Taking Matt Whitteker Down

Warnings

Katrina exhaled nodding, her smile had left her face as she thought of the many ways to explain what had happened and how it escalated rather quickly.

She grimaced.

"Words have a way of gnawing at you.

-You look so happy, you could just drop dead-

They have this,

-so happy, you could just drop dead-

Itchiness to them.

-you could just-

The sort of itchiness that'd crawl under your skin, and make you fall to your knees.

-drop dead-

Man, was I terrified.

It was a message at ten thirty a.m. on Friday that set off all of my red alarms. Me, having missed school for faking cramps early in the morning I opted to stay in for the day. My paranoia growing bigger by the second.

I was on the kitchen table watching Soph bake her Lemon/blueberry cake while we two planned how to convince my parents that me missing the barbecue later that day is essentially a good idea. I did the planning part. Soph held the ridicule.

Then a horrendous beep arrived on my phone and was soon followed by a second one announcing a photo.

Of me

on the kitchen table with a smile on my face.

That ghosted rather quickly."

"How I confirmed there was more to the man from Thursday night than he led on? No, it wasn't seeing him silently scrutinze my every move at the party. Essentially, he was only another money hungry soul right?
It was seeing him at the crosswalk outside my house. That set off my red alarms"

"See, I thought when Murphy told me I was meant for greatness, it would entail not dealing with obsessed weirdos slash suspected murderers who hang around your house on the weekend. I thought it meant big cash and low maintenance. I thought it meant leaving everyone I cared about to the side unhurt and unworried, you know?"

//

:Hey!

Katrina screamed walking out of her house with a broom tightly gripped between her hands. For a slight second she regretted her weapon choice.

:the hell do you want?!!

The man dressed in beige slacks retreated into the lamppost as if it covered his figure.
The move giving her more confidence.
:Get lost!!!

:who are you talking to? Get in before any of the neighbors see you.
Sophie, yelled from the entryway. Exasperated.

Katrina turned looking at her sister, thinking of disclosing the reason why she can't sleep for days now. Rose is a hundred miles away. Soph would understand.. right?

With a blink of an eye she thought out of it.
Looking back at where the man was stood and saw he was gone. Her steps automatically retreating towards the house.