Smooth Criminal

Saturday 11:46pm

"Yeah I know. Those pearls would look good with my dress. I can't wait to get married." Annabeth Richardson lays in her queen size been covered in black satin sheets. She is going through some bridal magazines as she talks to her little sister Melissa on her wireless phone. Its been more than three years that her fiancee Vegas Diego purposed to her despite their ups and downs. From love to disgust to love then back to hate and love all over again "Annie" and Vegas was actually going to reconciled their differences and finally get married in the week ahead.
At the high sound of broken glass Annie immediately stopped talking in the middle of her conversation and sat very still in her bed. All was quite except for Melissa who was still babbling over the phone. Annie saw a shadow figure pass by her bed room door. She got out of bed slowly yet quietly with the phone tightly still in her hand.

"Melissa. Listen up." Annie slowly whipered as she backed herself against the bedroom wall. "Somebody broke into my apartment. "
"What? Please don't kid me Annie. " said Melissa "Now is not the time to get cold feet."
" 'Lissa there is a intruder in my apartment ." Annie whispered agian, this time with a hint of panic in her voice.
"Oh my God!! Annie don't go anywhere. Stay where you are. Lock the room door and stay on the phone. I am going straight to the guy next door to call the police. "

Ignoring her her sister's advice Annabeth tip-toed quietly into the kicthen. Slowly she walked to her silver refrigerator to retrieve her wooden bat that she had bought at a second hand store to protect herself from bad dates. She always kept it directly on top of the ' frige for safe keeping. This time the bat wasn't there.
" Annabeth are you there!!! Stay in your room! Do you here ME!!"
Before Annie could say anything to Melissa a tall shadowy figure was standing right behind her with her bat in it's hand. The intruder was a muscular shape man dressed in a white suit and hat that illuminated in the dark. It's face hands and anything skin covered in black lycra. Like a professional baseball player that knew how to hit a homerun The Man in White took a hard swing at Annie missing by inches her as she dashed away from the frige and gave a loud blood curdling scream that you only hear in horror movies.
" 'Lissa he saw me !!" Annie cried as she ran to the living room door " He has my bat!!! Melissa HELP ME!!! He's after me!!!"
With the cordless phone still in her hand Annie tried opening the living room door but the door wouldn't budge. It was locked from the inside. That's impossible since the door never acted in such a way for the five years that she resided in her apartment. She saw a object jammed from outside the doorway. The Man had trapped her in.

" Annie are you okay?? Talk to Me!! Are you okay Annie??" Melissa shouted over the phone.

Viewing the White figure coming towards her from the corner of her blue teary eyes Annie quickly got on her hands and knees to hide somewhere in the pitch black dark living room. There was no moon that night and the entire house except her bedroom was in complete darkness. Annie crawled under her wooden coffee table that sits nicely besides her plush pink couch. She sat very still and alert as she viewed the white suite walking around in the dark like a disturbing ghost or polterguise. Annie click off the phone in her hand and sat statue like under the table until a visible beam of light appeared from the right side of the intruder's hand. A flashlight. Oh No, Annie is doomed. The Man shined the flashlight side to side, up and down, until he spots her resembling a doomed mouse caught in a trap. And he is the cat.

One again the Man in White takes another swing of the bat at the coffee table. In the nick of time Annie got up from under the table and ran to her bedroom this time to do what her sister said in the beginning. To lock the room door and don't get out. Annie called Melissa as soon as she got to the threshold of her bedroom.

" Annie are you okay? Are you okay Annie??" Melissa cried with a lot of concern in her voice
" 'Lissa, I don't want to die." The very last words Melissa herd from Annabeth as a bat struck her down with a had blow to her head. Five more blows and a knife to the gut officially made Annie dead.
The sound was more than a thump. Melissa could only verify the sound of a blunt object hitting against a melon or coconut. The Man in White dragged the bloody corpse in the middle of the bed room making tracks on the off white carpet with his size 9 shoes. Before he left he hung up the phone and left a white card with two gold embedded in the middle on the corpes's body. Smooth Criminal.

Melissa took the phone from her ear and put it back on the receiver. It accrued to her that her big sister was dead. No more senseless bickering, no more pretty smiles, no wedding. For a good minute Melissa sat in her kicthen quietly as a thousand and one questions chimed in her head about Annabeth's unfortunate death. At the same time she can hear her heart beat. Semi-dry eyed and summersed with pain Melissa let out a blood curdling scream in the middle of her kicthen just like dead sister.