chapter 5
chapter 5:
the reaper
It had been 3 hours since Donnie's murder, I had been taken to custody by some crooked cop. He believes I was the one responsible in some way. I kept having this urge that I wanted to get out of the place somehow, But I stayed put. Just then, a cop came in and surprisingly he didn't act like a asshole compared to how the detective brought me in. Of course, he was quite mean at times but he's someone who can do thier job. The cop pointed out to me that the detective who brought me in didn't even read me my rights, which I was relieved to hear that they were letting me go. But not before they started asking me questions. "Your name is Jason, right?" Said the cop. I hesitated to answer but I then nodded yes. "OK, just need to add something for the log book." Said the cop "How long have you known Donnie." I wanted to tell the cop about how much I hated Donnie's guts for acting like a total idiot. I started thinking back, maybe Donnie knew something. "Hello?" The cop then snapped me back to reality. "Oh sorry, I knew Donnie for about a year. We went on vacation with other 2 friends and that was about it." I told the cop, although I left out the conversation we had a few hours before. "Uh huh" the cop started growing suspicious."What happened before his murder?" He started asking. "Well, I invited Donnie along with my other freinds Chris and Julia."
"And why did you invite them into your home?" He continued. "To hang out" that answer immediately came into my mind after he asked me that. "To hang out?" He replied.
"Yeah, freind stuff."
"Well, that's not what your neighbor told me when I asked him questions." The cop knew I was hiding something. "And what did my neighbor tell you?" I asked the cop, as I know my neighbor is known for lying all the fucking time. "He told me that you and Donnie got into a physical altercation before he was murdered."
"Oh Norman is so full of shit" I told him "he has been making up lies about me ever since I moved into that apartment complex." I continued, the cop on the other hand just told me that they were done and he let me go free. Thank God for that, Because I didn't want to stay inside that place for a while. On my way back to the house, I caught a glimpse of the entity along with the masked man who I call the reaper. They are doing the exact same pose as from Donnie's murder, just pointing at me. When I looked again, they disappeared through the mist. Yes there was mist, but that too disappeared as well. "I hope Chris and Julia are okay?"
The apartments
I arrived back at the apartment complex, and Norman starts having a temper tantrum at the sight of me. "Murderer, your murdering sack of shit, fuck you you murderer." He yelled. "OH brother, for fuck sake shut the fuck up Norman. I was traumatized by the sight of Donnie, or at least what was left of him. I don't even know what reality I am in anymore. So don't you fucking dare call me crazy or a fucking murderer. Fuck you." I snapped back and meant every word when I said that. I then stormed back to my apartment before Norman could react saying "I'm reporting this!!!"
The next day I get a visit from Chris and his girlfreind Julia. They told me that they all started remembering via a dream they had after witnessing Donnie's murder. Chris remembered specifically telling me not to bring that camera with me, from which I did admit to him that I made a huge mistake. Julia started remembering how horrified she was when she first started seeing the entity with no face and she even remembered how traumatized Donnie was as well. Chris and Julia started to ask me how exactly they lost thier memory. "It has something to do with the entity, I learned that the entity can teleport and even possess people as well. It may willingly make you lose your memory somehow. That's a working theory, I say he possessed people because I had a run in with a homeless man who warned me about someone coming for me, for which I assume is the entity." It was alot to explain from there. Julia started thinking back to the second day of the camping trip and started remembering how Donnie was acting weird.
"Jason, do you think the entity could explain Donnie's behavior ever since the camping trip?"
"It could be, but I can only speculate." I told her. "I'm thinking about doing my own investigation, I looked at the tapes and found some things about the owner of that camera."
I showed Chris and Julia the footage of the Sony camera that was left behind. But just then, the radio started going off playing a classic tune from a 1970s band called the blue öyster cult. "Seasons don't fear the reaper, nor do the wind, the sun and the rain." that song was titled Don't fear the reaper. The song was known for being unsettling and beautiful and it even appeared in a TV movie called the stand based on a stephen king novel. I quickly turned off the radio, and then all the power in my apartment goes out. Then my TV turns on by itself and there's an image of the masked man just standing and pointing at me with his razor knives. I don't know why the man is pointing at me, but then it cuts to a close up of the masked man. This time he has his claws on his left shoulder and then a message flashes saying "Don't Fear The Reaper", that's what he is dubbing himself as. Just then I relieved a text message from a unknown number and wouldn't you know it, it was the man with the razor knifes looking at me. And then the tv turned off and the power went back on. "Okay, that was weird. What the fuck was that?" Chris couldn't beleive his eyes. He started having a brief panic attack and then he started to overstimulate and he felt his chest beating, to when he quickly got his inhaler out and then he was immediately calm. "Seriously, what the fuck was that?"
"I don't know, but it looks like we may have a stalker."