Alice is a police dispatcher for a quiet city. Not much goes on where she lives. Most of her shifts are during the night, the graveyard shift. With this job, you have to deal with pressure and have a lot of patience. She receives a few weird calls b...
"Ah Jimin! I'm so excited! I can't wait until next month for the cruise!"
"Same babe."
I walk up to her and wrap my arms around her waist. I gently pushed my lips onto hers. She pulls away and smiles to me.
"Jimin, I love you."
"I love you too Melissa."
She goes by the door and puts on her jacket.
"Well Jimin, I'm headed out for work. I'll be back home later!"
I walk to her and give her a peck on the cheek.
"Alright, see you later tonight."
She smiles to me and walks out the door.
I had the day off today, so I'm just going to relax and watch some TV.
I'm switching channels, trying to find something that would catch my attention.
My eyes start to feel heavy as I'm looking at the screen. I eventually fall asleep onto the couch, with the TV still on.
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I am woken up by the vibration of my phone. I yawn as I reach for my phone to see a random phone number.
968-736-3988
I ignore the call and toss my phone back onto the side table.
The TV is still on with a game show, so I continued to watch that.
My phone starts to vibrate again. I grab it to see a different number.
928-244-6498
I slightly get annoyed and ignore it again. I then put my phone on silent and toss of back to the side table.
I look back to the TV and continue watching.
I rest the side of my cheek onto my hand, feeling tired again. I start to close my eyes slowly, when suddenly,
*RING*
My eyes widely as I slightly jump from the loud ring. I look to my phone to see that Melissa is calling me.
"Hey Babe, whats up?"
"Jimin baby! I'm outside the door. I got off early and brought back food. Could you open the door for me?"
"Oh sure babe, hold on."
I hang up the phone and I get up to walk towards the door. I look to the peep hole to see that she was there, holding two plastic bags of food.
I smile and I open the door.
"Welcome back hom—"
My eyes enlarge to see that no one was in front of me. I start to become confused and I close the door immediately. I rush back to my phone and call Melissa.
"Hello? Jimin?"
I take a deep breath before I ask her,
"Melissa? Where are you?"
With a confused tone, she replies,
"Jimin, I'm at work. You saw me left for work."
My mouth opens and I start to feel chills throughout my body.
"Jimin? Hello? Hello?"
I'm breathing deeply through my nose and say,
"Oh, I, um, I'll see you when you get back home."
"Uh, okay. Bye Jimin, Love you."
I hang up and I just stand there for a minute. I try as hard as I could to think of a logical explaination.
"I'm just gonna go to sleep."
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I finish washing up and I head to my bed to lay down. I close my eyes tightly and I try to breathe in a pattern to fall asleep. I kept tossing and turning through out the night. I couldn't fall asleep, no matter how tired I was feeling.
I eventaully just sat up leaning against my headboard. I grabbed a book and opened it to read.
A few chapters in, I am starting to fall asleep. I turn the page and when I do, a drip of water is on it. I ignore it and continue reading. As I'm about to turn the page, water drips onto it.
My eyebrows furrow and I start to get confused. It drips another time onto the page.
I look up to see if the ceiling was leaking.
I am frozen.
I see two eyes looking down at me. I try to make a run for it and I try to yell. I couldn't move. I am frozen staring into those eyes. The face is dark gray and eyes wide. It was dark, but I could see the whites in their eyes. Their inner eyebrows pointing downward; they're angry. His hair is wet, dripping onto me.
I suddenly realize who it is.
I'm trying to move my mouth to yell. I'm struggling to move my body, but it just won't move.
I then suddenly could move, but I feel as if I have no control over it. I look away from the ceiling to the balcony doors. I sigh and a smile grows onto my face. I suddenly get up from my bed and walk towards the balcony doors. I open it slowly, as the wind pushes my hair back. I walk onto the balcony and grip onto the railings. I close my eyes and take a deep breath of the cold air. I then lean more forward onto the railing as I slowly turn my head to my side. I smile softly as tears fall down my face. I nod softly and turn my head forward.
