I am listening to smooth jazz. A powerful and independent lady is singing about hard times in life. Bourbon in my left hand and a cigaret in my right hand. It's time to relax from the hectic week at work.
Smokey bar and drunk old lads snoozing at their tables. Mood is totally correct for this evening. I get my glass filled for the third and last time, for the day. I don't know if it's the whiskey talking or is that lovely singer lady actually flirting with me. I try to concentrate on her performance and observe, if it's just part of the act. She does have a flirty style, so I bury my dirty ideas of her and finish my whiskey..
I collect my stuff; jacket and a hat and head out. Perfect, it's raining. I straighten the collar of my jacket and try to walk quickly to my appartment. Luckily I don't live too far away. Streets are as dark as the bar, and the rain doesn't help it at all. Clouds block even the tiniest ray of light from the moon. Full moon, I reckon hearing today from the sleazy weatherman in the news channel. So I have to be aware of nutjobs around here. Luckily I live in a very peaceful town, so the propability that something were to happen, is boringly low.
I finally get to the stairs of my apartment, when suddenly an hobo looking guy intercepts between me and a good nights sleep. "Care to make a trip of your life?", he asks stuttering a bit. I look the guy into his sad and lost eyes. Nothing, his eyes are empty as a taxman's soul. With no hesitation I open my jacket just slighty to show my badge. He apologizes in the saddest and scariest tone I've heard in a long time and runs away like a straydog. I don't even bother. I'm too tired and just want to go to sleep.
I enter my tidy apartment. I have to admit that I suffer from selective OCD. Everything is exactly like they were when I left to work three days ago. I open the fridge and grab myself a beer. Just one and I'm off to bed. I turn on my crappy tv and tune it to news. Nothing, just nothing interesting is happening here. No robberies, no murders, nothing. Except that case I'm working on. Some lunatic mumbles about demons and sacrifices. He's lucky to have a straightjacket and a couple of sedatives per day.
I finally lay my head on a comfortable and soft pillow. Thanks to the few drinks of whiskey I have no trouble falling asleep. It's almost like I took a couple of sleeping pills. I'm completely sedated and loose the sense of the world.
All of sudden, I wake up to an crashing sound, from my kitchen, I suppose. I quickly grab my 9mm from the drawer and start investigating the situation. Cautiously I open the door leading to the hallway. A long hallway with a couple framed pictures of me and my long lost son, a big drawer with some of my medals and a plant on it. Radioclock on the drawer shows that it's 2:59am. Walls have natural white, simple wallpapers, which are starting to turn a bit yellow due aging and smoking cigarets inside every now and then.
I try to move slowly and avoid the screeching planks. The last thing I'd want now is a junkie waiting for me behind the corner with a home-made knife. I notice light in the kitchen. It's so quietl that it's starting to scare me a little.
Junkies make shitloads of noise when they visit houses uninvited and on top of that, they sure don't barge into a house to steal a steak. So I have an hungry hobo in here? No, they'd make even more noise and go for my liquor closet for some whiskey.
Too much I have spent my precious time on guessing who the guest might be. I peek just slowly around the corner to the living room. Nothing worth mentioning. Tv was still there, I almost wanted that it would've been taken. Old and cranky tv, it could've been an great excuse for me to buy a new one. Even the liquor cabinet is untouched.
Again I advance to the kitchen. The light creates a shadow of the intruder. Either he is standing very close to the light or he is a VERY big fellow. Or she, what do I know.
As I'm starting to peek in the light shuts down. Great, all I have is the dim light from the full moon. The eerie silence and the darkness plays around with my imagination. I rush into the kitchen, point my gun at the most likely place where he/she could be. Nothing, nobody's there. I check every possible corner and still no clues of an intruder.
I check every possible hideout there is, but not even a tiniest clue. I rub my eyes and suddenly I wake up again from my bed, for the same crashing sound from my kitchen.
Again I grab my 9mm from the drawer and open the door quietly. I'm a bit confused of what's happening, but I advance through the hallway. I notice that something has changed. The pictures of me and my son, somebody cut me off the pictures. What kind of sick bastard would do anything like this. The radioclock shows 2:59 again. Even the wallpapers are more worn than usually. All of this is going over my head. Am I starting to go insane? Maybe I spent too much time interrogating the lunatic and my mind is playing tricks with me. All I know is that he's behind strong bars, wearing the straightjacket and pumped full of pills. Could all of his crazy mumbling about demon summoning and sacrificial rituals in the 'forbidden forest' have gotten the best of me?
I shake the ideas out of my head and concentrate in the situation. The livingroom looks normal at first, but the old cranky tv is replaced by a brand new flat tv and my liquor cabinet is replaced with a bookcase. Things are getting way too weird for my exhausted head. There's still light in the kitchen and the same shadow is being formed by the invader. I don't know what to expect when I again, peek to the kitchen. Lights turn out as last time. The full moon illuminates my way as I enter the kitchen. Nothing unusual, but this time I, for some crazy reason, have an urge to open the freezer. I walk towards the freezer, when suddenly a strident squealing buzzing sound comes out of nowhere. It's seems to be coming inside my head and it gets louder and louder as I approach the freezer. The sound gets so loud that it almost pulls me to the ground, but with my last strenght I grab the handle of the freezer.
I wake up again, for the crashing sound from the kitchen. I don't know if I'm having a terrible nightmare or am I going insane. My hands are shaking as I grab my 9mm and head to the door. This time, when I close the door behind me, the radioclock blasts on. Crazy static noise echo on the completely dark hallway, without even the light from the kitchen. The display on the clock seems to suffer from static too, all the numbers are flickering in very unnatural way. I walk towards the radio to turn it off when suddenly, I start to pick words within the noise. "Better...not...turn...", and back to static noise. I try to turn it off but it doesn't react to any buttons. Even when I pull off the powercord, it doesn't turn off. The static noise fades from very black and dark noise to basic radio/tv noise. It makes my skin go to goose bumps.
Chills go through my spine as I slowly take steps towards the living room. Anxious of what may come, I peek from the corner. Nothing. There's just complete darkness. All the furnitures are gone and the floor looks like somebody just moved out. I don't know what to think anymore, everything is surreal and abnormal. I am full of adrenaline, and still I can't relax my body from the idea that I might be going crazy. My body is starting to fall apart as I move on. I walk to the kitchen so slowly and quietly, that not a single human being could notice me. Yet, again, light goes off and nobody's there. The dimm light from the full moon lights up the room like it did before. My body suddenly stop following my commands. The freezer feel like it's calling me, again. I grab the freezer's handle again, and open the door. Just before I get to see inside I blackout.
And I wake up again, from my bed, for the crushing sound from the kitchen. I'm loosing the last drops of my sanity. My body is cold and sweaty. The room looks just like it was before, the window shades are just slightly open to make me feel it's night. Again I reach out for my 9mm from the drawer. This time a chills so hideous runs through my whole body that I almost throw up. The gun, is, missing. I try to ransack the whole drawer, throw even the smallest items out to be sure that it's gone. Somebody's playing with my mind. This twisted and deviant game is making me anxious. Images of a psychopath watching me from somewhere and making notes. I feel like I'm somekind of test specimen in asylum. Being poked and stimulated with different methods to get results. Or maybe someone I put inside has come back and repay his debt.
All these crazier and crazier ideas make the room spin. I try to sit down on the bed, but it just makes it worse. Then suddenly behind the door I head the radio going on. The same static noise pops on. Last time somekind of message was hidden in the static, so I try to listen carefully. There it came "Better not turn around or" and back to the static. This time the static sound seems more aggressive, it's hard to describe how noise can be aggressive. Imagine a hive of bees working in peace, when suddenly something disturbs their peace and they prepare for attack. That aggressive buzzing sound, but in eerie static noise. The sound is so dark and full of hatred, that it makes me rethink my motivations. If something so harsh and evil can exist in this world in a form of a sound, there also has to be something as evil in fleshly form.
I still sit on the bed, frozen and waiting for the spike of courage to get my body moving. The noise fills the room, as if it was somekind of shadow entering the room at night. It's coming closer and closer to me and it wants to tear my soul apart. There's not much to tear, but I'd happily keep that torn and beaten soul as whole as it is.
Then suddenly, someone clatters the doorknob. I can't move. Frozen in terror and amusement. Realization that there actually is someone with me here, someone who is playing these games with me. I want to see his face, I want to make him or her feel what I am feeling. Apprehensive, timorous and completely frozen. My body revolts against my will, the will that is being flushed down the toilet. Last bits of reason are fading away.
The door opens slowly. Still, my body refues to move and act. I close my eyes for a while, just to see even more sickening visions of, something. My eyes pop open, because of all the horrible images I saw. The door still open very slowly, and I start to see a gun. Then he kicks the door open.
Me, it's me. The one behind the door, the one with the gun is me. We both stare at eachothers. We stare for a terribly long time, or atleast it feels like an eternity. Both are frozen, I am sitting on the bed and the imposter has his gun pointed at me. The static noise starts to stutter. Stops and starts, sounds like a morse code. The light from the kitchen is flickering.
I try to make an initiation and get off the bed and I hear a gunshot.