I stretched my back and let out a long yawn, as I got out of my bed. I was back in my home town, which turned out to be a mistake. I laid back in, I didn't want to get off it. During my collage's Autumn break, I got a message from an old friend. My high school was having a reunion and I was invited. Thought it is fun to see old faces again, but it turned into a depressing situation. One of our friend and my personal close friend had gone missing. Her name was Sophie Turner. I learned that she came, a week prior to this event and decided to rent out a cottage at the local beach. She went missing from there and so far police don't have a lead on her.
I might know who did it, but it's not like I could go to the police and tell them. it is because they won't believe me. let's start from the beginning. When I first met Sophie Turner, my childhood friend. It was in grade school and she was a transferred student, from town a few miles away from ours. Her appearance is what made her stand out, chestnut hair color with dark brown eyes and unusually pale skin. She didn't have many friends, well any for that matter. Nothing surprising, but when you consider that this continued for a year, it becomes very unusual. It just didn't make sense for a kid her age not to have any friends. One I heard some kids talking about her and said that they felt uneasy, almost scared when with her, although I did not feel like that.
I once talked to my mother about her and after hearing about her, she advised me to be the first one to become her friend. I did that, on the very next day. I found her after school, walking alone at home. I sneaked from behind her and taped on her shoulder. That scared her really badly, almost like she had a heart attack. She screamed loudly and fell back. I quickly apologized and gave her a hand to help her up. Few minutes of talking and we were good from there. She was a good person and kind, we became a good friend. Then one day, as we were in the same class, both of us were given a task to clean the theater stage. At that time I was on the stage, swiping up the dust and piece of color paper off the ground and she was in the back room, swiping there.
Suddenly my shoulder felt heavy and chills ran down my spine, I became frozen. I felt fear, wrapping itself around my neck and then a loud scream and I broke free. It was Sophie, she ran out of the room with tears rolling down her cheeks. I quickly asked what happened, she didn't answer me, rather ran away. Afterward, I checked the back room and there was nothing out of the ordinary, accept a feeling, that someone or something was here. For the next few years, we grew apart, stopped talking and hanging out. Soon high school rolled around and she changed completely. She became beautiful and socialized, made friends and started hanging out with them. At that point we stopped talking, not that weren't friends anymore, rather because we had different groups. In the end, I was happy for her but did not last for long.
One day, when we were in the final year of high school. I and my friends made a plan to go and watch a movie, but at the last moment canceled it to go to a club for a fun night. I didn't go with them, because I was into it. While I was going home, I saw Sophie strolling her way home. I caught up with and asked her out for a movie. Even though we have not talked in a while, she still decided to go out with me. I asked her what kind she would like to see, horror was her choice. I looked at the schedule on my phone and it was to start at 11:30. Which was I bit too late, but she didn't mind and now neither did I. I told her that I would pick her up from her house, I had my dad's car with me. Around 11:00 I drove down a few blocks to her house. The light was out, by chance her parent were asleep. I texted her and she replied, telling me to wait for her. Few later she popped out from the side and got in. I asked her, where did she come. She told me that she came from the backdoor. She did not tell her parent and that was not alright, but now that we came this far, mind as well goes all way.
The movie theater was across the highway, to the next town over. I parked the car in the parking lot. There were still a few minutes before the movie began, meanwhile, we grabbed some popcorns and drinks and went to our seats. The movie shortly began afterward. It was about some group going to the mountains to find a witch and the group end up dying. I personally was not a fan of horror films, but Sophie seemed to enjoy the scares. After the movie, we went back to the car, but she forgot her coat, so had to go back and get it. While she went, I sat in the car waiting for her.
While I was waiting. Suddenly my shoulder became heavy and chills ran down my spine. The familiar fear came over me, the same as the time at the theater. I looked around frantically, unlit my eyes went to the back mirror. there was a man standing between the trees. He was naked and pale. I blinked twice, to make sure I was not hallucinating. There was a man, he was tall and completely naked and I couldn't make out his face. What was he doing there? Suddenly Sophie opened the door of the car, it made me jump from my seat. She asked me if I was okay. I quickly looked back at the mirror and it was not there anymore. But the uneasy feeling did not go away, so I quickly start my car and drove out of there.
I mentioned what I saw to Sophie and I shouldn't have. The color drained out of the face, as she started panicking. Yelling at me to drive her home quickly. I claimed her down and asked her about that man. She said that she could not explain it to me, only begging me to hurry. Once reached the highway, I stopped the car in the middle of it. She asked what happened and I told her to get out and take some fresh air. Without any other choice, she also got out. I was a nice night, a cool breeze was blowing. I stood beside her and now that she had claim down. I asked her again, about the man and if he was a stalker, really politely. She looked at me in silence and I quickly told her that she didn't have to. After I few moments of silence, she told me that, it was something like that. I sighed and stared at the night sky.
All of a sudden it came back, I was frozen with fear and my body felt heavy. I looked at him, just ten yards away from us. This time I was able to get a good look at this stalker. He's taller than a normal person, skinny and pale, almost white. His legs were long and muscular, but above that, his arms were long and thin. Atlas his face was deformed and starched vertically, it lacks any visible features, almost like a plastic mask. It didn't take long before Sophie took notices of him. Without a second thought, she started running, faster than I had ever seen her run. I yelled at her to wait, but she didn't show any signs of stopping. While I hurried to the car door and opened it, gave one final look at the stalker.
The worst possible thing happened, the stalker started running at us, and it was not normal speed, almost inhuman. I got in and started the car and stepped on the accelerator. I reached to Sophie and opened the door on her side and shouted her to get in. she got in and I drove us out there. I looked in the mirror and expected him to see him, but he was not there anymore. He just vanished. That night Sophie was too scared to go to her home, so I ended up taking her to my place. My parents weren't at home, so that night I laid with her in my bed, helping her forget about the stalker. After moving around in the bed with her, she finally fell asleep exhausted. in the silence, I could hear someone from outside, someone walking on the gravel back and forth. soon the sleep came over me and this turn out to be a one-night stand. Afterward, we went our separate ways in life.
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