The Black Cat

"What's come over me? I sit all alone in this dark desolate castle with no one to talk to. I find myself overcome with fear of leaving this dark place to see the outside world. I've been cooped up inside these castle walls for so many years. I can't remember what day it was, let alone the year. I feel so safe in my castle. Besides, what could this world have to offer me anyway?" said Count Drac Von Stoller to himself.Count Drac Von Stoller recalled the happy years when he had a beautiful wife named Marie. However, an unfortunate illness took her at such a young age. The Count never fully recovered from her death. Now the Count spends his lonely days inside his castle thinking of his beautiful wife Marie and stares at her portrait on the wall in the study, talking directly at the painting as though she can hear what he's saying.One night when the Count was reading a book on ghosts, he caught a glimpse of something in the corner of his eye that frightened the willies out of him. It was a black cat with blazing red eyes. The Count brushed it off as just his mind playing tricks on him. The cat leaped from the window sill onto the ground and headed to the front door of the castle.