Twisted Fate by J. Busch (smart books to read .txt) 📖

She could hear water running on the other side
Slowly she pushed back the door to a tub overflowing. The water was brown and dirty almost unrecognizable. She was in the main bathroom. Jenna let out a sigh of relief when she seen that this room was pretty normal. She looked in the mirror about the sink for a moment. Her head then begin to pound.
“what is wrong with me” she screamed “ where the hell am I”
A tear streamed down Jenna’s face. She was sure that there was something to this house. Why would she even know to go here. What was it about this house that made it so familiar. She opened the medicine cabinet. It was filled with many different pill bottles. She begin to read what each one said.
Oxycotton, valume, perkiset, ect.........
Jenna seemed puzzled at this point. Who would take all of that she thought to herself, and why. Jenna wandered just how crazy are the people that live in this house. She placed the bottles back on the self and shut the medicine cabinet door. All of a sudden in the mirror was that little girl. Jenna didn’t dare look back for fear she might loose sight of her again.
“ Where am I, Why am I here?” Jenna asked
“ I told you not to go back” said the little girl
“ Why not?” asked Jenna “What happened here”
“ I told you not to go back” repeated the girl
At this point Jenna was getting angry. She turned quickly to confront the girl but once again she was gone. Jenna begin to race back down the stairs. She knew there had to be a reason for all of this. As she hit the bottom stair a picture frame fell off the wall and busted. Jenna stopped for a moment to see what had happened. She bent down and picked up the folded news paper clipping that was in the frame.
“ LOCAL GIRL ESCAPES FATHERS GRUESOME TORTURES.”
Catching Jenna’s attention she sat on the bottom stair and began to read on.
“ LEON BECKER A WELL KNOWN MAN WAS CHARGED TODAY WITH THE ABUSE OF HIS OWN 11 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. NEIGHBORS SAY THAT THIS HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS BUT NO ONE COULD PROVE IT. AFTER TWO YEARS OF ABUSE LEON’S DAUGHTER MANAGE TO ESCAPE THE HORRIFIC EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE IN THAT HOUSE. SHE WAS LAST SEEN OUTSIDE THE BECKER STATE HOSPITAL RUNNING TOWARDS THE GULLY RIVER IN THE BACK HALF OF THE ESTATES. SHE IS DESCRIBED AS BEING 11 YEARS OLD, BROWN HAIR, MEDIUM HEIGHT AND SMALL WIRED RIMMED GLASSES. SHE HAS BEEN MISSING FOR SEVERAL WEEKS NOW AND MAYBE CONFUSED AND DISORIENTED. IF YOU SEE HER PLEASE CONTACT THE GULLY CITY POLICE.”
Jenna’s heart melted as she read the article. She begin to realize that the other half of the sign that was missing out front must of said hospital. She checked the date on the paper and it was dated for the 1st of October 1991. Quickly Jenna searched for a calendar. Outside the basement door in the kitchen hung a small yearly calendar. She tried to think hard but couldn’t figure it out. Suddenly Jenna remembered her watch told the date. She looked down at it with a quick glance. October 17th is what it read. Jenna started to figure out this strange puzzle.

CHAPTER 4
UNDOING THE PUZZLE

After a few moments of pondering Jenna looked once again at the basement door. Jenna walked over too it and opened it. Like all the other doors in this house it creaked slowly. She flipped on the light switch at the right of the stairwell. A dark and gloomy smell came from below. Suddenly Jenna begin to walk down the steps keeping her eyes open for anything. As she reaches the bottom of the stairs, she sees another desk. This one not as fancy as the one up stairs. There are file folders sitting on top of the desk with papers scattered on the floor. Jenna reaches over and grabs one. The top of the file folder says active patients. Struggling to see the writing Jenna opens the folder and begins to read the list of names that are hand written in ink.
“ Joseph Finch, Jerry Hall, Alice Wright, ”
Underneath of that was one name and it was listed under inactive patients.
“ Alice Becker”
Jenna begin to wonder if this Alice Becker was the little girl in the newspaper clippings or the little girl that she had seen previous times before. Amongst all Jenna wonder why she was the only one that was an inactive patient and what exactly did that mean.
Jenna proceeded thought the plastic that was hung to cover a door way that wasn’t finished. She grabbed the string which was attached to the loose light bulb about her. As she turned on the light, the sight that she saw next about killed her. Pieces of dismembered bodies hung everywhere. Jenna covered her mouth so that her screams would not be heard. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Everywhere she turned another piece of a body was right there.
Jenna begin to freak out and ran desperately back to the top of the stairs. Out the door she went, slamming it behind her. Jenna shoved the table in front of the door to make sure nothing or no one could come from below. Jenna slid down the refrigerator crying. Scared to death of who might have done that and what they would do to her if they found her there. Jenna needed to know what happened in that house and how she could get out of there. She fled back up stairs to the door in which was pad locked. Thinking that there might be a reason for that door being locked.
Jenna found the closest thing she could and begin to pry at the lock and chains. She pushed and pulled to finally the lock gave and broke open. Jenna started pulling the chains off of the door. She opened it. Two filing cabinets lay on the other side. As before one was marked active and the other inactive. Still confused by that Jenna opened up the inactive filing cabinet. All of it alphabetized. Seeing the names on the list down stairs she began searching for Alice Becker. She dug and dug through the files but it seemed as if Alice Becker was missing. Where could it have gone she thought. Jenna looked up and there was a dusty file sitting on the top of the cabinets.
She reached up for it. Brushing off the dust the name on the top of the file said Alice Becker. After taking a deep breathe Jenna opened it up. A standard doctors file with a picture attached to the top with a paperclip lay inside. Jenna begins to read:
ALICE BECKER
AGE: 51
SEX: FEMALE
RACE: CAUCASIAN
Jenna reads on about Alice’s background finally flipping the page to see something that triggered her memory. Alice had one child. Jenna Becker. She was married to Leon Becker. Date of death was October 1st. Now the puzzle begin to make make sense. Jenna couldn’t believe what she was reading.
She moved over to the active files and begin to search for Jenna Becker’s record. That is when she found the one thing she feared. As Jenna opened the file folder she say a picture of herself. She read on and the record said date of death October 17th. Jenna dropped the file folder and turned to run. Just before she reached the staircase and man stepped out from the other door on that floor. Jenna looked up to see Leon Becker’s face shine in the strike of lighting through the window.

CHAPTER 5
THE MONSTER

Jenna’s heart raced. She didn’t know what to do. She tried going around him but he grabbed her before she could get away. Jenna began to scream and yell. Kicking her feet and trying to stop him from dragging her into the undiscovered room. He grabbed her hair and pulled her head back eye level with his.
“ Stop screaming” he said in a quite yet assertive voice.
Jenna stopped for the fear of her life. The man drug her on into the undiscovered room. The walls where covered with pictures of people that now become fimilar to her. It was kids she had went to school with and had come to the hospital for treatments. Leon grabbed a pair of surgical gloves and put them on one by one. Jenna could barely move for he had tied her to the heater at the end of the room.
“ Why did you leave?” the man asked
Jenna looking worried and confused said “ What do you want with me?”
She closed her eyes for a moment and a flash back hit her. The little brown haired girl and the man in front of her playing on a swing set. She opened them back up to see Leon sharpening a knife. She could see the little girls face in the blade.
“ I was his little girl” sobbed the girl in the reflection


Jenna begin to cry. She closed her eyes one more time and seen herself with a man about the same age. He had his arm around her, hugging her and saying something. Jenna strained to try and make out what he said. A slap to the face brings Jenna back to reality. Leon now standing over her knife in hand.
“ I will ask you one more time” he said “ Why did you leave”
Still confused Jenna didn’t answer. Another hit to the face this time knocking Jenna to the floor. She lay there with her eyes closed. The same image of her and the boy replies in her mind. This time she could see what the man was telling her.
“ Come with me i won’t let him hurt you anymore” the man said as he comforted her
Jenna’s mind begins to race back and forth between herself and the little brown haired girl. Almost as if her mind was telling her the secret. Back and forth faster and faster. Until finally she sees the little girl is her. She finally looks up at Leon with piercing eyes.
“ I should be dead” she shouted
“ You should” Leon replied knowing that she must of found the papers he kept locked up “ You where my little girl, and you left me for him”
About that time Leon rears back with the knife. Jenna kicks him as hard as she can knocking him to the floor. It all made sense now except one thing. According to the papers Jenna Becker had only been missing for 16 days. Jenna was much older than that. She looked up at the calendar by the desk. The date was October 17th 2001. She had been gone