Psychopaths

"Who is there?". No response. She moved towards the direction of the sound. She left that room a few minutes ago, so why the weird sound. That room was supposed to be empty. The house was supposed to be empty. She made sure of it.

She dropped the bag that contained the last of her belongings on the sofa and makes her way back to the bed room. It never hurts to be sure she was truly alone. Now that she thought of it, Charles was unpredictable, always up with lots of dangerous pranks.

Charles was her ex husband. Their marriage of seven years came to an end two weeks ago. She only came back to the house they once shared to pick the last of her belongings.

The first year of their marriage was filled with sweet memories of love. It was not until she lost a baby to miscarriage that things took a turn for the worse. Her husband had pushed her to the floor during an argument. As a way of dealing with the pain he had caused, Charles became a drug addict. Soon, he became an addict turned psychopath. First, he mangled their cat and presented to her as their lost baby. The memory still taunts her.

He gruesomely murdered all pets she brought to the house to keep them company. He always said he did them for her and their baby.

She took him to different therapists but he only got worse. She loved her husband so much that she still kept him with her. She thought that bringing a baby into the house would have a positive impact on him. Since she couldn't conceive after the miscarriage and she could not afford adoption, she stole a baby. This was all to bring Charles back to her. She came back from work one day to find the baby missing. Charles had drowned it.

The day she realized she couldn't stay in the marriage any longer was the weekend her sister visited. Her sister was butchered the next morning, courtesy of Charles. He claimed to have done it for their baby.

She cared about her sister, so she reported the crime. She was not stupid enough to implicate herself. She knew she aided him in his crimes but it all had to be tied on him.

She makes for the bedroom door. She could still hear the weird sound. She turns the door handle to meet him standing with a baseball bat. "Surprise. My love", was the next thing she heard. He was supposed to be in a psychiatric hospital.

He spoke again, "I have been waiting for you. I knew I would meet you here love. Do not worry, I will be here with you forever and I will care for your body"

Before she could process his words, he raised the baseball bat to her head. The last thing she heard him say was, "say hi to our baby".

Eternal darkness took her.