The Man with no face

Chapter 2

The rain is slamming against the car windows as Sarah and Oliver drive slowly down the road, The weather matches how gloomy they both feel.

Sarah can feel her Heart racing because she knows that she has to drive past Louise's home on the way to the school, Sarah used to pull up outside every morning with a hot flask of coffee for her and Louise would normally jump in the car with her two boys and they would all make the School journey together.

"Im never going to see her again" whimpered Sarah as she looked out of the passenger window trying to gulp down the big lump that was stuck in her throat.

She feels the gentle touch of Oliver's hand stroking the top of her leg, she couldn't look at him, she couldn't bear looking at the sympathy rippling through his eyes.

The dreaded time had come, pulling into the top of Fifth Avenue Sarah Gasped.

"Oh my god" Sarah put her hand up to her mouth while trying to control her breathing, she felt her heart thumping so fast that it felt like her Heart was trying to crawl up her throat.

There was Police tape cornering off a big patch of grass that was 2 doors away from Louise's home, you could see forensic officers running in and out of the front door carrying bits of evidence. Neighbours were all standing on their front porchs with a cup of tea acting as if they enjoyed watching the drama. There was a policeman standing in the middle of the road waving their arm in the air, asking people to slow down and bend round to the Left.

"How could someone do this, who would want to hurt Louise? Those poor boys have lost their mummy, How could something like this happen in this area?" Sarah was whispering to herself trying to answer the questions that she didn't have answers to.

DING DING

Sarah reached down and ruffled through her bag trying to find her phone, she couldn't bear reading all of the news articles about this horrific ordeal or see the messages from other School Moms that for some reason believe that she knew the facts and details about what happened.

She swiped off all of the notifications one by one slowly, until she noticed she had a voicemail, the voicemail was from Louise it was left for Sarah at 1am that morning.

Sarah tried to steady her hands to press play, her heart dropped and her eyes filled with tears How could she have missed that phone call?

"Ol... Ol... Oliver! You need to listen to this" Sarah said trying her hardest to stop her voice from shaking.

"Sarah, you need to pack your bags right now and get you and Melody away from here, I didn't want to say anything because I thought someone was playing a prank on me but I've been receiving threatening messages off someone, they have been saying all sorts, but now they are saying they are going too kill me and I'm starting to believe this isn't a joke, whoever it is knows everything about me and my family, I know your going to wonder why you would need too leave but listen... He told me weeks ago that one by one we were all going to pay and your on his list. I just think you need to know now because its not too late for you, please take my boys with you and make sure they are safe."

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

The sound on the voicemail starts to go muffled and Sarah could only just about make out what was being said...

"who is that? STEPHEN WHO IS IT!?"

"AHH NO NO PLEASE DON'T PLEASEEEE"

There was loads of ruffling as if Louise had started running outside.

"she must of been running outside at this point" claimed Sarah

"Yes sounds that way, maybe that's why they cornered off the grass" Oliver pulled in closer to Sarah to listen.

Things had gone quiet on the phone, Sarah couldn't hear any movement but the voicemail was still on so she continued to listen.

"Sarah" louise whispered

She sounded so scared, Sarah could hear the tears rolling off her cheeks and smacking the pavement underneath her.

"Sarah, Stephen is gone, He slammed through the front door and plunged a knife into Stephens head, I Put the boys under the bed and made a run for it but he's looking for me, he isn't going to give up until he finds me... I don't know what to do. Oh god he's coming" Louise was starting to get louder now.

"SARAH HE IS COMING, PLEASE HELP ME NOOOO PLEASE NOOOOOO"

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The phone line went dead, Oliver looked over at Sarah who was crying uncontrollably.

"it's my fault, I should of been awake too help her. why didn't I wake up to her ringing me?"

Oliver stared in disbelief

"Don't say that! You can't cope with that kind of guilt on top of you, baby there was nothing you could do... how could you help when she didn't tell you what was happening until last minute, you have done nothing wrong! Do you hear me? And still.... I know your grieving but baby we need to concentrate on the fact that Louise rang you to tell you about what was happening and warn you that you are on this physcopaths  list, we need to go to the police, we need to do something about"

Sarah sat there still, she had stopped crying and starting thinking about the reality of what was happening right now.

"shush now, we can talk about it later" Said Sarah while looking in the mirror at Melody sitting in the back seat.

"Lets not talk about this in front of her, she doesn't need too hear it or to fear anything ok?"

"Ok baby but this is a conversation we need to have soon!" Huffed Oliver.

Finally they pulled up outside of the school, there was camera crews everywhere! 

"what the" Sarah gasped

BANG

Sarah jumped back clutching onto her chest

"Sarah, Sarah can you tell us what you know about the death of Louise that took place last night? she was your bestfriend right?"

There were camera men surrounding Sarahs car, Oliver opened the window and scowled at them all individually.

"How dare you all! This is a school, we are trying to drop our daughter off to her class so please could you all move away from our car and politely go and bother someone else" Oliver wasn't impressed.

"sir we just want to ask some questions" said one of the camera men as he stepped forward from the crowd

"what makes you think she has any answers? HUH? This is as much as a shock to her as it is to everybody else, now if you don't mind she is grieving for her best friend so please leave us alone before I call the cops for harassment, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"

Everyone seemed to finally get the hint and back off away from the car, Sarah sat there staring at her feet petrified to look up, the last thing she needed was her picture in the paper connecting her to the murder.