Run

Chapter Four

Kiana

Knock Knock

I was sitting alone in the cabin by the fireplace reading a book, waiting for Dylan to return home when I heard a knock on the door.

I got up to answer it when I heard a louder knock, this time coming from the back door. I turned and headed in that direction. I paused as another very loud knock, this time coming from upstairs, on a window.

My heart is racing at this point, as another knock came from behind me on the glass pane of the picture window in the livingroom. I slowly turn around to see a dark figure just outside the window.

I fall back onto my hands and feet, heavily breathing and still staring at this figure.

Suddenly, the figure showed his face. It was a bloody mess, of stiches, and blood coming from mouth, eyes and where its nose used to be, before it must have been blown off by a musket.

I screamed as loudly as I could, hoping that someone would hear me. No one would have, as I looked out the window more carefully, to see Ariana, hanging by a noose tied around her throat, from the tree in the front yard.

As I look up, I see that the man is gone. I dare not turn around, for fear that the he be right behind me. I just sat there staring at the wall in front of me in terror.

The utter thought that a murderer may be just behind my back gives me butterflies and I shiver.

I lift my arm and gaze at the small goosebumps dotting it.

Next, as I lower my arm, I feel a cool breath down my neck. It sends a chill down my hunched spine.

I pull my knees to my chest and scream as loud as I can, with all of the power and breath in my body and lungs.