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Halloween Night W/OOct 27 '03 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line This is part of a Halloween Night Write Off. It is hosted by sleeper54.
Here is a link to Sleeper54's write off page http://www.epinions.com/content_3550126212 There is a list of all participants there. *This short story may have some offensive situations. I do not condone them and am only using them as artistic expression.* Halloween Bride by Debra Pace Glancing at the clock she realized that she only had a few hours before the sun would set, bring fourth her worst nightmare. Sabrina wasn't sure she could handle the horror of Halloween again. She had survived a year ago but she hadn't known then what she knew now. She acted on instinct alone and didn't have time to fear what would happen because it had been so unexpected. She knew now. She knew exactly what to expect, exactly what was going to happen. Even the knowledge that there were so many people helping her this time didn't ease her nerves. A year ago she had returned from a Halloween party to find a masked man straddling her best friend. Lisa had been her friend since elementary school. They had grown up together and when they were excepted into the same college she had been so happy. Now she only wished that her friend had gone somewhere else, anywhere else. It had all been her fault and she would never forget that. If it hadn't been her fault she might not be letting people talk her into this crazy situation. Sabrina took one last look in the mirror and tried not to cry. She didn't want her makeup to run. She needed to look the part after all. So many emotions were mixed up inside of her. Thinking back she tried to find the sign that she might have missed when she first met Jeff. Could she have prevented all of this from happening? She didn't think so, she couldn't think of any way she could have known it would turn out like this. Sabrina met Jeff in her Microbiology class when the winter semester had started. That was in January. Her feelings for him developed quickly. Jeff was easy to be around and he was very funny. Sabrina had never felt like she was being pushed into a relationship with him. In fact she sort of felt like she just fell into a relationship with him. One day they were great friends, hanging out and helping each other with their Microbiology studies and then they were in love. Deeply in love. She hadn't ever felt love the way she felt it with Jeff. Of course they were young but she knew love when she felt it. She had told her two roommates all about Jeff. They got to know every intimate detail. So they were just as surprised as she was when she came home bruised and battered after a romantic date with Jeff. She could remember every aspect of that day. She recalled the way it started so wonderfully. He had chosen everything perfectly. He had her favorite flowers, not the roses that most girls swoon for, but lilies. He had remembered! And the candle light. He was in a great mood, telling her all about his classes. They had been dating for six months. This was a special celebration for their anniversary. Yes, they were counting months. How silly. He had romantic music playing in the background. Nothing could have been more perfect. It was a dream, but it turned to a nightmare. He pulled out a ring and she didn't say yes. She didn't know what to say. She was too young to make that kind of choice. She wanted to finish college, go on to medical school and then think about family and children. She wasn't afraid of the commitment. She wanted to be with him, she was sure of that, but not yet. There was just so much more she needed to do before she would be prepared to be a wife to someone. But before she was able to explain to him what thoughts she had about his proposal he lost control and began to push her. He was shouting about not wanting to give her up. Sabrina hadn't wanted to leave him, only to have her time to follow her dreams. She would never leave him. There was no calming him down. Jeff pushed Sabrina and she fell to her knees. He was raging on about things that didn't even make sense to her. Something about always being rejected by her and never punishing her for it but it had gone on too long. Jeff said "I don't care about you and your perfect life anymore". And she wasn't even sure what that meant, her life had never been perfect. She was trying to explain to him, to tell him that things were going to be alright, when she felt an explosion of pain below her right eye. Sabrina fell back onto the ground. Jeff was kneeling over her. He had slapped her with the back of his hand and she could feel blood running down her check where his class ring must have cut her. The pain brought her out of her shock. She realized that she needed to get away. Rolling over onto her knees she tried to push up onto her feet and make a run for it but he pulled her by her hair, smacked her a few more times, and grabbed onto her shoulders and began shaking her. She started screaming and then there was another shot of pain and everything went black. She awoke in a puddle of her own blood and stumbled back to her apartment. Her roommates had gotten her to a hospital where they told her she had not only been beat severely but she had also been sexually assaulted. After a great deal of support from her friends, counseling, and a restraining order Sabrina had moved on with her life. She had to. There were dreams she needed to follow. Things went well for a while, but then she ran into Jeff on campus just two days before Halloween. He had been talking to some of his friends and as she tried to hurry past he turned to her and said "It isn't over yet, Sabrina". She never looked up at him, she just kept on walking. She was sure that the restraining order would protect her. Halloween night proved her wrong. She had gone to a party, but he had no way of knowing that. And as she entered her apartment she saw Lisa on the floor, a man on top of her. Lisa was covered in blood and was naked from the waist down. Sabrina didn't hesitate, she didn't even think about it. She just went after him. There was a baseball bat behind the door for protection but for some reason her roommate hadn't used it. Sabrina grabbed it and started swinging. She heard a nauseating crunch as he turned to stop the attack and the bat hit his hand. The crazed person was wearing a Freddy Krueger mask. She didn't know what was going on, she had no idea who he could be. The only thought she had was that she needed to save her friend. Sabrina continued to swing the bat, over and over. She couldn't stop herself. The masked attacker jumped up and ran, throwing himself through the living room window. Shattering glass brought out neighbors who hadn't been there to help when Sabrina needed them. Instead, they were there now,just looking at her best friend. Sabrina turned and screamed "call 911 you idiots". Lisa had survived thanks to Sabrina but she was scarred both physically and emotionally. And their other roommate Natasha had died, thanks to Sabrina. Later, after the police had finished with both of the girls, Sabrina found out that the man in the mask had first asked her roommates where she was and when they hadn't told him he had began to threaten them. It had been all her fault. She had brought that madman into their lives. Now she would take him out. This Halloween Sabrina would be dressing up. Not like the rest of the students on campus. She wouldn't be a witch or a kitty cat. No, she had dressed in the same beautiful white dress she had worn the night that Jeff had proposed to her. She had made the perfect dinner, with the perfect flowers, and was playing the perfect song. Everything was exactly the same as it had been. She was hoping to catch him tonight. He had been on the run since attacking her friends on Halloween night a year ago. But she knew he would come back. She knew it and so did the police officers who had wired her house and were waiting to catch a lunatic. She would wait for him and then they would spring the trap. She only had to get him to confess and then they would have him. They didn't really have any other evidence on him. Everything was circumstantial. The fact that the man had asked for Sabrina and the fact that Jeff had disappeared were all the evidence they had. No weapons, no finger prints, there was nothing to prove it. But she needed to get him to say the words. So she waited. Captain Amy Sampson came into the house for one last check of all the equipment and to go over the set up one more time. After rehearsing what Sabrina would say she gave one last look to the various entrances. "Once we see him come into the house we will have a man on every exit" Captain Sampson said. "Are you sure you are alright with this?" she asked. "If you don't want to go through with this it is fine. I know this is hard for you. We will catch him eventually, even without this. If you want to back out now is the time to do it." Sabrina just shook her head. There was no way she could back out. She had started all of this after all. Captain Sampson nodded and headed for the door. "Hopefully this will be over very soon" she said as she went out the door. The house began to get dark and Sabrina could feel butterflies fluttering in her stomach. She didn't really need to be nervous. The police were right outside. There was Captain Amy Sampson and four other police officers. They could hear everything that was going on inside the house. They were in a van right out in front of the house. There was no way that anything could go wrong. Sabrina had no idea why she was so worried. It was finally going to be over. She wouldn't have to worry any longer, there would be no more looking over her shoulder as she walked to class. She would finally be free and he would pay for what he had done. Sabrina tried to imagine life without the worry she had carried around for the last year. It would be so much simpler. She would be able to have fun again. She would be able to finally tell Lisa that things would be fine. She wanted that happiness, that freedom. She had lost herself in daydreams of a life without the worries of Jeff when a sound from behind startled her. She began to turn but it was too late. She felt a pinch on her left arm and then she was falling asleep. A fleeting thought about the police not being able to hear her if she didn't scream came into her mind but no sound would come out of her mouth. She looked up and the face she saw was burned and scarred and she realized, it was a mask. When she opened her eyes everything seemed to be spinning in circles, her mouth was dry, she was cold, and she couldn't move. She wasn't sure where she was. She knew it was very dark. Memories of being in the house, dressed up and waiting for Jeff, came creeping slowly into her mind. Then Sabrina remembered, he had come for her. He had come in the back, silently, and taken her without the police even knowing. How could that happen? They had planned this for a long time. She felt movement behind her but when she tried to turn for a better look she realized that she was strapped down to something. A backboard? Had he brought her to the lab in the school? She wasn't sure. Then she heard the door close behind her and she knew. She was in the basement of the medical school, where they stored the cadavers. She was in a meat freeze as the students lovingly called it. She was among the dead and before long she would be dead as well. Finally she had regained her voiced and she screamed like she had wanted to hours ago when she first saw him at the house. But the screaming was too late. No one was here and even if they were they would never hear her screaming down in the basement where nothing was alive. She hadn't stopped him, he was still out there. And every Halloween he would go looking for a bride, Lord help her if she turned him down.  |
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