Dr.+Eam

=﻿**DR. Eam**= = = = = It was a regular Saturday night, I had tucked Master Eam into his bed, and I had headed into bed to get some sleep. I woke up, and made breakfast, and gave it to master, he ate, and then I hitched the horses to the carriage, and he went off to church, I cleaned and I fed the dog when he was gone. I had made his bed and cleaned his room just in time to see a trail of dust following his carriage. I rushed to open the door for him. "Hello Dr. Eam, how was church, sir?" "The usual" He grumbled "What's for lunch?" He hobbled in the door, and I took his cane and coat. "Steak and potatoes, sir, unless you'd like something else" "That's just fine" He said. He ate and took his bath as I washed the dishes and swept the floors. He took a nap and I prepared dinner. After we ate, I tucked master into bed, and went to my bed to get some rest. I was about to fall asleep when I heard a squeak, it sounded like the floorboard, I knew what it sounded like, it had given me away when I first tried to escape Master Eam, I thought he was an evil man, using slaves to do all of his work, but he was very kind to me, he didn't treat me like a slave at all. I told myself it was the dog, walking around downstairs, and tried to go to sleep, but then I heard a thump, followed by a yelp from the dog. He must be having a wild dream, I told myself, nothing to worry about. I tried going back to sleep, but I couldn't. I creeped downstairs and took a look at the dog, He was sleeping, safe and sound. I felt relieved, but as I looked closer in the moonlight, I saw something around his head. It looked like a pool of blood, but it couldn't have been, It must be drool. Then I saw something else. A shadow of a man, with a sledgehammer in his hand. I looked at the dog again, and it looked like his head was smashed in a little. I saw the shadow move, and I bolted up the stairs to Master's bedroom. He was sleeping, I heard something come up the stairs. Thump! Thump! I tried to shake him awake, but he wouldn't wake up, I was about to pick him up, when I thought of an idea. A horrible, wonderful Idea. I could leave master behind, I could be a free man, maybe even meet a beautiful lady and marry her, and have a family. But I couldn't, not after all he had done for me. Thump! Thump! He was getting to the top of the stairs. I picked master up just as I saw the man get to the top of the stairs, I ran into the bathroom carrying master. His heart was dead still, and as I looked closer, he had marks on his neck, of where he was strangled, I panicked. The man entered the room, I didn't know what to do, I put master in the bathtub. And I hid in the cupboard under the sink. He must have seen me, because he grunted and made his way to the bathroom. He looked in the bathtub, raised his bloody sledgehammer, and pummeled master directly to his face. The man stopped, he looked confused. Then he turned around to the sink, and opened the cupboard. He saw me, and hit the sledgehammer against the cupboard, smashing it into pieces, but it didn't harm me bad, he raised the hammer, and I ran out of the bathroom. He followed me. I ran into my room and locked the door. With one blow, he took down the door and cornered me. He raised his sledgehammer again and then, in my master's voice, he said. "Wake up, York, Wake up. I need you to make me breakfast before I go to church" I woke up, my heart was beating. Today was sunday, that was only just a dream.