Look Through The Keyhole

Sometimes, there are things which we are not allowed to do. Yet unfortunately, these things trigger curiousity and we end up doing what's not suppose to be done.

Von will be in college in the next three days.  And so he was spending his day looking for a very affordable place to stay near his new school. All the male dormitories and houses were too expensive since its already somewhere around the city. The next day, he ended up in front of an old beat-up house. He walked up to the scratched, old and worn out door. He knocked a couple of times until a sweet little old couple answered. They insisted that he could stay with them for the whole semister and they will offer him a price which he could afford. When he got inside, the house was so big and clean as well but there was real silence. Von liked the atmosphere because he believed that he will be able to concentrate more with his studies. He also thought that they were nice enough, so he took them up on their generous offer.

The next day they cooked him a delicious meal and went to bed early since classes will start the next day. As they passed a door to go to the bedroom they told him, "Do not go into our daughter's room". He thought it was kind of strange but it wasn't his house so he respected their request. He woke up in the middle of the night around 3 o'clock to go to the bathroom. He was curious so he peeked under the door of the daughter's room. He saw a little girl sitting in a chair facing the wall. He assumed she must have been punished and did not want anyone to bother her. So he went to the bathroom and then back to bed. A couple of hours later, around 4:30 am, he became real thirsty. He needed to get some water so he got back up and headed for the kitchen. As he passed by the daughter's room, he was still so curious. So he peeked in the key hole this time. All he saw was red so he assumed they must have painted the whole room red, including the key hole.

When he woke up in the morning, he prepared himself for school, went downstairs and greeted the couple a good morning. They greeted him back and asked how his first night was. He said "it was good" and complimented them on the color of the paint job in their daughter's room. They said "What paint job?". He was a bit puzzled. After a moment of silence, he then asked if their was anything special about their daughter. And then there was sadness on the old couples face as they said she died a couple of years ago and had one red eye when she had suicide on that same room.  

Von realized that the red thing he saw was nothing more than the daughter's eye, looking back at him through the keyhole.