The Face Of Her Lover

My name is Veronica and I started imaginating a strange face in my dreams, when I woke up or even when I am talking with some people.

A strange man's face who is always smiling at me or telling me something but I always forget what it is. Everytime I see that man's face my heart starts to ache as if I knew him from somewhere before.

I get scared everytime I see him then feel at ease when he smiles at me. I don't know why I feel scared nor why am I even seeing his face in the first place. I think that I never seen him in my life.

Once I even drew a portrait of his face but it never helped. My mother said she never seen him in her life and my friends said the same thing. But I felt kinda suspicious when my mother's face went all white as if she seen a ghost.

She turned her head, smiled then she said:

"I-I have never seen him in my life, sorry I cannot help you with that."...

I never seen my mother like that, maybe she was hiding something from me, but I never asked why did she react the way she did.

From the day I drew the portrait, I've been seeing him up close as he was holding my hands. He was angry, confused, sad, and he also told me to "Watch out for something!",

then he just vanished and I woke up.

It was like that for days, weeks and then months.

Nothing happened to me, but now I could hear him very clearly as if he was right next to me. Now I can also remember what is he telling me, which was very helpful.

It was monday, I woke up very early, this time I would write the words he was telling me.

I got in my memo:

"You...",

"Should be...", "Careful...", "Please...".

And even more words like that.

Everytime he see me, he would hug me then tell me another word.

After telling me the word he would vanish and then I wake up.

I started to feel scared being alone, and now I am at my parents house.

This time my mother told me to meet her in the living room, because she had to say something to me.

I got up, ate something and went to the living room.

She sat down with me and said:

"I don't know why are you seeing him Veronica, but that man was your boyfriend. He was killed, by a serial killer. They never found the man that killed your boyfriend. And also, you werw in such shock that you feel down and hit your head. After you woke up, you forgot everything about your boyfriend as if you have never even meet him. We didn't want to bring the death of him again to you so we triend to hid it from you. But, I guess he felt the need to tell you something. And I am glad he did, because he was the one that saved you from your dark days."

"Mother, I don't know what to say." -Veronica gasped for air as she started crying.

Mother hugged her, and she started crying with her.

"My child, it's gonna be okay." -Mother patted Veronica on the back.

"But... mother. What happened? What was the name of my boyfriend? How was he murdered?" -Veronica asked sadly.

"His name is Damian, Veronica. You two were really in love. No one know, why was he attacked and killed. The day it happened didn't have any money on him."

-Mother shaked her head then said:

"They are still searching for the man that killed Damian."

...

The day I spent with mother talking were the saddest ones. I spent more than a week looking at our pictures, memories my mother had in her phone and so many more things. They hid it for me, but now I am thankful that they did that. Because even if I didn't remember him, I felt the pain that I thought that I will never feel in my life.

It was wednesday night, and I've finally decided to watch a movie while my parents were out. I thought my heart would calm down, but how I was wrong.

It was the beginning of the movie and the internet was disconnecting and I couldn't do anything about it, so I decided to write some stories to calm my mind with that.

But then all of the sudden, the power went out and the whole house was pitch black.

I couldn't see anything, but at least I had my phone with me to use the flashlight.

While using my phone I hear some weird noise in the garage.

"Is it just a mouse,hm?" - Veronica walks toward the hallway where was the door of thegarage and then puts her head on the door to hear better. But all she heard was some laughing and knocking. She gasps and runs toward her parents bedroom. Veronica hiddes under the bed, and tries to call her parents first.

"Please, mother accept the call....", but the mother doesn't hear. She choses to call her father but the phone was left in the bedroom

"I'll call the police...", she whispers while her hands are shaking.

"Where are you-", the man's voice gets louder and louder.

"Why are you hidding?"

"Come out, come out. Where are you little bird?"

He is getting closer and closer, and Veronica was shaking even harder than before.

"Hello this is 911, what is the problem?"- The poloce operator says.

"Hello?~", Veronica whispers while her voice was shaking.

"Help me~ Someone us after me! Help!"

"Mrs, where are you now? Where us your address?"

"I am at 98 Viches Street, I think my house is the only onw without the-", Veronica stops talking wheb she heard the man at the door.

"Where are you..."

"Show yourself..."

"Are we playing hide and seek?"

"How nice!"

"But I am too old for that game!"

"Help me, please...",Veronica whispers.

"Mrs, I sent two police cars at your address. They will be there in ten minutes. Can you stay ther-"

"Oh, there you are.", the man grabs Veronica at her leg and pulls her out.

"KYA!" - She screams!

"Please don't! Plea- Noooo!" - She screams whole hitting and defending herself with the whole body.

"Don't you worry about anything, it will be a very silent death for you." -He smiles at her whole pointing a knife at her, then he takes out a gun and says:

"What shall we use? Gun or knife?"

"Nooo, please." -Veronica begs him but she was doing it for nothing.

"Let's use knife. Or.... Maybe gun... or knife? Or ? HAHAHAHA!" -Says the man whole holding her legs.

-Police will be at her house in seven minutes.-

"Please don't, I am begging you!", -Veronica is crying but the man is just talking to himself.

"It, it will be at a good use. I will use knife. Knife is good. Let's go with a knife! Ha Ha!" - The man laughs and slices her arm a little.

-Five minutes until the police arrives.-

Veronica escapes him, and runs out the room and he goes after her.

"Where do you think you are going? Ha ha-" , He says while walking and laughing.

"My arm is bleeding...", Veronica whispers.

"I need to find something to press this wound." -While searching for some clothes she finds and old t-shirt in the room next door and presses the wound and then runs out.

"DID YOU THINK YOU CAN ESCAPE FROM ME?" -He screams while running after her.

-Three minutes until the police arrives.-

Veronica is running after her life, then he catches her and hits her legs so she fells down.

He grabs her throat with one hand and hen stabs her leg with the knife he had in his other hand.

She no longer fights back, because at this point she lost all her strenght she had it in her body and her mind.

Her phone started ringing, and ringing.

The man got mad and stood up and walked to her parents bedroom.

She tried to get up twice, but her leg was in pain. She started bleeding badly but she did not care about it. She just wanted to escape the situation she was in.

Veronica started crawling towards the living room.

She hears a crash in the bedroom of her parents as he was hitting her phone with something.

She started fighting once again.

-One minute until the police arrives.-

"Where are you~", he laughs and starts to hit every door in the hallway with his feet.

"Are we playing the game again?"

Veronica is still crawling on the floor. She is gasping for air, while not giving up not even once.

-Police arrived at her house.-

Veronica was unconscious because of the loss of the blood.

The man grabs neck but let's go as he heard the police.

The police break down the front door and start running after the weird man.

Veronica was still alive.

She was hospitalized for a month and the man was sentenced for life in prison.

He killed twenty women and ten men in one month.

And no one, to this day know why he did the deed he did.

Veronica no longer stays alone at her parents house nor her friends and family leave her alone.

The weird man was called "The pointless murderer" for his infamous murders in the city.

Once in a while, Veronica still has the dreams about her dead lover Damien, where he smiles at her, hugs her and tells her the stories she wishes to hear if he was still alive.