The Creeps! || Book of Spooky Stories (COMPLETED ✔️)

52 ~ Anniversary

(ORIGINAL FROM THE CREEPYPASTA APP, BY USER NAMED "NAPPY,")
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The day was finally over. I hurried home. I was excited. Anniversary night with my girl, I had an idea of how I wanted it to go. Champagne, roses on the bed, the works. It would be amazing.

I parked in the drive way, trying to be as discreet as possible. She knew I was coming, I left notes for her saying cute things, but I still wanted the upper-hand, so to speak.

I crept up to doorknob, just like the sun crept towards the horizon. I avoided windows because, like I said, I wanted to surprise her if I could. When I tried to open the door, locked. She knew I forgot my key at home, clever girl. I went to the window she always leaves unlocked for me.

The window slipped open silently, like it always did, and then the game began. I knew she was hiding from me. Teasing me.

I slid into the dark room. I didn’t bother with the light, I knew the place like the back of my hand. I searched every nook and cranny of the room, looking for my playful love.

By the time I searched the whole house, it was well into the night and I still couldn’t find her. She was good.

Just before I gave up and called out to her, lights swung across the room. A had just came into the driveway and I panicked, she would see my car and know I was here!

I hid, where I normally do, but she hasn’t found me yet so I determined it was safe. My spot was in a renovated room, where the drywall hadn’t been plastered up yet. I was just skinny enough to glide between the walls, and each room had a small hole for me to look through.

I watched the front door, waiting. I could hear the faintest hint of voices behind that door, then the knob turned and the entrance swung open.

I was furious, though my love was home, she brought another. Had she really forgotten I’d be here? Forgotten about our anniversary? It was unbelievable!

“I’m going to change out of these stiff shoes Dan, please just sit and wait… Okay?”

The man she came in with sat down on the couch.

Ruined, my night had been ruined. We had to talk. I snuck from my hiding place and went to her room. When I opened the door, she looked up at me and gasped.

Good, I thought. Now she sees her mistake. But then she nodded, almost imperceptibly, and thunder sounded.

Time froze. My chest felt wet, I looked down and explosion of blood and light protruded from me, the light shining through the blood, a deep red-orange. Just like the sunset on my perfect night, the sunset on my life.

I turned my head, ‘Dan’ was behind me, a grim conviction plastered onto his face, cold steel pointed at my back.

Confusion rang through me as time caught up with me. Flecks of my blood on her face with an ugly look of sick satisfaction as I fell to my knees.

Why? It was going to be perfect…

I looked her in the eyes and saw nothing but contempt, eyes I had once loved.

“I loved you…”

Those words left my body with my life, the infinite darkness easing my not just the punch of the bullet, but the shattering of my heart with my final murmur.

“I loved you…”

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A/N: RIDDLE TIME! Can anyone guess why the man was shot? Winner gets a shout out/possibly a one-shot of theirs features in this book.