MALIGNANT (Short Stories)

1.The Secret

PLEASE DO VOTE AND COMMENT. ITS MY FIRST STORY , HOPE YOU GUYS WILL LIKE IT.
_IREASH

The summer break was horrendous, it finally came to an end. The fact that all of me was devoted to nothing but to something so disturbing, so intensely disturbing that I can't even undergo digestion , every thing was voluminous.

Katherine , I established something about her , something that I wasn't supposed to know but destiny had me under the control. It showed me things that I wish I could unsee.
It never occurred to me ,the thoughts of Katherine , that shook me to death when I discovered about it.

She is my friend , not one of my favorites but still she has that name written on the list which was linked to my existence. Last month when Bryan found out about her mother's death , we were startled by the fact that she didn't even care to tell us. All of us sent condolences to her but she wasn't much pleased by it. She was bewildered ,but why was she bewildered?

We weren't even cared to be invited in the funeral, it wasn't the question of invitation but she was isolating herself so much and her attitude towards us changed so swiftly that when Jovan planned to go to the funeral , Katherine insisted that it won't matter even if she attends it , it did hurt her so even we decided to lay back and tried not to be too concerned about it.

Days passed by and so did our friendship started to fizzle out. I had lots of questions hovering on my mind but it was stupid to bother about it.

Then the real incident occurred. Once I was on the way to my home after my tuition classes , I had to pass by Katherine's residence while returning because the shortcut was under construction and I had to take the long way home. I could see her house , hickory shade of brown in color. It was pitch dark inside but as I was passing by , I heard a loud scream, I turned towards the house and I could see the light flickering in of the room.

I was scared , I ran towards the bushes which was adjacent to her house. I wanted to run away but I also wanted to see what was going on in that house. Then later I saw a shadow of a huge man with a candle stand in his left hand, he was striking it heavily , I couldn't see who he was striking at but I could hear the horrified scream. By that time I guessed that 'she' was Katherine.

After some time that man came out of the house in an aggressive manner , his face was inflamed and exasperation very much visible in his face.

I took a chance and ran inside the house , I knew it was the last thing a sane person would have done but I had to save my friend, whatever she did with us was unjust but she was my friend and with such things happening in front of my eyes , I couldn't care less but to jump inside the fire.

The first room that I entered was dark , not dark enough for a person to hide in an open space but still nothing was properly apparent. I slowly stepped forward groping things that came on my way. I was trying to be careful as possible but my luck gave its way up , I pushed something which fell down making a sharp intensive noise.

I sat down as fast as I could and slowly shifted to a side ,which I assumed to be the corner of the room. Loud footsteps made it's way towards me , I was praying , I was sweating and shaking with horror that I put myself into.

The door creaked open and I could see a black female figure leaning towards the frame of the door gazing at the room , partly the yellow light was touching the refrigerator which was coming from the other room. That figure turned on the light and I was numb , I didn't know what to do , I figured out that I was hiding behind the kitchen counter and I had pushed a silver jug , it was lying down on the floor and minimal amount of water spilled underneath it.

I slowly backed up and hoped not to be caught. Thankfully the light turned off and the door closed. I got up and as I was about to open the entrance door , the light again turned on , I froze , my legs felt stiff and a cold shiver went down my spine.

I didn't move. I started hearing a low growling. I was so scared to even turn towards it but I had to anyhow. I slowly looked at the figure standing next to the door and I was shocked to see a women posed like an animal growling at me, her clothes were half torn and huge blood stains covered it , she had cuts and bruises all over her body and blood was dripping down from her mouth, she slowly started crawling towards me.

I screamed and ran out of the door. I could feel her running after me , I hurriedly hid behind a table which was outiside in the lawn , the table was also not in a good condition maybe it was taken out to be thrown. I couldn't run away from the house because the gate was locked and till the time I would climb it , she would've probably kill me.

My heart was beating rapidly , I could feel my breathing getting heavier every second. I was so caught up with the whole scene that I didn't encounter Katherine smirking beside me. I was shocked and due to my speed action of moving back , I hit my head on the inside surface of table.

"So you know now." She chuckled slowly.

"I don't know what's happening. Please let me go , I was here to help you , I'm sorry that I intrigued in your whatever business. Please I beg you please , please.."

"Shhhhhhhh! Shhhhhhhh! Ohhh! Poor baby I won't hurt you if you keep your dirty mouth shut." She spoke the last word with rage.

I squinched at it.

"You scared baby?"

I didn't move.

"Ohhh , Im sorry you had to see all of this. My dad will be here any moment now I want you out of here otherwise you will end up like my mom."

"What! Your mother is'nt dead?" I shockingly asked her.

She laughed at my face and said," that is my mom and you know what ,now we're going to kill her, my dad must be returning with some tools to take out her organs and how tasty her flesh might be? Umm " she licked her lips with her tongue and looked at me.

I was dumbfounded , I didn't know what the hell was going on.

She lead the way towards the gate and opened it. I followed her and went out but her last words always rings on my ear "you look tasty , next time I'm gonna hunt you down if I hear about my rumors running around the town." With that I ran towards the empty road, I just wanted to reach home...