I counted the last minutes of my life before facing the wrath of hell!!

Gathering the invisible courage and fixing a poker face I slowly took steady step towards the demise land!!

With quivering hands I knocked the door and entered into the room.

"Ms. Blackbury you are late once again!! What's the excuse story you have prepared today??" asked my calculus teacher with pointed eyes peering at me over his spectacle which hang loosely at his nose.

My mind quickly searched for any reasonable excuse to tell but nothing came so I just blabbered what came to my mind.

"Uh!My puppy fell down from the stairs and sprained its ankle!! As it have no parents I took it to pet hospital!! That's why I'm late sir!!".

The whole class boomed with laughter and my teacher's left eye twitched slightly. With gritted teeth he ordered me to get to my seat and started the class.

And my sleeping session began!!

What can I do?? I hate calculus with passion!!

When the bell rang all the students started to move out. When I stood up my teacher asked me and nerdy Logan to wait.

There!!My plan to escape before went down the drain!!

Logan. Logan Lodowick, the class topper and an absolute nerd with big rimmed grandpa glasses. And he is my calculus tutor.

Me and Logan stood before the teacher while he inquired Logan about my improvement in calculus.

I send nerdy a warning look to not to tell the truth that I've never had any tutor lessons, even though he bugged me like moth with tutoring schedule. Him being introvert helps me to dominate easily.

Understanding my warning he answered that I'm doing good to our teacher. He gave us some instructions regarding my tutoring lessons and let us to leave.

I finally breathed when I'm out of that hell!!

But my contentment doesn't last long as Nerdy decided to disturb me with his stupid tutoring plans which makes me more irritated.

"Would you just stop it!? Can't you see that I don't want you to be my tutor!! So just leave me alone, nerdy boy ".

"I... I'm so... sorry!!", he ran out after telling this.

I know that I'm being rude but I can't help it!!

When the school end for the day I'm ecstatic because the next day is holiday!!

Holiday means no school and no school means no calculus!!

When I entered into my house my mom informed me that she is going to my grandparents house to take care of my ill grandpa. She also informed me that my dad was out of station due to some work related meeting.

"Lock the door and stay safe kathy!! Call me if there is any emergency, ok!!"

"Ok mom!! You drive safe. Bye!!"

"Bye sweety!!" she left kissing my cheeks. I already had experience of staying alone at home, it happens more if you have working parents. So I didn't thought much about staying alone.

I locked the door and went to the living room. I was watching my favorite programs in Netflix when I heard the clock sound which indicates its midnight already.

As the next day is holiday I planned to do the home work later. So I decided to go for sleep.

I slowly climbed up the stairs as my room is at first floor. The whole house was dead silent, only my erratic breath and the ticking of clock can be heard.

Tick - tock

tick-tock

tick-tock....... Tick- tock

Suddenly the familiarity that I felt in my house left drowning me in the sea of eerie silence filled with anonymous agitation that is spreading in my body cells minute by minute.

I reached my bedroom door and raised my hands to open the door but it stopped midway when I heard a sound of something being ripped.

My mind started to buzz with thousands and thousands of terrifying thoughts.

It warned me that something bad is going to happen and instruct me to get away from the door as far as possible.

But its too late as I opened the door and entered into the room. Everything in the room remains the same just like I kept.

I reprimand myself for my exaggerated thinking. I strolled towards my bed but froze mid step, my eyes widened in horror seeing something in my bed.

When I looked closer every nerve in my body trembled on seeing the sight before me.

Laying in a wreck is my calculus note which seems to be ripped into million pieces.

My eyes watered and heart beat sky rocketed with unknown fear.

I noticed a shadow of a person on the bed who must be standing behind me. An unknown force turned me violently facing the owner of the shadow.

There in front of me stood nerdy Logan!!

His big grandpa glasses gone. Along with it gone his shy aura, he stood before me with a sinister smile that made my insides besieged with terror.

"Hi kathy!! Can we start our tutoring session??"

I'm shell shocked of his presence in my house that too in my room. Everything in him screamed dangerous.

He looks like a recidivist. Words struck at my throat refusing to leave my mouth.

"I'll ask you one basic question!! So tell me what's the formula of
(a+b)^2?"

My mind is befuddled with fear and desperate. My heart was pumping the blood as fast as it can.

My forehead sweat and a single drop slide down from my face towards my throat.

He traced the drop with his haunting eyes that made me gulp and recoil from him.

I finally throws the words out of my mouth.

"Logan what are you... you doing her....here?Get out of my house!!"

Suddenly his facial features changed and he neared me eyeing my throat.

Never leaving my eyes he said, "Wrong answer!!".

With that he sliced my throat with a sharp knife which he took from his pocket.

The last words I heard before dying were,

"I will leave you now".