Eight
A Tale of Two
8
I had a dream and she was chasing me and beating me and strangling me. She had beat Jessica to pulp and shoved her into a bag and put it in the closet. I wanted to save her, but it was too late. Mrs. Choi tried to stop me. I stabbed the back of her right hand with a scissor. We duel. She won. She dragged me along the floor of the house in blood. She left me in the hallways. And then everything went blur. One thing I remember:
“Remember when I said you’ll regret it someday? You…know what’s really scary? You have something that you want to forget, to totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can’t be wiped away, you see? And…it follows you around like a ghost.”
I wake up and I find myself on the couch in the heart of the house. Tiffany was there with me. I felt my head heavy. I couldn’t focus. She gives me 2 tablets of drug and I don’t swallow them right away. I look at my hands, one of them is bleeding, stabbed.
*Dingdong
Tiffany gets up and out to open the front door. A while later, a figure entered the room, and
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