REVENGE ON HIM

Chapter 1

  The room filled with Anna's heavy breaths as her hands typed much faster on the typewriter. She could notice how she was shaking already while trying to stay calm. 

“I wasted so much time earlier doing nonsense! I was supposed to do and finish this in the afternoon!” She was stressed out as her deadline was near.

 She has love to stress myself out too much?! She need to send this to her editor before the said deadline, or else she might lose her work!

 “God! I'm still new at this type of work and was just starting, I could not mess this up.”She gazed at the timepiece standing just beside her table and saw that it was already 8 said, "27 in the night. 

She had lots of work to complete that she has no other option but to call her brother and take his help.

 “Jake! Jake, can you come here for a moment?” She called his brother. But she didn’t get any response from him.

  Anna stood up for a moment and stretched out. She grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and quickly got back to work. Unfortunately, the bottle slipped from her hand and dropped on the typewriter.

“ Shit—did it just got stuck?! Jake! Can you come here, please?! I think my typewriter just broke! I'm chasing a deadline!” she yelled helplessly.

  Fortunately, for Anna, her brother, Jake, finally heard her and came in for help. He quickly examined what happened. 

“Do you think you can fix it?” she gave him a small pout. 

“Nah, that thing's already old and rusty. You knew that this would happen already. You should've bought a new typewriter that you could use.” Jake refused her as he knows how clumsy his sister and this time she needs to learn from it. 

“But it's already late at night! My editor's going to kill me! I don't want to break my words to her! I still need to send her a lot of the scripts that she requested! “

“I'm sure she won't.” Jake replied back.

Anna was already going hysterical as she heaved a sigh. Her hand went to massage the sides of her head as she looked at her brother more seriously.

“Here's the thing... if your work is that important, why don't you just use Dad's?” Jake suggested it to her. 

“What?” she asked with a frown.

“I'm sure you would finish what you're doing in time! Dad was once a screenwriter too and his typewriter's still good as new! It'll be such a shame if it would just rot in the attic.”

“Are you kidding me right now? You know I can't do that!” she was hesitating to use her dad’s thing because not only it was old model but the memories of her dad will make her emotionally turmoil.

“What?! Of course, you can! He was a screenwriter for years... specializing in suspense and thriller genres! Wait... isn't it strange how the genres he specializes in were the same as what you are feeling right now?” Jake pushed her sister to use it.

“You should be joking. You know that it has been said that using a dead person's beloved items isn't good”

  Jake immediately burst out laughing as soon as he heard his sister's claim.

“Oh, come on! Do you really believe in that kind of superstition?! What are you? Living in the '80s?” 

Anna rolled her eyes while she thought about what she was going to say next.

“You should be going right now. Time is running. “ Jake reminded her and leaving no choice but to use it . 

“I've told you! It's already late at night! It is scary to go to the attic at this hour!”

“Oh you're being dramatic! It's still early and we just ate dinner.” Jake rolled his eyes and was about to leave.

“Can you please go with me—” Jake cut her off it between,

“No. I still have a lot of things to do. You can do it by yourself, Anna.”

Before she even knew it, Jake already left the room without even bothering to hear her reply. Anna swallowed hard before she looked again at the paused work she was doing. 

“I should go. There's no way I'm going to be a chicken. Work is more important, yes, Anna, you hear it. I shouldn't waste more time. “ But she again tried to ask Jake one last time and try to bribe her. 

“Jake! I'm going to give you money if you'll go with me! It's just that that place is dark! I'm thinking it might even be haunted!”

“Stop being a baby, Anna! Just use a flashlight and get the typewriter then you're done!” Jake yelled back and got busy with his vide games. 

 Anna rolled her eyes as her face became bitter. She grabbed the flashlight and just started heading to the attic.

“All he does is play video games! I don't make requests that often! Why can't he come with me?Nevermind, I can do this. I'm an independent woman, I don't need to be a damsel in distress. “

  Anna brought out the wooden ladder hanging from the ceiling and started to crawl her way up, making the old wood slightly creak and dance.

  As soon as she reached the attic, she immediately went to search for the typewriter of her late father.

“I wonder where could it possibly be at... oh wait! I think I know where it is—” she looked around to find it.

“The box at the corner.I... I-I was actually the one who stored and took care of Dad's things before... there's no way I'd forget.”

  In no time, she found the typewriter. It was a bit dusty so she had to brush the dust off. Anna became busy checking the typewriter... not until she heard footsteps at the other side of the attic. Her throat ran dry as she took the flashlight and looked around... but found no one.

“Jake?! Are you there? I'm telling you... you should stop messing with me. I've got no time for jokes!” Anna took steps nearer to where she heard the footsteps and tried to search for her brother, but found no one.

“Jake…”Cold air blew to the back of her neck. In a snap, her flashlight stopped working, causing her to be surrounded by darkness. Anna was frozen into place.

“Anna…” a voice called her slowly. 

“ Ah, Fuck!”

  With shaking hands, Anna grabbed the typewriter and quickly ran out. Out of breath and felt like passing out as she called for her brother.