27 July 2012
Life was fairly normal for a while after that and Darren put the whole thing down to food poisoning and hallucinations. That was until about 4 months later.
Darren had met a girl, Samantha. She was 24 years old, blonde hair, very slim and very beautiful. He'd been on 3 dates with her and they'd agreed she would spend the night at his. He was pretty excited about her coming over. He was cooking a meal for them and couldn't wait to see her.
At about 7pm, the doorbell rang. "Brilliant" he thought, "right on time". He almost ran to the door with a huge grin on his face. When he opened it however, his grin turned to a look of confusion. An old grey haired woman stood before him.
Clearly she was very old indeed. She was bent over with such age. But there was something familiar about her that he just couldn't pinpoint. "Can I help you?" Darren asked her.
"Darr..en, it's ...me" she said. "sorry, who are you?" he replied. "it's ... me, Sa Saman ... Samantha" she finally got out. Darren stared at her and said "look, I don't know who you are but I'm pretty busy, I think you've probably got the wrong house love" and with that he tried to close the door.
"DAR...REN" the woman looked up at him and yelled. "It's me" she said as tears started to roll down her cheek. Darren stared at her for what seemed like an age. This couldn't be his beautiful Sam, she was about 60 years older. He didn't believe it, he yelled at her to go away and forced the door shut as hard and quickly as he could.
He ran back to the kitchen and poured himself a large Vodka. He drank it neat and quick. Then he did the strangest thing, he started to laugh. He couldn't help it, he laughed so long and so hard, it was almost 7.30 when he calmed down.
"Where the hell is Sam?" he thought to himself. He decided to ring her but suddenly realised he didn't have her number. "why didn't I get her bloody number?" he thought. Each time they had met, they had simply agreed a date and time for the next meeting.
Darren never saw Sam again after that and was tormented in his dreams for weeks regarding the old woman at the door.
Strange Happenings - Chapter 4 • Opuss № I