C'est moi...

Take it back, take it all back now…

Thio's phone was ringing.

All the things left undiscovered…

It took her some time to wash her hands clean and find it in her back while singing the song. She looked the display. Private number. She sighed.
- Probably she forgot her phone again and is calling from her friends'.
She picked up.

- Hello?
- Well, well... how are you?

She felt startled. It wasn't her friend's voice. It was a man's voice, a familiar one.
- Who is this?- Кой е?
- Who do think this is?- Кой мислиш че е?
- Stop it, who is this?- Престанете! Кой е?
- You know very well who I am. You almost got away, didn't you?
Thio recognized the voice.
- Oh my God! It can't be! You can't be!
He laughed a sinister laugh.
- Oui, oui, mon amour...c'est moi.

Thio panicked. There was silence and just her heavy breathing. He broke it.
- Look out the window, honey.
Without thinking what she's doing, she headed to the kitchen window. She stood there looking outside to the darkness. She heard him hanging up the phone and he appeared in the window in front of her.
- C'est moi!
She screamed and ran up the stairs to get her gun. The man was looking after her until the heels of her feet were gone upstairs. He then opened the window and got in. A deep breath. Laughter. He headed for the hallway. He knew the house well, he lived for three and a half years in it. He knew all the secret places, he knew where every key for every door in the house was. Thio could not run away. He locked the front door and called out.
- Come on now, honey, don't hide. You know I know the house.

Thio was fervently going through the boxes in her wardrobe. It should be somewhere here. Where was it?
- Oh, I forgot to tell you. Your gun... - She stopped looking. - is with me, honey, don't look for it upstairs.

He pulled the gun out of the long coat and loaded it. One bullet, two bullets, three bullets. Three would be enough.
- Show time!

He ran up the stairs and started kicking the doors down.
- You know... - a kick and the first one was down. - that... - the second one. - you can't... - the third. The bedroom was the next, the room in which Thio was. - hide... a kick and it fell down as well. - from me.
A smile cut his face in half.
- I knew you are here. - he lifted the gun to her chest. - Tell me that past times won't die.
A shot.

Thio woke up from the nightmare. Heavy breathing. She got up to get a glass of water.
Her hand reached for a glass and her eyes saw the mirror and the sign written with her lipstick "C'est moi". In her ex-boyfriend's handwriting. She dropped the glass and it broke to pieces. She ran to the bedroom and found the gun. It was still there. She loaded it with a few bullets, her hands shaking. She felt a cold metal object to her throat.
- Come on, honey. Put it down. In fact, give it to me.
Thio gave him the gun. He took in and put it in the coat's pocket.
- Now stand up. Lay on the bed.

She did what she was told - got up from the floor and went to the bed. He took out handcuffs and tied her hands and legs to the bed frame. He then sat next to her.
- I gave you my time. I gave you my whole life. I gave you my whole love - to the last drop. And you thank me by leaving me in the middle of nowhere and walking away with some guy you met in the bar? How low can you go... by the way, where's your knight? I think he's gone... well, lucky for you, that makes me your God.
She opened her mouth to say something, but he put his finger on her lips.
- Don't say a word. Pacta sunt servanda. You broke ours.
- You're crazy! This is why I left you!
He giggled.
- You didn't think so the night before we walked into that bar.
He got off the bed and turned the lights off. He lit the black candle on Thio's night stand and put it on her chest.
- I promise you the end before the first light arrives.
He bent over and kissed her. There was a pearl earring on the night stand, he took it.
- I gave you these, for our first anniversary. How come you didn't throw them away? - he sounded ironic.
- These are pearls, how can I throw them away, even if they are from you?!
He grinned and put the earring in his pocket.
- You know, mother always said "My son, do the noble thing. You have to finish what you've started, not matter what it will cost. Now - sit, watch and learn. It doesn't matter how long you live, but what your morals say. You have to keep your part of the deal, now, don't say a word." Turns out it doesn't matter how long you live indeed. But you... who will remember you? You're a whore. I've seen you not once walking in the cool night with no underwear. I've seen you in the bed of not one man. And still, I will love you until the last drop falls.

The sky was getting lighter.
- I promise you to end this before the sunrise. So it shall be.
He kissed her one last time. Went to the door and pointed the gun to her.
- Vade retro, alter ego. I have never wished you dead... yet. Now hear how the headless doves cry.

A shot. Darkness. Coldness...

14.05.2006
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