Chapter 2

When benji awoke, he had a raging headache and he was having trouble remembering what happened before he passed out until he realized that that it was completely dark outside. It was at that moment, that he really remembered what happened; the pounding on the door, the necklace and that note. Poor benji, he really wanted this all to be just a silly dream, just another one of his nightmares but unfortunately luck wasn’t on his side.

 He eased himself slowly off the floor and staggered towards the dining table in search of his phone, to check the time but when he checked, the realization hit him so that he almost fell over. Today was the day it all happened and what’s worse, is that he was extremely late, so he needed to get moving real fast.

Completely putting aside the fact that his head felt like it was being crushed, benji grabbed his coat, keys and checked his pants pockets for his wallet and ran out the apartment slamming the door behind him not even bothering to lock it.

This was probably the second time benji regretted not having bought himself a car, the first was well; it doesn’t matter, let’s not get of track. Benji stood there for 15mintutes before he got himself a taxi and another 20 when he finally reached his destination. Well not exactly, he had to walk the rest of the way because the place was kind of a restricted area. It was an old computer factory on the outskirts of town, near a mini river with a small curved bridge.

Benji had the time of his life trying to cross over the massive iron gates to get into the property. He realised a sigh of relief when he finally got over but took it back when he realized what comes next. Taking deep breaths, he approached the old wooden doors slowly because he couldn’t afford to have another panic attack. The doors made a screeching noise when benji pushed them open and the scents of moldy books and dust burnt his nose, it made him sneeze.

He shivered as he entered the building “uhh! Why is it so cold in here?” he mumbled shivering uncontrolablely“I can’t remember it being this cold that night, oh well that was probably because I was too busy to notice it”. Walking deeper into the dark building, the moonlight was bright so when benji looked around he saw nothing but old dusty computers surrounding him. “The place was surprisingly clean” benji thought.

“Hello” he called moving in a circle around him to take in more of the place “is anyone here” but as expected there was no answer. The beep beep sounds of computers turning on startled him almost to death.

Pressing one hand to his screaming heart and the other to his head, suddenly noticing his painful headache, he approached one of the monitors looking closely to the images slowly appearing on the screen. He must have been losing his mind; benji couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He looked. He wiped his eyes. He looked again at the screen and was sure he was not seeing right, “NO!” he screamed “it’s not true!”. He looked at the benji from 5 years ago, dragging the dead body of his beloved lizzy away from the frozen river towards the doors of the factory.

“How could I not have known that there were working security cameras?” benji whispered brokenly as he cried his eyes out “obviously the owner must have gone through the footage, I’m doomed, my life is over”. Why benji did something like that? He had no idea.  

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