The Landlady: A Narrative Fiction

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After the Landlady said the No my dear, only you doorbell rung, she gets up and goes to the door. When the Landlady got to the door she saw nobody there, she slowly looked around then, a person jumps out of nowhere. The Landlady jumps out of fright and starts yelling at the person.
“Why would you do that?” the Landlady asked.
“Its funny to scare people,” the mystery person said.
“No, it's not you could have scared me to death literally.” the Landlady said angrily Since the mystery person scared her the Landlady slammed the door in his face and went inside and called the police. She went back over to Billy, she notice something was off for him.
“ Whats wrong?” the Landlady asked Billy.
“This tea, taste horrible,” Billy complained.
“I made it the same way I make my other teas,” she said.
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“No, i'm not,” the Landlady said. Billy gets up and goes to the bathroom and starts making himself throw up.
“I'm not gonna die from you trying to poison me you old lady, i know what you did to those other guys you tricked them into drinking your tea and after they died you stuffed them like they are animals!” Billy started yelling.
The Landlady looks at Billy shocked, “How did you figure it out,” the Landlady asked him.
“I figured it out because in the last three years 2 men went missing after coming into this town and their names are in Your book, and it smells like that chemical that helps to keep a body from decaying after they're dead.” Billy said
“Well, you are right Billy i did poison those men.” the Landlady admitted
“Why did you kill them,” asked Billy.
The Landlady told Billy her story of why she killed those men, after she was done with her story Billy went and called the police. After that day the Landlady was never seen or heard from again. When the Landlady was taking to jail Billy got all of his things leaving the bed and breakfast, going back to the Bell and

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