Suzy’s Strange Saga
Weird or not, you’re not going to just let him potentially get shot.
“Johnny! You can’t go out the front door! Look, just lie down on the couch okay? You can sleep here. It’ll be all right.” You say getting up and grabbing his arm.
Johnny stares at your hand and then at your face.
“Do you mean it?” Johnny asks.
“Of course, I can’t let you go out there and get shot. I mean if you still want to leave then at least wait until its night and you’ve had some sleep.” You answer.
“You’re so…so perfect…” Johnny remarks and starts to head back towards the couch.
You help Johnny back to the couch, and when he lies down he falls asleep almost immediately.
“I…love you Suzy…” he says as he drifts off.
Well there was nothing ambiguous about that. You start wondering if you should have your head examined for possibly enabling a possibly mentally unstable guy who’s more than a little obsessed with you.
“(Sigh) What the hell is wrong with you Suzy? First it was a cultist, now it’s this stalker. Are you deliberately picking crazy people as potential boyfriend material?” you say to yourself.
You stand over Johnny watching him sleep for more than a few minutes trying to figure out where you actually stand with this guy. As you do so you never noticed how cute he really is before. It’s true that he’s somewhat average looking, but maybe it’s due to him being in a more vulnerable position that he’s coming off as more attractive and not creepy.
Not knowing what else to do, you turn down the TV (Which is blaring a Ground Zero infomercial as usual) and leave Johnny to sleep. You stop in the kitchen first in the hopes of maybe finding food before returning to your own room.
“Wow, this place was a mess last night. How the hell did he get it so clean?” you say as the kitchen is indeed much tidier without drunken fools and broken tables lying on the floor.
When you open up the refrigerator, you surprisingly find another pizza box, which has been marked with a note saying “Property of Suzy, don’t touch!” Johnny must’ve ordered another one for you last night in case you got hungry later. That was pretty thoughtful, but what surprises you even more is its completely intact.
“He probably was acting like a guard dog all night near the refrigerator in case someone tried to eat it.” You laugh to yourself.
Grabbing cold pizza and an unopened drink you head back to your room and lock the door.
Still wondering about them, you call up Julie, Donna and even Peter, but you get no answer from any of them.
Just as you briefly pondering about calling Kelly too, you hear a loud banging on a door. Not the door to your room, but somewhere in the house. Upon exiting your room, it sounds like its coming from the front door.
You remember that the loudspeaker from earlier did say there was going to be a government representative coming to visit the houses in the neighborhood.
You enter the living room and find Johnny awake again. He still looks pretty tired.
“Wha…what’s going on?” he asks, rubbing his eyes.
“I think it’s the government rep.” you say, then you run over to the door and check through a window and see a well dressed man and one soldier at the door. You grab the handle…
“Wait, you’re just going to let them in?” Johnny asks.
“Well I doubt if they’re going to just go away. What can we do? Barricade ourselves in until they bash the door down? I don’t like it either, but it isn’t like we have too many options. Besides I don’t have anything to hide, do you?”
“No.” Johnny replies.
“Well there you go then, we might even be able to find out some answers too.”
You open up the door.
“Greetings miss. I’m Mr. Zoll and I’ve been assigned to be the government representative for this area. May we come in?” Mr. Zoll asks, though it’s pretty obvious that this is more of a polite formality rather than asking permission.
“Of course.” You answer and let Mr. Zoll and his soldier companion in.
When you turn around you see that Johnny is sitting up on the couch, but is propping his head up on the armrest. He’s still really sleepy so you’re not surprised to see a bit of a scowl from him. You just hope the others don’t take it the wrong way, but you figure as long as you’re polite and upfront, you shouldn’t have too many problems.
Mr. Zoll sits on the chair while his soldier buddy stands nearby (eyeing Johnny mostly) you sit on the other side of the couch with a space between you and Johnny and ask what all this is about.
“My name’s Suzy, and that’s Johnny over there. So how can we help exactly?” you ask.
“Well, before we start I know this isn’t an ideal situation. You’re probably already concerned about what’s going on and why this town is under marshal law in the first place.” Mr. Zoll answers.
“It is all a bit worrying.” You reply.
“I’m sure. Unfortunately I can’t talk about it too much, however I’m sure you’re aware that this town has experienced a vast increase in criminal activity and rioting. More than your police force can handle. So until we get the situation under control again, we’re here to stay.”
“Well we certainly can understand that. We haven’t experienced any criminal activity in this neighborhood though, well at least not to my knowledge.”
“Hmm, yes this is one of the quieter ones. Some places I’m hearing about are pretty bad. Anyway I’d like to ask a few questions before deciding if we need to search this house further.”
“Oh. Um, okay then. We have nothing to hide.”
“Good glad to… hear it.” Mr. Zoll says glancing over at Johnny who is still alternating between being sleepy and unhappy about being awake.
“So which one of you owns this place?”
“My friend Julie.”
“Oh? Neither of you are the owner? Where is this Julie?”
“Uh, don’t know. She skipped out on her own party yesterday and never came back home. Isn’t that what you said Johnny?”
“Hrm. Yeah.” Johnny mumbles.
“I see…” Mr. Zoll says studying Johnny though you don’t know why. It’s making you nervous though.
“Is this man your boyfriend?” Mr. Zoll suddenly asks.
“Um…yes! Yes he is. He hasn’t had much sleep. You see we had a party last night and he stayed up late cleaning up. He really shouldn’t have, but that’s just how he is!” you nervously laugh being completely caught off guard by the question.
In your mind you already are regretting saying that since you’ve sent out more than enough mixed messages to Johnny. Though when you look over at Johnny he doesn’t make any facial signs of a positive or negative nature, he’s too busy on struggling to stay awake.
Mr. Zoll is now looking at you a bit mistrustfully. He thinks something is wrong and now that you’re shifting a bit uncomfortably, he starts to think you’re covering up something even though you aren’t!
“Okay, you know what. I think it’ll be easier to just give a brief search of the house.” Mr. Zoll says standing up to say.
“Um, all right then. We have nothing to hide as I said.” You say. Johnny slightly awakens a bit at this remark, but otherwise he continues to say nothing.
Mr. Zoll tells his man to go take a quick look through all the rooms while the three of you stay in the living room. The soldier nods and follows his orders. He first goes upstairs and looks through. You half expect him to find a stash of drugs in Julie or Donna’s room, but he either doesn’t or that isn’t their primary concern.
Next the soldier comes back downstairs and searches the ground floor, but once again finds nothing that is going to get you into trouble. Johnny briefly turns his head to watch the soldier as he moves back and forth up and down the hallway.
“Searched everywhere sir, well except the basement.” The soldier says when he comes back.
“Well you might as well search that too.” Mr. Zoll remarks.
The soldier nods and heads back towards the hallway. Johnny doesn’t look at the soldier this time, he just closes his eyes.
You hear the door open to the basement and then a few footsteps going down, then all of a sudden…
“Oh shit! That basement has a bad step!” Johnny exclaims and goes running down the hallway and shouts at the soldier.
Mr. Zoll gets up and starts to yell at Johnny to come back and you call out to him as well. This is soon followed by both the soldier and Johnny yelling and then the sound of someone falling down the stairs.
At this point you and Mr. Zoll both run towards the basement and there you see Johnny in the stairwell and the soldier crumpled in a heap at the bottom. His neck doesn’t look like it’s supposed to be twisted that way.
“I…I tried to stop him from falling…” Johnny exclaims looking distressed.
“His fucking neck is broken! I can see it from here! You killed him!”
“I didn’t! I tried to save him! I shouted about the step!”
“Bullshit! And YOU’RE lying too!” Mr. Zoll says pointing to you as well. “Something fishy is going on here and I dunno what it is, but BOTH of you are going to pay for it!”
Mr. Zoll reaches for something in his suit pocket…
Panic washes over you and it’s in situations like this that sometimes people either freeze up or make a rash decision.
“Johnny! You can’t go out the front door! Look, just lie down on the couch okay? You can sleep here. It’ll be all right.” You say getting up and grabbing his arm.
Johnny stares at your hand and then at your face.
“Do you mean it?” Johnny asks.
“Of course, I can’t let you go out there and get shot. I mean if you still want to leave then at least wait until its night and you’ve had some sleep.” You answer.
“You’re so…so perfect…” Johnny remarks and starts to head back towards the couch.
You help Johnny back to the couch, and when he lies down he falls asleep almost immediately.
“I…love you Suzy…” he says as he drifts off.
Well there was nothing ambiguous about that. You start wondering if you should have your head examined for possibly enabling a possibly mentally unstable guy who’s more than a little obsessed with you.
“(Sigh) What the hell is wrong with you Suzy? First it was a cultist, now it’s this stalker. Are you deliberately picking crazy people as potential boyfriend material?” you say to yourself.
You stand over Johnny watching him sleep for more than a few minutes trying to figure out where you actually stand with this guy. As you do so you never noticed how cute he really is before. It’s true that he’s somewhat average looking, but maybe it’s due to him being in a more vulnerable position that he’s coming off as more attractive and not creepy.
Not knowing what else to do, you turn down the TV (Which is blaring a Ground Zero infomercial as usual) and leave Johnny to sleep. You stop in the kitchen first in the hopes of maybe finding food before returning to your own room.
“Wow, this place was a mess last night. How the hell did he get it so clean?” you say as the kitchen is indeed much tidier without drunken fools and broken tables lying on the floor.
When you open up the refrigerator, you surprisingly find another pizza box, which has been marked with a note saying “Property of Suzy, don’t touch!” Johnny must’ve ordered another one for you last night in case you got hungry later. That was pretty thoughtful, but what surprises you even more is its completely intact.
“He probably was acting like a guard dog all night near the refrigerator in case someone tried to eat it.” You laugh to yourself.
Grabbing cold pizza and an unopened drink you head back to your room and lock the door.
Still wondering about them, you call up Julie, Donna and even Peter, but you get no answer from any of them.
Just as you briefly pondering about calling Kelly too, you hear a loud banging on a door. Not the door to your room, but somewhere in the house. Upon exiting your room, it sounds like its coming from the front door.
You remember that the loudspeaker from earlier did say there was going to be a government representative coming to visit the houses in the neighborhood.
You enter the living room and find Johnny awake again. He still looks pretty tired.
“Wha…what’s going on?” he asks, rubbing his eyes.
“I think it’s the government rep.” you say, then you run over to the door and check through a window and see a well dressed man and one soldier at the door. You grab the handle…
“Wait, you’re just going to let them in?” Johnny asks.
“Well I doubt if they’re going to just go away. What can we do? Barricade ourselves in until they bash the door down? I don’t like it either, but it isn’t like we have too many options. Besides I don’t have anything to hide, do you?”
“No.” Johnny replies.
“Well there you go then, we might even be able to find out some answers too.”
You open up the door.
“Greetings miss. I’m Mr. Zoll and I’ve been assigned to be the government representative for this area. May we come in?” Mr. Zoll asks, though it’s pretty obvious that this is more of a polite formality rather than asking permission.
“Of course.” You answer and let Mr. Zoll and his soldier companion in.
When you turn around you see that Johnny is sitting up on the couch, but is propping his head up on the armrest. He’s still really sleepy so you’re not surprised to see a bit of a scowl from him. You just hope the others don’t take it the wrong way, but you figure as long as you’re polite and upfront, you shouldn’t have too many problems.
Mr. Zoll sits on the chair while his soldier buddy stands nearby (eyeing Johnny mostly) you sit on the other side of the couch with a space between you and Johnny and ask what all this is about.
“My name’s Suzy, and that’s Johnny over there. So how can we help exactly?” you ask.
“Well, before we start I know this isn’t an ideal situation. You’re probably already concerned about what’s going on and why this town is under marshal law in the first place.” Mr. Zoll answers.
“It is all a bit worrying.” You reply.
“I’m sure. Unfortunately I can’t talk about it too much, however I’m sure you’re aware that this town has experienced a vast increase in criminal activity and rioting. More than your police force can handle. So until we get the situation under control again, we’re here to stay.”
“Well we certainly can understand that. We haven’t experienced any criminal activity in this neighborhood though, well at least not to my knowledge.”
“Hmm, yes this is one of the quieter ones. Some places I’m hearing about are pretty bad. Anyway I’d like to ask a few questions before deciding if we need to search this house further.”
“Oh. Um, okay then. We have nothing to hide.”
“Good glad to… hear it.” Mr. Zoll says glancing over at Johnny who is still alternating between being sleepy and unhappy about being awake.
“So which one of you owns this place?”
“My friend Julie.”
“Oh? Neither of you are the owner? Where is this Julie?”
“Uh, don’t know. She skipped out on her own party yesterday and never came back home. Isn’t that what you said Johnny?”
“Hrm. Yeah.” Johnny mumbles.
“I see…” Mr. Zoll says studying Johnny though you don’t know why. It’s making you nervous though.
“Is this man your boyfriend?” Mr. Zoll suddenly asks.
“Um…yes! Yes he is. He hasn’t had much sleep. You see we had a party last night and he stayed up late cleaning up. He really shouldn’t have, but that’s just how he is!” you nervously laugh being completely caught off guard by the question.
In your mind you already are regretting saying that since you’ve sent out more than enough mixed messages to Johnny. Though when you look over at Johnny he doesn’t make any facial signs of a positive or negative nature, he’s too busy on struggling to stay awake.
Mr. Zoll is now looking at you a bit mistrustfully. He thinks something is wrong and now that you’re shifting a bit uncomfortably, he starts to think you’re covering up something even though you aren’t!
“Okay, you know what. I think it’ll be easier to just give a brief search of the house.” Mr. Zoll says standing up to say.
“Um, all right then. We have nothing to hide as I said.” You say. Johnny slightly awakens a bit at this remark, but otherwise he continues to say nothing.
Mr. Zoll tells his man to go take a quick look through all the rooms while the three of you stay in the living room. The soldier nods and follows his orders. He first goes upstairs and looks through. You half expect him to find a stash of drugs in Julie or Donna’s room, but he either doesn’t or that isn’t their primary concern.
Next the soldier comes back downstairs and searches the ground floor, but once again finds nothing that is going to get you into trouble. Johnny briefly turns his head to watch the soldier as he moves back and forth up and down the hallway.
“Searched everywhere sir, well except the basement.” The soldier says when he comes back.
“Well you might as well search that too.” Mr. Zoll remarks.
The soldier nods and heads back towards the hallway. Johnny doesn’t look at the soldier this time, he just closes his eyes.
You hear the door open to the basement and then a few footsteps going down, then all of a sudden…
“Oh shit! That basement has a bad step!” Johnny exclaims and goes running down the hallway and shouts at the soldier.
Mr. Zoll gets up and starts to yell at Johnny to come back and you call out to him as well. This is soon followed by both the soldier and Johnny yelling and then the sound of someone falling down the stairs.
At this point you and Mr. Zoll both run towards the basement and there you see Johnny in the stairwell and the soldier crumpled in a heap at the bottom. His neck doesn’t look like it’s supposed to be twisted that way.
“I…I tried to stop him from falling…” Johnny exclaims looking distressed.
“His fucking neck is broken! I can see it from here! You killed him!”
“I didn’t! I tried to save him! I shouted about the step!”
“Bullshit! And YOU’RE lying too!” Mr. Zoll says pointing to you as well. “Something fishy is going on here and I dunno what it is, but BOTH of you are going to pay for it!”
Mr. Zoll reaches for something in his suit pocket…
Panic washes over you and it’s in situations like this that sometimes people either freeze up or make a rash decision.