The Man with no face

Chapter 8

Sarah scrunched her eyes tightly, the sun from the side window was beaming through and was hitting her directly on the face. She tried to lift her head, but the intense, continuous ache in the back of her head made it impossible. She huffed at herself when she realised that she must have fell to sleep. She once again tried to lift her self and made it halfway before just flinging herself forward to sit up, she forced her eyes open into a squint and saw that the blind had been pulled all the way up, Maybe Oliver came in and opened it she thought to herself.

But then it hit her! The Texts.

"Was I dreaming?" Sarah had a tendency of muttering to herself.

She forced her eyes to open until eventually she had managed to pull her eyelids up fully and then that's when she noticed it... So much blood!

She went to put her hands down to lift herself up off the bed but as soon as her hand touched the bed she screamed out so loudly she thought she had pierced her own ear drums.

Sarah looked behind her at her hands and noticed that one hand, Her right hand had a bandage wrapped around it and a rose note attached to it.

She lifted her left hand and bent round to slowly grip the note with two fingers and pulled it off. As she opened it the reality kicked in that the texts was not a dream and they had obviously been in her house to put this note next to her while she was sleeping. Her thoughts kept going back to her hand, why is it bandaged like that she thought to herself.

She put one corner of the note in her mouth and used her left hand to unravel it, it was bold writing again but this time the writing was in bullet points.

- WASH EVERY DAY

- PUT A NEW BANDAGE ON

- GET USED TO NO FINGERS

SEE YOU SOON MWAH X

Sarah felt like she had stopped breathing, She couldn't believe what she was reading.

Surely they haven't? Please tell me they haven't. sarah was panicking but without thinking she lifted her right hand and used her left hand to feel over the top. 

"They are all gone! THEY ARE ALL GONE! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS YOU SICK FUCKER, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!" Sarah was shouting hoping that the killer was still around to hear her.

Sarah had thought she had fell asleep but then she remembered feeling a smack of the back off the head.

She started muttering to herself again but she was starting to get angry, so angry that she was starting to not care about what happening, she was only bothered about finding out who was doing this so she could kill them.

"That sick physcopath was in my home, he must have hit me around the head, he said he wasn't going to do anything if I answered him.... Oh my god that fucker, he tricked me! He made me say that I wanted him to cut my fingers off, oh my god I invited him in to do it!"

The realisation that they had played her started to kick in as Sarah walked slowly into her ensuite bathroom staring at her poorly banadaged hand covered in blood. How was she going to explain this to Melody when she picked her up from school?.

As Sarah turned towards the sink she noticed that her bath tub was full of ice cubes, she felt confused and drained and then she noticed it right at the bottom was a box. She used her left hand to dig under, the cold against her skin burned the further she went down. She pulled as hard as she could that when the box was finally freed she fell back, putting her hand down to try and catch herself she cried out with pain. 

There was another rose note attached to the top but this time it wasn't closed, the writing was on the top of the rose and it read...

YOU ONLY HAVE 12 HOURS BEFORE THEY DIE.

What the fuck is he talking about before what die?

Sarah placed the box in-between her knees and slowly opened the lid there it was in the box lay 4 fingers.

Sarah laughed, she laughed harder than she had laughed in a long time.

She knew that who ever was doing this knew she couldn't take herself to hospital to get her fingers stitched back on because if she told them the truth they would call the police, and she remembered the first note telling her to not contact the police else she would end up mutilated just like her best friend was, she wasn't going to let this murderer trick her again!

She slowly lifted herself up off the floor and threw the open box back into the sink and made her way back into the bedroom to find her mobile, she spotted it placed on her bedside table but before she could make it over there she heard her phone 

DING DING

She couldn't help but feel panicked the last time her phone dinged she ended up losing her fingers. she slowly picked up her mobile and instantly saw the words UNKNOWN written across her front screen, she clicked on the messaged and unlocked her phone when she read the words she couldn't help but smile to herself, it said

Unknown - 

GOOD CHOICE, YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO LIVE WITH NO FINGERS.

Sarah - 

You want a game? You have one see you soon MWAH X

Sarah remembered Oliver's words to her, "you need to find that fight that is hidden deep down in you because its there" and Sarah knew she was going to find it, she was ready to fight back because now she finally realised it was kill or be killed.