strangers

Jennifer was sleeping when the noise from the kitchen woke her up. She grabbed her gold club and started walking down the stairs. When she was walking down the stairs, she heard a man’s voice from her kitchen. She couldn’t hear clearly and began to tremble. She had a second thought and decided that going downstairs and confronting the man in the kitchen mightn’t be such a good idea. She figured that it would be better for her to go back to her bedroom, lock the door and called the police. She was very scared at that point and accidentally dropped the gold club. The golf club made a loud noise when it hit the floor. She panicked and was not able to move her legs.

 The voice from the kitchen grew louder and Jennifer accepted the fact that she might not live to see another day. She wanted  to scream but nothing came out of her throat. She saw a large shadow moving from the bottom of the stairs. The man was walking toward her when the house started shaking violently.  Jennifer didn’t dare to open her eyes. They held on to the railings waiting for the earthquake to pass. The chandelier on the ceiling above the man was rocking back and forth when the string snapped. It fell and landed on the man’s head.

The house stopped shaking after a couple of minutes and Jennifer gathered her courage, opened her eyes and walked toward the stranger. What she saw shocked her. The chandelier crushed the stranger’s head and he was dead. The dead stranger was holding a bloody cleaver and his body was covered in blood.

When the police arrived at Jennifer’s house, they informed her that the man was a serial killer and had killed her next door’s neighbour. The man entered her house because she had forgotten to close her kitchen door. He was making himself a sandwich when he heard sound of the golf club hitting the stairs. Apparently he was mumbling to himself whether to make a peanut butter or a strawberry sandwich when he heard Jennifer walking down the stairs.