A Bump In the Night

A noise heard in the darkness this new place she lived in creaked and groaned this place she was hoping to call home first week of living alone since the end of her marriage and the broken heart pain she now carried with her. She go up out out of her bed, tied back he long black hair, she felt the goosebumps rise on her tanned skin her deep blue eyes scanning the dark for everything slowly she moved from the bedroom into the living area of this apartment refurbished but still within the confines of an old tenement building she scanned around the room in darkness hoping to find everything was alright that it was just a thing going bump in the night her curtains were closed, they were made of heavy felt as the looked out on other apartments and people could look in as they went past a sliver of a chill snaked slowly up her spine as she walked over to look behind and see if something may be hiding behind her curtains in the night she pulled it back slowly almost shaking going slightly weak at the knees she did not think for a moment that she would be able to even breathe as she pulled it back she saw nothing then a face appeared and screamed and she do too and lept backwards Then she heard the laughter after furious she looked back out and saw some teenagers running off though angry that they scared her at least it solved what noise had gone off turning back she walked to the bedroom but then decided to get a drink and she went to get some juice and drank it by the kitchen sink and as she drank it smiling to herself why she had scared herself in the mirror above the sink a silhouette had followed her no time to think, no time to move a tear ran from her eye and down her cheek I am not sure if the felt the snap before she felt it but now she lay on the floor on the kitchen mat a life of sorrow now extinct caused by a demon created by a writers ink.