Maria

= RED Gloves  = = By: Maria Kandilas =

 “Lorenzo, I can no longer love you!”

As John woke up on a gloomy Monday morning, he heard the faint voices of his left-on T.V. When he was fully awake he did his normal 15-minute morning routine and then set off for work.

“Good morning Mr. Tucker!” John’s assistant Melinda greeted him.

“Morning Melinda!” John greeted back, as he walked past Melinda’s desk and a few other cubicles before reaching his own. But while he was passing Tim Hill’s cubicle, he caught a glimpse of something red and shiny sitting on top of Tim’s desk. Almost like gloves! As John was trying to get a better look at the gloves, he couldn’t help but listen into the conversation that was going on in the cubicle.

“I can’t believe how much she’s grown! I remember when she was just a little nugget! But I finally got her out of the house this past weekend, on a spa get away for her-“

“JOHN! How you doing buddy?” Steven, a friend from the office cried to John.

Shocked that someone was watching him, John replied quickly, “Oh man, you scared me! Um, great, I have to go though!” And with that, John dashed off to his cubicle.

The day at work went by very slow John thought, He was relieved when at 5pm, it was time to set off home. He was even more relieved when he was leaving to see that Tim Hill, was gone. Tim Hill was a small, grouchy, 30 year old man that was full of hate, especially towards John. They’ve always had this on-going feud mostly because Tim has always wanted John’s job.

After leaving the office, John got in his car to finally go home. When John arrived at his house, he noticed something very peculiar; all of the lights were off including the street lights, but only in front of his house. A bit suspicious, John entered his home. When he tried to turn on the light, they didn’t light up. Next thing he knew, someone 5 foot with red blurred gloves tried to attack him. He didn’t remember anything else after that except screaming and then everything went black.

“Shh… you’ll wake him up!” a voice whispered.

Slowly, very slowly John opened his eyes. For a second everything was blurred but then his eyes fixed upon 3 figures. Melinda, Steven, and the last person ++made him blink several times before he believed who had been standing there; it was Tim Hill.

“YOU! Y-you tried to k-kill m-me!” John stuttered weakly.

“Um John, no he didn’t. You need to know something very, very important.” Melinda said, speaking a soft, calm voice.

During all of this commotion John noticed Tim’s facial expression looked very uncomfortable and almost sad.

“John, you have just been a victim of an attempted murder. When you got home from work, someone tried to kill you. All of us were surprised to see you wake back up, we all thought you had been killed.” Melinda said slowly.

At that moment, Tim burst into tears.

“W-who is that s-someone Melinda?” John asked suspicious and weakly.

“That someone is Susan. Susan Hill.”