‘WLTM’
I’m not really a stalker… I’m just nosy
Half-Moon Crescent is where I am and always will be. Dark and shadowed, no one comes to Half-Moon Crescent without a reason. It rains here, more than in any other nearby road. Tiny buildings tightly packed, there’s little room for a big girl like me.
Of all the residents, there are two I watch the most:
Nea lives in flat 6. She puts the ‘g’ in gorgeous and I am… not like that. I’m different. Nea lives next to Flat 5, the best flat of them all.
Flat 5 is occupied by Lucas. He is very handsome.
I am in love with Lucas.
Don’t even think about it…
I know what you’re about to do Nea. ‘Lucas is mine!’ She ignored my mental threats and knocked on Lucas’s door.
He is going to tell her he’s not interested. I couldn’t have been more wrong. They spent the evening together.
How could Lucas do this to me? Nea was a silly inexperienced girl, unlike myself.
I’m Still Watching You Lucas
I have watched you mature. For years.
I love you Lucas. Can’t you feel that? Nea doesn’t love you like I do. She never will!
I want you Lucas. I always get what I want.
Lucas …
Lucas, you are still my love, even if you have let Nea move in. Nea will pay for this. I will have you even if I have to take her to get you.
I HATE YOU NEA
I found Lucas nervously pacing to and fro, as if rehearsing something. Nea entered using the key (!) Lucas had given her. He knelt before her, a ring outstretched, and she shrieked an unmistakeable ‘YES’, embracing him.
Why not me? Don’t trees need love too? Lucas thinks I’m just a tree. He will never notice me as long as Nea is here.
Nea left the apartment and walked down the path, smirking. Impulsively, I pulled a root from the ground and grasped her foot, dragging her towards me. Before she had even thought to scream I twisted more around her mouth, gagging her. Her eyes looked terrified and confused, like a child’s after a nightmare. I tightened my grip and hauled her slight frame towards me, twisting tighter, her face purple. Her eyes lost focus and her body fell limp as I pulled her deep down underground.
ONE MONTH LATER
Lucas changed after Nea’s accident. He lost heart in everything except for sitting at his small table at the window.
At first I couldn’t see what he was doing at his table each day. Impatiently I grew until finally I could see. There he sat, as ever, intently trimming a BONSAI TREE.
How dare he cheat on me with something so… immature. I believed in you Lucas. I thought you were the one who could look past my appearance and love the real me. How do you think I feel?! Stuck here for hundreds of years and hundreds more still?! Was Lucas enjoying my pain?
I decided that Lucas was vile. I decided to push him further into the misery that he had been disappearing into before Miss Bonsai arrived.
From the ground beneath me I pulled up Nea’s body. I had to dig deep amidst the other decaying corpse’s to reach Nea’s icy cadaver. Her blood stained eyes half-open, her skin an unnaturally pale colour, I dropped her on the ground beneath my branches and slid my roots back as Lucas came to his window.
Lucas spotted Nea sprawled over the shaded grass. Happiness became confusion as he saw the coldness of her eyes. Distraught, he gasped for air and looked lost, his fingers pressed helplessly against glass. He looked heart-broken and I loved that.
It was a tortured Lucas that ran outside and knelt over her body, studying the lacerations, the bruises, the way her arms and legs lay at haphazard angles stiffly.
In a nearby apartment someone picked up their phone and tapped three times.
Police and doctors arrived to find Lucas shrieking, his words incomprehensible as tears poured down his face. Lucas left with them in the back of a police car.
‘Goodbye Lucas’
I stared at the small set of flats that sat around me. I watched the birds go out of their way to fly around Half-Moon Crescent. I studied every crack and crevice and looked through windows I had never looked through before. Looking for love.
END
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