It's been nearly a week since I killed Mr J Cooper. Every morning I have been to a different paper shop and bought the local rag. Today was the first day he made an appearance. It wasn't a big article just a small section asking for information on a missing man. His name was John Cooper and was last seen on Friday night by his wife before he had gone out to the pub. He didn't make it to the pub and no one saw him. My heart jumped into my mouth when my eyes first landed on the little segment but soon settled down. If the police had any information they would have been knocking on my door by now and the article said he was missing. They weren't looking for a body they hadn't found a body and a man just disappeared into the night.
I read this in the canteen and felt the world lift off my chest. The feeling was amazing and I could feel a smile on my face. It must have looked strange to everyone else in the room as they all looked at me like I had just told them all to go fuck them
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I had kept the number plates from the car that matched mine under next doors shed. It was right up to the fence that separated the gardens. There was an inch gap under the fence that meant I could slide them in and out and stay out of sight. My nerves were on edge at the thought of them being seen and if the police came knocking them being found. I can't believe that up until this point I was seriously considering using them again. That's one way of being linked to each murder for a start. It's almost like shooting a load of people with the same gun and then trying to deny it. Tonight I will go out and get them then destroy them. Fingers crossed I'm still under the radar.It has been two months since I killed John Cooper and my fantasies were coming back. My mind was getting more violent and blood was playing a big part in my daydreaming. It seemed as though I was board with suffocating people now and it was time to try something new.I was just driving down the ro
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22Louise was sat on my sofa giving the baby a bottle of milk. I guess I should find out its name I can’t or shouldn’t keep calling it the baby. For now, I will as I’m in the kitchen cooking a roast dinner. Beef is my pea personal favourite and it goes best with Yorkshire puddings. This girl had been through a tough time she got pregnant at seventeen and was promptly kicked out by her mum and dad. The man that helped create the child was a waste of space and refused to acknowledge that he was the father. Subsequently, he refused to help her and called her a slag that had been sleeping around. She had a job until the pregnancy got too much for her and she had to quit it wasn’t a great job she worked in a clothing shop but it meant she was on her feet all day. As I pulled the Yorkshires out to finish dishing up I called into Louise.“Do you want gravy poured on or do you want to do your own?”“You do it. Thank you.”<
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23The washing machine was working fine but I was having trouble leading it. Louise had left her clothes outside the bathroom door like I had asked her to. The problem that there now was in her underwear. I hadn't realised that she had wrapped them up in her clothes so was this right for me to be handling them. They needed a wash that was for certain but she doesn't know me or vice versa. It seemed a little bit personal and a bit too familiar for me to do this. No, it's fine she wouldn't have left them for me to wash if it was a problem for her. I picked them up and tossed them in with the rest of the clothes and sat down with a fag. This is going to mess with my free time maybe she won't stay long and my life. With my eyes closed, I thought about John Cooper. This was the first time it occurred to me that his final thoughts will forever be a mystery to me. Did he think about his family and friends or were his thoughts solely on what was happening to him? My tho
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24Don’t get me wrong I liked Adam and Louise but they were everywhere I went. I went to work she walked down to meet me when I finished. I get back from the shop they are in my house. They have nowhere else to go and yes I took them in but I have been on my own forever. My mum topped herself on my sixteenth birthday just short of a year after my dad died of a heart attack. Friends are none existent so I’m happy with what I had now. Not many people are mortgage-free by twenty-one. What the fuck was I thinking promising myself that I wouldn’t let anyone hurt them. Breaking a promise to yourself is the worst thing you can do to yourself. Once a promise was broken that makes you a liar. If you can’t be honest with yourself how can you look yourself in the eye when looking in the mirror.I took what was a well-deserved break from my guests to have a look around for a new plaything. I made up my mind that I was going to the coast for a couple of nights to make a good solid pl
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