Nightmares - Short and Sweet before you Sleep, Page 3

Sandra. He had to yell it a couple of times before Sandra hid behind a tree to pay attention to what he was saying.

  “It’s okay you can come out now,” the man yelled. Sandra thought this was a trap to get her to come out so that he could finally do what he wanted with her, kill her.

  The sound of sirens grew closer, Sandra could see the blue and red flashing lights begin to affect the evening sky this was her moment, the police were here and they would sort this mess out once and for all.

  She slowly stood from her hiding place, behind a tree in the darkened forest lining. She made her way towards the road, attempting to time her arrival with the arrival of the local police who had been dispatched to her location.

  As she arrived nervously at the road she glanced towards where her car had crashed, and saw her stalker standing with his gun. Sandra walked as slow as she could attempting to stay out of harm's way and not provide him the opportunity to shoot her before the police cars came to a screeching halt at their location.

  She glanced towards the road and noticed someone lying in the centre of it. Forgetting the entire ordeal she had gone through she walked towards where the person was laying on the road.

  The man had been shot four times, he was dressed in dark attire and had a knife lying next to him.

  “I saw him climb into your car and had to see what he had planned,” the mysterious man with the shotgun started explaining.

  “I have been following you, trying to warn you that he was in your car, I couldn’t just let you drive off and something bad happen.” The man, who Sandra was once terrified off, continued.

  At that point the police vehicles came around the bend and skidded to a halt, two police officers jumped out of their vehicle with their weapons drawn.

  “Put the gun down,” one officer called out his command towards the man who had ended up being her saviour.

  Sandra turned to the officer in an attempt to explain that this man actually saved her life by killing the psychotic person who lay in wait in her backseat. But as she started to talk two gun shots rang out.

  Sandra jumped at the sound, and spun around to find her mysterious hero lying on the ground, he had been shot by the two police officers acting on the ‘out of date’ information Sandra had shared with them on the phone just minutes earlier.