The Man with no face

Chapter 4

The drive home was a quiet one, Sarah sat facing the window watching the trees whizz by, with the window open she could feel the warmth of the breeze rushing past her cheeks. Sarah couldn't help but feel numb to everything that was going on right now, none of it seemed real.

"Can you pinch me now" Sarah whispered

"huh?" Oliver was confused 

"Please pinch me, I need to see if I'm asleep or whether all of this is real!" Sarah was shouting now, she was getting extremely frustrated and felt like Oliver wasn't listening to her.

"Sarah, sweetie... Im sorry I really am! But this is all real, and quite frankly you need to snap the hell out of this feeling sorry for yourself phase and start digging deep within you to find that fight mode that I know you have, If this person is really after you, then we need to be ready to fight because no twisted, delusional person is going to take you away from me! Or melody of course." 

Sarah could see Oliver's cheeks turning red, she couldn't believe he had just said those words, they have been together now for 5 years and not once as he said anything as nice that. 

"why has it taken someone dying, and my life being threatened for you to say something like that to me, do you know how long you have made me feel like you don't want me, need me or desire me?" Asked Sarah

Oliver slammed the brakes of the car and it came to a halt with a thud, He turned in his seat and looked at Sarah, he had a scary angry look on his face. He was pulsing his jaws and clenching his teeth like he always does when someone frustrates him.

"How dare you ask such a stupid question!, Are you being serious? How can you say you feel that way, im always trying to cuddle you, kiss you and tell you how much I love you but you push me away like some bad smell, For so long now I've tried to put up with the shit and neglect from you because I love you and want to be in yours and Melody's life but for god sake you don't half make that hard for me sometimes!, How can I desire you when you don't let me? huh? When was the last time you let me come close to you in bed to even try and desire your body? I can't even remember the last time we had sex for fuck sake!"

Sarah turned and looked out the window trying to hold back the tears, she knew that he was right, she knew that she had neglected him for so long but she couldn't help but think she wasn't good enough for him.

"Im sorry ok? Im just so sorry" Sarah whimpered through half filled eyes.

The rest of the drive home was even more awkward after their words with one another, and Sarah couldn't wait to get home, get into bed and cry until she fell asleep but as she was dreaming about her nice comfy bed she noticed that they were driving back past Louise's house, All the police tape had been removed and no one was there anymore. 

"Stop the car!" Sarah shouted as she opened the car door with a swing.

Oliver brought the car to a stop, Sarah jumped out and ran as fast as she could up to the front door of Louises house, there was blood still seeping through the crack at the bottom, Sarah gasped the reality of what had happened finally hit her! She finally realised her best friend was dead and that she was going to be hunted and killed soon too.

"what the fuck are you doing" Oliver panted as he ran up the driveway to where Sarah was standing.

"Let's go in" Sarah looked at Oliver waiting for his approval.

"We can't go in there, that is contaminating the crime scene, I think we have enough to worry about without police charges on top of it don't you think?" Oliver went to turn away but Sarah put a arm out and grabbed him on the shoulder with a firm grip ordering him to turn back round.

"Please, we might find something that could help me, and I need to say goodbye to everything I have known for the last 15 years of my life, before we know it some new family will be buying this place, and her memory well our memories will all be gone" Sarah sympathetically whimpered.

"ugh fine, but we are in and out of this place, it is going to be creepy as hell and I don't like this idea one bit, so lets hurry, go!" Oliver was nervous, his hands were shaking so violently that you could see him struggling to hold them still.

Sarah grabbed the door handle and turned it.

Click Click

The door opened slowly with a squeak, it was dark and smelt like someone had left a fridge full of rotten food open. Sarah put one foot over the blood splatters and stood in the middle of the hallway, she had shivers going from head to foot and her teeth started chattering violently.

"Right come on let's get this done with" Oliver grabbed Sarah by the hand and led her towards the staircase.

Something didn't feel right.