Chapter 1

Sammy's point of view

I am Samantha. An ordinary girl. In this world there are few things I consider important; my family, my boyfriend and my education. I am doing an interior design course in XYZ University while working as an intern in a design company near campus.

I stay in a rented studio apartment during weekdays and during weekends I drive for two hours to reach home. At home there  is my dad, mom and my dog, Tim Tim. I have a sister, Sandra. She lives with her husband, Chris in the next town.  They have two kids Marven and Derrick. We are a very close family. My brother-in-law travels a lot for work so he drops them off when he has to leave town for work. He gets really worried when he has to leave her home alone with the kids. So my dad and Chris came with this arrangement. I joke around telling that Chris thinks that my sister is still a kid. To it he responds 'yeah yeah! You don't know the struggle of a man with three kids'.

That day was my birthday and also a weekend. So I slept in. I was startled awake when my phone rang. 

I sat up, opened my eyes and glanced at the phone ' Home'. I smiled and answered. ' Hello'

'Happy Birthday to you...Happy birthday to you' I could hear a group of people singing the happy birthday song. Once they finished everyone started wishing one by one 'Happy Birthday Sammy' Sammy that's what they call me at home.

When everything was over I said ' Thank you, I love you all. What will I do without all of you.' Then I spent the next ten minutes talking to everyone. My sister and brother-in-law are also home. Seems everyone had planned to get together this week to celebrate my birthday but I got held up due to a project that I had to submit by Tuesday. 

So after I hung up, got out of bed, got ready and went straight to the university library. Tomy had asked me to have breakfast together since it's my birthday. So I browsed through some books I needed for the project while waiting for him.

I was looking at a book on colours and its effect in interior design when I felt someone standing in front of me. As I looked up he asked 'mate?'. He was a tall handsome man with dark hair and deep eyes. Suddenly his face darkened and eyes became meaner. Then he said  ' you are a human? How is it possible?'. 

Suddenly someone called me from behind. I turned around to see my boyfriend, Tony. But when I turned back, the stranger was gone. Tony walked towards me and asked 'what happend?'. I replied 'oh nothing. Just met a very strange person. Guess he mistook me for someone else. It also looked like he was not in his right mind.' Tony just smiled and said 'let's go'.

The rest of the day I spend in the library. Then at four, packed some books and went for some grocery shopping. 

That evening in my studio apartment I was getting a romantic dinner ready for Tony and me. I had just set the table when I heard a knock on the door. I looked at myself in the mirror and checked if my hair was out of place and my makeup was intact. Then I turned around and started walking to the door.the next second, the door fell in front of me with a bang. 

In front of the door the guy I met earlier in the library. He also has another guy standing behind him. Both handsome. But my mind went back to the conversation earlier and it occurred to me that the guy was not sane. My brain kept telling me to run but my body was frozen in place. 

The guy following him came up to me, looked at my face and asked the lunatic 'Is this her?' To it the lunatic just nodded yes. 'Wow! She's beautiful, Raven.' 

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