Don't Answer The Door - Ch. 6

Matt got out of his chair and went up the stairs to Eva's room. He stopped at the door to catch his breath. When he entered his daughters room, he turned on the light and just stood there for a while, looking around.1

He knew his daughter snuck out with Alex, but he didn't know what to do about it. He sat on the bed and put his hands over his face. For a few minutes he quietly cried. This wasn't how his life was suppose to be. 2

When he married his wife, who has been dead for a while now, he found out she had a daughter with another man. Eva isn't his biological daughter. For so long he thought she was, but she wasn't. After he found out, everything changed. He stopped trusting his wife, and began to hate Eva as well. That was when the abuse started.3

Matt looked up and noticed that the mirror was broken. He saw a shard of glass that had dried blood on it, and he immediately knew why the blood was there. 4

"Oh God, not again... this is all my fault!" He exclaimed angrily. He started crying, ashamed of himself. The first time Eva ever cut was after that one night. Oh how well he remembered it. 5

Matt had raped her. He stopped seeing her as his daughter, because she wasn't anymore. He sexually abused and harassed her throughout her childhood. He quit though, after his wife, Celine, found out what was going on. She threatened to tell the police, and he made the biggest mistake of his life the second she told him that.6

The sound, and the expression on Celine's face was forever stuck into his brain. He slapped her so hard that her neck snapped. She was on the floor, and having a hard time breathing. She was pointing at the phone, wanting to call 911, but Matt was too worried to do that. He wanted her to die, deep down inside he knew it was true. She would have ruined his life.7

When it happened, Eva wasn't home that moment, and Matt knew that it was his only chance to get rid of Celine, once and for all.8

"'Till death do us part." He had said with an evil smirk on his face.9

Matt remembered that night so clear, as he replayed it in his mind over and over again.10

He had taken out a baseball bat and he hit his wife in the head with it. he thought the brain damage would kill her instantly. It didn't. Matt picked up his wife and carried her to the car after he bear her that day. He had driven his car and parked it near the woods, carrying the once still-not-dead Celine.11

"C'mon, die bitch, die!" Matt remembered screaming at Celine after he had thrown her body onto the ground.12

He had kicked her hard in the stomach and the face, and still she wasn't dead. Matt was breathing hard that day. At the time, he was looking down at Celine,  and saw that there was enough damage done. Before he left, he stared at her one last time and walked away, leaving her struggling there for breath, left her for dead.13

As Matt sat in Eva's bedroom, his head snapped up. He made himself stop remembering that awful night. He had countless nightmares, sleepless nights every day since that murder. He didn't know why he did it, he didn't know what possessed him to do it. It was hard for him to believe at times, but he did love her. He still does love her, and he ends up visiting her grave every Sunday. 14

Matt jumped off of Eva's bed. He was ashamed to sit on it, again. He remembered how he raped her when she was little, sleeping in her bed, not a care in the world. He remembered it all, and he cried. He stormed out of her room and slammed the door behind him, he went to his bedroom and cried for hours. 15

There was a knock on the door downstairs, and Matt smiled. He was hoping it was Eva, he wanted to sit her down and beg for forgiveness. He wanted her to forgive him for everything, but he knew he didn't deserve the forgiveness.16

Matt wiped away the tears that dried on his cheeks. He took a deep breath and walked down the stairs.17

"Open up! It's the police!" Came a shout from behind the door.18

Matt stopped dead in his tracks. He didn't know what to think, he didn't know why the police where at his door. Had something happened to Eva? Had someone else been murdered? Had they found out he murdered his wife? All these questions were running through his head, and he didn't know the answers for them. The way to find out was to answer the door. He took a deep breath as his hand was on the knob. He turned the knob and opened the door.19

"Mr. Johnson?" The officer said.20

Matt didn't answer him right away. He was puzzled at what the police officer was wearing. Sunglasses and a hat? That was odd. He looked up and saw the perfect round silver moon. He looked back at the police officer and answered him.21

"Yes, yes sir?" Matt said, stumbling over three simple words. 22

He knew the guilt in his eyes was revealed, he looked down and stared at his shoes. He noticed sand stuck to the police officers shoes. He thought it was weird that he'd be in the desert this time of night. No one goes there. It's where all the murders happened, the last place that Cage took his victims. Matt became worried again.23

"Is anything wrong sir?" Matt asked, he noticed the officer was just staring at him.24

"You need to come down to the station, Mr. Johnson." The officer said, in a cold tone that scared Matt.25

"Why? I didn't do anything!" Matt stated.26

The police officer surprised Matt when he took him by the shoulder and brought him quickly to the ground. He put handcuffs around Matt's fat wrists and pulled him up. Matt was surprised at the strength of the officer, no one can move him that fast.27

The police officer took Matt into the car, and locked him inside. Matt looked out of the window, confused about every thing that is happened, it all happened so fast for him to comprehend. He sat without a word as he waited for his fate.28