The Girl in Chains

Chapter 1

Lois checked her e-mail. Work, work, work, cousin, Unknown… Intrigued, Lois clicked on the new e-mail.

‘Hello. I’m Molly. When I was young, I was taken away and tortured. I had my eyes gauged out, cut many times and left alone for a year. I’m dead. But I felt every moment of pain. I was told to kill anyone who did not forward this message. This isn’t a lie like the other chain mails. I will get you. I will come for you. Forward it or the consequences may be… sick.  Please choose to do the right thing.’

“Will, come look at this.” Lois called over Will.

“What?” Lois pointed at the screen.

“Do you think I should forward it? It looks kind of creepy.”

“No. They’re just ways to freak you out. Its just spam. Delete it.”

“Fine.” Lois went to delete the e-mail.

‘I wouldn’t do that if I was you…’ Lois watched in horror as the e-mail changed. She rushed and deleted the confusing e-mail.

“Ok?” Will asked.

“Did you not see that?” Lois asked shocked at how calm Will was.

“See what?” He replied looking a little dumbfounded. “Why? Are you okay?”

“It’s Nothing ... I’m fine.” But inside Lois was worried what would come next.

*****

It was a while until Lois realised how real the e-mail was. She kept seeing things. A little girl. There one second, gone the other. She hadn’t told anyone. Especially Will. Will thought anything supernatural way a myth and anyone who believed it was wrong in the head.

But it was the night, the day before her 19th birthday that she met the ghastly aspersion.

“You’ll have a great day.” Eve, Lois’s best friend and maid of honour said as she left the apartment. Nothing could ruin the day. It was one week since she had first seen the girl.

She heard a scream, shattering her ear drums. She ran to the corridor to see the grunge girl cradling a dagger in her blood soaked hands and her long white dress ripped and stained in blood. Her skin, grazed and cut, her eyelids hollow but still crying tears of blood. Her black lips sewn together. The walls around her where splashed with blood and smeared the words ‘Help me’. Molly stood in silence as lights flickered around them. It took a few seconds to realise where the blood had come from.

Eve lay, lifeless, on the worn carpet, starring at the ceiling. Her eyes wide open, glistening with tears. Lois sobbed as she realised her best friends shirt had been pulled up to her ribs and repeatedly slashed down to her hips, blood filling her bellybutton and guts and intestines splattered all over the floor, still working.

“Eve…” her eyes flashed towards Lois. Eve was still faintly breathing, shaking with fear and pain. Terror filled Lois as she realised how much pain she must be going through. 

“You must be Molly.” Lois managed to choke out. “What have you done?”

Molly tilted her head slightly and looked at the walls.

“Help. You want help? I can help you. Tell me how I can help.” With no eyes, Lois couldn’t tell where Molly was looking. There was a silence then Molly leaped at Lois, stretching the stiches of her lips as she screeched higher than a banshee. Lois ducked as Molly swung her weak arms, smashing wall lamps, reducing the light and sending sparks of light. Lois winced as the blunt rusty blade sliced through her shoulder. Molly turned and ran full speed into a wall. Lois could hear her neck snap back as it hit the wall.