Chapter 1

It all happened so fast, Benji froze in place as he watched the tragic experience of that night, replay right before his eyes, how she was falling to her death, knowing it was him being the cause of her death as he watched her lifeless body lie on the cold snowy rocks near the frozen stream. Benji started to panic; he didn’t know what to do, it all just happened so suddenly, he didn’t mean to kill her  it was all just a mindless accident, His mind started to become clouded with judgment and fear. Then benji said to himself trying to calm down “relax, benji relax get yourself under control this is no time to panic, I have to get rid of the body”.

He was startled awake by the noise of his alarm clock. With wide eyes he sat up in bed. He was having that nightmare again, the same one he’s had ever since that tragic snowy night. Benji threw his hands over his face and began to cry, hurting over this feelings of guilt and fear for so many years. Benji took a deep breath and released it, shaking of the unwelcoming feeling of that day and pulled himself to get ready.

Leaving his room and heading downstairs he got the feeling that today wasn’t going to be in his favour.

Benji was already finished having a short breakfast and was getting ready to head out for the day, when a sudden knocking sounded on his front door. It was quite unusual for someone to be knocking on his apartment door this early in the morning, he ignored it the first time, then he heard it again but this time it was louder and more rushed. Slowly was how he got up from the table but cautiously was definitely how he approached the door and there is was again the obnoxiously loud knocking on his door.

Benji picked up the baseball bat resting near the door. Holding the door knob in one hand and the bat in the other, benji quickly swung the door open holding the bat upwards ready to strike an attack but there was no one there not a single soul to be found in sight, all there was to be seen was a little red box with a beautiful blood red bow tied around it. The box was suspicious but it was also very familiar almost like the one he gave to her just before that accident. Just thinking about it made him shudder terribly in a very frightening way.

A sudden chill raced down his spine as he looked at the black velvet box in his hands and when he pulled the red bow and opened the box he felt his heart drop at what he saw. There inside said box, was the very same necklace she had been wearing just before she died; the very same one he had spent hours picking out for her, but that wasn’t all. There underneath the necklace was a small note saying the exact same words he had been dreading to hear since the incident 5 years ago.

***Oh benny! Wouldn’t you like to meet me again, after how long? 4 or 5 years maybe. Well darling, here’s something only you can do for me.

Meet me at the place where our last date ended and where you laid me to rest at the exact same time and DON’T BE LATE.

Love, Lizzy***  

Benji couldn’t breathe anymore; he was having a panic attack. He never thought that a day would come where he would have to face his worst nightmares. He couldn’t take it anymore; it was all too much for his fragile heart. His vision clouded over and black spots were all he could see as he collapsed on the cold tiled floor of his suddenly dark apartment. There’s nothing else to describe what happened, benji passed out and that’s that and he didn’t wake until it was completely dark outside.

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