Fear

• Jessica Masalski, Grade 9
• Short Story
• 2018

1/1/18 7:30am
I stared at my hands when I woke up they were covered in blood, who’s blood well I’m not sure this has been happening for a while now but now I was worried I heard the radio on outside my room and the fuzzy sound of ‘ another child missing presumed dead just last night police work hard to find these kids and if anyone knows anything please call now’ my mum groaned outside my door I stood up groaning before walking into the bathroom washing the blood away, I watched as the red ran down the sink and cleaned my hands before walking out of my room, my mum greeted me as I left the house heading to school.

10:30am
It was lunch and kids started to guess who was attacking the other kids, when I saw my friend he was crying his brother was gone, I had to leave

2/1/18
4 more kids went missing and I was covered in blood I wasn’t at school

3/1/18
It’s been a day school was cancelled 6 kids gone all in my class,

1/5/18 it’s been months more and more kids disappear and I think I’m the one that did it,

2/5/18
It wasn’t me I know it wasn’t, note there was a man following me home,

3/5/18

The man asked me what school I go to I ignored him and kept walking

4/5/18

It wasn’t me, there’s a man at the door the one that was talking to me I told him to go away he left pretty fast,

5/5/18

He broke in I’m going to die he looks li- *file deleted*