Twisted Hearts

Chapter 5

Twisted hearts

Chapter 5

Its been a week, and frankly I’m pissed. I’ve been waking up to chocolates everywhere in my house, my kitchen, living room and even my freaking bedroom, I almost had a heart attack when I saw a chocolate right next to me on my bedside table.

The security alarm did not go off, the cameras caught nothing and even the secret cameras I put didn’t work, I thought I was sleep walking and had frantically asked Lily to hide my laptop in my house, so if i was sleep walking I wouldn’t be able to find it and delete it.

I mean is that how sleep walking works? Or am I just paranoid, she eventually kept it in her house and still nothing, but a chocolate in the morning.

I was getting mad, the bastard had drank half my bottle of wine and was always leaving the damn glass for me. I hadn’t even seen him since that day at the coffee shop. I decided to ask Lily today before I filed a complaint.

I knocked on her door, this was probably the first time I was ever coming here, her house was even brighter up close, doesn’t she worry she would attract attention, well it doesn’t matter cause knowing Lily she loves the attention.

She looked through the peep hole and instantly opened the door when she saw me.

“Oh My God the Queen has graced us with her presence, welcome!, come in” she said stepping aside for me to enter

And just like the exterior the interior screamed fun and joy, oh God I was going to die. The walls had various bright colours each wall had a different design some were stripes some spirals and even polka dots. The chairs were big and even the living room was bigger than mine

Wow I guess the writing career really pays off, she sat me down and called her dog to ‘say hi' to me

”do you want anything to drink? Water a martini?” she asked

“oh no I’m fine”

“nonsense, this is your first time here, I’ve got to make you comfortable”

“The entire interior is already very uncomfortable”

She gave me a sly smile before running into her kitchen to get whatever beverage she had. The dog came to me for a petting and I did because well… he is just a dog and I’m not evil… completely

“thanks” I muttered as she came back and handed me.. “what is this?” i asked

“oh just something I whipped up, you know I used to work as a bartender, mixing drinks was my specialty”

“how charming” I said setting the drink down “I need to ask you some thing”

She nodded “yes I put the gnomes on your garden”

“not that, wait you put what!?”

“I’m sorry it was just very bleak and boring, I wanted to add some pazzaz”

“Yeah don’t do that again” I said wondering why I hadn’t seen it on the camera, “when was that?” I asked

“Thursday afternoon” she said, its Saturday, note to self: check all activities around the house from morning, what if he snuck in, in the evening but I didn’t know cause I always checked the movement in the house after I’ve slept. The idea that someone might be in my house while I’m doing the dishes or cleaning creeps me out, dude if you want to kill me come and do it already, you’re the reason I’m not dead right now.

I smirked at the thought of a murder mystery on my death.

“Have you heard from Asher?” I asked

“Asher? No why?”

“you don’t have his number or anything, you guys don’t text”

“you said I should stay away from him”

“yeah like you listen to me” I rolled my eyes and stood up.

“Wait Kendal” she held my hand “what is this about? Why don’t you like Asher any are you suddenly asking of him”

“its nothing Lily” I hadn’t told her yet despite asking her to hold my laptop for me the other time, I didn’t want her happy home to turn paranoid and anxious just because I had a stalker, plus I didn’t want her to worry.

“Kendal stop hiding things from me, you’re like my only friend around here, if you can’t tell me who would you tell?” she said and I turned around to face her puppy dog eyes.

“no one” I whispered “ill take all my secrets to my grave” I said and tapped her nose “later” I said and left her house, I needed to watch the footage for the whole week.

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I had been watching for what seemed like an hour, exhaustion wasn’t enough to explain how bored and f*****g tired I was, I found nothing except the footage of Lily putting gnomes in my garden

I sighed and laid on my bed and kept watching and then I saw something, it was him, Asher standing across my house by 5 in the evening on Tuesday, I muttered a curse under my breath as I watched. His face wasn’t showing covered again by that damn hoodie He didn’t do anything he just stood there and smoked and when it went off he would smoke again, great a chain smoker

Asher didn’t strike as that kind of person, but then again what did I really know about that man.

I watch closely as he left, he didn’t enter the house damn he didn’t even glance back. Then who the hell was in my house, then I remembered that there was no chocolate on Tuesday. What the f**k what this guys plan. My phone suddenly rang, it was Lily

“Hello”

“Hey Draculara I just called to tell you that Asher came by today” I sat up instantly,

“Asher came by? When?”

“he just left right now actually”

I quickly went to my window and my heart sunk when I see Asher staring up at me waving, the freaking bastard “ill call you back”

I dial the cops instantly and report my case I looked out the window to see he was still there,

“Hey! Can we talk? Come down for a sec” he said

Ugh the nerve of that sea slug.

After reporting my case and making sure the police were on their way I decided I had to stall him till the police came

I went downstairs and stood by my door, I held a gun at my back just in case he wanted to make any funny moves. Why did I have a gun you might ask, well I wasn’t exactly under my fathers protection anymore, so I needed to be ready for anything.

“You’ve got some nerves” I said making him smirk

“I know” he walked to me

“don’t step any closer or I swear—“ I pulled out my gun he held his hands up

“Whoa there, calm down woman, I’m not here to hurt you”

“then why have you been stalking me? ” I asked

“I came to talk, I can explain that too if you'd let me”

“explain here I’m listening” I said my gaze unwavering.

“okay for starters I’m sorry for following you, I just wanted to talk to you, cause well I like you” he said

“Following?” I scoffed “you i***t raided my house” I said annoyed already

“Well practically –” he didn’t finish his sentence because the police arrived instantly

Pointing guns at him and yelling for him to freeze, he looked shocked of course he didn’t expect it.

“Wait, what the hell is going on, I was just messing with you, I just want to talk to you” he said panicking.

What a loser, I thought to myself as they cuffed him I didn’t say a word and gave the police my statement, on how he came into my house, the chocolates I kept finding and even gave them the footage of him standing outside my house.

They said I had to come to the station so I followed to give a proper statement. I was sitting in front of the officer talking when Lily suddenly walked in. “OMG Kendal what happened” she walked to me and sat by my side

“Do you know this lady?” the police man asked me

“She is a friend”

“would she possibly know anything about the stalking”

Lily’s eyes widened “st.. Stalking? Who..”

I sighed knowing I’d have to tell her the truth now “Asher, he said been stalking me” she covered her mouth with her palm shocked.

“are you for real? Since when”

“I dunno probably a week after I moved in, I met him two days after I moved and he just doesn’t seem to leave me alone” I shrugged

“that’s why you don’t want me around him! You should have just told me, oh you didn’t want to scare me aww you’re so sweet” she hugged my arm, and I rolled my eyes

“Ahem” the police man brought our attention “miss Waverly, has been finding chocolates In her house and someone has been drinking from her wine we suspect its him”

“I warned him the last time I saw him but he didn’t listen he came back this week and kept leaving chocolates, at first I thought I was sleep walking but he found a way to hack my camera’s that’s why I gave the laptop to lily to see if I was deleting it, but I wasn’t, I was asleep all night and the same thing happened Chocolate and my windows closed” I said

“Wait the time you gave me your laptop was because of him” Lily said

“Yes, he had been coming in my house all week”

Lily’s brows furrowed “all week? You mean this week?”

“yes and days before that” I said nearly yawning

The man wrote down some things and Lily shook her head “but Asher wasn’t around this week at all, he told me he was out for some trip with his elder brother”

It was my turn to look confused, that was a lie obviously and Lily was very gullible , the detective looked at me as if inquiring if her words were true

“It can’t be, he lied to you just to stalk me”

“but, that’s what he said, he even came to my house before coming to yours, he acted like he liked you”

“yea that because he does enough to stalk me” I say and fold my arms leaning back into the chair

Lily didn’t say anymore after that, I stayed in the station longer than expected and once I was done I left the place with Lily. Finally some peace, I was getting tired of people sneaking in on me anyways.

When I woke the next morning, no chocolate and my wine was intact, that bastard must’ve thought he would get away with it, I was glad I didn’t have to deal with that anymore, I decided to have the camera’s changed, I needed to speak to some tech genius about it. I needed un hackable cameras

There was a knock on my door bolting me away from my thoughts, I opened it to see the cops standing outside, two, a lady and a man.

“good morning ma’am may we come in?”

No “sure” I moved away for them to enter and closed the door with a grim smile, they stepped into the living room

“I’m officer Higgins and this is Lucia” the man said why didn’t he address her with officer and then her last name, why did it bother me that he didn’t

“ we wouldn’t take much if your time, its about the report you made” officer Higgins said

“What about it?” I asked sipping my coffee, I literally looked like woke from sleeping in a volcano,

“well ma’am the problem is, Mr. Laurent has an alibi, along with proof of it” he said

“what does that mean?” I asked

“It means that for the last week , he hasn’t been around, he was at Chicago, and there is enough proof to validate it, another thing we found was that He doesn’t smoke, but the person in your footage was obviously smoking, we did a test and his brother even testified to having him at work with him”. “

“what the hell is all this supposed to mean?!”

“ma’am we fear that the person coming into your house is not Asher”

That was it, the panic surged in me I remained still, I couldn’t breathe or move, was this what it meant to be scared? It was freaking scary.

“w.. What?!”

“we think there is another person stalking you ma’am one we fear is dangerous”