It was a cold December morning; Adam woke up with a dizzy feeling, as he punched the snooze button on his alarm clock, which was almost a death punch to the clock as it fell down his table. Sighing about the mistake, he reached out for the clock below the bed and picked and put it back on the table. He then stretched out a bit and rose from his bed, when he felt odd about something. He took a deeper look into the clock, stared at it for some moments as it showed in digital form 6:00 AM – THURS – 12/5. Adam felt it was just his early morning uneasiness from which he felt oddness. But as he was about to leave the room, he realized.
He had gone to sleep on Monday night around 11 pm last. He had been sleeping for two whole days. He then was shocked at realization, petrified of what has happened to him, he was confused, and wanted to know if the alarm clock was faulty or in fact, he had slept for 2 days, he started to search for his cell phone. His phone was his source of time, since he didn’t like to wear wrist watch. He continued to search for the phone, and as seconds passed, his search became frantic and fast, he seemed to panic. He then realized his cell phone was left out on the dining table after his dinner. He ran out of his room into the hall, and was pleased to see his phone there safe. He reached for it and opened his flip phone. It showed 15 missed calls in big block Red letters. Eager to check the time he saw the right corner of his phone display and was shocked again, since the Alarm clock was not faulty. It was him; he had slept for 2 whole days.
Adam felt embarrassed; He sat down in the nearby chair, as he went through the missed calls list. He was carried away in thoughts. The past year was a Catastrophe. He lost his father, his only relation in this world. Along with him, went his wealth and family business, as Adam did not have the intelligence or the experience to run the business, so it went in losses and soon became bankrupt. Without any proper qualifications, it was a hard time to find a new job elsewhere; everywhere he tried it was a big letdown for him. The Companies recognized his father’s achievements but looked down on him as a mistake they wouldn’t make consciously. Mean while, money was a big problem for him now, he was not able to spend much, to make things worse, his girlfriend of two years ‘Eva’ ditched him, citing many reasons, but he knew the real reason was the monetary security, which he wasn’t able to provide her.
Blow after Blow, made him weak both mentally and physically. He started smoking and drinking heavily, whenever he felt a slight tinge of sorrow and sometimes even drugs, when the sorrow was painful. He narrowed down his world and was sliding through the deep hole of depression. Mostly being inside his room, avoiding visitors, friends and even courier delivery boys. He was turning into a lonely bat in a deep dark cave.
The last time he went out was on Monday evening, to meet his only trusted friend ‘ted’. He was in a bar with him drinking his heart out talking about his tragic year he’s had till now. Then suddenly ‘Eva’ came to their table, sat beside ted with a beer bottle in her hand. Adam was surprised to see her after a long time since their breakup. He was quite drunk and the old love had got to his head and he reached out to hold her hand, to which she responded with a shrewd pull of her hand away from his, as if touched by a drop of sulfuric acid on it. He wasn’t surprised to see that, so he just chuckled away his grief. He was about to ask ‘Eva’ what she was doing here in the bar, but before he could open his mouth, Eva announced that she and ted were seeing each other and were engaged. Adam was furiously shocked, as he looked at them launch into a deep kiss, which disgusted him to see his most trusted friend kiss the girl he had slept with for about 2 years. Without saying a word or reacting to the actions, he left the place even before the kiss was finished. He then came back to his place threw away his phone on the table and went to bed.
Coming back to present day… as he was going through his phone’s missed calls he hadn’t taken for 2 days. He noticed 2 calls from ted, 5 from Ted’s sister and 8 from various unknown new numbers. Adam was still puzzled about his 48+ hour sleep. He was trying to remember what had happened. Why he had fallen into such a deep, almost dead sleep. Then he noticed some text messages in his phone from some of his friends, which all said the same thing “what happened to you, where are you? Did u see the news???” Adam was sure, something had happened in the past two days of his slumber. He immediately went over to the TV and turned it on. He put on the news channel and was waiting for the news; an Ad was playing on the channel. Adam walked over to the fridge to drink some water and touched the handle to open the fridge door and touched dried blood on the handle of the door, which had dropped from the handle down to the floor and had made 2 dried drops on the floor. Disturbed by the sight, he immediately moved backwards agitated in his steps, tripped over a coffee table and fell down on his back.
He then rose astounded from the impact of the disturbing scene he has seen. His head turned towards the sound from the television, in which a reporter was describing a incident from a familiar place to Adam and said “ A double murder of a couple was committed by an unknown person in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the murder was supposed to have occurred around 3 am in the morning when the couple had been in an intimate moment in their bedroom, when the person entered the room with a knife and had stabbed both of them repeatedly in gore rage, leaving them fatally injured. The couple has been identified as “Eva Leigh” and “Theodor Walsh”, who were engaged and were to be married in two months”.
Adam in dazed condition looked repeatedly into the Blood on the handle and to the TV. He knew, he hadn’t been just sleeping for two days. He had murdered his ex girl friend and his best friend, in a violent rage. But he did not remember even a bit of the incident that had happened. He sulked to the ground, with his head, crying about what he had done, as a heavy pain went through his head. He blacked out…
His Alter ego appeared again… and he had a small smile on the corner of his lips, an evil grin followed the smile…!
