Paige's Club

Chapter 14. The Lady's Creepy Gift

In a couple of days, Lexie was apprehended the night she bumped into a sergeant in a supermarket. 

After the sergeants had asked her a few questions, she was led to an isolated detaining room so that they would carry out an intense interview the following day and deliberate on their judgment. They would also take her to the hospital where Leanna was admitted so that both girls would be properly interviewed.

From the time Lexie bumped into that sergeant till now, she seemed to have been counting the number of beats her heart had skipped. Things were just at a fast pace and she felt like she was dreaming because she didn't expect to be arrested so soon and suddenly. The worst was how people were casting nasty glares at her like they were saying, “ What the heck is this murderer doing here!" And to her greatest amazement, the sergeant suddenly got in and confronted her.

Damn!

She'd never been so embarrassed her whole life. And that was a blow to her parents' reputations. Her heart was throbbing in her throat such that she was gasping for air. Arms folded with her knees raised, the fear of going to jail struck her badly, she was trembling while her teeth were chattering as she was sitting on the bare floor in the detaining room. 

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Receiving medication through an intravenous line, Leanna was lying on the hospital cot when the door opened slowly, creaking, and someone emerged in the room. Though she was asleep, the footsteps were lingering in her ears.

When the footsteps went on, she said faintly, "Ashley? Ashley…is that you?" Ashley was her nurse, but she'd never come around at midnight. "Ashley?"

Before Leanna could think, the lights turned on revealing the nurse. 

"Oops! I'm sorry, Leanna." The nurse said, approaching her "Aww, don't be curious, I just came to check on you. Do you feel feverish?" She touched Leanna's sweaty forehead.

"Kinda," Leanna said faintly.

Her temperature was high as she was sweating profusely. "Lighten up, I've got something for you."

Wait. That voice wasn't Ashley's. It sounded exactly like…Simone?! The reality of the voice startled Leanna. Curiously, she rapidly turned her head to look at the nurse, and in her greatest terror, Simone was the nurse.

What?!!

Her body froze as her heartbeat accelerated to a loud thump against her chest. At this point, her heartbeat was sounding right in her ears. She was sure her heart had swooped to her eardrums because of its deafening impact. She was feeling a twirling sensation in her head as it was banging excruciatingly. 

"Si..si...Sim..mm..mone?" Stuttering, the whisper escaped from Leanna's trembling mouth, and her astonished gaze upon Simone was intense. And she could see that deep disgusting injury on her left cheek.

Simone's stern look upon her was extreme. Slowly, she opened her mouth until it was wide, and Leanna involuntarily sat up in curiosity, looking up at her, and raised a brow when she noticed something glittering like silver steel in Simone's wide mouth. 

Once thick black blood scummed her left eye and began to slide down Simone's deeply injured cheek, she rapidly put her right hand in her mouth, and it widened to her cheeks with a disgusting slurping sound as the wound opened.  

Pulling the glinting steel in her mouth, she retched briefly and burped milk white smelly sticky slimes, and it splashed on Leanna's face before Simone plucked the steel out of her mouth.

Ewww!!

Eyebrows pulled down, nose wrinkled, Leanna's upper lip pulled up as her lips loosed in disgust, especially as the unpleasant smell wafted into her nostrils.

Suddenly, Simone started stabbing Leanna's chest and face with the knife she'd pulled from her mouth. The attack was fierce such that the force of the knife tearing Leanna's flesh apart sounded like hitting gravel with a spade.

Blood was splashing all over, messing up the white bedsheet, the floor, and the walls as it was streaming profusely out of Leanna's body. Her eyes had broken, looking like mixtures of ruddy crumbs and shards in their sockets, and her face was brutally disfigured and bloody. 

Blood was also splashing on Simone's whole body, turning her white gown red as it was dripping. 

Leanna was too weak to scream. Despite the excruciating pain and blood flowing into her nostrils, she was trying her hardest to breathe. Knife still thrusting Into feeble body and face, she was mourning faintly and that was her last moment.

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"If I were you, I would accept this gift." A whisper intruded on Lexie's thoughts.

Bewildered, she flinched to her feet upon hearing that voice from behind her. Instantly, she turned and found a huge terrifying shadow on the wall, and her heart slammed violently against her chest as she shivered in fear. 

"Here…" The voice said again from another direction.

Turning, Lexie's eye was almost poked by the knife that was stretched toward her face. With wide eyes, she gazed at that bloodstained knife, the hands with long angled nails on which the knife was, and then she lifted her gaze upon the lady in black. It was that lady she saw in her room a few days ago. "What?! Why the f*ck are you following me around?! Who the h*ll are you?! And why do you keep showing me this f*ckin' sh*t?! Lexie was irritated, she couldn't hold back the yell. 

The lady dropped her hands, casting a cold nasty glare at her. 

For a second, Lexie thought the lady would attack her but…

" Follow me!" 

Who was this lady? Her voice was intense, Lexie didn't dare to refuse even though she barely knew her. There was something about this strange lady. 

"W…why sh…should I?" This question slipped from Lexie's mouth. And the way the lady's glare deepened ignited fear in her, she wouldn't risk asking another question, no matter what. She was overwhelmed with panic, she wanted to plead for mercy because she couldn't stand this woman's grave grimace. She began to wonder what was running through the lady's mind.

And how did this lady come in here without unlocking the detaining room? How did she even wanna get out here? 

Still glaring down at Lexie, the lady brought forth her right hand. Although Lexie hesitated, she thought the lady wanted to take her hand, so she placed her trembling right hand on the lady's hand and felt the coldness of it. 

"Shut your eyes!" The lady commanded harshly and…

Lexie instantly shut her eyes. And for a while she was subconscious…

But when her eyes opened, she was astounded by being in front of her home…alone.

"Get inside!"

Oh, she wasn't alone. Lexie walked cautiously toward the door and was baffled the door was open. She looked back but the lady was gone, leaving her in confusion. Curiously, she got into the living room and her lips dropped as she gasped. Involuntarily, her hands flew to her mouth.

What the!

Why was there blood everywhere? Lexie was alarmed. Fear gleamed in her wide eyes as it followed the bloody imprints and she noticed huge blood stains on the wall.  

"Mom!" She cried while running upstairs, following the bloody imprints. "Mom! Dad! Penelope! Yvonne! She called her younger sisters but no response. "Mom! Oh my god! Oh, my f*ckin' god!"

Reaching the second floor, she ran to Penelope's room and opened the door breathlessly, "Pen?! Penelope?!" Her bedsheet and the floor were bloodstained but Penelope wasn't in there.

Leaving the door open, she ran a few distances to Yvonne's room but the door was already open when she arrived. Sobbing already, she hurriedly entered the room and saw that the bedsheet was upward. Expectantly, she got there, pulled the bedsheet, and her lip dropped.

Oh!

She gasped. Her knees were trembling and her whole body stiffened as she was struggling hard to breathe. 

Breathing shakily, her hands were shaking violently as they moved toward the girls. Both sisters' bodies were messed up with blood as they were wounded deeply all over their bodies. Their faces were devastated, she could only identify them by their size difference. Their hair had been shaved, leaving their bloody skull. Their eyes were plucked from their sockets, and their lips were cut off, exposing their blood-stained teeth. They were just too ugly to look at.

Tears were streaming out of her eyes as she wept bitterly, falling to her knees. "Oh, Yvonne. Penelope. W..who did this…to you?" Her voice was broken. Despite how horrible the girls were, she rested her head on each of them as she mourned their names.

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Lexie couldn't find her voice when she entered her parents' room. Blood was streaming out of her mom's mouth as she lay dead on the floor with her blue eyes open. This must be a trap because the killer had kept a small bowl close to Mom's mouth so that the blood dripped onto it. The whole of her arms was gory and she was stabbed in her throat. 

Tears had welled up in her eyes, making her sight blurry, burning and tickling her eyes as they slid down her cheeks. Exasperated, Lexie's body was trembling violently, her shaky hands bent to a fist as she gritted her teeth. Fury was rather soaring inside of her, instead of sadness. Breathing shakily, she turned her red-blazing gaze to her dad. 

Dad's head had been cut off. The murderer had sat him up on the floor, leaning against the bed with his head on his stretched legs. The room was a bloody mess.

Her left eye hurt excruciatingly as she blinked, and the tears flowed more. The eye Leanna had hit that night had not healed completely, her left eye was still hurting, puffed up, and black.

Inflamed plus broken, Lexie fell to her knees weeping bitterly, punching the damp floor and the blood splashed on her.

"Drink the blood and it will guide you to find the killer." The lady in black whispered, floating in the air with a bowl of blood in he

r hands. "You shall not spare whosoever crosses your part…big and small. You must take revenge! You must kill as many as you reach! Then I'll show you the murderer." She paused briefly. "Take my gift, now!"

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