Mystery At The Resort

Dark Stranger

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It was very late in the night. Terry a straight haired college senior was trying to sleep after watching her favourite horror movie with her friend Betty.  " Are you sleeping tonight here " she asked her." " Okay no problem " Betty said and slept in Terrys other bed in her bedroom. They were all alone. Her father had asked her that " Terry are you sure. You dont want to come in with us. As you would be staying all alone here. And you know that the next house from us is pretty far and we are kind of near the woods, and highway so.. "

But Terry wanted to spend some time alone to catch up on some of her reading and college work. " Next time i will surely go and visit granny ok "she said. " But sure check all the door locks before sleeping. Did you read that newspaper news of some man who tries to break into peoples house " her father said. " You are worrying too much now go and have a good time.And dont scare me " Terry said.

And so her father and mother left. And Terry was all alone and feeling bit sleepy. " Should i see a movie. " So she called her friend Betty to come along to give her company. So she had her dinner of heated pizza and cold drink. After that they went to their bed and started reading for sometime. After half and hour of reading they started feeling drowsy and slept.

It was a rainy night and a chill wind was blowing. So Terry had closed all the windows in her bedroom. And in midnight she woke up with a, start. There was a noice from downstairs. Of a door banging. " Was it really someone knocking on the door at this time so late in the night or did i dream " Terry thought.

She slowly made her way downstairs and in dim light saw that someone was banging the door. Her parents were out for a two day weekend to her grandmothers house which was far away in the town. In between there was a forest road and very few houses in between.

" Have they returned or is it Jason her friend. Maybe hes playing a prank. " Terry asked herself. Her heartbeats increased. Should i call 911 or my parents. After a moment she thought of calling her parents to make sure. But she didnot wanted to wake them in middle of night. Terry was feeling reluctant to open the door. " Who can come at this time of night. " Terry had a weird feeling about it.

It was a full moon night. And outside the weather was a bit stormy too with rain falling in heavily. Terry went towards the door and slowly saw from the peephole. A mans silhouette was standing outside. Carefully she saw it was her father!

" Open the door Terry we have returned your mother and i as tomorrow i have some important business work. " It was the man outside speaking.

As Terry was just about to open the door while saying " you gave me a fright by coming like this at 3 am.. " But something about the mans face was bit different from her father.

Suddenly her land phone ringed with a shrill. Even her cat got up and came scurrying down. She went to answer the phone first on some impulse. " Hello whose this " she asked. " Terry its me your father. Im calling from grannys house. We will come in after four days so dont open door for anyone. I had a bad dream just now so i called you. I saw that someone was trying to break into our house .. "

The phone dropped out of her hands. If this was her father then who was at the door. A thunder struck at the same time. And the person outside the door started knocking the door more heavily. The man outside started to say " you have to open this door right now Terry. " His voice was too sounding very different from her fathers. " Is it really father outside or the man on the phone is.. " Terry asked herself. But then decided that the man on the phone was really her dad and this man outside dont know who or what he was. "

And she ran to her bedroom upstairs.. " Nice i did not open the door. Who knows who was out there .. " Terry thought n locked her bedroom door and sat for sometime. She woke up Betty saying " Betty get up theres someone outside.  " Whos there at this time of night. Nice you didnt opened the door " Betty said. With her blanket wrapped around her as she was shivering somewhat. After sometime the noise outside stopped. And Terry and Betty both slept.