“I can’t sleep with a cotton pillowcase, they give you wrinkles.”
“I found you sleeping in a locker folded up like a pretzel.”
“Did you see a cotton pillowcase in there?”
He reeled back his shoulders. “I’ll go out and get you a silk pillowcase right this moment. What colour you want?”
“You shouldn’t.” I yawned. “It’s too late.”
He laid down.
“Actually, no, I do want one.”
He got up again.
“Oh, but it is too late.”
He laid down a second time.
“But I should really care for my skin.”
“I think I might just kill myself, save everyone the hassle.”
“Can you get me a glass of water?”
“You waited until I laid down to ask me for that didn’t you?”
“Yes.”
He got up and went to the kitchen and brought me back a glass of water, handing it to me and checked over his weapons making sure I had not stolen any.
I finished the water and waited until after he had laid down to hand the glass back to him. “I need more.”
I did not sleep. I laid on my side of the bed, hugging a pillow, eyes marked on Dig Graves who lay only inches away from me in the nest of darkness. His silhouette faintly outlined, his chest moved gently up and down from languid breath. I doubted he was asleep either. He was waiting for confirmation that I was asleep first.
I would not be able to leave the bed until he was asleep, I would also not be able to leave the room.
The bell on the door was screwed in and I was without a screwdriver. Opening the door would cause too much noise. I could not climb out of the window; we were up too far.
Leaving through a noisy door was my only option, but I needed him to be deaf to do it.
Or dead.
I wondered if it mattered… to kill a serial killer. Would that make me a bad person? To kill Dig Graves?
On his bedside table the knife glinted.
I would have to crawl over him to reach it.
I would have to kill him to leave.
My stomach swirled with dread, my mind packed with too much thought.
Tommy’s face came knocking on the doors in my head.
Could I kill for Tommy?
I had known Tommy for a long while now. Almost eight days. I could kill for him.
