I gasped. My lungs burned. A couple of times I tripped because constantly I turned frantically his head to see if they still pursued me
Joanna had never had an overly beautiful childhood. Her father had died before she was born in an accident and the time of their
calmed down only by me or her former best friend Jessica. Two years
later these attacks subsided slowly. The treatments had struck, she
said. All that remained were the nightmares. Nightmares in which she was
corner by a monster, in whose shape she could never remember upon
awakening. I reassured her, as I always did, they reassured when her
brown eyes darkened by a vortex of fear.
At 17 her mother died in an
operation, which were actually to their improvement had to lead. In
Joanna Hope was germinated, so she had the sunny days you want back in
the park. And then she was suddenly alone. None of her siblings came to
the funeral. Although Joanna had hated her mother for nothing did her
daughter appreciate, tread them down, she'd still loved. Above all, she
was finally ... her mother. And now she no longer had.
It broke my
heart when I saw how they stood before the casket and wept. Quiet. As
she always did. Soon after, a debate broke out among her siblings. They
were all old enough to pick them up, but still no one wanted to adopt
the girl.
"Someone has to take care of them!"
"Yes, I'd make it so, but in my vocational"
"And I have such a tiny apartment, you can not!"
"Someone has to help the poor child!"
Hypocritical
So I decided to take her to me. I was now an adult and otherwise they
just had me put the matter not much of a problem there. She moved in
with me, you little belongings fit just in my little apartment. It was
nice, although Joanna took long until she could finally leave behind
their past. So I thought.
One night, it was a cool autumn
evening, I was suddenly awakened by her. "Someone's here," she said. Her
... vorfreudig. I blamed it on the fact that I was still not quite up to
and did my best to sound caring, while I got myself slowly to do with
fear. From the kitchen I heard a noise downstairs.
I gently patted
the stairs down, jumped over the which always creaked and sneaked into
the kitchen. With his back to me was a figure who ransacked one of the
drawers. A burglar. Now very slowly ...
I took a step forward in
order to get to the knife block on my left ... knarz. One of the
floorboards gave a groan from him and the intruder whirled. I was about
to throw myself on the man to subdue him when the knife went out of our
drawer, thus twice stabbed my shoulder. Searing Pain went through my
body.
With a cry, I went to the ground, blood running down the
puncture wound. A second later, the man looked at me with shock, eyes
wide, the light went on. Joanna stood in the doorway, a hammer, I always
cold. Horrified, but empty and dull. "Stephen ...? You've ... Stephen
hurt ... you ..." she stammered softly and looked between us with big,
strange eyes wide and forth.
"K-no step further, or you happened the
same thing!" Yelled the guy and raised his knife quivering. He had
probably never intended to hurt anyone, because he was far from certain.
stride and fell slowly in panic as Joanna further came to him, totally
unaware of his weapon. In her dark brown irises was reflected cold
madness. Now the burglar used a different tactic. "Stand still, or I'll
stab him off!" He shouted and pointed his knife at me again. In fact,
she paused. "Joanna, cut it off!" I yelled. It was not just because I
wanted to protect her, but also because it scared me. You should come
back to their senses, but nothing happened. "Let ... Stephen alone !!"
she screamed hysterically and suddenly swung the hammer through the air.
sickening crack. The hammer hit to the head of the man who gave way
under the heavy blow. I felt sick. She hit several times with all his
strength to him, one, two, three, four times. Blood and brains spilled
out of the skull. The face was deformed, his eyes bulged out of their
sockets.
"J-Joanna ...?" I asked timidly. Panting heavily, she held
the hammer, blood was splashed on her nightgown and her skin. "Stephen,
you're bleeding," she said softly, and then ... she broke easily
together. Whimpering she sat there, sobbing and crying. She was herself
again, but I was not sure if I was happy about it. "I'll be right back,
I'll get the phone, will you?" Do not let on that she had heard me.
The
officer was talking to her and asked her questions, he got much not out
of her. I explained the situation and the police promised to keep us up
to date.
As it turned out later, the man his wife and child had. His
family had high debt and despair he had started with the theft. To be
exact, that had been his second robbery. Although he had attacked me
with a knife, I could not help to have a pity. Because the family could
no case something about it and I also did not believe that the man had
been a bad person. But who is most struck by us, Joanna was. She was no
longer the same as before. It was a dull, empty shell. Schottete away.
Lost her zest for life. Her voice came only rarely used, and I had the
feeling that with her gradually fuses all flew out.
When I came to
her room to talk to her, or at least try, she stared at me so strangely.
distracted by another voice. Because I had my suspicions - it had
started again. But when I gently asked that again consult their
psychiatrist, she yelled at me if I would keep them for misleading as
all the others. And although I reassured that I cared only about their
welfare ... I had to admit deep within myself that she was right to me.
Your empty and cold gaze with which looked at me, no, shone through,
chased me every time a jump. It was always strange. No one can make me a
A few months went by in this way. Months of cold
and mutual distrust. "Joanna," I said when I was finally enough. I
thought there was only one way to bring them to their senses. "Joanna,
you have you finally get help. Go to your Psychiologen-" This was pretty
Immediately sped it up and interrupted me: "NO You think I'm crazy but
also, like any other, but I'm not crazy I'm non!" This time I was the
one who drove her on the mouth. Eisern I said: "Otherwise, I'm leaving
you." This sentence was a fatal mistake. The most fatal of all, even if I
"You ... v-leave me?", She was trembling
objectively represent the facts, although it terribly difficult for me
to stay cool. Silence fell. She looked like frozen. Then suddenly she
nodded. "In order." Your so unexpectedly quiet reaction surprised me.
"Tomorrow, okay? Tomorrow I am going to ... psychologists." They even
smiled. She smiled. It looked scary. Like a murder funny snarl. However,
Only imagination. It's a good sign that she's smiling again!
Was not it.
That
fluttered my eyelids and I looked to the other side of the bed ... which
answer followed. Maybe she's just hungry? Still, I was distressed.
Quietly I padded down the stairs and came away a deja vu in me. I felt
as if I was the intruder again oppose. The wound in my shoulder was now
almost healed, but a scar remained. Lost in thought, I touched the spot.
living room light was on. They sat on the sofa, curled up like a
hedgehog.
"A-Are you all right, S Sweetheart?" I asked uncertainly.
She whimpered, but when I reached for her, she recoiled and struck the
whimpering in a giggle about. The giggle became a hysterical laugh,
shook her whole body and finally she looked up. Her face was adorned
with black spots hidden by a white mask. Her pupils were due to its
dark, almost black eyes barely visible. A broad, grinning mouth
stretched across the lower part and underlined their loud, cruel laugh.
"Am I now mad enough TREASURE ?!"
When the last word she screamed in
my face and I gave back, startled. "W-What? N-No ...! I-I-" I stammered
incoherently, shaking his head vehemently to deny any fault of mine.
"What's going on ?! You wanted me but also leave you alone? You were
declared me crazy, is not it? He was right! He was always right! You're
all liars! Liars and hypocrites! You wanted me from the beginning only
hurt and destroy! You thought it all, that I am mistaken, right ?! I
know, as you have seen me when you thought I was not taking care of!
Afraid, compassionate or just disgusted! Because I a crazy spinner am,
huh ?! " She talked himself into a rage, while she pressed both hands
against his head. "I'm not crazy!" I did not know what I should do. She
was crazy! Because there was no doubt! But if I told you that now, I
might as well sign my death warrant. But how was going on in this
situation? "Um ... Listen, I-" I began, slowly and carefully trying to
approach her, but she did not let him. In a lightning-quick movement she
"You
the knife to his nose and left it in the yellowish light of the living
room lamp flash. "Do you recognize it, Stephen? This knife has changed
everything! You saw me as a monster after I killed this man, right? And I
each as a crazy monster ?! " For a brief moment she looked back as if
she'd just want to cry, her head fell down and her hand went limp. I
wanted to take courage and even felt a twinge of sympathy from the fear,
with anger. "But good if you want to have a monster, you'll get one!
This knife," she ran a finger over the sharp steel, "thirsts safe for
the blood, from which it has cost so far only once! Why meet we him not
his wish ?! " The whole time I was like a pillar of salt sat on the
couch and looked up to her, but now began to move my body. Rushed I
rushed to the door and looked through a quick glance over my shoulder,
as she stood there and looked at me -. At least I thought that you did
not even bother to run after me. Why not? I did not have time to make my
ran for my life verschissenes! It was not long, because I heard her
footsteps behind me. She has always been very fast. Perhaps not too
strong, but always the fastest. The cat-and-mouse game began and she
enjoyed it. "Fuck, Fuck, Fuck!" I gasped and gritted his teeth, trying
to ignore the pain in my legs. Also my shoulder began to report by the
high effort again.
I loved it! No, I loved Joanna! But not this something to which they had changed!
Schlitternd
rubbish out, ran as fast as my legs would carry me. But when I turned
into the next side street, I faced an impasse. "Oh no," I whispered, and
Let them strolled over to me while I felt the wall in my back.
Oh oh!
cat had urged the mouse in the corner. The moonlight threw his pale rays
the white shirt underneath, black jeans, the dark half boots and brown
leather coat. "N-no ... no ..." was all I could say in my overflowing
panic. "I loved you. But in the end I could not leave me to you. Only he
outset! "Speech, she rolled from the voice in her head? Yeah, most
likely. That's it. The complete loss of the mind. A single tear down my
cheek." Nanana. A man should not cry. "The cold metal of the knife
pressed against my throat, a red trickle flowed down my neck.
In a
single, fluid motion, she pulled the mask off his head and grinned at
me. Her eye twitched slightly, her mouth was twisted into a fearsome
grin and remembered so to her mask. Her eyes seemed to look somewhere
far in the distance, as if she were not really present and yet every
second of the action would savor exactly. "J-Joanna ... what has become
of you?" I uttered, but she screamed suddenly on. "What happened to me
?! what you HAVE MADE FROM ME !!" A burning beyond bearable pain made
through me, as she pushed the knife deep into my shoulder and the scar
departed violently. My scream was heard by anyone. Life seeped out of
me. That was it. The end.
Blurry I perceived, as they let go of me
and pulled the knife from me what a sharp pain left. I slumped in me,
slipped the cold wall down. A pool of blood formed around me, the warm,
viscous liquid soaked my clothes. Sweet, warm, comforting blackness
enveloped me.
When I opened my eyes the next time, I took the
was almost entirely white. A hospital. After I collected myself, I
called for a nurse. Soon I found out what had happened in my
consciousness. A girl whose dog had torn off the leash and had followed
the smell of my blood had found me half an hour later at dawn. I had to
tell them my story and was even sent to a therapist, to process the
events. On television reports were regularly made by a serial killer,
who soon became known as Joanna Grinning, due to the blood-red smileys,
which was found at any sacrifice to the wall and because the media soon
knew the identity of the killer. Nevertheless, the police did not manage
had the feeling that she would rush at any moment through the door and I
Stephen.
My name.
There
to anybody. Maybe you're facing them only in passing in the street
askance, which would give her. That voice in your head is to the
whispers her things. I do not think you can escape from it. No one can. I
You leans back and enjoys it, your end. For you can not hide you. I'm going to push and watch her slowly perishes in a corner.
DEAD END.