9 Tales Told in the Dark 15 by 9 Tales Told in the Dark

Author:9 Tales Told in the Dark [Dark, 9 Tales Told in the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bride of Chaos
Published: 2016-07-21T22:00:00+00:00

I didn’t have school the next day, so I spent most of my time thinking, finding it hard to shake all the things running through my head. It was then that I decided to go for a drive. I had no particular place in mind. I just drove to the eastern side of town and decided to walk around an old secondhand shop I liked. It was early morning, and the air was cool. There were only a few people inside the shop. I mostly looked at the ground and thought to myself, which my mother would’ve criticized me for doing. She claimed that it would negatively affect my posture and that pickpockets would single me out because I looked like a victim who was not paying attention. Looking back, I think I just develop the habit to spite her. After leaving the store, I saw a police officer at the end of the street.

The sheriff was parked securely on the curb and he was smoking a cigarette. My heart started to pound. I wanted to tell him everything that had happened, but as I drew nearer, my heart sank and I lost my footing on the snow ridden sidewalk.

“Hey, are you all right, son?”

“I’m all right,” I said, slightly shaken from the fall. The ground was cold, piercingly so. At first, I didn’t know the man who was speaking. Once I shook the momentary shock and pain, I looked up.

When I saw the police officer bent over, face next to mine, I crawled away as quickly as I could. I had seen him at the party. He was one of the ten men guarding the door. I remembered him so vividly because he was the closest to the middle, directly where my line of site lined up. He smirked at me, looking like a malevolent jester, and the thick folds of his fat face formed even rivulets from the curves of his lips to his upper cheeks. Quickly, I turned around and stood up on my feet.

“You’re okay, right?” he said. I didn’t turn around. I just continue to walk faster and faster, until I reached an assured run. It was only out of sheer luck that I didn’t slip. People stared, but I didn’t care. After getting in my car, I drove home, speeding the entire way. I tried to gauge for myself the encounter I had just had. It was confusing and I continue to ask myself if I had overreacted. I played the scenario over in my head, not really knowing what I was expecting to find.

I asked myself if I was adding things that had not happened, things my subconscious had added to fit my own perceptions. As I walked through the front door, I heard the phone ringing. Something about it made me angry. It interrupted, or rather it added to my already taxed emotions. When I looked at the caller ID, I saw the call was from Kya. I was so angry with her that I didn’t want to answer it.

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