Story #17: The Gift

The Gift

It all started with Nicole and Kevin Magio, she went to her front door one day and

found this poem that read,

“Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

I see you Everyday

And my heart belongs to You”

She stared at it stunned and dumbfounded trying to figure out who this came from. At

first she thought it was a joke or just a friend, so she just threw it on the counter and

blew it off. Once her husband came home he noticed it and was not very happy.

“Nicole, what is this? Where did it come from?” commented Kevin.

Running down the stairs Nicole was jokingly saying,

“It was just a little something that I found at the front door, I don’t know. Why?”.

All he did was snicker and walk away thinking it was funny.

The next day Nicole went to go leave for work and there was a vase full of a dozen

red roses and a poem that read,

“Roses are Red

The trees are Green

I love you

And you’re special to Me”

“What is this?” she questioned to herself.

This time her husband wasn’t home and so she called while he was at work. He came

rushing home and to his surprise Nicole was placing them on her table.

“What are you doing which those?” he asked her.

“Well, since I have them I may as well put them to use.” she told him. “What should we

do, I thought about calling the police but I thought that maybe it would be to extreme.”

Well at this point in time we probably should call them, but I do agree you probably

should wait. Now that I think of it though it is kind of funny you have a stalker. Time to

just embrace it.” he mentioned, “We should just go to bed now.”.

Right when Nicole woke up she went to go check to see if there was anything outside

there door. Her anticipation was out of this world. Once she got to the door, she went

to a dead stop, she thought what if there is nothing will it be all over or is this person

waiting for another time. Her gut told her not to open the door but her head told her to

open it. So she listened to her head and opened the door.

“What?” she remarked.

She should have listened to her gut because now she was kind of disappointed. From

that point on she went on the rest of her normal morning schedule of making the coffee,

breakfast, waking up Kevin, and getting him ready for work at the police station.

When she got home she had a feeling that something was wrong. She had her phone

on one ear while she was trying to stick the key in the lock and open the door. Once

she opened the door she noticed a guy in her living room just standing there.

“Hello Nicole.”

She dropped her phone and keys.

“Who are you and how did you get into my house?” Nicole squealed.

When she said this, she noticed the broken window on the other side of the room,

were he probably came in.

“Hi, my name is Kallen Jepson and I have been watching you for a while, I think you

are just an astonishing woman.” he exclaimed.

“Thank you but, you never answered my question. WHY ARE YOU HERE?” she said

in a very stern voice.

“I came here to see if you wanted to come with me?” he asked.

While he was talking he was moving closer and closer and when he reached for her

hand she pulled away. Right when she pulled her hand away her husband came

busting through the door and on instinct, Kevin shot him.

“Well, at least we don’t have to deal with the strange gifts anymore and that weird old

creep, thank goodness you dropped your phone that was the only reason I knew what

was going on.” Kevin remarked.