“I’ll get you Lewis! And that’s a promise.”
With his words still ringing in my ears, I hastily packed a suitcase. I just had to get away.
A new town, a fresh start, I could only hope.
I picked up a job quickly and began to settle down. My jangled nerves were slowly uncurling with each passing day.
It took him six weeks to find me.
I awoke one morning to find a note on the doormat. Things started to spiral out of control.
I lost my job. My bruised face didn’t make it easy finding another one.
My landlady threw me out.
“I don’t want any trouble makers around here.”
I moved on, but he always found me. It was uncanny, it was as if he had a trace on my DNA. I was running out of places to hide.
I ended up in Alaska, and it was there I met Sally.
It was as if I had known her all my life. She was the only one I really opened up to about my twin brother. It was still painful for me to recall that awful day when he died. After we’d spoken, I felt as if a great burden had been lifted even though my guilt was still there.
Months past and there was no sign of my tormentor. At last, I thought, I was finally free.
It wasn’t to be.
I woke up to find that Sally had gone. Her pillowcase was covered in blood, and there were bruises all over my knuckles.
A hammering on the door jolted me upright.
“Police, open up!”
I was arrested for assault and questioned for hours. I wanted to see Sally, but she didn’t want to see me.
I had no recollection of hitting her, or ever even having any harsh words with her. She had been my soul mate and now I’d never get her back.
I just knew he was responsible somehow, but the police were not interested in a ghost hunt. I was sent for psychiatric testing and kept in a room handcuffed to an old iron bed.
I was considered a danger to society and received a sentence of six years, partly due to me pleading not guilty rather than accepting what I had allegedly done.
I was alone in my cell just before lights out when I heard his voice
“I promised I’d get you Lewis.”
I turned around quickly and saw his angry face in the mirror.
“It was an accident, I didn’t mean to kill you,” I screamed at his face. “You took my life, now I’m taking yours.”
