Hearts and Daggers

Chapter Eight

 DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Halloween series in anyway =(. But I DO own Katarzyna and my other OCs.

Chapter Eight

(One month later)-A week before Halloween

(Katarzyna “Kat)

After Emmy’s incident at school, I began to meet her at the end of the day and walk home with her. My counselor at college had advised me from doing so because that would make me skip my last class but I only brushed it off. I was already in need of a couple of classes that were only available later in the day when Emmy would be home and I couldn’t leave her alone. Not to mention that I needed to find a job to bring some extra money in and I couldn’t rely on my inheritance forever; eventually that would run out.

That was a problem with living in “The Boogeyman’s House” in a small town: no one was willing to babysit for you in any way. It didn’t help that I was once close friends with said boogeyman who now terrorized and killed everyone around Halloween time.  

The day my luck changed was Friday, about a week after Emmy’s fight. Emmy had been running full speed ahead of me as we walked down the street towards the house.

“Emmy, slow down!” I yelled for about the fifth time.

“What? I can’t hear you!” she called back before laughing, “And besides you can’t do anything out here in the open!”

“Just wait until we get home where the only witness there is an escaped mental patient whose new best friend is a butcher knife,” I muttered under my breath as I watched her retreating form. Honestly, I hadn’t seen Michael since that night in my room. Sure here and there I would find more threatening notes and, most recently, dead animals on the back step. Occasionally when I was sleeping, I would wake up feeling as if someone was watching me and every so often, I would hear Emmy in random rooms talking to someone, but I had yet to see any sign that he was lurking about the house. I was actually starting to miss the guy.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder after all, I guess.  

Unaware of my surroundings, I hadn’t seen another person round the corner until Emmy collided with her and they fell. I ran over and pulled Emmy up before helping up the girl.

“I’m so sorry!” I apologized before sending a glare towards Emmy, “Didn’t I tell you to slow down?”

“It’s okay,” the girl laughed, “I’m fine,” as she brushed herself off, I looked at her and my eyes widen in shock. She had the same dirty blonde hair, even the same eyes as her brother yet she looked so much like her sister. She may have been a baby last time I saw her, but the smile and resemblance gave her away. 

“Angel,” I breathed in disbelief. The girl immediately stiffened and looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

“What did you call me?” her voice was tense, scared even as she continued to stare at me. I hadn’t realized I had spoken out loud as the air between us was suddenly suffocating. Before I could respond she was already talking.

“My name is Laurie, you must have me confused with someone else,” she said quickly, her eyes shimmering with tears and she stood in place, almost as if she couldn’t move.

“Judging by your reaction, I have a feeling that I’m not,” I said calmly.

“Please,” she said, “I really just want to move on,”

“I’m not trying to cause trouble,” I shook my head, “I’m just an old friend of your family,”

“The Myers,” she said but it came out more like a question.