TITLE: Killing Curiosity
WORDS: 367 words
GENRE: Horror, creepypasta

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Even though you are covered head to toe with articles of clothing, you still shiver. You don't blame the chilliness on the cold weather.

No.

The chill came from inside the house.

It wasn't even your house. Curiosity had led you into your neighbour's basement. Since they moved in next to your house, they had never shown their faces.

Your mother told you to stay out of it because she didn't know anything about them.

No one did, apparently.

Not even your grandma (who was the nosy neighbor everyone complained about).

You decided to let go of the issue... until last night.

You heard them move. It was at night but with the rest of the world asleep, their movement was like a beacon of light to your curiosity.

Nagged with the urge of discovering who the people living a few feet away from you, you ventured into the unknown.

Such a shame your curiosity died when you saw them. They were seated on a table, eating dinner but something was wrong.

You saw fresh blood on the blade in his hand, and a crazed smile on his face. Her mouth was ferociously feasting on meat on the table.

Meat that definitely belonged to a person.

This was not the meeting you had pictured.

You sometimes like to think of yourself as brave but the screech you let out was very shrill.

The man left the dead body at the table and raced to catch up with you. Blinded with fear, you ran back the way you came. You heard his heavy footsteps pound the floorboards but you didn't expect him tackle you.

His heavy body weighed above you as you cried for your release but they didn't listen to you.

They started to speak but in your distress you heard nothing.

But now, in the basement, you scrambled to remember what they said.

Curiosity had killed the cat but you were no cat. What of the person who ventured out to find the cat?

Someone is coming for me, you hoped.

But when the pounding of his feet came back, you realized what they were going to do with you.

You are going to be eaten.