Five Stories High by Jonathan Oliver

Author:Jonathan Oliver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

BACK HOME CORY runs out of the car into the kitchen where he pours himself some milk. He takes a long pull, then starts up the stairs. He spills some of the milk and stops briefly to watch the fluid sink into the carpet. Wet spot, but no stain, so mum won’t notice. He continues to his room.

The lady is waiting, sitting on his bed. Cory knows he will not be sleeping there tonight.

“Hello, dear boy,” she says.

“I didn’t talk about you,” says Cory, hastily.

“I know. Good boy.”

She wears a hat, one of those silly ones from the tennis that mum always gets excited about. There is a small peacock on it, dark feathers covered in colourful circles. She wears an old dress. It is clean, but from old times. Cory has seen it in films. Her waist is tiny, as if squeezed by the big belt she has on.

“Come sit with me,” she says.

Cory shakes his head.

Her face is sharp and pointy. Small, black eyes, narrow nose that looks like it would hurt if she kisses his cheek, thin lips, and tiny ears. The ears scare Cory, but he doesn’t know why. He has never seen her hair because it is always in the hat. She wears white gloves and keeps them folded in her lap.

She was here the day they moved in, standing in the corner of the room, glaring at Cory.

“This is my house,” she had said.

“O-Okay,” said Cory. Then the lady had smiled.

Now she pats the bed beside her, on the left. She smells of talcum powder and perfume, a lot of it. There is something else, something unpleasant, but he can’t quite figure out what it is. He sits beside her. She points into Adrienne’s room which he can just about see through the open door.

“You know what keeps them quiet?” the lady asks.

Cory nods.

“Well?”

“My mummy says not to bring snakes into the house,” says Cory.

“Do you want to make me... upset?” asks the lady.

She twitches. It is a small movement, but it frightens Cory because it seems like she is holding herself back, like she would like to get upset.

“I’ll get... I’ll go to the garden. But I have to wait until later. My mummy is downstairs.”

“Who are you talking to?” asks Adrienne. She is in the doorway.

Cory looks to the lady, but she is gone.

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