The Darkness Inside Of Her

IV

I parked on her drive way. As I was walking up the steps I had realized that I had forgotten what I was going to say so I decided to go with it, I knocked on her door but after two minutes no one answered, was she even home? , I knocked one more time but after what had seemed like forever I still got no answer. I pressed my ear against the door to see if I heard any noise coming from inside , but I got no luck , it seemed like she wasn't home , I then remembered what the cop had said and maybe she was just ignoring me , I decided to go around the house , I jumped the fence and looked inside the house from the back door , I turned the doorknob and to my surprise the door was unlocked , my heart started to pound rapidly on my chest, what if an intruder had entered the house? The thought of it made my stomach turn. "Lucia? " I screamed her name in desperation but I got no answer I looked around the place to see if I found a clue that she may had been attacked by someone or something but the place was clean and in order , maybe she was actually just ignoring me and I was just acting like a psychopath . I turned on my heels to get out of the house but all of a sudden a putrefying smell hit my nostrils "UGH what is that horrible smell "I asked myself, I decided to follow it, the smell led me to the basement door, when I opened the door I soon regret doing so since the smell was more concentrated on that area. It was so bad, as if I had chopped onions put them in a bag with a bunch of rotten eggs. I covered my nose and went down the flight of stairs, I looked around to see if I could find where the smell was coming from, it all seemed normal but in the corner were a bunch of cardboard boxes and under that was a black trash bag, I decided to look around, maybe a mouse died in there and that was the reason for the bad smell.
I started to move the cardboard boxes around, when I got to the dark plastic I was certain the smell came from there since flies where flying around it. I uncovered what was under there and what I saw next was terrifying in that plastic bag was the corpse of Mrs. Rodriguez or at least what it was left of her. Her face was covered with maggots, roaches where coming in and out of her mouth, I felt sick to my stomach and when I tried to move away from it I fell back. I pushed my body to a small corner and started to look for my phone , my hands were shaking and I was cursing under my breath when the phone started to freeze , I managed to dial nine one one " hello operator yes I need to report a murder " my voice was shaky and I could feel tears run down my face "sir I need you to calm down so I can understand what you are saying " but I couldn't be calm , why would she do this , I knew she was mad but I never taught she would take it this far I taught I knew her . At this point I just started to break down in tears I couldn't believe what she had done. "Sir are you there? I need you to give me the address" I tried to speak but the only thing that came out was a babble. All of a sudden I felt a presence and when I looked to the side there she was.
"Michael what are you doing here? " I could see she was angry and her facial expressions where not hers I don't know how to explain it, it was if she had turned to a whole new person. I pushed my body up from the corner not saying anything. Lucia approached me and I backed up until I felt a hard surface behind me " I asked you a question " I could see she had something shiny in her left hand , for the first time I saw a flaw in Lucia but this was no small flaw , it was the biggest of them all , she was a psychopath , she had been since the first day I met her but I was too blinded by her beauty , I guess it is safe to say that the old saying is true , the devil does come in all shapes and sizes. Lucia was getting closer to me and I didn't know what to do I just couldn't hurt her. I wanted to believe that this was all a nightmare or a sick joke, but it was all real, all of this terrifying scenery was real and if I didn't do anything I will become a part of it.