Short story

A STRANGER IN THE NIGHT


By Carolyn Symonds

It was Saturday night, and it was stormy and cold. It was also dark and windy; Jennifer had just finished working and she was coming back from the train station. Everything was quiet.
Suddenly she heard a noise, and she continued walking but faster. After two minutes some footsteps, she was nervous. She continued walking but faster and she suddenly stepped a puddle and fell to the floor, she hit her head really hard and she couldn’t even walk. But she continued walking any way.
Some minutes later she heard a very big and strange noise of foot steps on the puddles, and suddenly a SPLASH! She looked back and a man was in the street, he had fallen in a puddle. But the man stood up and started running to her. Jennifer crossed the street running and rang the bell 5 times. The man touched her arm and she screamed, HELP!
Jennifer shouted “leave me alone!”, “please!” she thought that that man was a thief and he wanted to take something from her or worse. The man finally told her “don’t worry, you left your hand bag on the train!.” Jennifer was so relieved she couldn’t believe what had just happened to her. She said to the man that she was very sorry about the misunderstanding. She went inside and drank some chocolate.

THE END.