Disguised by Surroundings
Handprint
Hannah
Erin and I had been living together for just over two months now, and it was better than I could ever have imagined that it would be. We had talked about it for years, planned it for months and now we were really, finally living it.
Since moving, I’d gotten a new phone and changed my number, only giving it to friends and family back home in Scotland so that my past couldn’t follow me and destroy the new life that I was building for myself. I was making an insanely good impression at work, too, because every customer loved my accent and wanted to be served by me, which I wasn’t going to complain about because the tips were crazy huge. However, my best regulars and biggest tippers were the guys of Avenged Sevenfold, which I found totally intimidating to begin with but they were so calm, casual and normal that I very quickly had started to view them as friends.
Now, I had just gotten home from work after shutting down the bar. It was two thirty in the morning, so I was as quiet as I possibly could be so as not to wake - she’d be cranky as hell going to work in the morning if I woke her up right now. Once inside, I closed and locked the door behind me before setting the security alarm. I kicked off my boots and padded barefoot through to the kitchen for a drink of water to get rid of the buzz that I had going thanks to the five shots of tequila I’d had behind the bar during my shift but I guess that was one pro of being a bartender, I got to drink on the job. While I was reaching into the back of the fridge for a bottle of water my phone started to vibrate in the back pocket of my shorts, making me jump and smack my head.
“Son of a bitch!” I cursed a little too loudly, quickly pulling out my phone.
I looked at the screen and frowned. Someone was calling me but no name or number was showing up, it just said ‘INCOMING
CALL’. I must have waited too long because the call rang out but it immediately started to ring again. Something made me answer it
on the second ring this time.
“Hello?!” I said into the phone when I pressed it against my ear.
Nobody said anything, but I could hear faint background noises on the other end of the call and that told me that someone was definitely there.
“Hello?” I asked again, drawing the world out a little longer. “E, is that you? Are you seriously calling me from upstairs, you lazy
bitch?! I laughed, but a split second later, an adjusted voice whispered to me.
“This isn’t fucking Erin.”
I panicked and immediately hung up the phone, tossing it onto the counter top next to the toaster. I took a deep breath to calm myself
down and ran my hand through my hair. Of course it was E, she loved playing pranks on me and freaking me out. Sighing, I walked
back to the living room, but I stopped in my tracks when I saw that Erin had left her phone on the couch with her laptop, so she
wasn’t the one who had just called me. Who the fuck was that?!
~~~~
Third Person
Down the block from Hannah and Erin’s house, Shadows and Syn were sitting in the back of their black van, listening into the house
via the bugs that they had placed in and around the house back when the girls had moved in together.
Matt was the one who sent the call to Hannah’s cell phone, hoping to fuck with her and scare her into calling him and asking him to
come over. So far, neither Hannah or Erin had any idea that the guys were doing any of the things that they were doing, but they
were also playing hard to get and they didn’t seem to be responding to their advances when they were all together at the bar
sometimes, always separately since they were yet to actually hang out together.
Matt was thinking about Hannah as he listened to her getting ready for bed. What was it about this random chick from Scotland that
made him so crazy? He had had relationships before and not even Val got him so riled up and desperate, but Hannah… she was
meant to be with him, and she was going to be his whether she knew it or not. He was going to make sure of what.
What Matt and Brian didn’t know, was that they weren’t the only ones obsessively watching the girls. Three others were involved,
too. Two males and one female, but their intentions were much, much worse than the intentions Matt and Brian had.
~~~~
Hannah
I decided to forget about the strange call and put it down to being a wrong number and went to bed.
Despite my late night, I got up at nine in the morning just after Erin had gone to work because I had a few errands to run, but as I was
getting dressed in my bedroom I noticed a mark on my mirror that hadn’t been there a few hours ago when I went to bed. Frowning, I
walked over to it and noticed that it was a handprint that didn’t look like it was mine. Slowly and hesitantly, I put my hand up beside
the print that was already there and noticed instantly that the handprint there was significantly larger than my own hang. That wasn’t
my handprint, so someone had been in my fucking bedroom!
I pulled on my sweatshirt and grabbed my phone, calling Erin. The phone rang and rang until I eventually got her voicemail.
“E, call me back as soon as you get this. Something really fucking weird is going on, I think someone has been in our house without
us knowing. Call me, alright? Bye.”
I sighed and ended the call, leaving my panicked voicemail for Erin to listen to when she got the chance. This didn’t make any
sense… something was very, very wrong here.
~~~~
Mystery Person
They’d been inside during the night while the girls slept. Erin hadn’t noticed as number one stood over her while she slept before her
housemate got home, and Hannah hadn’t noticed number two creeping around her room and rummaging through her belongings after
she had fallen asleep.
I was well aware of the other men watching our girls from afar but also right in front of them, but they didn’t know about us. Luckily,
that meant that we could go undetected by their bugging system and we could also track them and follow what they were up to so
that they didn’t blow our cover. Oh, Erin and Hannah were going to be so surprised when we finally decide to reveal ourselves to
them in the upcoming weeks, but first, we had to get them right on the edge of insanity – make them think that they’re going insane
and then…. BOOM, we’ll drop the bomb on them and watch their whole new world come tumbling down around them. There was no
escaping, no matter how hard they tried.
Erin and I had been living together for just over two months now, and it was better than I could ever have imagined that it would be. We had talked about it for years, planned it for months and now we were really, finally living it.
Since moving, I’d gotten a new phone and changed my number, only giving it to friends and family back home in Scotland so that my past couldn’t follow me and destroy the new life that I was building for myself. I was making an insanely good impression at work, too, because every customer loved my accent and wanted to be served by me, which I wasn’t going to complain about because the tips were crazy huge. However, my best regulars and biggest tippers were the guys of Avenged Sevenfold, which I found totally intimidating to begin with but they were so calm, casual and normal that I very quickly had started to view them as friends.
Now, I had just gotten home from work after shutting down the bar. It was two thirty in the morning, so I was as quiet as I possibly could be so as not to wake - she’d be cranky as hell going to work in the morning if I woke her up right now. Once inside, I closed and locked the door behind me before setting the security alarm. I kicked off my boots and padded barefoot through to the kitchen for a drink of water to get rid of the buzz that I had going thanks to the five shots of tequila I’d had behind the bar during my shift but I guess that was one pro of being a bartender, I got to drink on the job. While I was reaching into the back of the fridge for a bottle of water my phone started to vibrate in the back pocket of my shorts, making me jump and smack my head.
“Son of a bitch!” I cursed a little too loudly, quickly pulling out my phone.
I looked at the screen and frowned. Someone was calling me but no name or number was showing up, it just said ‘INCOMING
CALL’. I must have waited too long because the call rang out but it immediately started to ring again. Something made me answer it
on the second ring this time.
“Hello?!” I said into the phone when I pressed it against my ear.
Nobody said anything, but I could hear faint background noises on the other end of the call and that told me that someone was definitely there.
“Hello?” I asked again, drawing the world out a little longer. “E, is that you? Are you seriously calling me from upstairs, you lazy
bitch?! I laughed, but a split second later, an adjusted voice whispered to me.
“This isn’t fucking Erin.”
I panicked and immediately hung up the phone, tossing it onto the counter top next to the toaster. I took a deep breath to calm myself
down and ran my hand through my hair. Of course it was E, she loved playing pranks on me and freaking me out. Sighing, I walked
back to the living room, but I stopped in my tracks when I saw that Erin had left her phone on the couch with her laptop, so she
wasn’t the one who had just called me. Who the fuck was that?!
~~~~
Third Person
Down the block from Hannah and Erin’s house, Shadows and Syn were sitting in the back of their black van, listening into the house
via the bugs that they had placed in and around the house back when the girls had moved in together.
Matt was the one who sent the call to Hannah’s cell phone, hoping to fuck with her and scare her into calling him and asking him to
come over. So far, neither Hannah or Erin had any idea that the guys were doing any of the things that they were doing, but they
were also playing hard to get and they didn’t seem to be responding to their advances when they were all together at the bar
sometimes, always separately since they were yet to actually hang out together.
Matt was thinking about Hannah as he listened to her getting ready for bed. What was it about this random chick from Scotland that
made him so crazy? He had had relationships before and not even Val got him so riled up and desperate, but Hannah… she was
meant to be with him, and she was going to be his whether she knew it or not. He was going to make sure of what.
What Matt and Brian didn’t know, was that they weren’t the only ones obsessively watching the girls. Three others were involved,
too. Two males and one female, but their intentions were much, much worse than the intentions Matt and Brian had.
~~~~
Hannah
I decided to forget about the strange call and put it down to being a wrong number and went to bed.
Despite my late night, I got up at nine in the morning just after Erin had gone to work because I had a few errands to run, but as I was
getting dressed in my bedroom I noticed a mark on my mirror that hadn’t been there a few hours ago when I went to bed. Frowning, I
walked over to it and noticed that it was a handprint that didn’t look like it was mine. Slowly and hesitantly, I put my hand up beside
the print that was already there and noticed instantly that the handprint there was significantly larger than my own hang. That wasn’t
my handprint, so someone had been in my fucking bedroom!
I pulled on my sweatshirt and grabbed my phone, calling Erin. The phone rang and rang until I eventually got her voicemail.
“E, call me back as soon as you get this. Something really fucking weird is going on, I think someone has been in our house without
us knowing. Call me, alright? Bye.”
I sighed and ended the call, leaving my panicked voicemail for Erin to listen to when she got the chance. This didn’t make any
sense… something was very, very wrong here.
~~~~
Mystery Person
They’d been inside during the night while the girls slept. Erin hadn’t noticed as number one stood over her while she slept before her
housemate got home, and Hannah hadn’t noticed number two creeping around her room and rummaging through her belongings after
she had fallen asleep.
I was well aware of the other men watching our girls from afar but also right in front of them, but they didn’t know about us. Luckily,
that meant that we could go undetected by their bugging system and we could also track them and follow what they were up to so
that they didn’t blow our cover. Oh, Erin and Hannah were going to be so surprised when we finally decide to reveal ourselves to
them in the upcoming weeks, but first, we had to get them right on the edge of insanity – make them think that they’re going insane
and then…. BOOM, we’ll drop the bomb on them and watch their whole new world come tumbling down around them. There was no
escaping, no matter how hard they tried.
Notes
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Well, this was surely creepy :D
Can't help but wonder who the mystery person is!
Waiting for more ;)
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