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Short stories: Suspense

by Lori King

Created on: February 07, 2009

All is quiet in the beautiful victorian house in the woods. Everyone is sound asleep and no one hears the sounds of silent footsteps coming up the stairs. An intruder has found their way inside and their intentions are none other than pure evil. Gemma is tossing and turning in her bed, unaware of the intruder entering her parents room across the hall.

Mr. and Mrs. Kosak are sleeping soundly side by side and are soon disturbed by hands covering their mouths. Ann Kosak's eyes open wide and she stares her intruder in the eye. The face is covered with a black mask and all that is visible is a mouth, twisted in an evil grin, and pale blue eyes. The other intruder is holding Greg Kosak down, keeping his mouth covered as well.

"Both of you shut your mouths," The first intruder, a very masculine male, says. "keep quiet. Don't make this any harder than it has to be." The man with his hand over Ann's mouth uses his other free hand to caress her body in intimate places. A tear falls from her left eye.

Across the hall, Gemma is now awake. Something inside of her keeps insisting that there is trouble, and she can smell it. She sits up in her bed, feeling the heat rise in her body. She has had these feelings before when angry but never this bad. Something is wrong and something is about to happen. Quietly, Gemma pulls back her blankets and steps onto the cold floor.

Her parents' bedroom door is cracked slightly and she can see into the dark room. There appear to be two other individuals in the room as well. Gemma is still standing across the hall when one of the men from the inside pulls her mother from the bed and shoves her to the floor. Her mother looks through the crack in the door and sees sixteen year old Gemma, watching silently. She mouths 'no' to Gemma but she refuses to listen. She stands her ground in the hallway.

One of the other men moves to the door and opens it. Gemma is glaring at the man and her temperature is rising still. Now she will finally see just who she really is and what her purpose is in life.

"There's a kid in the hallway," He calls back to his partner, who is wrestling with Gemma's mother.

"Well don't just stand there, get her!"

Gemma doesn't move. She doesn't even blink. The man standing before her lunges at her, only to have Gemma's hand clamp around his throat. He can hear a deep growl coming from inside of her. Gemma's eyes are darkening, her fingernails are sharpening, and her strength is tremendous.

"What the hell is this..."

Gemma forces the man

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