✯\\Lost in the Woods\\✯

eighteen

Home felt lonely.

My mother wasn't here and the babysitter run off to who knows where.

I sighed before turning on the TV to find nothing entertaining.

Then suddenly I heard a knock coming from the door. Who could it be, no one knows where I live.

I walked to the door and slightly opened it to get a better view of who it was.

" Eric?" I said confusingly

I fully opened the door to see if my mother was with him but what I saw next made me want to puke.

There stood Eric drenched in blood from head to toe and I didn't want to know who's blood was that.

" Where's my mom?" I asked while trying not to sound scared

He frowned his eyebrows then grinned causing me to back away slowly while holding onto the door knob.

I quickly closed the door then locked it before he could talk.

I run up to my room and hoped all of this was a dream.

I crawled onto my bed and buried my head into my knees.

I was just imagining things.

My mother and Eric were still out and what I just saw was a hallucination.

I tried convincing myself as I drifted off to sleep.

The next day I felt lonely again. I must have been right because once I woke up no one was there and there was no sign of Eric being around.

I went back upstairs to get my phone so I could contact my mother to see if everything is okay.

From Josephine:

Hey mom I just
want to check if
you are fine and
when are you coming
back.

Sent

I guess she's offline. I put my phone in my pocket and grabbed my backpack.

Once I opened the door I felt sick to the stomach when I saw bloody foot prints on the porch.

I felt tears threatening to fall as I started at the blood.

Then that means last night wasn't a dream.

I started breathing heavily as I thought of the possibilities of something bad  happening to my mother.

" Im not going to school." I said to myself

" Your mother wouldn't be happy about that." A familiar voice said

I felt my heart beat quicken as Eric's voice was heard.

" W-what did you do to my mother?!" I yelled at him as I asked

" I did nothing." He said" the question is what did she do?"

I kept my guard up as he moved closer.

"Oh my little Josephine,only if you knew." He said" but it's too late."

" What's too late!" I yelled out as I felt hot liquid running down my cheeks" I want my mother!"

He chuckled.

" If you move any closer I will call the police!" I yelled out

I reached my phoning my pocket and took it out.

" Im not afraid to do it." I said

" Go ahead call." He said" who's gonna believe you with no evidence."