The Perfect Night

"Darling, you're the best." Danny whispers in my ear as he slams his body into mine. His lush green eyes make me lose myself. It was another perfect night with the perfect man. I close my eyes and listen to his heavy breathing. This was a perfect night.
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I wake up feeling something gooey on my body. My alarm clock signals 2:00 AM. I shuffle through the sheets; they're all soggy and wet. The room is dark and I shuffle the sheets to look for Danny. I hear his deep breathing again, but this one didn't sound like pleasure. 2

"Danny, what happened?!" I turn on the lights and there was Danny lying on the once-tan carpeting. His face shined of crimson liqouid, carved into his right cheek was "he's not the one, my love" in small print. Barbed wires lifted his body on the crotch to the the upper ceiling lamp. His dreamy, green eyes turned bloodshot red, and his soft hair dried into clumps of red units. It was the perfect nightmare.3

"Kay, baby, get out, get out of here..." he cried.4

"Baby, no, who did this...sick *bunny*... oh my gosh, i'm calling the cops..." 5

"NO!" his voice cracks, "don't, then they'll suspect you...just go to my apartment where it's safe. you have the keys. go! he's going to get you!" as Danny talked, he garguled blood in his throat and urges me to leave.6

"Who's he?! is this some kind of a joke? Danny!" I shake him, and he's gone. Cars honk in the background and I suddenly hear a window shut. Someone was listening. My suite is cover in red stains and my bed was flooded with Danny's remnants. It was suprising how calm I felt right then. I slip into my clothes and take one last glance at my boyfriend. His head hung upside down and his eyes were rolled back into his head. I wipe my eyes and continue downstairs with his keys.7

The New York streets were suprisingly empty. I jingle the keys in my pocket and look around. Cars pass me, and the homeless sleep quietly under their blankets.
"who's there?" I see a figure slide behind a building. Three more blocks, three more blocks. My pace increases as the footsteps behind me follow. He's getting closer. His panting becomes louder... I feel a touch on my raincoat and start to sprint.8

"Leave me alone! You freak!" I open to main door to Danny's apartment and shut the glass door. His hand pushes against the window and I glance at the man's face. His face was burnt, red, and half sliced off- a demon from hell. He the exhales onto the screen, creating a fog, and traces a heart marked with an X directly on my face. My breathes suddenly shorten, and I run up the stairs.9

All of a sudden, I hear a deep laugh at the bottom floor. He got in...but how? It's pitch black, and i'm stumbling quickly up the stairs. Run, Kay, run...10

Shortly losing my place, I reach Danny's apartment and unlocks the door. My fingers tremble- I'm losing myself. I'm in my dead boyfriend's apartment, and this physco is trying to kill me...
It's difficult for me to catch my breath, my back is breaking cold sweat and I can't feel my face. I take Danny's phone to call the cops, when I suddenly hear- click. 11

"Good morning, Kay. Can you let me in now?" I drop the phone on the marble floor and it shatters. The door knocks three times. "C'mon baby, let me in. I just wanna talk with you." I slide down the door, sitting and weeping. "Please, just open it. I won't hurt you." I try to hold my breath and I daze away to the sound of his incessant knocking. Suddenly it stops. MY concious is clear and I slowly pick my body up, leveled to the door hole. I look out into the hallway- he must've left.
"God Dammit." I say quietly aloud. What is this some kind of a joke? Is Danny playing a joke on me? I walk quietly towards the couch and close my eyes. I'll just try to escape when there's people outside. Later. 12

I hear a scratch on my window. Blocking the beautiful scenary of New York, is the man. He breaks the glass and grabs me by the neck. He forwards his neck towards my face, and emits a hidious grin. When he smiled, the lower part of his jaw is brought outward, making him look sadistic.13

"Hey, baby. Did you miss me?" I try to budge away as he kisses me on the cheek. His odor still smelled like Danny.
"You killed Danny, you physco!" I yell, trying to keep calm.
"Kill? No....I did you a favor Kay. I got rid of him for you. Now stop calling me a physco. You're going to be my new wed." What the hell was he talking about?
"I don't even know who you are! Just let me go! Or...or i'll.."
"You'll what? huh? You can't do anything." He ties my hands behind my back and then I feel a sudden stab behind my back...14

I slowly open my eyes, still feeling drowsy. I'm strapped onto a steel, cold table and there's machinary surrounding me.
"You stupid freak! Let me go!" I struggle to escape, but it made no difference. The man enters, changing his clothes. Rather than what serial killers normally wear, (what I see in movies) he wore a Tommy Helifiger dark blue shirt, and khaki pants. They were
Danny's clothes.15

"Kay, you seem to be handling this much more differently than normal woman." I glare at him. "It's okay, I'm just going to do some testing. You be good now, okay?"16

"Stop treating me like a kid. You're crazy. Why me?!" I scream on the top of my lungs.
"No one can hear you. And, because I once loved you and you broke my heart for some hot model- your once jerk boyfriend..."
"He wasn't a jerk! And who are you, really?" I shift my body again.17

And then he starts pulling of his crimson skin...
He closes his eyes, and his light brown hair flings backwards. My vision blurs so I couldn't see much of his face.
"...Sean?" I take a wild guess. He walks closer to me, and I could finally see his face. It was Sean.
"Yes, Kay. It's Sean."
"..Why you?"
"Remember in college Kay, we use to be lovers, and then you met my best friend, Danny?" I didn't know how to respond. "And then in a few years, you started to see Danny behind my back? Do you remember? You never told Danny that we were still together did you? And you decided to move here with him...Do you know how much that hurts? I was going to ask you to marry me!" and he wipes his face with his sleeve.18

"Look Sean...I'm sorry, but I was only with you because I felt bad..." His eyes darken.
"...What? So none of anything we did meant anything?" I turn away to avoid his face. I try to change the subject.
"Why did you have to kill Danny?"
"Because he said it was the only way. After I told him what happened, and how much of a whore you are, he and I planned to get you to his apartment...and let it all unfold. Baby, Kay, don't you still love me? It's too bad you were only with Danny as a pity relationship, since he never got the girls..." What is he talking about? He draws out his knife and scratches his head in confusion. "Well... back to businness babes. One simple question-do you want me or not?" I feel the stinging pain across my neck. 19

"No. I do not want you." It's suprising how "brave" I am when I'm so close to death.20

"Sorry, Kay, you have no other choices other than yes. I have been plotting revenge since you left me. since you left me. hm. you're a bitch, you know that?