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Jane broke through the surface of the water, she blinked away water as her feet churned beneath her keeping her head above water. She combed her hair away from her face with her hands, looking around the empty pool area. She always stayed late, and was trusted enough by the owner to lock up. She had her own key for the place, something none of the other lifeguards even dreamed of, she came before any other lifeguard and left after they all went home. The owner loved her and how much she cared for the pool and the people in it. She swam over to the edge and heaved herself onto the wall. Her hair dropped down her back and goosebumps appeared on her arms and legs. She shivered before wringing out her hair into the tiles, it was almost time for her to head home, her roommate was expecting her back before nine so they could have a movie night. They had done this tradition since they were teens and had some extra cash. They had met when they were the only two kids in the swim class who knew how to tread water. Jane remembered catching Christy's eye as they looked over at each other when they were the only two who raised their hands when the teacher had asked. They had started waiting for each other in the locker room before and after class and then after a few years they applied for lifeguarding at the same pool together. Jane swung her legs out of the pool and stood up, heading towards the locker room door. Christy had taken today off in favor of going to see her sister who was in town. Jane almost slipped on a small puddle by the door, she caught herself just in time, grabbing onto the handle of the door to stop her from smacking to the floor. She giggled to herself, mostly out of nerves, she was always a nervous giggler, something all the cute boys at school seemed to think was funny. Jane stood up and walked in, careful to not slip on any more water on the way to her locker. As she was heading to the showers she felt like someone was watching her and a shiver went up her spine, she looked around but finding no one there deciding to chalk up to her being tired and went to shower, it was when she was rinsing her hair of the consistent did something touch her, she screeched and whirled around slipping in the wet tiles and crashing to the floor, her head smacked against the wall, she grimaced in pain as her head throbbed, she looked around and saw something disappear into the shadows of the locker room. She scrambled up, almost dragging herself to her bag, reaching for her phone. As her hands clasped around the cold rectangle she felt something grab her foot. She let out another screech and kicked away standing up and trying to run away. She ducked behind a corner her heartbeat pounding in her chest, she peeks around the corner and finding nothing takes a step forwards, then a deathly cold hand clothed her throat and yanked her back, she slammed into the tile wall, she heard something crunch as she slumped to the floor. She screeched once more as something bore down upon her.
The next morning after a call to the police from Christy after Jane hadn’t come home, lead them to the pool, where upon arrival and entering the ladies locker room they found her, spread out through the entire room, blood coated the tiles and clumps of bloody hair were everywhere, one of the police officers had promptly thrown up because of the smell, they had found nothing but a single finger to identify that the blood and hair and bones were actually Janes. There were no traces of a killer, and the fact that there were no witnesses gave no hope to Jane's family. The pool closed after that, they weren’t getting any business after the murder, and they never could get the blood out of the tiles.