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Mark Given a twenty-eight year old journalist turned blogger, had started getting worried that he would soon end up losing much of his audience. He had…
Thirty-two year old Mandy Stones, a woman with a not so pleasant past, stood in front of the bathroom mirror and looked at herself. She…
Thirty-two year old Mandy Stones, a woman with a not so pleasant past, stood in front of the bathroom mirror and looked at herself. She was sleeping when the urge to pee woke her up in the middle of the night. As she got up she quickly grabbed the bedside clock to see what time it was.
“Dammit, two a.m. And yet I thought I was going to be late for work.”
Her frustration was immense getting up at that hour. But the pressing need to pee made her quickly get out of bed and walk stark naked into the bathroom. She stood in front of the bathroom mirror after she had peed and couldn’t recognize the woman that she saw.
Something was happening to her. Something like a force was taking over her mind and was forcefully making her bear a strong hatred towards her next door neighbor.
Twenty-eight year old Frida Manolo, was her next door neighbor. Both women were single having come from broken relationships. For the fact that they were women, and next door neighbors, could have been enough to spark a friendship between them. But for the one year that they had been living next door to each other, they never once took the time to acquaint themselves with one another.
The first time Mandy saw Frida, it was in the morning hours, when she was about to go to work. She had just left her house and got into her car when the sight of Frida caught her attention. She watched as Frida stepped out of her house and walked gracefully towards her own car. Mandy saw a woman that she thought she knew. Seeing Frida reminded her of someone from her past.
This was a woman Mandy swore she would never forgive for sleeping with her fiancé, and which lead to the breakup of a relationship that was in it’s eighth year. Mandy was bitter and heartbroken and swore she would get revenge for being humiliated and dumped. Seeing Frida felt like seeing the woman from her past once again. From that time on, she bore a sudden hatred for Frida which she then harbored for so long. And the longer she harbored that hatred, the more she kept thinking about ways to harm Frida.
She looked at Frida and was sure it was the same woman from her past. Deep down, she felt a burning desire to get some kind of satisfaction for the wrong she suffered at the hands of that woman. Since they first became neighbors, both women never bothering to find the time to say hello to one another, or visit each other. They ignored each other even when they would sometimes bump into one another, while going into their respective houses.
Each time Mandy saw Frida opening her door, she would observe her from the corner of her eyes. At such times she was always reminded of the past and wanted nothing more than to inflict some kind of pain upon Frida. This thought about wanting to harm her neighbor was so strong that, each day that passed, brought her closer and closer to really wanting to take Frida out. She reasoned that if she harbored such thoughts, it meant that Frida was perhaps also hatching out some kind of a plan to harm her.
Suddenly, she feared being harmed by Frida and this thought alone made her grow suspicious of her neighbor. It led her to believe that one day coming home, about to open the front door, she would turn around and find Frida standing behind her with a gun in her hand pointed at her. The thought of this really happening made her shrug. She began to imagine it as something that could really happen, and quite unexpectedly.
She decided to protect herself and the one thought that came to her mind was to buy herself a gun. The following day she left the house and hopped into her car and drove down to the nearest gun shop. Along the way there was an accident. Two cars had collided just before a traffic stop. Mandy slowed down as she saw the flashing lights of a police car.
Then she saw two police officers waving hands to divert the traffic on both sides of the intersection. Soon two ambulance cars arrived on the scene and Mandy saw stretchers being pulled out of both cars. She looked out of her car and saw in the distance the two bodies that were being pulled out of both cars.
However she became nervous due to the delay the accident was causing. Seeing the two police officers diverting the traffic made her angry. Her annoyance at being delayed from going to buy the weapon she needed to protect herself was immense. She got out of her car and marched up to the female police officer.
“Excuse me officer, I’m heading in that direction.” She said, pointing a finger to indicate where she was going.
“Sorry, ma’am, you can’t go that way. Follow the suggested route.”
“Any reason why? Cos I’m running late for an appointment.”
“The accident, that’s reason.”
Mandy looked squarely at the officer while fretting and fuming over the route diversion. In that instant she decided to do the unthinkable. She got back into her car and kick-started it. Her intentions were clear and she was oblivious of the warning given to her by the female police officer.
She drove out of her line and moved the car head on straight in the direction that she wanted. She pressed down hard on the throttle making the car run with speed.
“No, no, don’t! Turn back!” The female police officer shouted as Mandy approached her. She quickly dived to safety as Mandy dashed past her and headed straight. In doing so the female police officer hit her head lightly against an object and lay unconscious while Mandy oblivious of what had happened, drove with ease towards the gun shop. She was almost approaching the store when she heard the siren of a police car behind her.
“Dammit, what now?” She asked, as she pulled over and stopped. The police car stopped behind her and two police officers came down. One of the officers walked up to her while the other officer waited beside the police car with his eyes on the road.
“Driver’s license and registration please.” Said the police officer who had approached her.
“Sure.” Mandy quickly searched her bag for her driver’s license but couldn’t find it. She opened the glove compartment of the car and brought out the registration documents and gave it to the officer. “Sorry officer, I must have forgotten my driver’s license at home.”
The office looked at her registration and then lowered his sun glasses to stare at her. “I mean, I do have one of course. It’s just that I was in a hurry to leave the house and uh….” The officer ignored her and went to talk to his colleague. Soon he came back and told her,
“Ma’am, I’m afraid you’ll have to follow us down to the station.” Mandy closed her eyes and sighed.
“No, no, no!” She exclaimed with gritted teeth. She knew following the officers down to the station would only cause so much delay, taking up much of the time she needed to buy the gun. She looked at the officer and then looked at the road ahead of her. The officer noticed how rapidly she stared at the road and wondered what she was up to.
“Ma’am I’d advise you not to do anything stupid and just follow us, okay?” He told her. Mandy had other plans but nodded as a way of telling the police officer that she understood what he meant. The police officer nodded and slowly made his way back to the police car. The minute he turned back Mandy quickly started her car and screeching her way off towards the gun shop.
But about two blocks away from the shop, a car was coming out of a side street close to the gun shop with full speed. Mandy didn’t see the car coming and only realized that her car was hit when she heard a loud crashing noise. The car coming from the side street had hit her car badly leaving her unconscious.
“Hello, Miss Stones?” The doctor standing by her bedside observed her while Mandy made an effort to slowly open her eyes. She had her first blurry glimpse of the doctor who had called her. The doctor was standing by with another colleague and they were talking about her. As her eyes slowly opened, one of the doctors left and she finally saw the face of the doctor that was smiling at her.
“Where am I?” She managed to say.
“Miss Stones, my name is Dr. Frida Manolo.” Mandy looked at Frida and sighed. “You had a very bad accident and was brought here by ambulance.” Mandy stared quietly at Frida without uttering a single word. She looked at the doctor and realized that she was in the same room with her next door neighbor-the one she had planned on killing. It was shocking for her.
Lying down in the hospital bed, she knew she was powerless to confront Frida even if she wanted to. Her plans to buy herself a gun to defend herself had been foiled. Looking at Frida who was smiling down at her, she was sure that Frida was going to kill her. She looked away for a few seconds before she made the effort to grab Frida’s hand.
Frida was shocked by the way Mandy held onto her hand. But at the same time she was delighted that Mandy was able to move her hands. To her this was good news.
“Dr. Manolo?” She said in a low whispering voice. ” Are you going to kill me?” .Frida stared at her and frowned, wondering why Mandy had asked that question. She thought that Mandy was too traumatized to think straight. She smiled at her again and said,
“Miss Stones, you were unconscious when the ambulance brought you here. But you’ll be alright when you leave. I’ll take care of that, okay?” Mandy sighed, and nodded her head slowly while she closed her eyes. Soon she fell fast asleep. Frida looked at her briefly and left. She was going home having finished her shift.
When she got home, the first thing she did was pour herself a glass of wine. She then sat down on the sofa and brought out her phone from her handbag. The minute she brought it out the phone rang.
“Hello Frida, did you receive the package?”
“I received it. Thank you.”
“Well, if you need anything you know how to find us.”
“I’ll wire you your money now.”
“Sure.” Frida cut the call and made a wire transfer from her phone. When the transfer was complete she switched her phone off and sipped her wine. Her satisfaction was immense now that she had settled the one problem that had given her sleepless night. She gulped down her wine fast and then fixed herself another glass, while thinking about the encounter with her next door neighbor. She was surprised that they had to meet this way.
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