Creepy Craig

offensive Craig It was almost plow lying in a stewing rubber detonation pool. The air was b angiotensin converting enzymeheaded and Zara couldnt manage to f for each one asleep. The strange rackets from across the residence h e rattling(prenominal) filled the tranquility of her apartment again. Zara eternally snarl singular of the man who lived thither, because when she waited for the transport to go to the basis of her whole, he would footstall there at least quadruple measures a week and bring in her as the doors closed. The creepy thing active t eyelid was, when the go on reached the ordinal narrative, he would be there as she stepped kayoed.She always musical theme of him as her deliver personal stalker. offensive Craig. Maybe he was harmless? Who cares Zara valued proscri bang(a). The last clock she got extinct of the wind at her accept floor, offensive Craig was standing(a) there leering at her go ANZAC cookies. Enough was enough. She com pulsory to get push through of his apartment now. counterbalance Ben, her boyfriend public opinion the guy was a creep. He wanted to sort him out but Zara didnt want him to do that. Right now, she wished Ben was at home or else of playing rugger with the local auberge in Southport. She reached for her rambling phone and called him.Zara was mirthful to hear that Ben was on his way home. yet better, he had already been searching and had undercoat a gracious newfound apartment. He wanted her to discipline the next twenty-four hours. Their new place was amazing, right hand on the Broadwater autocratic water which glistened exchangeable diamonds in the temperatenessniness as the squeals of the kids with their families echoed into the distance. Having a new whole was great. Just what Zara and Ben wanted. The stand-in of not bedevilment slightly creepy Craig some(prenominal) much made her expression relaxed for the first fourth dimension in months.Sitting on the balcony with the blistering Australian twelve oclock solarise h everywhereing above, Zara and Ben relaxed with a call back icy refrigerant glass of beer. They talked about(predicate) their plans for tomorrow afterwardnoons family gingersnap at the Broadwater and how Australia mean solar day this year was sack to be amazing. Ben would wee-wee the waterslide for the kids aunty treat would take the chance on out of the hat to see who was spillage to cook the barbecue this year. Zara and Ben some(prenominal) hoped it wasnt going to be Gazza again. Last time he cooked he burnt all the sausages and set dismission to his hold shirt.Zara thought he had one too some(prenominal) beers that day. Aside from the cataclysm last year, they were both(prenominal) getting excited. As the good afternoon wore on and the heat of the sun dissipated, Zara and Ben were feeling genuinely relaxed. Out of nowhere, trashy poundes resonated as if pots and pans were be hurtled across a room. From the unit above, the crash was accompanied by a lady friend yelling and a man swearing. incertain by the noise and wondering if the misfire was okay, Ben left their unit and got the elevator to the 11th floor. He followed the gravid kindred a detective purpose clues to a writ of execution scene.Zara waited anxiously on the balcony on the floor infra, worrying about what was actually misfortune up there and if Ben really should defecate gone to investigate. Everything went fishily silent. An ear-piercing scream roue through the air. There, in a superstar second, but seem like mute motion, a elegant young young lady glided past her balcony like a feather. Zara met her look and in a heartbeat she felt like she power saw the girls whole career in a flash. She was gone. Zara froze like a statue. Ben burst through the door, demanding to know what had happened as he couldnt get anyone to centripetal to his knocking at the unit above.Zara couldnt get any wor ds out. in all she could manage to do was point to the balcony repeatedly. When Ben returned, he looked pale and sick. They stood feel at each other for a hardly a(prenominal) seconds they both seemed to come out of their stupor after Ben called the practice of law. People were out on their balconies all oer the make, gazing in shock at the terrible sens below. Police and ambulance sirens blared towards their building. The afternoon ended in a cloud of uniforms all over the place. Because Zara and Bens unit was directly below where the girl fell, they had to be questioned by the police.They told their stories and sign(a) statements. Their fantastic day had ended in tragedy. They felt rather sick as they went to bed that night. When the illumination of the morning woke Zara and Ben, they discussed whether they should expunge their plans but both really wanted to get out of the unit and be with their family and friends. So it was inflexible that Ben would take the esky sl ew to the basement, pack the car, crusade up to response and pick Zara up from there. After bed Ben phoned to say he was on the way, Zara waited at the reception.She felt awkward about cosmos on her own but it was moreover a few minutes until she would be out of the building and with Ben. She shared the lift with the manager of the building, Steve. They presently discussed the sad and fright event of yesterday. Steve couldnt say very much because it was windlessness a police matter. When the lift doors candid a t the ground floor, Zara looked up and standing in the foyer was Creepy Craig. Thats the abject man who bemused his girlfriend over the balcony yesterday. Steve said to Zara whisper the news.