The Bottle

Harish rubbed his eye as he tried to make sense of where he was. He was waking up from a super deep sleep. His dream, disturbed by a tug on his shirt. The tugs, were still continuing. As he gathered his senses, he looked to his side. He could hear the faint sound of Priya saying something. 

Looking at her, still a bit blurry, he heard that she wanted her water bottle filled as she was feeling thirsty. He chuckled. They were new to the apartment. And she was still settling in, and felt a bit scared to walk across the corridor and the living room to go to the kitchen at night. At first she would wake Harish up to get her some water, and then started keeping a bottle besides her at night. Though sometimes she would forget to fill it and then ask Harish to march to the kitchen and get it refilled.

He grabbed the bottle and got up in a smooth movement, picked up the bottle and his phone. He walked towards the bedroom door and unlocked it. Even though they lived alone, Harish liked to lock the room when they slept. He felt a sense security in that. Using the dim light from his phone, which was in night-mode currently, Harish chalked his way across the living room and into to the kitchen and filled the bottle. Just then he thought he heard something. Like footsteps going away from the living room to the bedroom. He shrugged it off. 

Nimbly tracing back his steps, he got inside the room and locked the door. Passing the bottle to Priya with one hand he was searching for the phone holder to keep his phone, when he felt something on the hand that held the bottle. It was a string grip and nothing like Priya's. He slowly moved the phone's light towards the bed. A shiver ran down his spine when he saw a motionless Priya lying on a pool of blood on the bed, with her throat gnawed on. The light of the phone moved towards the foot end of the bed. A small and muscular ghoulish creature with big protruding black eyes and inch long teeth with blood all over them, was looking straight at him, his hand holding Harish's hand. 

Before Harish could make a move the creature pulled Harish towards itself. The phone fell to the marbled floor and a scream of agony ringed through the room.