Mermaid Effect

16 years ago--

Washington, America

Seaforth Villa

Rand Sievers lay dead on the ground, the bed bone pressed against his back, as if squeezing his lungs, making him feel extremely difficult to breathe.His heart was beating so fast it felt like it was beating against the cold floor through his chest.This too narrow space reminded him of the box he once hid from. It is said that when he was very young, he hid in the box and Vincent locked the box jokingly, and he carried the box away. For a short walk, probably thought it was funny that I could carry my little brother like a suitcase, he was laughing... and their parents found out about it 10 minutes later, when they opened that suitcase in a panic At the time, Rand was already blushing because of difficulty breathing.

Vincent didn't even touch a single hair of his hair after that, and with his patient company, Rand overcame his dark phobia.

But now he was not so sure about it, the bed was cold and dark, like a crushed coffin.

Rand's teeth were clenched together, and he took short, light breaths.

He shed tears because of the deep fear before, but he didn't dare to make any sound, the snot flowed from his nostrils and slid on his face, it was very uncomfortable and dirty, Rand put his face The bottom half of his body was buried in his elbow, trying to wipe away the tears and snot with his sleeve.

Fear, jealousy and anxiety, gnawed at him bit by bit like bugs.

"ta-ta-ta-"

That's the sound of high heels walking on hardwood floors, and if you didn't know it, you might mistake it for someone hitting something with a hammer.

At the same time, it is also the source of Rand's fear.

In the narrow strip of light cut by the floor and the edge of the bed, Rand saw a pair of bright red high heels.

Its roots are very high and pointed, like the kind of shoe that can easily dig into your temple, because this is definitely not an anatomical shoe, and the instep of the foot inside the shoe is covered like a witch. The bulges of the foot bones were exposed one by one, and under the pale to almost transparent skin, there were meridians protruding like blue earthworms.

Those feet were walking up and down the room, wandering around.

At the same time, the owner of those feet was making a sweet call.

"Hey my bunny? Where are you? Don't you want to be with mommy?"

After Rand heard the words that seemed to quench poisonous honey, his tears could no longer be controlled and flowed more violently.

His body trembled involuntarily, and his heart almost exploded from fright.

The woman cracked open and then roughly closed the furniture in his room, from cupboards to wardrobes.

Whenever she was near him, Rand would faint with fear.

Thank God, the bed was small, and it looked totally inappropriate for a Tibetan, but that's why Rand was able to sneak away when the woman barged in and claimed to be his mother Then hid under the bed.

He was about to be squeezed to suffocation, but the twisted shadow of the woman reminded him of a demon.Rand dared not make any moves because he realized that he was in danger.

The bed is his only refuge now.

Fortunately, after searching all the cabinets in Rand's room, the woman finally left with those high heels. Rand still heard her sickly voice from a distance, calling for him.

After lying on the ground and waiting for a while, Rand tremblingly took out a mobile phone from his pocket.

This is the mobile phone left by his parents for emergency contact. Rand gritted his teeth, trying to control his trembling fingers, and pressed his parents' number on the mobile phone.

but……

"Hello, this is the Sievers house..."

The familiar answering machine voice from the microphone made Rand confused and terrified.

He didn't understand at all why this was happening, why it didn't reach his parents at all, but went back to Sievers' internal phone?Even that recording was made by Rand himself.

In fact, this is a very small line change—Vincent is thinking that Rand may occasionally find his parents. If he reveals that Vincent himself is not in the house, it will affect his elopement plan with Caroline. He did some little tricks in Rand's phone.

No matter who Rand was calling, the final signal would be transferred to the answering machine at the Sievers house.

The little program would only run for a short time, less than an hour, just enough for him and Caroline to get to the airport and get on the plane, after which security and communications would be restored immediately.Vincent never thought that it was this less than an hour that would change everyone's fate.

At this moment, Rand was completely unaware of Vincent's plan, he only knew that he was completely trapped.He was so frightened that he immediately turned off the call, panic and bewilderment may be the best portrayal of him now.

At the very beginning, he even felt that Vincent would appear in front of him and drive away that terrible woman, but his screams echoed for a long time in this once warm and wonderful place, but now it was like a maze. In a cold, empty house.

Vincent never showed up.

"Woo... Vincent..."

Rand finally couldn't restrain his despair, and a tiny sob escaped from his throat.

Finally, with the last glimmer of hope, he pressed Vincent's number...

Thankfully, Vincent has left his own number as a last resort - the only number that won't be transferred, just in case something could go wrong (of course, Vincent feels the odds are high Small), Rand can still find him.

The phone is connected...

"Beep beep-"

Caroline heard a cell phone ringing that didn't belong to her in her room.

She quickly found Wen Sen's cell phone and looked at the caller ID on it.

Shown above is "Rand"...

Vincent is doing the final packing in the garage downstairs, and in less than 5 minutes, Caroline knows that she will have a completely different life from Vincent.However, this caller ID made Caroline feel short of breath.

Ah, here we go again.

She thought, what will that clingy brat be this time?Headache?Or a stomachache?Or maybe he lost his toy?

Sometimes Rand would inadvertently disturb Caroline and Vincent's date, after all, he was not at the age where he would find it interesting to have sex between a man and a woman.

Vincent always explained it that way.

He just found Vincent and Caroline's sweet gaze a little boring.

Fuck you bored.

Caroline's heart beat a little faster, she hesitated a little, and instead of going downstairs to give Vincent the phone, she held her breath and pressed the connect button on the phone.

"Hi?"

she says.

There was a burst of rapid and suppressed breathing from the other end of the phone.

"Wen, Vincent?"

Rand's slightly crying voice came from there.

Caroline looked at the door. She went to her cloakroom and turned sideways, talking.

"No, it's me, Caroline, Vincent still has some things, it's not convenient to answer the phone now. What happened? You can tell me, I will tell Vincent..."

"Help, save me..." Caroline was interrupted by Rand's terrified words, "A strange woman came to the house, and she said...she said she wanted me to leave with her...she was terrible... I can't get through the phone... Caroline, help me..."

However, his deep fear fell on Caroline's ears under the filter of the phone signal, and it was more like some kind of... acting?

Rand had never shown such a fragile appearance in front of Caroline, and he was even a little reckless under the doting of his family.He loved to roam the house and play, and sometimes Caroline would hear the rest of the Sievers family call him "the little white lion."

It was precisely because of this that Caroline frowned unconsciously.She instinctively took the call as a prank by some kid trying to get Vincent back from her.

She softened her voice.

"Oh, my God, is it? It's okay, we'll get you right away, stay where you should be and don't move."

...and when we get to the airport, we'll get Mrs. Severus and Mr. Severus home.

she thought silently.

Then hung up the phone.

In order to prevent Vincent from seeing the call, she deleted the communication records.

Almost at the same time, the sound of Vincent going upstairs came from outside the door.

"Caroline we should go... Caroline?"

He frowned at Caroline.

"Your complexion is not very good, what's wrong?"

Caroline smiled awkwardly.

"It's nothing."

She said, then walked up and hugged Vincent tightly, she put her face on Vincent's chest and felt his heartbeat.

This is her lover, this is her new life.

she said to herself.

And that was just a prank call, Vincent should always leave Rand and have his own life...

She did nothing wrong.

Caroline closed her eyes, and a voice in her heart repeated these words over and over again.

Yes, she did nothing wrong...

And not far from the couple.

A pair of red shoes stopped in front of Rand's bed.

Rand curled his body into a ball, clutching the phone tightly.

Vincent would come to his rescue.

he thinks.

Caroline said they came back to save him.

Just hold on a little longer, hold on just a little longer...they're coming to save him soon so have to stay calm...they're coming to save him shortly...

"Hey, what a cunning little rabbit."

The woman said hoarsely beside the bed.

She knelt down slowly.

A thin and pale face appeared in front of Rand.

She whistled briskly... "I caught you~"