THE FIFTH FLOOR: A chilling supernatural thriller novel by D. R. Clark

Author:D. R. Clark [Clark, D. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

‘You saw her?’ Peter asked. ‘When was this, Emily?’

She felt nervous having Peter, Harry and Margaret all stare at her as they awaited her answer, like she was on trial at a courthouse, giving a statement.

‘It was after I got back from your apartment,’ Emily answered, swallowed and went back to looking at the image in her hand. ‘I splashed some water onto my face in the bathroom and when I looked up, she was there, in the mirror… watching me. At first, I thought I was going insane, that perhaps I was still in shock after finding Chloe, but now it makes sense.’

‘Maybe you didn’t sleepwalk,’ Peter nodded. ‘What if, like the way she controlled Margaret that day, she had controlled you too?’

‘Sleepwalk?’ Harry asked.

Peter glanced at Emily, and she subtly nodded, giving him the go ahead to tell them what had happened earlier on. ‘Emily slept walked into- She made her way into my room earlier, climbed into my bed and was… well, let’s just say she became very touchy… Anyway, I had to push her off, but she doesn’t remember doing it.’

‘I wouldn’t do that sort of thing!’ Emily scoffed. ‘You’re a good enough looking guy, Peter. But I wouldn’t force myself on you like that. I have some dignity.’

‘It was Mary Anne,’ Harry said and rested back in his chair, causing the old furniture to creak under his weight. ‘It was one of the ways she would split families apart. I remember when I was a boy, Mr Kevin Hickling, a schoolteacher and an all-round gentleman, lived in apartment seventeen, Mary Anne’s old place. He lived there with his wife, Maxine, and their young son, Joseph. One night, Kevin broke into the apartment facing. At the time, there was a young woman living there, alone. She woke up to him trying to rape her, catching him yanking her top up as his free hand tugged at her pyjama bottoms, trying to force them down. The woman managed to push him off and ran out into the corridor, screaming for help. Maxine had heard the screams and saw that her own front door was unlocked and standing open. She ran out to investigate and found her husband standing there with his trousers around his ankles, asleep. The police came and Kevin had told them he didn’t remember leaving his bed, and that he had no experiences of sleepwalking. Of course, he was arrested and awaiting trial…’ Harry trailed off, a saddened expression fell on his face as he stared at the floor.

‘Harry?’ Peter said, pulling him from his daze. ‘What happened to the Hickling family?’

‘Kevin… he hung himself. Left a note to his wife, stating that he couldn’t go on with people thinking he could do something like that.’

‘Fuck me,’ Peter whispered.

‘Yeah,’ Harry sighed. ‘Maxine was found a week later, sitting in a pool of her son’s blood after cutting his throat as he slept. She tried to plead that she didn’t know how she had

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