Getting Temptations

Episode 37

Ben immediately frozed on hearing that and the different types of prying eyeballs that stared at him.

He was too stunned and gobsmacked to move an inch.

The whole place was eerily quiet worse than a grave yard. As no one talked nor made a disturbing noise.

Nancy also watched from where she sat in the car, her brain couldn’t provide her the appropiate answer to the question in her mind.

She only watched in silence but couldn’t decipher what was happening as everyone stood still like a statue.

They suddenly parted a narrow way for him as if he were a king.

Ben was standing, still not moving, he watched them parted way for him but he couldn’t attest to why they parted ways for him and what they wanted him to see.

He never knew when his legs carried him and he started walking through the way they left for him.

His legs suddenly came to an halt. He would have asked his legs why it had stopped but his mouth was too weighty to talk.
His eyes popped out, when his brain processed the message to him.
Just few meters from where he stood, there lay an over aged woman lying lifelessly on the floor, the victim was drenched with blood that one couldn’t see the owner of the face properly except you stare at the face.
Ben gasped out and his breathing became short shallow gasps as his chest heaved up and down heavily.
He couldn’t behold the sight, and
moreover, he had never seen such a horrible sight all his life.
It was worse as he saw that the body was excavated into two parts.
It was as if a sharp edged sword was used to cut her body into two parts, demarcating it from her waist region.

Ben was still oblivious of who it was and why he was scared for his dear life as shivers raced up and down his spine.
He wasn’t looking at the horrible dead body but his eyes were roaming over the crowds looking at the gloomy faces that stared back at him as though, he was waiting for explanation.
No one dared talk but remained mute as the silence evaded the once noisey street.
He glanced back at the body and realization hit him.
It was only a mumbled scream, he could manage.
It was his mother lying lifeless right before him.