tori is really something else.