Bloody Cat

   She opened the door and saw a very horrible scene. On the floor there was a huge amount of blood. There was a jagged knife lying in the pool of red liquid. The window of the bedroom was broken and there were bloody footprints from the bedroom to the living room. But what was strange was thatthere was no dead body. A cat, which she kept as a pet, was still lying there lazily just like nothing happened. A month ago, the cat had suddenly appeared on the threshold and Anne and her friend had adopted it. 

Anne was a 24 year old girl. She livedin an apartment on the ground floor of the building. She was living with her friend since she graduated from university. The apartment was previously occupied by an old widow who, rumor had it, also loved cats.

Anne was shocked; she had never seen a scene like this one and she was terrified by blood and murder. Anne grabbed her phone and called the police. The police arrived 10 minutes later and they interrogated Anne about this event. Anne told the police that she had a date with her boyfriend and didn’t see anyone when she walked out of the gate of the housing estate. She left at 8:00 A.M and she came back at 9:30 A.M. Also, her best friend Beatrice, had been in the house when she left, but now she was nowhere in sight. The police told her not to worry and they began investigatingthe footprints, as well as the knife. The whole time, Anne’s cat slept with its eyes closed. The police told Anne that the footprints were left about 30 minutes prior, and that nothing in the apartment was missing except her best friend.

   There was not much to say or ask, so the police took pictures and helped Anne tidy the floor up. Then they picked up the knife, said thank you to Anne, and left. The cat yawned and suddenly opened its eyes. The eyes were deep black but with red glowing eyeballs of horror and malice. The cat just stared at her and Anne felt cold terror run down her spine. She wanted to scream, or back away, but she felt transfixed and hypnotized. Then, the cat slowly got off the place where it was sleeping and started walking towards Anne, a low hiss that sounded nothing like a normal cat emitting from it, its eyes became ever more scarlet and……