Running From A Serial Killer

Chapter 1

“You are going to be the death of me,” I say calming down from my fit of laughter that I had when my boyfriend, Max, decided to suddenly attack me with an onslaught of tickles. I see Max moving his lips like he’s saying something but I can’t quite hear him.

“What was that?” I ask and he looks at me like I was crazy, and like I had three heads.

“What?” He asks after staring at my confused face, waiting for him to answer me, for a couple of seconds.

“What did you just say?” I ask again making sure he knew that I knew he said something and that I wanted to know what it was.

“Oh nothing, I didn’t say anything,” he says after a look of realization found its way onto his face.

“Ok,” I say rolling my eyes and getting up off the couch that we were currently occupying.

“Come on babe, don’t do this again, we were having something good,” he says standing up and walking up behind me and wrapping his arms around my stomach and rubbing his arms over it.

“I know, it’s just you know, hormones,” I say, sighing and turning around in his arms and wrapping my arms around his neck.

“You know you are sexy when your mad,” he says and I chuckle and smack his chest and pull away from him.

“But also scary too,” he says as I walk into the kitchen and pull out some ingredients to start cooking dinner.

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“Are you ready to order?” I ask the people sitting at the table.

“Yeah, I’d like steak and mash with a side of corn, and you sweetie?” The man asks the little girl sitting across from him.

“I want the mac n` cheese,” the little girl says with a big smile on her face, which causes one to find its way onto my face. I nod at the both of them after writing down their orders.

“And would you like anything to drink?” I ask looking up at them and waiting for them.

“Yeah, just some waters,” the man says looking at his daughter and shaking his head when she does the same with a big smile on her face. I nod my head also and turn and walk over to the cooks to tell them the order.

“Steak mash with a side of corn and a kid’s mac n` cheese” I yell once I walk into the kitchen and place the paper down so one of the cooks can see it and repeat the order to the other cooks. I grab a cup and a kids cup and fill it with water, and turn and walk to the table to give them their waters. They smile and say thanks and I smile back at them, and go and check on all the other customers that are sitting at my tables. After a couple of minutes, I hear a bell ding, and after all my years of working here, I have learned that that bell was the sound of the cooks finishing with the orders. I walk over to the little window and my suspicion is confirmed when the cook calls out my order. I walk and grab the food and turn walking towards the table with the father and his daughter.

“Here you are, steak mash with a side of corn, and a kid’s mac n` cheese”. I say setting it down on the table in front of them.

“Thank you,” they both say with a smile and I turn and walk away to go and help some other customers.

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“That was a long day,” Miranda, a coworker of mine says sighing as she sits down on the chair next to me. I look at her and laugh and go back to counting the tips that I got today.

“So, what are you and the boyfriend doing today?” Miranda asks, I look at her and shrug my shoulders.

“Nothing, he said that he`s going home to visit his parents,” I say going back to counting my tips. I look at Miranda when I don’t hear her say anything, I put the money down with a sigh and turn towards her fully, and give her my full attention.

“What?” I ask and she sits up straight and I get ready for the lecture that I know I`m about to get.

“Well, you know I don’t really approve of him, don’t give me that look,” she says when she sees the look that I give her.

“I don’t approve of the way that he treats you sometimes. But not only that, he shouldn’t really leave you all along when there is this serial killer on the loose” She says and sits back with a sigh I wait before I reply to see if she has any more to say when I see that she’s done talking a take a deep breath and start to talk myself.

“I know that you don’t like him, and I don’t see why, he’s sweet and he treats me right, now you stop with the look,” I say when I see the look of surprise she gives me.

“And your right with this serial killer on the loose it is scary to be home by myself sometimes, especially now, but I can’t force him to be home to protect me all the time, he`ll want to go out and do things with his friends or go and visit his family, but I get what you're saying and when he gets home I`ll talk to him, I promise,” I say and she gives me a look that she didn’t believe me and I give her a look back, and we just stand there staring at each other, for who knows how long before we start to burst out laughing.

“Promise me you’ll talk to him I don’t want anything to happen to you,” she says, after our little laughing fit, getting serious.

“I promise,” I say getting serious as well.

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I got home and looked at the clock and sighed when I saw that it was past 10 o'clock, and there was no sign that Max was home.

“Max” I yell into the dark and empty house, checking to see if he was actually home, but I knew he wasn’t when I didn’t get a reply. Sighing I drop my keys on the counter and turn on the kitchen light. I pull out my phone and go to my contacts scrolling until I find Max`s contact, I press the call button and hold my phone up to my ear as it rings. I walk into the living room and turn on the light sitting down as the ringing is still playing in my ear.

“You have reached Max, sorry I can’t take your call, but leave a message and I`ll get back to you as soon as I can” I hear play in my ears after the ringing stops.

“Hey Max, I was just wondering when you’re getting home because you told me that you’d be back before it got dark and that you’d tell me if anything changed, and I’m just worried that something happened to you, I love you, call me as soon as you can,” I say after the beep sounds letting me know that I can start to leave my message. After leaving my message I hang up and put my phone down on the coffee table with a sigh and run my hands down my face. I stay sitting on the couch for a couple of seconds looking at nothing, thinking, and worrying that something might have happened to Max. But I don’t let that thought stay for long because I know that if I dwell on it for long, it’s going to be stuck in my head until either he calls me back or someone tells me that something is wrong and happened to them. I walk into the kitchen and decide to get started on some dinner, after making it I pack some up for Max so he can have some when he gets home, I grab my plate with some food on it, and I walk into the living room and grab the remote for the tv, and sit down on the couch and watch some random shows on tv. I get up and walk into my room and grab a change of clothes, and walk into the bathroom so that I can take a shower.

After my shower, I walk back into the living room and grab my phone and look at it seeing if I missed a call. When I saw that I didn’t have any missed calls or any text messages that I missed I sighed and looked at the time, it was almost midnight, with that knowledge I decided to call Max again, I was getting really worried at this point. Max never would stay out this late, not without calling first, and he would always tell me what was going on, especially now, seeing as it was an important part of both our lives and I really need him now. When he doesn’t answer my calls or my texts I sigh and walk to my room, but not before turning off the lights. I walk into my room and put my phone on the charger and get into bed, I lay there for a little bit and wonder where Max is and what he is doing, but I don’t really want to be pushy and overbearing type of girlfriend, so I turn off the light, pull off the covers, and let the darkness consume me.

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I get woken up by the overbearing need to throw up. I throw the covers off me and run to the bathroom, kneeling and letting out the contents of my stomach. I lean back away from the toilet, wiped my face, and flushed. I pulled myself up and over to the sink where I grabbed my toothbrush so I can brush my teeth. Sighing I turned off the water and put my toothbrush back where it goes and walked out and back to my bed so that I can lay down for a few more minutes.

After what felt like a couple of hours, I slowly opened my eyes and grabbed my phone, seeing that it was time to get up. I grab the corner of the covers that I don’t know how got on me because I don’t remember putting them on me.

“I guess Max came home, but when did he come home?” I say to myself getting up, scratching my head, and walking to the closet so that I can get ready for the day. Grabbing a pair of pants, shorts, and some undergarments, I walk into the bathroom to get into the shower. I put my clothes down on the side of the sink, and turn to turn on the water, I make sure it’s warm enough before stripping out of my pajamas and throwing them into the hamper before hopping into the shower.

When I finish washing my hair and body I turn off the water and wring my hair of any excess water that may be in it. I get out and grab a towel from the closet next to the shower, and wrap my hair first then dry myself off with another towel, then get into the clothes that I picked out for the day. I walk to the sink and look at the fog-filled window and use a towel to wipe some off, and start to brush my teeth and put some moisturizer onto my face, I then wash my hands of the excess moisturizer, and turn the light off and walk out of the bathroom and into the living room to see it exactly how I left it. I then walk into the kitchen and open the fridge to get something to eat and see the food that I left out for Max last night.

“Huh, I guess he wasn’t hungry last night,” I say grabbing some food so I can make something to eat. I walk over to the stove and open the cabinet and grab a pan so I can make some eggs and bacon. I turn off the stovetop and put the pan on it and wait for it to heat up, I smile and turn around deciding that I also want some toast so I walk over to a cabinet on the other side of the kitchen and grab a tray like stove that I put on the counter and plug it in, turning it on and grab some bread. After a couple of minutes, I go and grab a bowl and c***k some eggs into the bowl and then I grab the bread and dip the bread in the eggs, and put then on to cook, I then take the excess eggs in the bowl and pour them into the pan. After the eggs are done cooking I put them onto a plate and start to make some bacon, I also turn to the toast and flip it before it starts to burn.

“All done,” I say after putting that last piece of bacon onto my plate. I already finished the toast and plated it. I turn off the stove and take the pan and put it in the sink so I can wash it after. I take my plate and a glass of orange juice that I grab before the toast finished cooking, and walked over to the living room. I set my glass on the table and grab the remote and turn on the tv, and go to the show that I was watching last night to finish it.

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I guess I lost track of time cause when I hear the door open I look at the clock and it was almost noon, I was surprised that I was so pulled in by a show, that I forgot what time it was. I already got up to wash the plates and the pans and everything that I used to cook breakfast. I get up wondering who it was that was coming in at this time. When I walk around the corner I see Max standing there taking off his shows.

“Hey, where have you been? I haven’t seen you all night and day” I ask him when I walk up to him to kiss him. When I lean in I get a whiff off him that makes me gag but I hold it in, not wanting him to know.

“Oh, I just went up to visit my parents, and it got late so they wanted me to stay the night, so I didn’t have to drive,” He says after returning my kiss, and smiling at me.

“Oh, well you should’ve called I wouldn’t have been so worried,” I say walking into the living room and sitting down on the couch.

“Well, my phone died and I didn’t have a charger to charge it,” he says sitting down next to me.

“Oh, ok,” I say not really believing him, after all these years I have known him, I have never once seen his phone die. He always has a charger on him, he never leaves home without one, not only that he could have used his parent's phone. But I don’t say anything cause then it will cause an argument that I don’t really want to have at this point.

“So what are you watching?” He asks grabbing my legs that I have next to me and starts to rub my feet.

“Oh just a random show that I found, it seems interesting,” I say, and I see him nod his head from the corner of my eye.

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The credits for the final episode play and I look over at the clock and see that it was almost 2 pm. I get up and grab the plates from the lunch that Max made, as a sorry for not telling me about visiting him parents and staying there all night, he says.

“So, what do you want for dinner?” I ask when I put the plates into the sink and turn of the faucet to rinse them off, and open the dishwasher so they can be cleaned when I turn it on later tonight.

“I was thinking that we go out to eat, like as a date,” He says coming into the kitchen and wrapping his arms around me,

“Really?” I ask excited and turn around in his arms so Im facing him and wrap my arms around his neck. He nods his head and smiles at me causing me to smile, then leans in to give me a kiss, which I return.

“Yeah, we haven’t been on one in a while, so I thought that it was about time,” he says leaning back from the kiss.

“I can’t wait,” I say standing on my tiptoes to give him another kiss and he returns it. The kiss starts to get heated, and he picks me up and puts me on the counter, and stands between my legs, still kissing me. Our kiss is cut short when I hear a phone ring, I know it’s not mine cause I left it in the bedroom. Sighing, Max walks away and into the living room where he was charging his phone, and answers the phone.

“Hello, Max here” I hear Max say then pause waiting for the other person on the other line to answer. I sigh upset that we were interrupted, and hop off the counter and walk into the living room, to find it empty and Max nowhere to be seen. I walk down the hall and see the door to the room that Max uses for his office, closed, so I assume that Max went in there to take to the person and that it is something that involves work. I shake my head still kind of upset for the interruption that happened not so long ago. I walk into the bedroom and grab my phone looking to see if there are any messages that I missed and I don’t find any. I put my phone down and go over to the mirror that I have hanging on the back of the door, and look at myself in the mirror.

“Well, this isn’t what you would wear on a date,” I say looking at my oversized t-shirt and baggy sweatpants. I walk over to the closet and open it looking for something that I can wear, and knowing Max even if I ask where we are going he wouldn’t tell me, saying that it will be a surprise. So I decide to go for something casual, comfy, and formal, that I have. Which happens to be a thigh-length flower dress that I have. I smile and walk over to the bathroom so that I can take a quick show.

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“You ready to go?” I hear Max call from the other side of the door.

“Yeah, just give me a sec” I yell back to him and finish putting my hair into a half up half down style and put on some light makeup, Max always told me that I was pretty without it, but I always liked wearing makeup.

“Ok, ready,” I say opening the door and walking out seeing Max sitting on the bed looking at his phone, he looked up when I opened the door. I smiled at him when I saw the look on his face.

“Wow,” he says putting his phone away in his pocket and walking up to me to grab my hand.

“Ready to go?” He asks leading me to the door.

“Oh, wait,” I say pulling my hand from his and running over to my side of the bed and grabbing my phone from the charger.

“Ok, now I’m ready” I say walking back over to him and grab his hand and pull him towards the door.