If Only I Knew
Ch.4
By: Emily
It wasn’t hard to find 243 LAN LAN Dr.
‘There it is.’
Duo got out of the truck and knocked on the door. He waited a minute and there came no answer.
‘This is the right address, so why is no one answering the stupid door already?’ The building was very old and big.
Duo couldn’t wait any longer. With a karate kick, he sent the door flying. Walking in slow, with a gun in his hand, he carefully made his way down the empty halls. He passed a couple of rooms on the way, but saw no one. The place was completely empty. Not a human or animal in sight. He went into a room. On one side of the wall was a painting of a heart with a knife stabbed through it. ‘Whoever owns that must have done something to Relena.'
~~~~~ Relena's Point of View (earlier in the story) ~~~~~
After an hour of walking through the woods, she finally found Oak Creek town. LAN LAN Dr. was kind of hard to find. 15 minutes later she arrive at 243 LAN LAN Dr. Walking up to the door, she saw a cardboard sign with the name ‘Lenny’s Quick Food Deliver’ written all over it. She observed that the building seemed to stand out a lot. It was bigger than most buildings. There was something about it that wasn’t right.
A man about 30 opened the door with an annoying look on his face. “What do you want?” he practically yelled at her, sending a chill down her spine.
“I…um…got this message to pick up my groceries,” sounding a little scared she took a step back from the man.
He stood there staring at her for a minute until his face softened up a little and he answered her in a nice and gentle voice. “Oh…Miss Relena Dorlain?” She nodded slightly. “Come on in. My boss is expecting you,” he said smiling.
“He’s expecting me?” Once again she felt something wasn’t right, but she shook it aside.
“Please follow me.”
She hesitated a moment before she followed him. He led her in a room that was painted bright yellow. It hurt her eyes to stare at it. He motioned for her to take a seat and once she did, he disappeared through another door.
Looking around the room, she felt kind of dizzy. At the far corner of the other wall, there was a painting. Standing up she walked over to it. What she saw nearly made her screamed. The painting showed a heart and in the heart was a knife. The background was all oozing with red, like blood.
She had had enough of this place. The man was creepy enough, but this painting must belong to a killer or someone. ‘Was this a trap? I should have waited for Duo.’
Lost in her thoughts, she didn’t hear that someone was lurking up behind her. Feeling another presence in the room, she twirled around, but was a second too late. She tried to scream, but a piece of cloth clamped over her mouth. She struggled to get free, but then everything went black.
To be continued…