8 Days Before Halloween [PART D]

The girl straightened up at once and her heart leaped like a fish out of water, when sounds that sounded like rapid footfalls, unexpectedly echoed from somewhere just up ahead.

Did someone see her? Did they notice the things she did? But she had searched every floor of the mall twice, sealing every exit and making sure there was no one in the mall except for her target. No one could have entered the mall during that period of time and certainly could not have reached the top floor without her noticing!

'Unless it's a - no, stop it! It's not real.' The girl thought as she cast anxious glances around the mall. 'Even if it is, it's too late. Everything has been settled and there's no going back anymore…'

As the sounds from above became clearer and clearer, she accelerated her pace towards the balcony of the mall, promptly.

"8 more days..." she hissed to herself in undertone, attempting to cover up the voice in her head that kept on reminding her how much she had hated her current life. "8 more days before Halloween comes, then I can finally stop doing this! 8 more days..."

Her quick pacing soon evolved into a rapid pounding of her feet into the floor as the sounds from above had not only become clearer but also closer and closer as if they were chasing after her.

When she finally reached the handrails of the balcony, she ceased her footstep. She started to mumble an ancient language and at the same time, ripped the skin of her left index finger with the sharp end of a pin on her jacket, smudging the blood oozing out over her ruby ring.