Tick Tock! Goes the Clock!

When Alex was fifteen, he came home from school to find his dad butchered and his mum’s throat slit open. There were no traces of the killer except for a bloody message left on his bedroom wall— Tick Tock! A few days later, a man confesses to the murders and the police take him into custody. He was trialled and found guilty. Case closed.

Now, in the middle of his first year of university, Alex remains haunted by the events. Although they are not as bad as they used to be, his nightmares are still there and the bloody message incessantly appears in the back of his mind. On his nineteenth birthday, while getting his flat ready for his party, the afternoon news reports on a death that has Alex frozen to the core, as pictures of a kids bedroom wall appears, and in the centre, written in blood that’s dried, were two words that brought Alex’s nightmares to reality: Tick Tock!