*Vanessas p.o.v 2 months later*

Louis is laying in the grass, sunlight glistening off his hair as he twirls grass inbetween his fingers. In month's this is the most peaceful I've seen him, each day that's passed he grew more anxious and had an explosive temper.

Running my hands through his hair, I brace myself to ask what I have pondering these months,

"Louis?"

Rising from his throat is a soft hum as his attention is focused on me.

"What's been happening with you since the hospital?"

The air around my throat pulls as a strong inhale comes before he exhales it back and says, "Vanessa, I am madly in love with you, but even if you were to ever love me back, you don't know about the things I have done, you don't know the truth about me. You deserve the world and the only thing I can give you is a bad reputation."

A build up of dsappoinment and a restlessness finally breaks through.

" What's been and what will be is different. You can change a reputation, and the things you have done can still be told."

Only a moment passes after before I rolled over and cuddled him as I patted kisses into the hollow of his collarbones. Breathing in his scent of cigarettes and mint I whisper 'I love you too' as his arms become tighter around me.

"I wish we could be alone and have some privacy" Louis says

"You know when I was little, before my dad was murdered by the serial killer in the area, he used to call the lake 'lake Vanessa' after me.

"A serial killer?"

"Yeah, do you want to hear the legend about it?"

Brushing against the tip of my nose is Louis' head bopping up and down for me to countine,

"Okay, well there was this family, they had a daughter first who was perfectly normal, then they ended up having a son and as he grew up he got mentally ill, not like schizophrenic crazy but he had a crazy sleeping pattern and used to get up in the middle of the night and run through the forest screaming crazy things. His family was so disturbed by him and his abnormal tendencys, friends of there's camped out in the forest and kidnapped him one night and brought him to a mental asylum. Long story short he ended up breaking out and going back to his house and murdered his whole family, rumor has it he's still out there in that forest, and he rumor is he killed my dad because he was the son of one of the family friends who captured him."

"Oh. My. God. What did he do to them?"

"We don't know Lou, the bodies were never found except his parents, if you want I heard stories about where the old family house is if you wanna check it out"

"Are you sure you wanna do that Ness? It sounds risky, disturbing the dead and all"

"Louis, it's fine I'll call a taxi"

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*Louis' p.o.v*

Stepping out of the taxi my stomach twists, everything has a Grey tinge making the forest eerie and dark. Wind whips across my cheeks and pulls Vanessa's hair into the air.

Cold fingers pry into my palm as I extend my fingers we lace hands and I'm tugged into the forest.

"Okay we're going to follow the trail down to the lake, then once we're there, there's supposed to be a red boulder and once we're there we gotta walk 50 steps in and walk straight until we see the house."

I nod and swallow past the lump in my throat as we walk on the uneven ground and on bridges.


In my view comes the lake, I jump as my arm is ripped forward when Vanessa sprints toward the lake. Adrenaline surges through me as my legs hit the ground running towards the lake hand in hand with Vanessa.

The water is a green with alge and moss floating on top making a thick layer of grime on top of the water.

"Do you see that? The house, with the brown roof across the lake"

A tiny yellow house with a brown roof that is falling in on it is in my line of view. "Yeah"

"That was where I grew up" "come on though let's keep going"

Stumbling across the jagged and uneven rocks that slip under our feet, I see a speck of red.

"Is that it?"

What's was supposed to be a boulder is no bigger than a children's lawn chair.

"It couldn't be anything else..."

Alternatively we count our steps, I am even numbers.

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Aching legs and our stomachs convulsing from hunger a larger house that seems to be a white at sometime is coated in grey grime is in our vision at last. Simetaniously we draw in a deep breath before walking up the steps of the house.

Vanessa looks at me then the handle, sighing I put my hand on the dingy and dirty gold handle pressing my thumb down.

Inside the house is a large hallway with openings to rooms on each side, at the end of the hall is an opening to a kitchen and a grand staircase.

"So, do you wanna go upstairs or to the kitchen?"

"You pick"

Vanessa leads the way to the kitchen. Large islands take up most of the space and along the sides are counter spaces.

"Louis!"

Fear is risen in Vanessas voice, making my heart race. "yes" I gulp.

"There's a take out package of Chinese the ledge of the window by the back door..."

"So what?"

"That's not it, the noodles are just getting crusty, which means someone was here."

"Ness, calm down it was probably just someone else like us who was done with their food."

"Okay, well let's go down to the basement."

"Are you serious? That's how everyone in horror movies gets killed and where ghosts haunt!"

"They weren't killed in the basement though! It was while they slept so it would of been upstairs thats haunted."

Sighing once again we walk down the creaky stairs.

"Can we go Nessa? All that's down here is a basement sweet!"

"Louis look! It's a diaryyyyy!"

Leaning over Vanessa I skim over the pages until something interesting happens.

'Tuesday October 16 2016

I have remade a new life for myself, I have changed my name and moved somewhere no one knows me or what I did.

What did I do may you ask?

I was happily married and had a child, I worked at a hospital as a cardiothoracic surgeon. One day I was called into give electric shock to a patient, we had nurses on strike and I was considered most qualified. I ended up over doing it, and killed that patient. It was late at night and hardly anyone was working, I had no trouble sneaking the body out. I took the body and tied boulders on it before throwing it into the lake.

I spited the family who put their son into a psych ward, when he was barley ill. I went to the family's house and murdered them. I returned to the hospital and went down to the mourge I found a diabetic and already cremated body. I looked in his file and tracked down his blood. I changed his file to my own, I then returned to the crime scene and poured some of the blood there and threw his sisters body down to the bottom of the lake also.

The police believed I was dead, and I lived under that man's identity (David Jacques) and moved. But now I've returned to this home and can still remember vividly murdering this family. I now live here in their old home, everyday I remember my time with my daughters and telling her the lake was named after her, Lake Vanessa."

"OH MY GOD LOUIS, WE HAVE GO TO GO!!"

We run up the stairs and through the kitchen, we both stop as a silhouette makes it way down the stairs

"Dad?"

Notes

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