My New Neighbor

Episode 2

I heard him closed the door again. My heart was beating ten times faster this time and I was trying hard to catch my breath.

I held the door handle firmly while trying hard not make a single sound. I knew at that instant that my life is in danger and any slight sound can claim my life.

I heard him sigh loudly and his sigh was followed by the cringing sound of the couch.

I stretched my neck with difficulty in order to catch a glimpse of him. Then I saw him. He was resting his head on the couch and he closed his eyes tightly as if a lot was going through his head.

He was mumbling some inaudible sentences and I was doing the same too, although mine wasn’t as loud. I was silently praying to God to save me from the problem I put myself in.

“You thought you’ve seen a fine guy right. He is very strong right, then he will use his strong hands to choke you to death”, I heard a dark image saying that into my head. I tried to knock it off my head but it kept on coming.

I started crying and shedding tears of regret at that instant and I started begging God to spare my life.

Pete was still sitting down there with his eyes closed and my eyes was still fixed on him. Then like a Soldier, he stood up furiously as if he had noticed that someone else has entered his flat and he started coming towards my direction.

I was almost about to give up and probably pass out when this guy just entered the kitchen without even looking at my direction.

I was still standing there in shock and watching the events that was about to unfold in front of me.

Pete came out of the kitchen two minutes later with something I wouldn’t call a food on a plate. There was about 4 knives beside the thing he brought out on a plate.

The food looked like some kind of heart, maybe human or animal heart.

He took a comfortable position in the living room and he placed the plate on a stool that was at his front.

Rather than him eating that “thing”, he took the four knives into his hands. Two in each hand and he started stabbing the hearts like a wounded lion. He kept on stabbing it and grunting.

He has stabbed it more than hundred times in five minutes and I was still watching him with my mouth wide opened. I realized that he was having a training with that heart, he was obviously training on how to stab people.

He stabbed the heart till it became useless and when he was comfortable with its condition, he ate the remains.

“Chaiii, Blood of blood. So Pete isn’t normal at all”, I lamented to myself.

I was still watching in fear when he stood up and started coming towards my direction.

I presumed that I may not be as lucky as before. I closed the door gently and started moving towards the direction of a room. It wasn’t his room, I guess that it was a guest room because it looked empty.

I entered it’s toilet as fast as I can and hid myself.

I was still searching frantically for my phone in my pockets with the aim of calling someone for help when it started ringing.

I took it out immediately to silence it when I saw the caller. It was Pete and he apparently has been looking for me to.

I prayed hard in my mind for him not to hear the sound of the call. I was hoping and praying at the same time, but it seems like my prayer wasn’t answered because the door of the room clicked open.