Kiran walked over to the pale man’s corpse and was shocked that they were attacked by such a creepy guy. As Elizbeth walked over towards him, he said, “I still can’t believe you killed him and saved us while doing it.” Kiran joked, “if there was a reason for someone to kill someone, then saving your family would be the ideal reason.”
Elizbeth looked at him dead in the eyes.
“Too soon then, my bad, I’m sorry, this situation is just too surreal.”
Elizbeth grabbed Kiran and squeezed him so tight, “it’s okay, I get what you’re saying. It’s unreal, to think I wasn’t a murderer 10 minutes ago.” Elizbeth realised she couldn’t just move on from this, she would remember it forever.
Kiran could see that Elizbeth was contemplating the situation way to hard. “Stop over thinking it. I can see your being too hard on yourself.”
“It’s not that I’m just finding it hard, you know? It’s the only thing I find myself thinking about” Elizbeth stopped holding Kiran and said, “am I a piece of shit?”
Kiran looked at her, “I’m not going to answer that.”
“Why? Because you know it’s true!”
Kiran quickly answered, “no because it’s a stupid question!”
Elizbeth screamed, “well, is there another mother you know that’s killed somebody? Huh? My own son, my flesh and blood has seen me kill another person!” She believed her words, “you know I’m right, Kiran. I can tell because you’ve gone silent.”
Kiran looked straight into her eyes and said sincerely, “you didn’t hear your son after killing him, did you?” Elizbeth didn’t answer, “well I did, and he was so proud of you. You’ve seen the monster that we fought, you try telling me that’s human, go on, tell me.” She was beginning to brighten up, “you’ve got to look at it like this, that fucker walked in this house, killed the random person we were trying to save and attacked us. You have every right to kill that thing!”
Elizbeth smiled at him, knowing he’d always have her back when shit hits the fan. She replied with a sorrow voice, “I get it, babe but still… a part of me hates myself for it and I’m not sure if I’d forget it.”
“That’s fine, babe. It just means you’ve got a big heart. Should we move this freak?”
They both grabbed the corpse and moved it to the shed but as they did, Danny ran downstairs.
“Danny, I would rather you not be down here when we are moving the body.” Elizbeth shouted.
“Please wait, mum? I have made a connection between the guy you’re carrying and the person that killed the dog.”
Kiran and Elizbeth seemed interested in what he had to say, “go on then, son, spit it out!”
Danny prepared himself and said, “the person who killed the dog used his teeth, just like…”
Kiran interjected, “just like this monster in our hands. Really, you saw him use his teeth?”
“Yes, he used his teeth to kill the dog and they are different people, I can promise you that. The guy who killed the dog was wearing a black trench coat, a hat and smart shoes.” Danny pointed to the pale man and continued with his point, “and the person who you are carrying isn’t wearing any of that.”
Kiran looked at Elizbeth with dread, but she didn’t look at him; she was in a trance, Danny could still see the fear on her face though.
Danny knew he was on to something, “I don’t know what’s going on here, but we know something, avoid their teeth?”
Elizbeth woke up and said, “that’s really interesting but we need to move this body, it’s the last one, then we can eat something, hopefully.”
As they were taking the evil corpse out to the shed, Elizbeth couldn’t stop thinking about what Danny had said, she’d remember when her grandma would tell her stories about villagers being attacked by winged people, who would attack people with their teeth. She always hated the stories due to them scaring Elizbeth. She stopped moving, “do you remember what stories my grandma would tell?”
Kiran looked back at her, “yes, I remember. Why are you asking that?”
“The people in the story are very similar to that pale guy. Can you remember what she used to call them? I have it on the tip of my tongue, but it won’t come out. Was it rampires?”
“No, I have it… vampires, they were called vampires.”
Loads of memories came flooding back for Elizbeth, she remembered what kind of people they were. She remembered what happened to them. She remembered that they would be coming back.
Kiran could see she was in distress, “what up with you, you look like you’ve discovered Kendrick Lamar for the first time.”
Elizbeth looked at him, “what is it with you and Kendrick Lamar. And it’s my grandma, she used to tell me stories of people who would kill people with their teeth.”
“Seriously?”
“Now you get it. It seems too weird, don’t you think?”
Kiran never really listened to her grandma, so he had no idea if she wasn’t going crazy as well as everyone else. “Are you sure she used to tell you that, I mean, it sounds bonkers.”
“I know it does, but I promise, she used to tell me about people like that.”
Kiran didn’t know what to think, “let’s be done with this.” They both walked towards the derelict shed, threw the body in, and both sighed. “Thank god that’s done.” Kiran said while celebrating mildly.
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“I wouldn’t thank god.”
“why’s that then?”
“he’s certainly not real if he’s making my family go through this.” Elizbeth stormed inside while leaving Kiran outside in the garden.
Elizbeth was walking angrily until she seen Danny. Danny would brighten up her mood every time she seen him, she always thought that Danny could brighten a dark room. She sat next to him on the comfy couch. She was lost for words, with every thought being, “you are a murderer.”
“You okay, mum?” Danny could see that something was bothering his mum. “Hello, are you awake?”
Elizbeth quickly rose from her trance, “Sorry, what did you say?”
“Are you okay?”
Elizbeth didn’t even answer the question, “look son, do you think of me as a bad person? Now that I’ve killed someone.” Her heart stopped as she waited for his answer.
Danny stood up and said, “no way! You’re my mum and I will love you no matter what you do. You could want to kill me; I’d still love you! And you were protecting us and that is what’s important.” Danny increased his volume, “you need to let it go mum, you saved us! You need to understand; I love you.” A tear came to her eye as she hugged her son.
Kiran walked in the kitchen from the garden and seen that Elizbeth and Danny was chatting, so he went upstairs and walked to the attic. He wanted to tell his friend on the radio that him and his family were attacked by someone or something.
Kiran turned on his CB radio, put in the same frequency as last time. As he was waiting, he thought about the man who was murdered by the pale faced man. Kiran just couldn’t believe that he used his teeth, he’d never seen no one die yet alone a person killing someone with their teeth. He wondered how Elizbeth was doing, considering she slayed the pale man.
The sky was covered by mist, the opposite windows were not lit by light and the days were turning into nightmares.
Kiran couldn’t believe what was going on, he thought everything was so surreal. He looked at ceiling in the attic and could see a spider. A big spider but as he turned his flashlight on and pointed at it, he noticed the big spider was just loads of little spiders on top of each other, they looked like an ant colony.
Danny had been wanting to say that ever since she killed that thing. They both stopped hugging and Danny asked, “where’s dad?”
Elizbeth hadn’t heard him come in, so she replied, “I think he’s still in the garden.”
Danny spoke while laughing, “I thought he quit smoking, he never sticks to anything, does he? Well, unless it’s smoking.” Danny couldn’t remember a time where his dad stuck to something, except for his job in construction. The only thing his dad had truly loved, Danny thought.
“He’s definitely quit smoking, but he has been out there for a while, I’ll give you that.” Elizbeth sighed, “I wish things went back to normal for you, for me, well; for all of us.”
“I know, it would be nice.”
Elizbeth stared at Danny, not saying a word, though he could tell what she meant. She grabbed his hand and spoke graciously, “it’s not fair on you though, you didn’t ask to be on this planet. I don’t want to freak you out, son but the days are becoming darker, and someone has raised the stakes.
Danny’s face was a confused one at best, “mum, you gave me this life, I know that things haven’t gone so well for us now but the time we had before this nightmare was the best time anyone could have asked for. I mean it, mum. You’ve dedicated your entire life to me, and I will forever notice, you are one hell of a mum.” Elizbeth was about to talk but Danny stopped her by saying, “ah, I haven’t finished! I honestly don’t know if you know how good of a mum you are, seriously. Like you never have any ambitions due to me. If we get through this, you should consider a dream.”
Elizbeth smiled at him, “you’re one hell of a son, too. My ambition was you, by the way.”
“Yeah, but you know what I mean. You could have an aspiration, which is more than me.”
“I understand what you’re saying but it’s just not true, you’re the biggest aspiration anyone could have. You could be right about having more than one aspiration, I guess.”
Danny appreciated what she had to say, “what was you going on about? Someone raised the stakes?”
Elizbeth was about to answer until they heard a bang from upstairs.
Kiran had never liked insects, especially spiders, they’d scare him ever since he was a young kid. He always thought they had it out for him. So, when Kiran sees the load of spiders on the attic ceiling, he runs for the hatch to escape. However, when he reaches it, the hatch is compromised by another load of spiders; a whole hive of spiders covering the hatch. Kiran contemplates moving the hatch but bottles it. He runs to the far corner of the room, as he runs, he feels something fall on his neck. He debates with himself whether to stop but carries on running to the corner. He reaches the corner but leaving a trail of spiders that is coming his way.
He’s trapped in the corner with spiders coming his way. He looks around the attic to see if any weapons are next to him, “damn, fuck all.” The spiders are as black as a murderer’s soul. Small bodies with long thin legs, the spiders were walking as a unit, like an army but more chaotic and less methodical. Kiran started screaming, hopeful of his family saving him. Though, he doubted they could hear him, so he had to come up with a plan.
The surrounding army of spiders gave him no chance of running through them. As they move closer, Kiran thinks he could jump over the spiders and if he didn’t make it all the way, at least he would fall and crush the spiders. The one fear he had was not being able to get up in time and that resulting in the spiders jumping on him. As he thought about the cons, his head began to spin with negative thoughts. He didn’t know whether his jump would be big enough. He didn’t know if his run up would be large enough. He didn’t like the fact of dying by spiders, the thought of spiders running out of his skeleton eyehole. He hated the idea. Kiran took a big breath and began his short run and jumped over the spiders. He landed on only but a few spiders and got up in time for the spiders to miss climbing onboard. He was about to open the hatch again until he sees the same spiders covering it. He’s out of ideas and not much room to work with so he falls to his knees and begs for his life but remembers the box of novels that is in the attic. Kiran runs to the first box he sees but when he opens it, “nada!” His mind is racing with the horrors that he’s seeing. The trauma gets to him, and he screams for his life.
As Danny and Elizbeth are walking upstairs, they hear a scream from the attic. They both look at each other with worry. Elizbeth commands, “Danny, go grab me a candle!” As Danny runs, Elizbeth shouts up to Kiran.
Kiran is sulking in despair as he thinks his life is over, but he hears Elizbeth shouting, “hello, is that you Elizbeth, quickly open the hatch!”
Elizbeth steps on the ladder and prepares to open the hatch, “I’m about to open it…”
“Wait! When you do, don’t come up, just open it and shut it when I come through!”
Elizbeth is sceptical but begins to open it. She lifts it up fast and as she does a few spiders come flying down, she thinks to shut the hatch but before she goes through with it, Kiran comes flying down like he’s in a diving contest. Then Elizbeth shuts the hatch with force, “why the hell did you not tell me about the fucking spiders?”
“I’m sorry but no doubt you’d not open that hatch if you knew.”
Elizbeth glared at him, “why are you even in the attic and what is that in your hand?”
He said, “you know, the radio.” He began to chuckle and then said, “I know it’s only a radio but how the hell should I know spiders would attack me.”
Elizbeth laughed, “why were you so scared?”
“Oh, the attic is a spider’s nest and I’m not joking. Its full of them”
Elizbeth replied, “normally I wouldn’t believe you, but the way things are going, I suppose having a spider’s nest in our attic.”
Kiran quickly butted in, “no, the attic is the spider’s nest, I’m being literal.”
Elizbeth smiled dropped, “really? Well shit, let’s find Danny, he’s been too long.”
As they both walked downstairs, Kiran felt a bite on his neck, he quickly brushed the thing that bit him on the floor. He looked at the ground and seen a dead spider.