Chat With Strangers

Here’s the original story: Chat Mates by Mehru

A girl named Stephanie was on her laptop late at night. Her parents had gone to visit her sick grandfather. She was sixteen and lived with her grandma on temprorary bases until her parents came back. Her grandma was gone out with grandpa to the Leisure Center to have a old high school reunion because that was where they met and all their old school friends where holding it. So she surfed the web for a interesting game. Suddenly when she was playing a game (which she had played a number of times) a small message popped up from her message board. It read, “SIGN INTO MEET,N,GREET CHAT NOW!” A BRAND NEW WAY OF INTERACTING WITH NEW PEOPLE! ENTER AT YOUR OWN PERIL! So she clicked on it and it opened up in a new tab. She made up a new username and password.

USERNAME: stephiegirl13
Password: *************
Click here to begin!

She clicked there. She looked through several chatrooms and found nobody appropriate to talk to. Then she clicked on a chatroom that read: “ONE USER”.
CHAT BELOW!
Stephiegirl13: Hi!
Bella_SpArks: Hey! I was alone and finally found you to talk to!
Stephiegirl13: Me 2! 
Bella_SpArks: So what’s your name? Mine is Bella.
Stephigirl13: Stephanie! I live in Los Angeles!
Bella_SpArks:  I live in Toronto!
Stephiegirl13: I go to Woodstreet High.
Bella_SpArks: Do u want be penpals?
Stephigirl13: Yeah sure!
Bella_SpArks: 758ehje4378hds4832hj4387eqhj76gr67j/.,,.,,,,,<<<< Stephigirl13: huh? Bella_SpArks: Sorry! My cat ran over the keyboard! :P Stephiegirl13: LOL! It okay!  Bella_SpArks: We could make our own private chat group. But just in case my email is BellaSPArks@webtalk.com.
Stephiegirl13: okay. Sure…. I gtg now
Bella_SpArks: why?
Stephiegirl13: ITS LATE GIRL! :P
Bella_SpArks: oh ya Toronto is five hours back from LA.
Stephigirl13: Bye!
Bella_SpArks:  kay so lets talk tomorrow.
Stephigirl13: okay.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Stephanie was pleased to have a new friend. She kept chatting to Bella and they became best friends. They even gave each other their phone numbers. But they rarely called or texted. Mainly they chatted on their chatroom.
On April 16th was Stephanie’s birthday. She phoned Bella who did not answer. So she texted her. No answer. Then she emailed her. Finally she opened up her chat. It was April 14th and she wanted Bella to come for it. She wanted to meet her as well.

BELLA AND STEPHANIE CHAT ROOM! Keep out!
Stephigirl13: Heyyy! Wats up! My birthday is day after tomorrow and I wanted u 2 come but u didn’t pick up ur phone or reply to any of my texts! I emailed but you never replied so I hoped I could find u here!
Bella_SpArks: yeah I know that cuz my phone is dead but its charging right now and my email account is constantly getting spammed! 
Stephigirl13: that sucks. 
Bella_SpArks: I know………… Hey cool I’d love to come to ur birthday!  I will come to LA tomorrow. Can I have ur address???
Stephigirl13: I texted it but here: 13th Pine Avenue @ Woodland Creek.
Bella_SpArks: :{ okay will be there but I will stay in a hotel at 15th march and you can meet me the day after at ur birthday!
Stephigirl13: Why cant u come straight to my place?!
Bella_SpArks: Because I have a surprise… 
Stephigirl13: Uhhh okay. But how? I JUST told u and u planned everything right this second?
Bella_SpArks: well actually, Stephanie I was planning to surprise u with a visit so I had everything planned already.
Stephiegurl13: okay cool.
Bella_SpArks: 84r2824839e9494*3843u4843’;r
Stephiegirl13: Cat again? LOL! :P
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Stephanie was surprised. She grabbed her iPhone and checked the screen. A text popped up into the screen in front of her birthday background. She slid the icon and unlocked the phone by punching in her passcode. The text was from Bella who was saying that she her internet cut off and her cat woke up because it was a power out and jumped on the keyboard just before everything blacked out.
Stephanie felt relieved. On the fifteenth she went to the town’s foreigner local hotel and went to the receptionist. “Is anyone named Bella staying here?” she asked.
“ Madam, you will have to be a bit more elaborate because there are several Bella’s here.”
Stephanie said,” well im not sure but I think its Bella Sparks”
Receptionist squinted at his list of stayers. “ I don’t th-“ he started to say but then suddenly he spotted a name. “WAIT! Bella Rosalind Sparks” he cried, “ room number 1313, please go ahead.”
Stephanie reach her room but a hang note was hung on the knob that read “ Clean My Room I Am Away”. A maid was walking down the hall. When she saw Bella’s hand note she nudged the other maid who just arrived. “ Madeline , that creepy girl who is in this room has asked us to clean it! Let us go together because it really scares me to go in her room!!!” said the maid. “ What is so scary about her?!”, asked Stephanie. “ Well dear Gloria and I NEVER go in her room without each other because she rarely comes out of her room and people who live next to her say they have heard strange noises and machines working noises from her room! She moved in yesterday but she is already sacring the living daylights out of poor us!”, said Madeline. They pushed the door open. Ribbons fluttered everywhere around her. But no Bella. They cleaned up and put all the ribbons in a plastic Ziplock. They opened up the cupboard and found a silver knife inside which was caked in ribbons and a parcel with a big bow on it and it was also covered with ribbons. Suddenly they heard footsteps so the maids pretended they were cleaning up and Stephanie quickly grabbed a apron Madeline tossed to her. The hall was very very long so they had five minutes to get disguised. She put a scarf across her face like a hijab so that when Bella met her at the party she would not recognize her. She was wearing a black dress which was old and worn so she looked like a Asian maid. A pretty girl walked in. She was wearing a tight pair of skinny jeans and a t-shirt with a flower on it. She had tanned skin and blue eyes.” Hello Bella.”, said the other two maids. Her blonde hair was tied in a fashionable but casual style. “ Hello Madeline, Gloria and” she hesitated. “Umm, Carla!’’ Stephanie sqealed. “ Oh hello, Carla!” said Bella. “ Oh dear I have to go now”, said Stephanie. The trio glided out and on they way home Stephanie thought what the knife was for and why was there a parcel with Bella. She thought Bella may have gotten the knife specially wrapped up for her birthday and the parcel contained the present. The next day one hour before her party the doorbell rang. Stephanie went and answered it. She saw Bella there with TWO parcels. “ Hi Stephanie!”, said Bella. “ OMIGOSH are you Bella?’ inquired Stephanie. They talked awhile about their funny messages. Then she opened up her parcels. The first one had a crystal bottle in it. It was full of perfume. Stephanie thanked her. Next she opened up the other parcel. It was the knife. “ Hey, whats the knife for?” Stephanie asked. “ To cut the CAKE! DUH!”, Bella. “ If you say so”, muttered Stephanie. “ What did you say?,” asked Bella. “ I said, uh if you eat so!” said Stephanie. “ I will obviously eat your cake silly, I love chocolate just like you!” , said Bella. They clicked open the television. Bella went in the kitchen for some water. “ I will also clean up the knife a bit”, she said. The newsflash came that a mad stalker who escaped from a mental asylum had set up a chatroom to talk to people and murder them. Stephanie felt uneasy. Bella was still in the kitchen. Suddenly the news anchor showed a picture. The picture made Stephanie’s eyes open wide. The picture was of her very own chat messages with Bella. The news anchor said that the girl who was talking to Bella_SpArks was suppose to leave the house that instant and that the police was on their way. Stephanie peeked in the kitchen. Bella was not there. But she heard a noise in the hall of Bella playing games on her phone. Stephanie sighed with relief. Bella had not heard. She was hidden in the cupboard. Playing games. Bella had said she loved sitting inside cupboards without anybody. As Stephanie made for the door the closet door flung open Bella leaped out. “where are you going?”, she asked. “ Just to the corner shop to get some crisps”, replied Stephanie with fear in her eyes. “ Oh no, you don’t”, said Bella jumping at her with the gleaming knife. The party guests entered happily and suddenly screamed. They all saw the bloody remains of Stephanie. Her intestines were ripped up and her lungs had fallen out. Her face had a message ripped in it, “ Chat Mates forever.” Later the police tracked down a old flat in San Ramon with a empty room, a balcony with a red couch and a laptop. It turned out that Bella sometimes wrote gibberish because she went totally insane at times and then she started typing like a senile person. Now days she sticks to stalking kids who come back from school and hides in their closet until midnight and then kills them with her knife. She has not been found yet. She could be in your closet right now……….