Inside The Darkness

Chapter 1

"A woman named Carla Swanson has been found dead in her apartment last night. Due to her neighbour's complaint about yelling and sounds of things being thrown, the local police went to check the commotion out. Around 10.45 pm, the police broke down her apartment door and found her body in the kitchen. The kitchen was covered in blood which is presumed to be the victim's. Nobody else was found in the apartment and the door was locked from inside. The police assumes that the murderer may have escaped from the window of the living room which has been found open."

"What are ya watching, Ni?"

"It's just the news." Niall answered dully. Greg didn't think anything of it though. After all, it was Niall's habit to watch the news religiously. And all this bad news was bound to dampen someone's mood.

"I am going out. Tell mom I will be late. I have a date with Denise."

"M'kay...."

After Greg left Niall fished out his phone, his thumb hovering over Louis's name, contemplating whether to call him or not. Louis was Niall's best friend but he could be exhausting sometimes with his child-like personality. After a moment, Niall decided to call him anyway. He picked up after ringing like a year, not literary.

"Ello?"

"What took you so long?" Niall furrowed his eyebrows.

"I have other important things beside answering your phone call, my friend."

"Whatever. You wanna come over? Mom an' dad are at work and Greg just left for a date."

"Oh, you want my wonderful company to dissolve your boredom?"

"Don't get cocky. I can have fun by myself thank you very much."

"Oof. What crawled up your ass and died? I will be there in 10."

"Hmmm. See ya."

Niall couldn't help his mood. It sure has dropped since he watched the news. Seeing the woman's face has made him feel guilty. Even though he couldn't do much but his mind was telling him that he had seen this coming. But it was just a dream. What could he do? He didn't know where the woman lived. Hell, he didn't know that she was getting murdered. He had only seen blood in some kitchen in that dream three nights ago. But it still didn't stop to make him feel like it was his fault. Like he could stop the woman from getting killed.

The doorbell rang through the house loudly, effectively bringing Niall out of his thoughts. With a sigh, he got up from the couch and padded to the door.

Opening the door, he met with the sight of Louis staring at something at the left side. He was so engrossed in it that he didn't even notice Niall opening the door and staring at him confusedly. Then Niall looked to the left (his right) as well and immediately smirked.

"Oooh, look what we have here. Shorty staring at curly."

Louis immediately snapped his head to Niall and shoved himself inside the house with Niall and locked the door before a certain someone took notice of them. Staring wide eyed at Niall he asked, "Who in the name of God is that?"

"That's our new neighbour."

"Well, no shit. I figured that out too, you dumb."

"Okay then, you can find about him all by yourself. I am zipping my lips up."

"No no no, Niall, my dear friend, you know I love you, right? Please tell me who is that gorgeous fucker? Is he even human?!"

"Yes, he is very much human, Louis. His name is Harry. They moved three days ago."

Louis had a dreamy look on his face. He dramatically clutched his chest where the heart is supposed to be and fell back on the couch.
"Well, fuck me."

"No." Niall said with a bemused look on his face. "Ya wanna play FIFA?"

"Sure, I guess." Louis replied with a sigh.

And so the day was spent with game controllers and pizza.

:)