Tell Tall Heart

I heard the car door slam, at that moment I knew the police were there. Then I heard footsteps, louder and louder and then knocking sounds on the door.. I yelled “who is it?“, although I know who it was. I opened the door and they stepped in to investigate. The police officers walked up the stairs and into my bedroom, they started pulling up floor boards, one after another they come off, finally the last board, they found the body (the heart still beating inside my head), what should I have done? I thought fast and acted, by the time they turned around I was racing down the stairs. They would never let them take me away! I was too smart for that. I began bumping into things, crashing into walls and knocking over lamps and things and suddenly I had remembered, I was in the kitchen! All my thoughts came together, but I was too late, the two police officers had come in and closed the door on their way in. They thought at the time that I was running awa...