Night Terrors

Barely

I swept across the greasy floors of the McDonald's i worked at,the amount of grease on the ground was alarming,you'd think that in a restaurant like this there'd be less,but i didn't care anyway cus i still got paid either way,so as long as i got paid no one was gonna hear a complaint from me,as soon as i was done sweeping and mopping the stains off the floor,i casually walked over to the counter and started taking out the cash so i can store it in the safe at the back of the restaurant,i worked late that night so everyone had already left ,it was just me and the cook that were left,and he also was about to take his leave,i hurried to the back, typed in the pin,and i was gone as quick as i came,you might ask if i hate my job that much why don't i just steal the money,since i know the pin to the safe and everything,well even if i wanted to i wouldn't be able to,because the security around that safe and in the restaurant was more than you'd think,as i was about to leave i went into the kitchen to tell dave goodnight,dave is the name cook i talked about earlier,he's a tall,blonde,and quite handsome guy,i don't know why he'd choose a job like this,well i guess it's for the same reason we all get jobs,money,without money the world won't spin,well at least that's what most people believe,"goodnight dave",i said in a fairly low tune."oh,hey didn't see you there,i was just finishing up,can you wait so we'll go together?",he replied almost too enthusiastically,what annoyed me wasn't the fact that i had to walk with him for almost a mile,it was the fact he said "go together" like it was a good thing,like he enjoyed walking with me as much as i hated it.well there was nothing to do now,i was the one who stupidly thought i could tell him goodbye without him getting dumb ideas.i sighed,"fine,i'll wait,just be quick i don't like staying out too late",i said almost breaking into rage'ok' he said to casually.'ugh',almost ten minutes later he was done and now the hard part,i locked up the restaurant and we both started walking,it wasn't long before i popped my headphones in my ear so i wont have to listen to his annoying voice,dave knew alot of things but the one thing he didn't know was how to shut his damned mouth,'you know butterflies can fly up 14 miles per hour' he said trying to start a conversation,'and you know some are even poisonous',he continued' can you just shut the f**k up,i cant breathe one second without you down my neck,just shut up!'i said in a fit of rage,'oh i didn't know you felt that way,sorry' he replied,i couldn't help but feel sympathy for him maybe i went a little too hard,'look i didn't mean that way, im just stressed out','"it's ok, damn" he said,'what' i asked,'i forgot my keys at home'.'arent we going to your house right now'i asked, "no, im going over to a friends place we passed my house already," he said,i didn't want to go back to his house but it was the least i could do for yelling at him,'ugh,ok lets go then'i said knowing i would regret it,'really!?'he said as his eyes lit up,'yeah yeah'.we headed over to his house,as soon as we got there i felt a chill run down my spine,then i reluctantly said'ill just wait right here alright', immediately i finished my sentence his eyes lit up in rage and he said trying to control himself 'no! don't worry i cant just leave my guest outside like that, come in','no no its ok i wann-'he cut me short ,'i said come in',at this point i knew it was serious and he was a bigger and stronger guy,so he could easily take me down so i just obeyed him and reluctantly walked into his house,'ni-nice furniture' i said nervously, he didn't say a word to me, i sat on a chair as he looked for something i really didn't want to think about what he was looking for but i was almost certain he wasn't looking for keys,i waited patiently for an opening,but with every heartbeat i could feel him staring at me so hard,suddenly from across the room he sprinted at me,' what the?', i took this as an invitation and also leapt from the chair i was sitting in and sprinted towards the door, before i could he appeared in front of me blocking my escape,not only was he tall and muscular he was also athletic,and fairly i was non of those things so instead of fighting i turned and ran towards his stairway,i didn't know where they led but it was better than waiting to see what he does when he catches me,when i got up he was still behind me so i had a split second to decide where to go,there were three doors two on the right and one on the left,i was expecting the bathroom so i can slip out the window,i didn't have enough time to think so i just ran to the room on the left, i got in and locked the door hoping he didn't see me go in,i was lucky because he started opening and checking the other rooms,so i had time to catch my breath,the room i went in was dark and quiet,too quiet so i staggered around looking for the lights,turning on those light were the worst decision i had ever made,as the lights flickered on i was horrified by what i saw,dead bodies that seemed alive yet dead at the same time stacked around the room most of their faces trapped in a horrific look,some where even screaming but the only difference was,the room was as quiet as it can be,some bodies where even given poses that were more than inappropriate, it was clear he was a necrophiliac and i was his next body,loud banging on the door interrupted my thoughts, it was dave,and he was screaming at the other end of the door,'come on finn open the door so we can have some fun', by fun i knew he wasn't talking about playing games on his ps five,'open this door now finn!' he started getting mad and banging the door, i thought quickly and looked around when i saw a little vent,it was too little for me to fit in but it was perfect for one of the bodies to get shoved in,so i carried one of the smaller bodies,exchanged pants with it and shoved it's torso in the vent leaving only the legs out so it'll look like i was trying to escape through the vents, by this time the door was halfway destroyed and i quickly hid behind one of the bodies,'ahhh' he destroyed the door and ran in,he immediately spotted the body so he ran towards it dragged it out and started stabbing it completely oblivious to whether it was me or not,with this little opening i ran out the door heading downstairs and towards the exit,he saw me but by the time he could stand and chase me i was already long gone,not looking behind i sprinted towards the city,after that night i called the police they went to his house and found the bodies but he wasn't there,a few weeks passed but he wasn't still caught,i moved out of that city to another because knowing he was still out there and he could come for me any day wasn't really sitting well with me, since then i found it hard to trust people for who they wanted to be seen as,because no matter how much you think you know someone,they can still surprise you.