Short Scary Story

 

The day had started as usual, or so Susan thought.  As the day progressed she would come to realize just how wrong she was, for nothing was as usual.

Most people who met Susan were stunned by her quiet beauty.  It was the sort of beauty that grew with each day that you knew her. There seemed to be a radiance that emanated from within her.   She was one of the lucky few that had no perceptible flaws, never even had a blemish during her teen years!

 

She was starting to wake up and as she usually did tried to remember her dreams.  She felt achy as though she had done some heavy physical work during her sleep.  It was unusual that she could not remember any of her dreams this morning....very strange.

 

Susan stretched like an overfed cat across the bed, willing her body to come alive for the day.  She yawned, sat up and put her slippers on.  She made her way to the bathroom, accomplished her business, then went to the sink to brush her teeth.  Susan looked in the mirror and screamed....the face looking back at her was not her's, who was this stranger?  Was she still dreaming, trapped in some bizarre alternate reality?

 

She stared at the mirror.  This face was not beautiful, it was filled with pockmarks, scars from old injuries and, oh my God, it looked like new pustules were forming as she watched.  Oh, she prayed, please let me be dreaming..Okay I'll wake up now please.  Nothing happened, the face stared back at her, Susan decided to pinch herself maybe pain would wake her up.

"Ouch", that didn't work either.  Tears started to fall down her cheeks she was so terrified.

 

This is just impossible she said.  This face is older, complexion is darker, even the wrong hair color.  She had to find out what was going on, it was driving her insane.

 

She went to pick up her cell phone to call her best friend Kathy, but there was no dial tone.  Odd, the phone was fine and fully charged last time she used it. She decided to use the cordless instead,  heard a dial tone and started to dial for her friend.  A message came up..."Sorry we are unable to process your call due to interference on the line, please try again later."

 

Susan felt cut off from the rest of the world.  She decided to turn her computer on, maybe she could get some clue online as to what was going on.  The machine turned on alright, but all she was getting was the dreaded blue screen.  It just would not start up right.  Absolutely nothing was right.

 

Susan lived in a classy hi-rise Condo on Chicago's Lakeshore Drive.  She came from a family with money and wanted for nothing.  She barely knew her next door neighbor, but she decided with everything that had happened she had to get help somewhere.  So she went out of her apartment  and across to her next door neighbors, knocked on the door and waited for a response.

 

Susan could hear someone approach the door and look through the peek hole. She spoke up and asked "Could you please help me, I need to use your phone, mine is not working."  Silence is all that answered her.  "I know you are in there, please this is a matter of life and death, please!!" she said.

 

Slowly, very slowly the door opened.  Susan gasped! "Oh, my God...no, how is this possible?"  She proceeded to faint dead away.  The last image she saw was herself standing over her body with a slight evil grin on that very beautiful face.