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| [Introduction]
The phone kept on ringing. Roy was getting annoyed. "What's wrong with you? Why don't you answer it?" he shouted at Danny.
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| Danny looked down and mumbled something then took out the phone from his pocket. As he guessed it was from Sophie's number. The meekness of his feature in front of his boss changed for a fraction of a second. Clenching his teeth and pressing his lips, he quickly switched the phone off. "Prank call," he told Roy as if giving an excuse for not taking the call. "Next time make sure you switch your phone off, before entering my room. Now get going and finish this task. And if you can't just say it loud. I don't want to waste my time shouting at under-performing employees," Danny cried trying hard to control his temper in the sweltering summer heat. |
| Danny came out of the room and called that number back. "What took you so long?" said a seductive voice on the phone. Danny correcting his voice, "No. I can't do it, Sophie." "You did it before, now you are going to to do it again." ordered the voice over the phone. "That was my past. I gave everything up. I have my family now. My kids. Please don''t make me do this. I beg you." cried Danny. The woman on the other side continued, "If you don't, you do know what will happen. Don't you, Danny?" Danny tried to stop his tears, "What are you going to do? Kill my family? Lay a hand on them and I will sent straight back where you came from." "Oh! Is Danny angry? " answered Sophie mockingly, " I won't kill them. I will just tell them the truth." "Please don't," Danny gave up. His past was so dark and gritty that even he couldn't bear its burden on his shoulders till date, as he wrote in his diary, "I am my own nightmare". He continued, "I will do. Promise me that you won't do any harm to my family. I will do it. I will do as you say." |
| Kate had finally managed to find a baby-sitter for the night. The middle-aged Vietnamese lady seemed quite nice but her charge was quite high too. "Oh, well it is just for one night, I can afford a little luxury," she told herself. She had been saving up for for their fifth marriage anniversary for the last six months. She picked up the phone to call Danny and remind him of their night out today. But as always his phone was engaged. A little irked she left him a message. ...' Hope you remember!' The reply came about 20 minutes later. "I will meet you at the theatre directly.' |
| As soon as Danny replied for Kate's message, he got another message. It was from Sophie. The message said, "Oh Yeah ! I do remember." Danny was shocked to see that. He, in dander called Sophie and, "Where are you? How the heck did you know about that?" Sophie was laughing on the other side of the phone, "Your wife looks pretty cute in her red dress." Danny continued, "What? How did you even enter into our house?" Sophie still laughing, "There is no need to knock doors for me. I can go into anything and come out of anyone I want." Danny was terrified. "Right now, I am sitting on your bed. Poor Kate, she cannot see me now and she will never know what is coming for her. It will all be done in a matter of seconds." Danny tried to stop Sophie, "Please don't. I love her. I love her more than anything in this world. Please. Let her be happy. It is our anniversary. Please don't make her cry. I will do what ever you want. I will. I promise." The reply given by Sophie shocked Danny. |
| Kate was in front of the mirror, trying to match her accessories with the newly brought dress. Suddenly she felt a cold breath at the back of her neck. Startled she looked towards the window. But it was closed. She had closed it to switch on the air conditioner. "Weird" she thought. "I must hurry, otherwise I would be late," she hurried into the closet and tried to pull out her black shoe box from the top shelf. To her shock, the wooden rack made a cracking sound and came off with all its content over her. She was quick enough to move away and save her head. But all room was a mess. Strewn with boxes and shoes. Kate looked at it with frustration. She did not have the time to clean up this mess now. She was about to leave the room and call the baby sitter for help, when the crack in the wall of the closet where the wooden rack one stood caught her eyes. |
| Kate headed over to the crack in the wall, curious about it more than she was afraid. Which was saying a lot, given that she was sweating, his lips trembling, her hands shaking ever so slightly in fear. Still, her morbid fascination drew her to the wall. You know, the breed of fascination that lures people into dark alleys or haunted houses. They don't return. A voice told her quietly in the back of her mind. So turn back now. She couldn't fight it though. She knew somewhere deep down that it was irrational. There were no ghosts, demons, monsters - yeah, it was a long list. So she had nothing to be afraid of - A woman stepped out from the jagged black crack. Kate jumped back, her heart in her throat. She had no idea how a living person could fit in so small a space - it was like she'd appeared from thin air. She was a tall, thin and pale with thick black hair falling to her waist. She looked vaguely family. Kate knew she'd seen her somewhere but the memory evaded her. She looked normal enough - nothing like what she'd expected, the only thing unnatural about her was her beauty. "Hello, Kate." She smiled, showing her dagger like canine teeth. "I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you." Kate backed away as she extended a hand and walked slowly toward her. "Oh, you offend me. You have nothing to be afraid of." Another one of those chilling smiles. "Well, mostly. I'm Dannny boy's friend. Surely he's told you about me." "N-no." Kate stammered, trying not to let the fear show in her voice. Needless to say, she was failing miserably. "What a pity, and we had such good times together." The woman retrieved a jagged, rusty knife from the folds of her black dress. "Dear, my name is Sophie." |
| Kate was trying to catch her breath. Suddenly, the phone rang. Sophie took it out from her black dress. "Oh! It's your hubby. Want to have some fun Kate?" Kate was terrified to the core. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. She tried to close her eyes so that if were a dream, she would wake up. But it wasn't. Sophie answered the phone, "Hello Darling, how you doing?" Danny answered, "Don't try lo lure me into. It won't work. I will not do what you said. Not in this life." "Oh Danny boy. I am on my way to your home." her seductive voiced continued. Danny cut his call to make a call home. He dialled the home number and it started ringing. Meanwhile, Sophie lifted the phone at his home. Danny hurriedly, "Kate. It's me. Don't ask me anything. Just get out of the house. Take the car and go far." Sophie replied, "I think Danny, you should learn some phone speaking manners first. When you call someone, it is a common notion to say Hello." Danny was terrified to the core, he replied, "You lay a finger on Kate, I will send you to hell." "Oh Danny boy, don't be that naive. I came from there." "Please leave her. Don't do anything. Do you understand me?" There is no reply from Sophie. All Danny could hear was the screaming of her wife. He broke into tears. |
| Yen Dao had just put the younger one to sleep when she heard the shriek coming from upstairs where the lady of the house was getting ready. "Mummy Crying!" said three and half year old Ron. "Umm you look after your brother. Me go and check. Good boy!" She gave Ron a smile and walked towards the landing. "Mrs Martel, are you OK?" she asked as she started climbing up. "Mrs. Martel...." The house was unusually quiet and as she rested her hand on the door knob to Kate's bedroom, she shivered a little. The temperature of the house suddenly seem to be much lower. She knocked at the door and turned the knob but before she could open it, a voice from inside the room said, "I am fine, Mrs Dao. I won't be needing your service tonight sorry for giving you trouble. I have changed my mind I am not going out. Come tomorrow and collect your fee. Go now." The voice was metallic and rude unlike the sweet gentle voice of the young lady who hired her for the night. "Something's not right," Den thought. Should she open the door and find out, she thought. She gulped and turned back. As she climbed down the stairs a lady in black dress and unusually bright make-up came out from the living room door. "Oh there you are. You must be the baby-sitter. I am Kate's friend. I will be looking after the kids today. So you can go home now," she smiled and her dagger like teeth did not escape Yen's sight. "Yes! Yes!" Yen hurried down the stairs trying her best to avoid looking straight at the lady and clutching the small prayer book she always carried in the side pocket of her dress. |
| Kate lay writhing on the floor when she heard the voice. A pool of blood lay deathly still around her and with a start, Kate realised that the thick gushy liquid had probably escaped from her insides. She felt oddly disconnected - she knew she had to remember something, someone, but for the love of all things holy, she couldn't recall whom. A scared voice seemed to ask her something from a distance. It was her babysitter, Yen. Kate couldn't muster up the energy to do anything, yet surely if she screamed, she would hear her. So she opened her mouth and loosened her vocal chords for one last attempt - Out came a voice that was entirely unfamiliar to her. It sounded cold, and mechanical like someone had ripped out her throat and replaced it with a metal box. The voice told her to leave, that everything was fine. Kate sobbed. It wasn't. She wanted to scream, but she knew what would happen if she opened her mouth again. She didn't know what happened next, but her body rose - Kate felt every painful tug at her meek, ripped flesh. It was almost too much and she was begging for death but she moved, the choice out of her hands. She rose to her full height, the dressing room mirror showing her in the moonlight. Blood smeared every inch of her skin from the gashes and deep cuts the knife had made. But deeper than the crimson that was her blood were her eyes. They burned with red flames from the darkest pits of hell. |
| Danny knew what had happened to Kate. Anger and helplessness boiled inside him, cooking up the feelings which he had been able to hide since he met Kate. Years ago, it were these same feelings which made him stab his step dad and run away from home and hide in the forbidden woods that overlooked Cold Lake county, he grew up in. It was there he met with the likes of Sophie. His teenage fear and cowardice got the better of him and he sold his soul and became a slave to Sophie for Life! She however never mentioned the word forever. All that she promised was "I will save you from all your troubles, son." Dazed by her beauty, teenage Danny had readily accepted the help, without even giving a second thought about Sophie's identity, what she was doing in the middle of the wood at such late hours, in eye-catching make up and black party gowns. "You will?!" he had said. "Of course, darling. Only if you want help. You have to be 100 % sure you want it," she said smiling; for a moment her scarlet lipstick seemed to melt and drip off her lips. "I... uh .. um I don't want to go to jail, please," 13-year-old Danny had pleaded. "No no no don't cry sweetie. Come here now, come on sit," Sophie had said, patting her thighs inviting Danny to sit on her lap. It wasn't kindness in Sophie's voice that pulled Danny towards her, something else, perhaps his teenage curiosity, made him make the mistake of his life. As he sat on her lap, Sophie had whispered, "Everything will be okay," and licked the blood off Danny's face, hands and T-shirt with her ice-cold tongue. |
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