What Now?

03.13 am, the streets are dead silent. Not a single soul was seen. No human activity, there is no one. From these streets, leads a road towards a small but cute little house. Then suddenly, out of the dead silence, a loud cry of a woman can be heard, followed by sobbing and weeping sounds. 

The gates of the little house open, so do the door of the main entrance. Looking here and there but still no one can be spotted on. The snobs and weeping gets louder and louder. Inspecting the bedrooms, but still no one. Perhaps the kitchen.

Approaching the kitchen, the sounds made by the woman starts by getting louder. There she is, sitting on the floor with her head bent and her hair is covering her face. She is kind of holding on Her right hand and agonising, implying that she is badly hurt. 

Her hand is terribly swollen. It is then that she lifts her head, with her face all messed up with tears, sweats and a running nose. The woman is trying her best to explain what had happened to her. But her voice is gibberish in nature. This is when that she starts by getting hysteric, suffering a sort of panic attack and recklessly start by pointing at the kitchen door. 

No one there, yet the panic attacks start to aggravate, with the woman pulling her hair and pointing at the door again and again. Perhaps she is mad or is imagining all sorts of things, until what she was stressing out on so far, is visible. An eerie shadow of a male can be seen coming from no where, slipping from the door side spaces. 

And what makes it more terrifying: when it smiles, there the space where his mouth ought to be widens, showing clearly white pointed teeth. This is where the woman shouts and cries even louder.

Few weeks ago.

Voices can be heard, implying a conversation between a male and a female. 

"Hey, Sandra, next assignment, to be completed by next month," said the male person sitting on the chair opposite to the woman of the little house.

 The woman, dressed in office wear, looks attractive than she were during the shadow episode. Instead she appears confident and nods in affirmation. The male figure is quite older in age and from the official authority he was, the latter appears to be her boss. 

"You may now leave, Sandra" said her boss. 

Sandra could not believe her ears: she was assigned to an S level of corporate job. If she did it well, she will earn more S level assignment and earn a promotion by becoming an assistant director with a five time actual pay rate.

Getting home, Sandra started planning her schedule. It was getting late evening: looking at the clock, she was realised that she missed dinner. After a quick one, she resumed to her planning till she collapsed, dead tired and sleepy. The time was exactly 02.00 a.m. 

The clock ticked slowly till 03.13 when out of a sudden Sandra woke up. The night was dead silently. She grabbed the clock by her side which is showing 03.13. She thought perhaps it was the zeal to complete the project in time was the cause of her unusual waking habit. She tried to get back to sleep but ended up unsuccessful. Sandra could be seen on her bed with her eyes visualising the clock ticking. A male shadow could be spotted lurking on her.

06.30, she wondered if she should go work or take the day off but the motivation of the important assignment made her resolve to go to the office. At the place of work, a tired Sandra kept drinking coffee upon coffee to stay awake and concentrate in her assignment. Finally, it was time to go home. 

Reaching her dwelling, Sandra went straight to her bathtub to relax. She did not realise when she doze off only to be woken up with a start. She quickly stood up to shower herself. 

She got into her nighties and walked herself to her room. A strange coincidence took place. The clock read 03.13 a.m just like yesterday. Again Sandra found it hard to regain sleep.

The incident repeated itself one more night and Sara determined to use homeopathy to cure her sleeplessness. Warm milk before bed; yet no avail. Sleeping pills proved inefficient. But what was with this 03.13 to wake up every single day at this time. She thought if she had some kind of alarm in her head or something to render her awake at this time.

But that night, something really terrible happened. Sandra decided to leave her room and have a glass of water in the kitchen. While she was drinking, she spotted a male shadow just infront of her. Sandra panicked and shouted

"Who is it?" 

But she got no response. A scared Sandra tried to approach the shadow and believe it or not the latter slipped out quickly. Sandra galloped the door and just when the hand part of her shadow reached on open kitchen door framing, the shadow banged the door. Sandra felt an enormous pain in her hand and fell on the floor. She was convinced that it was the shadow of her right hand that was crushed by the door. 

Sandra was on the floor, sobbing when out of the blue, the dark eerie male shadow revealed itself on the wall. The later revealed a demonic smile and sharp white teeth could be spotted. Sandra gave a large cry out of tremendous fear.

This was just the start of scary misadventure.