~In the Dead of Night~ AR OS

Part 1

I huffed, I had already circled the parking area thrice, and there wasn't a single space left, for my car.

I circled again, and saw a space which I missed earlier. I parked my car and got out of it, there was a sudden gust of wind and I pulled my jacket closer to my chest.

I looked around; I had this feeling that someone was watching me since I had left the club after the party with my friends.

I reached my apartment and took out my keys from my jacket's pocket, and opened the door. Then I kept the keys on the dresser, and took off my jacket and folded it and kept it in my cupboard.

I made a cup of coffee and sat on the sofa and turned on the TV. I flipped the channels for some time then finally settled on a daily soap. I took a sip of my coffee, and started reading the newspaper.

I continued flipping the pages, till my eyes rested on one of the headlines it said "IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT". For a split moment I felt as if my heart would come out of my chest.

I continued reading it, it went like this-

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There have been mysterious killings since last Friday. The police haven't yet identified the murderer. The murderer has killed over 20 people in less than a week. The victims are usually drained of blood and are usually lying peacefully on the bed with a smiling face. This is the most confusing part of the killings. It shows that the murderer is sad and didn't want to kill the people. The police are very confused, and during the killings no one ever heard of a scream coming from the victim. And usually the victim was alone in the house, as if the murderer knew when to kill the person. On further investigations the killings show that the victims do not have ANY enemies or anything as that who would like to do this. This is one of the most confusing cases till date. And the murderer has proved to be very clever; he never leaves a clue; not a finger-print or anything. We just wish that all this ends soon and we get rid of this murderer.

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My blood ran cold, I inhaled deeply. I was so damn scared! Why didn't I just accept Nikita's offer to come with me to my house for a sleepover. I drank my remaining coffee, and rinsed the mug in the sink and put in back in the cabinet.

That's when I heard a crash and I screamed on top of my lungs. After like 15 minutes there was a knock on the door scared, I took a baseball bat in my hands. I was going to beat the pulp out of that person until that person spoke.

"Riddhima are you nuts?" Siddhant said, he had a hand firmly pressed on the left side of his chest.

"I'm so sorry!" I said and we both went into the house and I saw a black kitten sitting peacefully on my sofa and playing with one of my flower vase. Siddhant picked the cat up and left it outside and I closed the window.

"Why did you shout so loudly? The whole neighborhood woke up you know? Mrs. Singh asked me come and see what has happened." He said softly and looked into my eyes. I actually noticed how warm his brown eyes were. I quickly snapped out of it, no need to have a crush on one of your best friends.

"I just heard a crash. And after you came I noticed that the kitten had actually come in through the open window and crashed with the vase kept on the dresser." I said and sat heavily on the sofa and patted the space next to me, Sid sat next to me and I lay my head on his shoulder.

"Would you like to eat something?" I asked him.

He grinned before answering, "No thank you, in case you haven't noticed its 3 am, and I guess the party went well?"

"Yeah it did" I gushed, and looked at him he was sad, and why won't he be? His leg was fractured and he missed the engagement after-party of Muskaan and Rahul. And God only knows how he walked till here.

"I thought your leg was fractured, so how come you walked till here?" I asked him.

His face turned red, and it was easy to see that because he was so pale, he quickly covered it up with rubbing his face and answered, "In case you haven't heard, I told you that Mrs. Singh said that she heard a shout coming from your house so she said that I should go and check"

"Really?" I asked him and battled my eyelashes, it had the desired effect he blinked his eyes twice or thrice and cleared his throat.

"Do you want me to stay here?" He asked me, out of the blue I looked at him and this time I noticed how adorable he looked when he was concerned. No, no, no Riddhima get a grip on yourself, I mentally screamed at myself.

"No, there is no need of it, I'll be fine" I said and gave him a reassuring smile.

"You sure, after all the murders that's been taking place…" He stopped mid-sentence.

"No, I'll be fine, you go" I said, and he nodded and started limping towards the door and left the house.

OK frankly speaking I was scared. I looked around the house and I instantly regretted telling Sid to leave.

I went to my room and changed into a pair of pajama shorts and a loose tank top. I combed my hair and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. After I brushed my teeth, I lay on my bed and switched on my laptop. I logged on to my Facebook account and checked my notifications.

I got up from my bed and went to the kitchen and drank a glass of water, then I went back to my room and turned on the radio and lay on my bed, and my thoughts drifted towards Sid.

No doubt he was the cutest guy I had ever met, and almost all my girlfriends were jealous that I had him as my best friend. And today I notice that he is cute and hot and blah, blah, blah.

I seriously need a boyfriend and that too soon. I don't want to be single throughout my life! The guys who like me were either dorks or jerks and the guys who I liked treated me like their little sister. Translation I want Sid as my boyfriend!

Oh God! I am sounding like one of those bimbos who are desperate for a boyfriend. And I am certainly not one of them! I shook my head, and tried to clear all these rubbish thoughts.

I would tell Sid that I like him tomorrow, if he likes me then it is fine if he doesn't, then well I would need a dozen boxes of Kleenex. I took my glass and went to the kitchen and rinsed it and set it on the counter.

That's when I saw a shadow of a person.

I followed it and it led me to the basement, and whoever the person was had me wrapped around its little finger. Even its shadow was alluring, and that's when I heard the click of the bolt and my heart started pounding in my chest.

I turned around and found the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. The guy was obviously tall, almost 6'2" which is quite taller than my 5'5" frame. He was pale, and had blood-red lips. And beautiful sky blue eyes.

And the next moment he was standing next to me, and I looked in his eyes, they were so beautiful and I felt as if I would drown in them. And he even had a cute little mole beneath his eye.

And that's when I noticed something different, ok I know I had noticed that he was super hot and shirtless (which showed that he had delicious abs) but there was something weird about his back.

I touched his back, and instead of skin my hand came in contact with feathers. I yelped they were ice cold and soft at the same moment.

He looked me in the eye, which I could tell was very difficult for him because he was a good 8 inches taller than me, and I bet his neck was hurting from bending for this long.

And then he pulled me close with the help of his wings, yeah you heard it correctly wings. They were huge and black. They touched my exposed skin and the hair on my arms stood up.

His wing gently traced the outline of my shoulder and then my neck, I almost melted there, and I closed my eyes. After what seemed like hours I opened my eyes and saw that his face was hardly inched from mine, and he was gripping my waist tightly.

Alarm bells started ringing in my head, was he going to… was he going to rape me? I was so damn scared.

I looked in his eyes; they seemed so wild that his blue eyes looked grey, like the fog rolling over the sea.

I guess I have gone crazy, here standing in front of me is a man who is probably gonna kill me and I am busy fantasizing about him.

With all the strength I had I pushed him hard, he had not been expecting this from me and fell back and his huge black wing brushed one of the dressers kept there and he gave a cry of pain.

Without thinking twice I was kneeling next to him and saw his face it was twisted in pain, and then I saw his wing, it was twisted in a very odd angle.

And then suddenly he stood up, almost knocking me over in the process, and pinned me on the wall. I exhaled shakily. I was trapped, why had I let Sid go?

"What do you want?" I asked him, my voice barely over a whisper. He didn't say anything, but his eyes darted towards my neck and then to my lips.

He looked at me once more and then leaned in pressed his lips on my neck, and I shivered. And I was going to kiss him on his forehead when something else touched my neck, two razor sharp things threatened to break in my skin and a blood curling scream escaped from my lips.

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Hey guys this is my first OS on AR. Hope you all liked it. Anyway this is only the first part, if you like it just press the like button

(This is OS is divided into two parts.)

Love,

Tanya 😊