The Normal Ones

Chapter 03

Pitch black eyes

“ Hey, I’ve got a 12 hour surgery. Eat your dinner, hon!” I read my husbands texts as soon as I arrived in our new home. It’s been one week since we live in this place and also one week since the murder happened. The police conclude in the investigation that it is just an act to copy the murder method of the Vampire Serial Killings that happened 16 years ago, but I am sensing something is not adding up.

I tried to convince Fajardo that he should push through the investigation but the higher ups are determined to close the investigation especially when the it caught the public interest and brings fear to the nation. My proposal also got rejected that’s why I am back to my normal routine of writing scripts for the shows.

I don’t know if it is because I am tired today or I just really appreciates Hayden’s effort in cooking my dinner especially when he has a tight schedule because he is a doctor. I am enjoying my meal when all of the sudden, the electricity went out.

I am not familiar with place and my phone is in my room so I have no choice but to look for candles. I had a hard time looking for the candles but in the middle of it I saw a man.. looking outside of our windows.

He is wearing a black coat and holding an umbrella even if it is not raining. I started to feel fear and my hand started to tremble because I feel like he is looking directly inside of our house. My body trembles when I saw him take a step forward toward our house without breaking his gaze on me. Because of instincts, I tried to grab our knife and hide under our kitchen table.

I placed my hand to my mouth to cover any noise but I screamed when all of the sudden a pair of large cold hands hold me in my shoulder.

“ Hon?” Hayden’s look is confused while looking at me pointing a knife in him with a scared face. I noticed a blood dripping in his shirt because I made a cut into his one arm.

“ It’s okay, come here.” He said and I run into him letting the knife fall into the ground. I cried in his arms thinking how scared I was then I suddenly remember the man.

“ there is a man… a man.. in the window… looking!” I told my husband while pointing at the window but when we looked in the window, there was nothing there. It is just a view of an empty road.

“ Shh. Its okay” I heard him said before hugging me tighter.

“ but…” I tried to protest and looked back there is really nothing in the road. The man that is holding the umbrella is not there.

I cried in Hayden’s arms and because of shocked I didn’t know that I’d pass out. I wake up in the middle of the night inside our bed and with Hayden beside me. He probably carried me and change my clothes before sleeping. I quietly get up on the bed and tried my best to not wake him up before going to the bathroom to wash my face however I noticed something in the trash bin, Hayden’s clothes is full of blood but I decided to shrug it off because he is a doctor and maybe he had an emergency patient. Speaking of emergency, didn’t he tell me that he have a 12 hour surgery? Maybe it got cancelled, I said to myself before going back to our bedroom.

“Hey, are you alright?” Hayden is already awake when I got back and I saw him waiting for me in the bed. He looks as if he wants to sleep more but got disrupts because he is looking for me.

“Sorry” I apologize for waking him up before joining him in our bed and hugging him.

“Let’s sleep” he said before stroking my hair. I tried to fall asleep again but my mind is going back to the picture of the man that I saw earlier. Hayden notice that I am having a hard time so I am shocked when he tries to sing me a song.

I laughed when he started singing our wedding song while stroking my hair. His voice is not calm, it sounds manly and rugged. It suits his physique because he looks and acts rugged also. Although he is a doctor, sometimes he looks like a gangster.  A handsome gangster with a sad eye.

“Sleep tight hon, love you.” I heard him whispers before I drifted into the sleep.

“ Why didn’t you call me?” I shouted at Fajardo when I saw him entering his office. A second victim was found yesterday evening under the small bridge and it looks exactly the same as the previous murder. An older man accidentally discovered it when he falls into the bridge because he is drunk. The location of the second victim is just 100 meters away from our house.

I am furious because I didn’t get the exclusives even though I am literally living just a hundred meter from the location of the crime.

“ I messaged you!” Fajardo defended before doing something in his desk. I opened my phone and got more furious when I read his text message.

“ Riz, you up?” that is what he said on the text and suddenly I just want to wring his neck for being an asshole.

“ Do you think it is the same crime?” I asked him while watching him do his work.

“ Maybe!” he exclaimed annoyed because he can’t seem to solve a problem. I need stop myself from throwing my bag to him when I saw what he is doing. He is doing a puzzle, a damn puzzle.

“ I am doing the show on this case.” I informed him to catch his attention but he just looked at me for a second before going back to solving his puzzles. I got annoyed on him that’s why I planned to storm out of his office but something got my attention. I took the picture from his bulletin and tried to see it closer, because I am sure that I recognize the boy from one of the pictures of the suspects.

“Why?” Fajardo asked but I just shake my head because I cannot seem to figure out who is the little boy in the picture but I am certain that I know him or I did meet him before.

“Nothing serious.” I replied before quietly hiding the picture into my bag without letting Fajardo know.