Дмитрий Леонтьев – Don't trust anyone (страница 1)

Дмитрий Леонтьев

Don't trust anyone

THE VISITOR

CHAPTER 1

“Yeah, buddy!” pronounced a young man into his mobile phone while driving the car.

“I am going to visit her within the next several days! I got acquainted with her a couple of months ago and she already invited me to come over and meet her in the town and, of course, I couldn’t cancel that invitation from such a beautiful girl,” he added and chuckled.

After that Jimmy threw his glance to the right where he noticed in the distance a picturesque view. He was moving in his car along the mountainous winding road feeling dwarfed by the huge snowcapped mountain peaks.

“Maybe next time I’ll take you with me, Bill,” he uttered and glanced again at the side of the road.

His car approached a dark tunnel going through the big mountain.

“No!” he added into the phone, “she told me there’s quite a good hostel in the town and I can stay there first.” He heard his friend on the other end of the line and roared with laughter.

“That’ll be great, just like you said! So, after I check in in the hostel, I intend to call her straight away,” Jimmy said.

“Well, when I get back home, I’ll definitely call you and let you know all the details, bro! Bye!” he added and hung up.

The car drove out of the tunnel. Jimmy looked at the screen of his smartphone with a photo of a cute blonde girl.

He touched her face with his thumb and then began searching for her number in the phone address book.

“Mary,” he found the name and pressed the button to call her.

Her number was unavailable. At first Jimmy checked the connection status in the top right corner of the display and saw that he was in the “out of coverage area”. He glanced at Mary again and whispered, “I’m already nearby, sugar!”

Jimmy put his mobile on the passenger seat. Usually Jimmy loved to play some music or radio in his car while driving. That time was no exception.

He carefully inserted a CD into his car player and immediately hit the gas pedal. He was in a good mood and began softly crooning his favorite tune which had just started playing. Jimmy looked in the rear view mirror and adjusted his hair.

CHAPTER 2

Having covered almost half of the way, Jimmy glanced at the watch and seeing that it was already 6 p.m. he decided to call Mary one more time.

He groped for his mobile phone on the passenger seat with his right hand.

“Out of coverage area,” he read on the screen.

“F*ck,” he swore.

Jimmy’s car was approaching the town. Passing the suburbs he stared in amazement at the shabby buildings and frowned. They looked completely abandoned.

“What the Hades?” he questioned himself.

Jimmy cautiously slowed down. It was already evening and the roads in the town were free and deserted. Driving past the empty houses with broken windows Jimmy couldn’t help the feeling of being closely watched from someone inside them.

He kept peering into the road ahead of him.

Suddenly Jimmy caught sight of a strange-looking dirty vagrant standing at the roadside. The vagrant waved to him with a self-satisfied smile.

“What a strange bastard?” Jimmy thought and gave him a honk on his horn as he drove by. The strange tramp did not react to that and just kept staring at Jimmy until he was out of sight. Jimmy also followed him in his rear view mirror. The homeless man was waving at him now with his right palm. That circumstance didn’t disturb Jimmy as everyone knows how many strange people exist in the world, especially among “ragamuffins”.

“Jerk!” Jimmy said into the mirror and his gaze shifted back onto the road.

“Holy sh*t,” he screamed slamming the brakes on. He had almost run over someone in front of him. It was a little girl with a broken doll in her hand. From that unexpected Jimmy got a bump on his forehead, which had hit hard against the steering wheel.

Moaning with pain, Jimmy grimaced with, his eyes closed. The pain was coming in waves, each worse than the previous, and finally became unbearable.

Still, he managed to focus on the girl who was supposed to be lying in front of his car. He switched on the emergency lights and scrutinized the road. In the middle of it, he saw the girl standing with her headless doll.

She was standing and smiling at him, her head tilted to one side.

Jimmy instantly wound down the window from his side and nervously enquired, “Are you nuts?”

But the girl kept standing without moving.

“Get out of here!” he ordered her and opened the door to come out of the car. Just then, the little girl neighed once, turned sharply and ran away from him.

“Don’t you want to live?” he bawled at her. But the girl just giggled.

“Where are her parents? It’s too late for such young girls to be wandering alone,” he said to himself.

He closed the door and exhaled heavily to relieve the stress.

He looked at the watch. The digital screen showed 6.25 p.m.

He took another deep breath and slowly let the air out. “I should get going now,” he thought.

Eventually he took a close look at his forehead in the rearview mirror. Thank God, the bump didn’t grow much and was barely visible. He didn’t really want to meet Mary like that.

Jimmy moved the gear shift into the first gear and continued his journey.

CHAPTER 3

A short while later, Jimmy was already in the town.

“It must be here,” he commented to himself.

He again stretched out his arm to the passenger seat and took his mobile phone.

“Out of coverage area,” he saw the message on the screen.

“Damn!” he cursed. “How am I supposed to find the hostel now?”

The car was going through an empty street. The buildings and houses still looked abandoned and even the main street was oddly deserted.

“Why didn’t you tell me that you live in such a place?” he uttered driving slowly.

“Where can I get internet connection here?” he started losing his temper.

Jimmy peered through the windows of every house in the hope of noticing someone alive.

For a moment, he thought he detected someone in a first-floor broken window. He looked closer and discerned a male figure in a blue shirt. Jimmy couldn’t see his head as it was covered with something like a curtain.

It happened so fast that Jimmy thought it was his imagination running wild. All of a sudden, the car juddered to a halt and Jimmy quickly turned back to the road.

At first, he got terrified that he could have hit someone.

“Damn!” he muttered and opened the car door.

Jimmy hurried out of the car. What he saw made his heart beat faster and harder.

“I already hate it here!” he exploded kneeling down to have a better look at the wheel.

The tyre was flat and a piece of barbed wire was wrapped around the wheel.

Jimmy pulled the wire with his finger trying to remove it. But instead of achieving the result he had hoped for, he cut his hand and blood began dripping from the wound.

“Why the hell have I driven all the way here?” he freaked out.

He slowly stood up and looked around for someone to ask for help.

But there was nobody there. He could only hear the croaking of crows. The evening fell faster than he expected but the sun was still seen above the mountains.

“Was she kidding me?” he asked himself. “Is it a prank?” His head was all in a spin.