Happy Halloween
It was as dark as night.
Not a sound was heard, except the occasional crickets serenading the sleeping humans.
She parked her car and got out of it quickly.
Twice, she had heard of people being robbed right on that neighbourhood street.
Carrying her handbag and laptop bag on one arm, she slammed the car driver's door using her right elbow and walked towards her rented apartment in tight, tense steps.
A sudden gust of cold wind blew.
Crumpled newspapers and aluminium tin cans rolled across the street in front of her.
A dog howled somewhere in one of the backlanes.
She felt chilled to the bone and quickened her footsteps.
Suddenly, something caught her eye.
There was a movement in front of her, hidden among the black shadows.
She stopped dead track in her steps.
Her heart began thumping in her ears.
Trying to stay calm, she peered into the darkness, while reaching for her pepper spray in her handbag.
The movement, as in sensing her presence, stopped moving too.
A squeaking sound to her left made her jerk to the right.
A rat was scurrying between rubbish bags, probably looking for food.
Startled by the rat, the movement in the hidden shadow was temporarily forgotten.
She watched as the rat came sniffing at her shoes.
Disgusted by it, she was about to take a step back when out of the shadows, the movement lunged at her.
Screaming blindly, she fell backwards and raised both arms to protect herself from her attacker.
Her pepper spray dropped onto the street, useless.
Please don't hurt me..! She pleaded in her head, her eyes tightly shut.
A few seconds passed. Nothing happened.
Feeling odd, her eyes dart opened.
There was no one standing above her, no one holding a knife to rob her valuables.
She sat up, dazed and confused.
And there she saw it, happily dragging its prey back into the safety of the shadows.
"A cat??!!" She wondered incredulously, shaking her head.
Gingerly, she got up. Her butt hurting slightly.
Picking up her strewn belongings, she reaches the steps to her posh apartment in no time, uneventful.
Opening the door to her apartment, she enters it and places her bags on the table.
Reaching back to close the door, her eyes flick towards yours as you read this.
She smiles an eerie smile, her dark eyes staring into yours as if she reads your soul.
"Happy Halloween......" She whispers, smiling as the door shuts in your face.
Kath's note: Feedback and opinions please... :D Hope you have fun reading this as I did writing it.
Not a sound was heard, except the occasional crickets serenading the sleeping humans.
She parked her car and got out of it quickly.
Twice, she had heard of people being robbed right on that neighbourhood street.
Carrying her handbag and laptop bag on one arm, she slammed the car driver's door using her right elbow and walked towards her rented apartment in tight, tense steps.
A sudden gust of cold wind blew.
Crumpled newspapers and aluminium tin cans rolled across the street in front of her.
A dog howled somewhere in one of the backlanes.
She felt chilled to the bone and quickened her footsteps.
Suddenly, something caught her eye.
There was a movement in front of her, hidden among the black shadows.
She stopped dead track in her steps.
Her heart began thumping in her ears.
Trying to stay calm, she peered into the darkness, while reaching for her pepper spray in her handbag.
The movement, as in sensing her presence, stopped moving too.
A squeaking sound to her left made her jerk to the right.
A rat was scurrying between rubbish bags, probably looking for food.
Startled by the rat, the movement in the hidden shadow was temporarily forgotten.
She watched as the rat came sniffing at her shoes.
Disgusted by it, she was about to take a step back when out of the shadows, the movement lunged at her.
Screaming blindly, she fell backwards and raised both arms to protect herself from her attacker.
Her pepper spray dropped onto the street, useless.
Please don't hurt me..! She pleaded in her head, her eyes tightly shut.
A few seconds passed. Nothing happened.
Feeling odd, her eyes dart opened.
There was no one standing above her, no one holding a knife to rob her valuables.
She sat up, dazed and confused.
And there she saw it, happily dragging its prey back into the safety of the shadows.
"A cat??!!" She wondered incredulously, shaking her head.
Gingerly, she got up. Her butt hurting slightly.
Picking up her strewn belongings, she reaches the steps to her posh apartment in no time, uneventful.
Opening the door to her apartment, she enters it and places her bags on the table.
Reaching back to close the door, her eyes flick towards yours as you read this.
She smiles an eerie smile, her dark eyes staring into yours as if she reads your soul.
"Happy Halloween......" She whispers, smiling as the door shuts in your face.
Kath's note: Feedback and opinions please... :D Hope you have fun reading this as I did writing it.
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