Viktor's Tale

Part 3

1945. Five years had passed and I had rarely thought about the masks promise to return in ten years. Alexandra was walking and talking and her birthday was coming up soon. September 28th, only a week away. Alexandra was excited for she knew her fifth birthday was coming up and it was all she could talk about. For the past years, our life has been blissful and full of happiness. Ana had never shown any evidence that she was a liar or with anyone else. She had cut down on her work hours by almost half and spending more time with our small family. It made me both happy and less suspicious and paranoid about her and what those damn masks told me.

Chapter 8

It was early in the morning and I was eating in the kitchen when I heard Alexandra coming down the stairs. She always jumped down each step, making a loud noise with every step down. If she knew I was downstairs, she would call me.

"Father!" she yelled.

"Yes daughter?" I asked.

She got to the bottom of the stairs and walked into the kitchen.

"Hi!" she yelled. "What are you eating father?"

I held up my jelly covered toast and she ran up to it, took it and shoved it in her mouth. She laughed with a full mouth. I gave her a frown for she knew I did not like that behaviour, but she just ran out the room and back up the stairs. I assumed that she was running upstairs to her mother, who she thought of as a safe zone. I turned back around and looked down at my plate. That little crap took my last piece of toast. I laughed and went to put my plate in the sink, while looking out the window. There were military vehicles moving down the street. I thought this odd, but nothing other than that. I turned around and there was a mask standing there. The one with the glowing red eyes was there this time. It scared me and I fell backwards onto the hot oven, burning my back.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" I asked it.

My back hurt, so I went to the sink to put some cold water on the burn while the red one finally spoke to me after thirty years of silence.

"You are getting too comfortable Viktor," it said, "you are letting her back in, yet she still lies and hurts the family."

The red eye spoke in a voice that sounded distorted and like multiple people were talking at once. It was like a true specter.

"You are the true liars, you fucking fakes."

"Viktor, we are not lying."

"There is no proof to make your accusation right."

"Yes, that is true, but Viktor, you have been so blind in the past five years and you need help to find out the truth."

"Blind to what, your lies and hatred towards Ana?"

"No, my friend. Blind to her lies and the bullshit she feeds you."

"She isn't a liar, she truly cares about me and Alexandra."

"She knows Viktor. She knows you are letting down your guard and she is doing the same," it said, "she is letting you believe that she cares and that she loves you and the child, but no Viktor, you are blind, you can't see that she is lying and doing what she wants behind your back Viktor."

"Fuck you, you can't prove anything just like you couldn't five years ago."

"Then you do it one day."

"What, follow her and find out where she goes?"

"Yes Viktor."

"If she goes to the same place everyday, why has no one from town asked about it?"