Halloween’s eve, midnight.
I wake up due to thirst.
Going to the kitchen, I opened the refrigerator in the darkness.
Little did I know, what I would find would give me the terror of my hearts. The door unlocked, and lo! There stood a pumpkin; it’s carved out like the face of a ghost, it’s eyes glowing.Of course, silly me. It is Halloween “Must be Vince’s doings.
Next morning, I went to the library to find my old acquaintance, has a strange habit, rather, had a strange habit of going to the library every Saturday. He was gonna tell me something but he never came.
Michael Brandon, for that was my friend’s name, was not so careless as a fellow who’d have forgotten his appointments. I waited an hour and then returned home. I flashed my television open as I reached home and flipped through the news channels to get a glimpse of the headlines
A shocking chill went through my body as I turned on a channel called Telestra News. The reporter gave a list of details of a suicide :
A man has fallen from the Old Man’s Cliff. The body cannot be recognized but a bracelet has been found .
Just then the channel displayed a broken bracelet. I rushed to the morgue but found Brandon’s family had got there earlier than me and were claiming his body. I went away, disheartened.
A month has passed since Michael Brandon’s death.
I was watching a sci-fi movie ‘Total Recall’.
Arnold was waving a gun at his own hologram (in the movie), when the phone rang(in real life). I hate it to leave a movie in its middle. I picked the call and:-
“Yeah, Frank Martin speaking, who is this?”
“Michael Brandon, Frankie.”
“What the heck? Michel Brandon committed suicide one month ago.”
“But that’s wrong. I did not commit suicide, I was killed!!!”
“Who did?”
“ Daniel Craig, Pierce Forrester, Will Smith” (All of them were well-known to me.)
“Vincent,(he continued) you have to give them their required punishment.”
“What for?”
“I won’t get piece until then.”
And the phone hung up.
I discovered the whole plot a couple of days later.
I found the trio was onto drugs. Michael had found the truth and told their parents. He only wanted to settle a score with them. Long ago, the trio had accused Michael to be a liar and thief in a high school reunion party.
That’s why in a frenzy of rage, they mixed opiate in his food and brought him to the cliff, when he had fallen asleep. They flung his body into the cliff and the bones shattered into a thousand pieces. I got them into jail when they confessed the truth.That day when I returned home, I found a message left in my phone.
“Thank you, Frank”.
