The Stalker

I wake up to see no living being around me. I can't seem to remember rightly but last I guess, I, um, I don't know. Maybe I... said goodbye to Mark? And maybe when he kinda left the place, I blacked out. I think someone hit me on my head. Gosh, it hurts so bad. And what the hell am I even doing in a doomed building? Maybe! God my head hurts so bad. 

"Anyway, it's time to go home."

As soon as I tried to stand up on my feet and go home. I realized I am chained. "Ugh, what an awful, okay I'm not even gonna debate this. But seriously, what the heck!"

I started talking to someone, I mean I am the only person here, just maybe someone is around and they can hear me and come to rescue. So I started shouting at the top of my lungs.

"HELLOO? IS SOMEBODY HERE? I THINK I AM STUCK HERE. IF YOU CAN HEAR ME PLEASE HELP ME UNTIE MYSELF."

I kept screaming for the love of my life. But there was nobody. I guess 50 minutes or so passed by, and then I heard someone.

"Hello, Liz!" 

When I heard him, it was as if, somebody gave water to a person who has been in a desert for weeks. I was desperate and so happy.

"Hey, I'm right here. Can you please help me untie myself?"

"Oh sweet Liz, don't you know me? I wanna keep you here longer, though I hope you slept well"

Speak of a drastic mood swing. What was this going on? Am I being kept a hostage? Is it for money? Cause God, I'm broke. 

"Who are you?" I asked in a panic voice when he did not respond in a minute, which by the way felt like an eternity I asked again, "What do you want from me? What IS GOING ON?" I seriously lost my cool. I mean what do you think a person with low patience and who's held hostage was supposed to do? I wanted to beat the hell outta that man but these damn chains. I swear I might've just groaned in my head.

It was exhausting and I was so tired. But then he spoke. 

"I know you have a got a million questions, but please calm down I am not trying to hurt you, or any of your beloved people." He said in such a strange way, I was so scared. But this was just the beginning, because of what he had planned next for me. God, if I only knew. 

He stood in front of me doing something on his phone and then showed me the screen of the phone.

"What the heck? Why is he in your video frame?" I said in a panicked voice. What the hell was Mark's video doing in this psycho's phone? And why was he showing it to me? Was he gonna hurt him? I grew more scared. I guess, he read the scary part off my face so he said, "Oh no no, I won't do anything to your boyfriend, or is it fiancé now?" 

I kept quiet, I didn't want to trigger his psycho, I mean I don't wanna die in an abandoned building.

"I can't wait to see you in a bride gown next summer Liz."

I cut him off and asked him again, "What do you want from me? What the heck do you want from me?" I shouted

"Tone down lady; as I said, I don't wanna hurt you, but don't you dare speak to me like that."

"Okay, I'm sorry," I said in a low hesitant voice. "But what am I supposed to do when you kidnap like this. And I have no idea for who you are or what you want from me?" I said in the sweetest voice possible.

"Yeah, we'll come to that,-" he said in the laziest voice possible, "-but before that, I want you to do me a favor. Will you do that Liz?"

I said yes, I had no idea what was gonna happen. But I did not want to give him a reason to hurt me.

"Alright then, let's play a game."

I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I was just blindly following what he wanted.

He started asking me a question like; Have you slept with anyone other than Mark? Have you cheated on Mark ever? Why do you love Mark? How much do you love Mark? All these questions just ended with my fiancé. His favorite color, his favorite hoodie, and so strange questions about him.

It almost felt like this creepy guy was obsessed with my fiancé. 

"So tell us Liz, on which facial feature had Mark got hurt when he was a child?"

"I... I... I don't know. He... never told- " My voice was shaking, I wasn't even able to complete that sentence fully.

"Of course you don't." He sounded so unpleased.

"Why are you asking me these-" 

"To prove you that I know Mark better than you." He cut me off and said this.

"Okay Jeremy, the show's over, let's head back home, it's dark and I am so tired." I thought he was Jeremy, Mark's childhood best friend. 

"I am not Jeremy"

"Then who are you?"

"We will come onto that but before that, the answer to the question asked is his left eye."

He came in the light and I could see him, while my mind was still scanning for where I saw that face because I did saw it before, he came closer and whispered in my ear "I love Mark, better than you could do. Since you don't know this basic thing about him, let me give you the same mark on your left eye." 

Suddenly he started laughing like a psycho.

"Oh my God, I just realized, that I'll be giving you a 'mark' and taking another 'Mark' from you." he laughed. I was so scared. 

"But... but you said you won't hurt me?" I said

"Yeah I did, but so did you when you said that you love and know Mark."

"Hey... no please... this isn't... this isn't right. Lo-ok we can talk about this. yeah? Please don't hurt me." I started crying and shouting, breathless with my actions.

But he came closer with a drill machine and-

Beep beep beep… My alarm went off. I opened my eyes and I saw Mark sleeping right next to me, Peacefully.

THE END.

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