Another Suspect

POV: Selina
“Stay back!
Stay back!
Don’t come any closer!
Stay the fu*k away from me, stay away!” I yelled at him, my heart beating on fear as I realized that the cops are no longer here. I’m alone with him and there is no telling what he would do to me. He looked surprised by my reaction, I could tell that he felt hurt by my words. I tried to turn away, but he blocked my path and held out his hand to me, a nervous smile playing on his lips
“What are you doing?
It’s me, Lina…
I’m here now, I’m here to keep you safe.” He told me, sounding hurt and sad. I turned to look at his face and I broke into tears, trying to forget about the sound of his boots hitting the tiles and the frightening sound he made when her kicked the door open. I stood on that spot and sobbed sadly, my tears flowing freely down my cheeks.
For some reason, my legs refused to move any further. I don’t want to leave him standing there in the cold, and I don’t want to go to him either. I just stood there crying my eyes out, shivering. He came up to me and hugged me from behind, hugging me tight as we both fell to the floor with his arms still tightly wrapped around me.
“Felix, was it you?” I asked him, my voice breaking at the end.
“What do you mean?” he asked me in a concerned tone, pilling my head up to look at his face. I looked into his eyes, and all I could see is love and care. But that voice keeps responding in my head and it scared the shit out of me.
“I didn’t get a chance to look at him properly, but I peeked at him when he came into my room and I couldn’t see his face but I saw what he was wearing, Felix. I saw this same jeans and boots, same quality, same color and probably same design. I saw it Felix, I know what I saw. Now what I don’t know is why.
Why would you scare me like that?” I asked him angrily, my voice breaking at the end as I sobbed. He had nothing to say about it, he just hugged me firmly, kissing my forehead and cuddling with me out there in the open. When I stopped sobbing, he helped me up and led me back to my house, holding me protectively in his arms.
I followed behind him as he led me back to my room, helping me pick up the pieces of glass on the floor. The moment I stepped foot in my room, I was hit with the scent of his perfume, and I shivered in fear as I realized that it’s not the same scent with Felix.
I may be just a designer, but it’s always been my hobby to explore and get the different taste and scent of many things. Felix perfume is a designers perfume while this other one is a cheap replica. I’m guessing their shoes and jeans are just slightly alone too, it could be that he is trying to imitate Felix and have the same thing he has. Or maybe my mind is just trying to mess with me. Maybe my mind is coming up with this explanation so I don’t get to hate Felix for putting me through sometime like this.
“Would you mind spending the night in my house today?” he asks me when he noticed that my fear returned the moment I stepped into my room. But I shook my head in response and I asked him to leave. The cops had assured me that my locks have been fixed, so no one could break in without my knowledge. I decided to stay back home and put my apartment back in order.
When he left, I tried to sleep but I couldn’t. So I decided to clean up the house and arrange the couch and everything he messed up when he was here. I mopped his footprints off my tiles and I shut the door firmly, turned off all the lights, leaving only the most in my bedroom on. Amara called to checkup on me and I felt relieved after she spoke to me for almost one hour.
But my feeling changed when I felt someone looking at me, again. I had that weird feeling that I was being watched and I stood up and turned all the security lights on. I checked my surrounding if there was anyone. But I couldn’t find anybody. I called the cops to report this, but they couldn’t do anything about it because there is no evidence that I am being stalked and there is no one there to suspect to pick up and arrest.
I was advised to go to a close relative or friend to stay for the night. They said my mind was playing tricks on me because of what happened to me. But I don’t think I am being paranoid, I know what I felt and it hurts to see that nobody believes me when I say that I am being watched. I have no close relative to go to, my best friend is not able to come back home either. I’m stuck in this house with no one to save me.
Now I regret not taking Felix’s offer. I sat on my bed, watching everywhere, turning at every slight sound, shaking in fear until it was morning. It’s a good thing that I don’t need to be at work early today. I don’t know how I would focus at work when I’m startled by every sound around me.
I’m supposed to head to school to do some paper work and submit some of my designs that was given to us as a project. But I couldn’t leave home early like I intended. I slept off in the bathtub as I showered to leave the house. Luckily my phone rang around 11:am, I checked and saw that it was Amara that was calling me.
“Oh shit!” I exclaimed as I got up and got dressed as quickly as I could. As I pulled out of the curb, I called Amara back to tell her I was on my way. She didn’t yell much because she knew I was awake all night. I got to school, submitted my designs first and finished my paperwork before noon.
These designs will be passed down to different jewelry brands and company, and some of us will get good job offers from them. I know I have a good job already, but it’s mandatory to submit the designs along with my classmates. When we were done, we sat in the cafeteria as I recounted yesterday's encounter to Amara and some of our friends.
“I’m so sorry, Lina. If it wasn’t too late in the night, I would have come back home to keep you company. But it was so late and I could not a cab or a bus around. Don’t worry, I won’t leave you alone anymore,” she teased, making me smile at her jests. She comforted me and made me feel better in no time.
I was fooling around with Amara when Martin Moore, a university senior and my very good friend appeared unexpectedly. Amara recounted my ordeal to him and he expressed concern for my well-being, telling me I can move into his well protected estate where no intruder can break in. He has always wanted me to be a partner at his Jewelry company, but I had my eyes set to work at FY Glams. That’s why I keep turning him down. However, he still treats me so well and today he showed concern for the incident last night and he offered to help me pull through until I can forget about it and move on. When he noticed a wound on my finger he asked,
"Did you get this injury last night?
Was it when you fell in the bathroom?” I corked my eyebrow in thought as I nodded my head in response to his question. But my heart started beating faster again because I haven’t mentioned to anyone that I fell in the bathroom. My recollections of the midnight incident is what I recounted, and it has since escaped my mind that I fell in the bathroom, until now. I’m not even sure I told it to the cops either.
“How did he know I fell in the bathroom, is Martin my stalker?” I thought within me as my fears increased by the minute. But Martin is my friend, he has no reason to want to hurt me. I don’t believe that he is the one, I only suspect that Martin might be connected to my stalker somehow.