INEVITABLE (Suspense Short Story)

There was a college student in one of the university in United Kingdom who taking up psychology. In his thesis, he wants to know on whether there is really a third sex, or is there really a homosexual person. That’s why, he really find a way on how he could gather information about his topic, then on his way home, he saw a man standing in front of their house. Joshua (the name of the college student) was surprise, so he ask the man, “What are you doing here?” then the man turns his head and smiled “well, I’m looking for Joshua Saldic?”, “yeah, I’m Joshua Saldic, so what do you want from me?”. then Joshua open the door and let the man enter his house, then they continue talking “Do you have a blog?” the man ask, “Yeah! Why?”, “my boss, accidentally saw your blog, and he is interested about your thesis, and the reason why I’m here is to give you a financial support to pursue your thesis”, Joshua feels happy but at the same time worried because he even don’t know the man talking in front of him but since this is the thesis that Joshua really wants, he now then give the man the overview of his work and the budget of the said thesis, after a while, the man, calls his boss then give the money to Joshua,  before the man leaves, he told Joshua “If you need something,  or more feel free to call me, and by the way, here’s my calling card” then Joshua accept the calling card.

                To gather information about the said thesis, Joshua needs a people who will be his subject so, he call and ask the man, that he needs a real guy (what Joshua means is that, he really need a man not a gay) then after that, Joshua ask a house that his subject will be living with, because Joshua was planning to keep his subject close to him and record every possible behaviour that the guy will act during the whole process. After a week, then man calls Joshua that everything is set and he just wait for Joshua to visit the house and prepare everything. Then Joshua quickly visits the house and set everything like the cameras, the video tape, and many other things. After he finishes everything, the man calls Joshua again for him to be able to meet his subject, and since then he already met Kevin. Kevin is also a college student, and because Kevin also needs a financial support, he takes the invitation for him to have money for his tuition. Well, Kevin is handsome, and has a physically fit body, he is tall and very masculine, and so Joshua thinks that Kevin is a perfect subject. Then after the briefing of what will Kevin do inside the house, finally the test is already begun.

                On the first day of Kevin inside the house, he notices that everything was good, the foods are ready, and the beddings are ready and even the bathroom. Before Kevin enter the house, Joshua told him that there are camera in living room, kitchen, dining room and even to the bedroom but Joshua emphasize that the bathroom and some other place in the house that are considered as so private have no camera that’s why Kevin feels comfortable, and Joshua added that he’s the only one who will be seeing Kevin, so for Kevin there’s nothing to worry about.  One day after, Joshua record all the basic behaviour that Kevin shows inside the house, like sleeping, eating, exercising and watching television. On the second day, Joshua slowly noticed that Kevin already do something unusual like talking to himself and masturbating. Then on the third day, Joshua secretly hide the sex video in the living room for Kevin to watch, so when Kevin already wake up and eat his breakfast, he notices a box so as he opened it, he immediately gives a smile to the camera, because the content of that box are all pornographic videos, but Kevin did not know that, it was a gay sex video, so as Kevin watch it, he was surprise because he is not used to watch gay sex video but after sometime, he already learned to love it.

                Libido is now slowly taking over Kevin; he starts to feels aroused so what he did is that, he went to the bathroom and take some time to release his hot feeling.  Then Joshua wrote to his data sheet, “no one can stop libido, whether you’re a female or male or homosexual, as long as you can see people having sex you will be carried away”. and on the fourth day of the test, Kevin feels that there is something wrong, so he went in front of the camera and he told Joshua that he needs a person whom he can talk to, so Joshua immediately knock at the door and have some talking session to Kevin. Then Joshua found out that Kevin was now under the gender curiosity, so Joshua told Kevin that he is a man and he still love to get mingle with girls, then Joshua decided to leave. After the sixth day, Joshua was starting to get curious of the things that Kevin do inside the house, that’s why he decided to let Kevin be out of the test and since Joshua already gather information.

                Joshua’s next subject is a homosexual, or what they called as “gay”, the same process but this time, Joshua let Arthur (the gay’s name) to see a both female having sex, so even Arthur was a gay the libido still take over his mind and body, then he told Joshua, “I think from now on, I will already love to have sex with girls”, so Joshua’s theory about gender is finally clear. Then Joshua’s next subject is a lesbian, same process, but this time he let the lesbian to see a man to man sex, then the lesbian told Joshua that she now open to have a relationship with a guy. All of the first three subjects have the same length of days staying at the house but except from this last subject that Joshua pick, she’s really a girl, so sweet and so charming, that’s why Joshua feels in love with her, so Joshua takes the same process except from letting the woman watch a sex video. The woman stay for almost two weeks, then three day before Joshua let the woman be free, he notices that the woman is now doing some insane things like cutting his own hair, talking to the things inside the house and many other. And since Joshua was worried about the woman, he decided to enter the house comfort Louisa (the name of the woman). Joshua stay a night in the house and yes, they do sex. When the morning comes, Joshua was surprised because Louisa is about to cut his risk, so Joshua tried to stop her but Louisa run to the kitchen and when she came back, she already holding a knife and she wants to kill Joshua. Joshua tried to run to the bathroom but Louisa block the way, so Joshua decided to outside the room, then he hide from Louisa. “Joshua, Joshua, where are you?” said Louisa, Joshua was hiding at the cabinet that was place in the kitchen, Louisa are scratching the tiles and really wants to find and kill Joshua. Then suddenly, Joshua received a call, “help me!” Joshua whispered, “Joshua! You need to get Louisa out of that house, she’s insane!” then the door of the cabinet opened, “why you are hiding?!!” then Louisa stab Joshua but Joshua kick her then Louisa fell from the ground. Joshua run but he was beaten by Louisa then he fell, Joshua are trying to get out, he crawls and crawls then he finally reach the living room, he try to walk and open the door but he didn’t know that Louisa was on his back, so she stab him, luckily, Joshua hold Louisa and be able to get the knife, then Joshua stab Louisa on her chest that makes Louisa died.

                Then after a week, Joshua finally presents his study and people where really impressed to his work, they are all clapping and give Joshua a standing ovation, so Joshua feels so happy and he look every people in that hall, but he noticed that there is a man standing in the corner of the hall and seems that he don’t like the work of Joshua. So after his defend, Joshua tries to meet that man but unluckily, he was already gone,  Joshua still remember the wardrobe of the man, she was wearing a black pants, and black jacket, he was trying to hide his face. But since there are many people want to congratulate him, Joshua ignored the man. Then after a while, Joshua heard his phone ringing so he got the call, “hello this is Joshua”, “why you killed her?!!” , Joshua was surprise “who is this?”, “it doesn’t matter on who is the hell talking to you, what I’m concerned is, why you killed her?!” “it was an accident, I don’t want to kill her but. . .” “But what?” “but . . .it is inevitable,” “huh? Inevitable? Are you kidding? She could not be killed if you didn’t killed her!”, then Joshua off his phone. Joshua feels so nervous and worried, but he try to conquer it and try to give a smile to those people who congratulates him. And on his way home, it was 7:00 o’clock in the evening, Joshua hears that there is someone following him, so he run and he walk very fast, after he reach his house, he immediately lock the door, then he look at check if there is really a man who wants to kill him, then he was surprise because the man is standing in front of his door while holding the knife that he used to kill Louisa then he slowly step back, when he turn his head. . .”AHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

TO BE CONTINUED. . .

The Blank Tape

Excited and Happy, this was the emotion that Bryan felt when he knew that he,  together with his family, will be attending the birthday party of one of his cousin. The party will be on Sunday but Bryan and his family went to the house of his cousin one day before the party, that’s why his cousins were very happy to see Bryan.

       One Saturday afternoon, Bryan and his cousins went to their favourite place to play and to pick some small stones. Because of tiredness, they decided to go back to the house and to take a rest. While they were walking, Bryan remembered something, “hey guys! Do you still remember the blank cassette tape that we hide long time ago? “Yes!” his cousins replied. “Hmmn, I have an idea, what if we will use that cassette tape and record the sounds that the cassette recorder will hear while we are all sleeps? What do you think?” then his cousins agree with him.

       8 o’clock in the evening, when everyone is busy preparing for the foods, Bryan and his cousins were busy also looking for the blank cassette tape, since it’s been 4 months ago since they hid that tape, they find it too difficult to look for that tape, so they ask help to one of their uncle. One hour later, Bryan’s aunt, called already their names to have their dinner, and because it is already a tradition to them that whenever they have their dinner, someone, among the group should lead for the prayer. And fortunately, it’s Bryan turn.

       After the dinner, Bryan and his cousins continued to look for the blank cassette tape, and finally, Bryan already found the tape. So, they clean it and they borrowed the cassette recorder to their aunt. Before they sleep, because it’s been a long time for them to see each other again, Bryan and his five cousins were still chatting and sharing their experiences while they are away from each other. “It’s already 12 in the midnight, I think we should take our rest because we will be busy helping our parents for the birthday party tomorrow” said Jasmine, one of the cousin of Bryan. “Yeah, you’re right” Bryan replied. Before they sleep, Bryan almost forgot to put the tape in the cassette recorder and he press the play and record button, then he sleep.

       After 3 hours, Bryan hears a sounds “tick!” that’s why Bryan open his eyes, then he remembered that he put the blank cassette tape in the cassette recorder , so he went back to sleep. Upon closing his eyes, he saw a big shadow at the corner of the room, but because he was really tired he didn’t mind the shadow and continue to sleep. Six o’clock in the morning, when Bryan was disturbed by a noise coming outside the room, while he was already awaked, he make some loud noise to wake his cousins. After a few minutes, Bryan and his cousins went outside the room. “Hey! Come on! Let’s have some exercise; all of your parents were in the plaza to jog”. So, they decided to leave the house and joined their parents in the plaza. Everyone was very enjoyed, it takes for one and a half hour to complete the set-up exercise, so they went back in the house 7:30 am.

       But because it was already Sunday, everyone was busy preparing for the foods that they will eat and busy also to prepare for the games. Because they’re all enjoying, they forgot to listen from the tape. Before lunch time, Bryan accidentally went to the room to take his cell phone, but when he went inside the room, he felt something strange in the cassette tape, he hears that sounds again, when he about to look for it, he was shocked because the cassette were played by itself. Bryan, feels so scared, he immediately went outside the room and pretends that nothing happens to him.

       Evening comes, when the party is over, Bryan and his cousins decided to go to the room and played the guitar to have some jamming session. While everyone was enjoying, Bryan can’t help to feel scared, he just look at the cassette recorder and seems that he was just alone in that creepy room. “Hey! What’s wrong?” asked his one cousin “no, not, nothing” Bryan replied, “why is it that you are busy staring the cassette tape?” ask again his cousin, Bryan did not replied. Then one of his cousins takes the cassette recorder and played the blank tape. Everyone was so silent, no voice, no noise. They concentrated to listen from the tape, no sounds coming from the tape, then suddenly, they hears a creepy laugh, “wahahaha!” it sounds a laugh of a demon, then they hear a Latin words, but because they can’t understand what does the man was saying, Bryan immediately get the tape and throw it outside the window. Everyone was shocked and scared, and then they decided to stay outside the room for a while then back to their room as soon as they are already not scared. Bryan suggested staying at other room but unfortunately, the rooms were already occupied and that room was the only room that they can use.

       After an hour, the six people went back to the room and prayed that God will protect them from any demons and evils spirits roaming around in that room. While everyone was taking their prayers, Bryan accidentally open his eyes and he looks at the window, the only thing that he could see outside is the darkness, but after a few second, Bryan saw a red eyes outside the window and it seems the eyes was staring at them. Bryan closed his eyes and try to open it again, hoping that the red eyes will be lost, but unfortunately it’s still there. Bryan feels so scared then he tries to concentrate again to pray. After the prayer, Bryan went outside the room and asks one of his cousins to go with him at the comfort room. While he was pissing, his cousin asks him “have you seen the creepy red eyes outside the window?” Bryan was shocked and immediately finished pissing. “Yeah! Why? You’ve seen that also?” Bryan replied with a scared voice, “yes, and he was actually looking at you!” Bryan stare at his cousin while he told that things to him, and he was bothered because he knew that it’s not the voice of his cousin. Then Bryan told his cousin to go back to the room, but his cousin told him that he will just stay at the kitchen to get some water, and then Bryan went to the room. While Bryan taking the stairs, he was surprised when he saw his cousin sitting outside the room while talking at his phone, questions starts to bothered Bryan, he said to his self “what does this man doing here, he just ask permission to me a while ago that he will get some water” then he’s heat starts to pump very fast. He doesn’t know what is really going on. After his cousin finished calling, he ask him “have you accompanied me in the comfort room?” his cousin replied “yes, but my girlfriend calls me that’s why I forgot to ask permission to you that I will go back here, sorry”, then Bryan starts to freak out, but he pretends that his okay.

       Its time to sleep again, while everyone was already sleeping, Bryan still can’t get over of what happened to him at the comfort room, after a few minutes, someone knock at the door, then Bryan opened it, but no one outside the room, then he closed the door. Surprisingly, he saw that shadow again, but this time, its starts to become real, the shadow, become a big man with red eyes and it has a two horns at his head, “it’s Satan!” Bryan told to himself, when he about to escape, Satan, hold him tight and he grab Bryan then he carried him downstairs and put Bryan in the sofa. Then Satan starts to talk to him, but because Satan was talking in Latin, Bryan didn’t understand even a single word but Bryan didn’t forget his creepy laugh. Then suddenly, Bryan wakes up and to his surprise, he was already in the sofa were Satan puts him.

       Morning comes and Bryan gets the tape outside the window, then he played it again, and he found out that, in his dream, the exact words that Satan told him, was the exact words that Bryan hears in the blank cassette tape. But this time, Bryan get the tape and he destroyed it and throw it in a place that no one would ever hear that creepy laugh again. The party that supposedly celebrated happily turns out to be the scariest, creepy and spooky party that Bryan attended for almost 18 years of existence in this world.