Crazy In Love
She stood their, in the poorly lit doorway, with her strawberry blond hair falling lightly against her pale skin. Her rosy red cheeks glowing with the light of a single lamp in the room directly in front of her. Her brilliant hazel eyes sparkling with tears spilling down her cheeks. As she slowly begins to walk into the room, she lifts her small hand to her hair and twirls it around her index finger. She makes her way to the darkest corner of the room and slides her back against it until she gets in a sitting position, her legs folded up to meet her chest. When she rests the side of her head against the wall, tilting it slightly, she sits in utter silence, thinking of the man she loves. Images flashing before her eyelids when they shut, of his dark brown, shaggy hair, and his radiant green eyes that were intoxicating to look into. His voice, deep and smooth, humming in her head like a blessing to her ears. Images flashing, of their first date on the beach, as they stared into the dark, moon lit sky as he whispered stories on the constellations into her ear.
After sitting in this dark corner alone for 5 hours, with her eyes shut, watching her lover before her very eyes. She looked around the room, taking in everything. The dim lighting of the black bodied lamp, casting off a reddish glow with its bright maroon shade. To the large black spider crawling toward her on the brown carpet. Her gaze rests on the spider. In a quiet, mono tone voice she talks to the spider.
"Hi little spider.." in her head, it responded.
"Where are you off to?
She leaned forward slowly, her legs spread out so she could reach further. She slid her hand under the large spider and slid in onto her hand, then leaned back against the wall and lifted her legs back up to meet her chest. For the next few hours, she sat with the spider, talking to it like it were a human.
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She emailed him one day, in the note she said,
Dear Jacob,
I love you so much. I haven't seen you in so long, and I miss you. I watch you through my window everyday though, and I listen to you as you move through your apartment. Dont worry, we will be together soon. As soon as your psycho girlfriend leaves you alone. She's crazy in love with you Jacob, and she cheats on you. I know you hate her, and you love me, so dont worry, we will find a way to be together. I can show you the world, its wonder and beautiful splendor. Just tell me Jacob, when will you let your heart decide. You opened my eyes, and showed me this new world I have drempt of my whole life. Write me back my love.
Je t'aime.
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She left him love songs on his answering machine, and slid secret love notes under his door.
Days later, with no shower, no eating, no sleeping; her eyes blood shot, her hair greasy and her clothes smelling of sweat and pee, she stands and looks around the room. Taking the spiders advise, she took a long, hot shower, before she presents herself to the man she loves.
The hot water drips down her back, and the shampoo spreads across her face. When she finishes, she slides on a lose black dress and some Doc Martin black boots. She cuts her hair, evening out the edges, and she puts on some make up, to the point where she looks just perfect. She leaves her house, and leaves some things out for her new spider friend, who she named Alfred.
She went down to Jacobs apartment, but just as she set her hand out to knock, she heard Claire, the girlfriend, telling Jacob how much she loved him. Hatred beamed in her eyes. For the next 11 hours, Claire stayed at Jacobs, and this just made her more angry. Sometime in the middle of the night, she went downstairs and to Claires car, where she slid in the backseat and waited anxiously.
In the morning, around 7:00 am, Claire came down into her car, and slowly drove off. After about 10 minutes, she lunged forward in the backseat and strangled Claire to death. The car swerved out of control and smashed into a tree.
Later that night on the news, it was declared she had lost control of the vehicle for unknown reasons, and had died from suffocation. Jacob was distraught, and didn't know what to do with himself. Weeks later, the notes and messages on his answering machine and emails started flooding in again. He had no idea who it was and it was driving him mad. He even lashed out on a normal girl on the street for smiling at him. He gripped her by the shoulders and shook her, yelling at her that he didn't love her.
He was a wreck, hadn't showered or slept in days. He was determined to find out what happened that morning to Claire. One day, an exact month after the incident, he got a note that read, "We can be together now, I took care of her for you." It was maddening, and he was driven to the point of insanity.
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Six months passed. She was back to sitting miserably in her poorly lit room with Alfred. Alfred often told her to make another move for Jacob, that it was a normal reaction for him to be upset, having not seen her for so long. So, she decided to visit him again. She got dressed all nice, as she did the other night,only this time, in a slim fitting maroon, velvet dress, and went to the front door of his apartment. She knocked lightly, and as he opened the door, his eyes bloodshot, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him gently. He shoved her off, hard enough so she flew across the hall and slammed her back into the wall. She hit her head, and slid down against the wall. Tears ran down her face.He got ontop of her and began to strangle her. Yelling at her "Why did you love me?! What gave you the idea I loved you back?!" She spoke quietly, short of breath, "Alfred said you loved me too..." He didn't want to kill her, but he was so infuriated, finding it to be this girl he'd only met once in the elevator. The color drained from her face, and her skin got cold. He was crying out now, and neighbors stepped into the hall to watch.
Amelia was declared dead. She was crazy in love, and Jacob was too, with Claire. Jacob was committed into an insane asylum. He stayed there for 6 years, and never ate one pill, but was able to convince his doctor he was cured, and left, still driven mad from the girl he once met in an elevator.
A month after he was released, he killed 3 other woman who tried to make conversation with him in an elevator, and was then committed back to the asylum, only this time, for life.