Ouija

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I was about to enter the room, just when Mom got up from the floor, came running to the door, and shut it in my face. Hearing the loud thud Cookie came running to me. I patted his head as he was continuously barking at the closed door.

Someone then knocked on our backdoor. Must be Rosa, thinking I hurriedly opened the door but it wasn't her, it was May, one of my other friends, looking traumatised. As she took one foot inside, a rotten odor followed her in. I had to move back to be able to breathe through that.

"May? How did you get in?" I asked, totally confused,

"Don't listen to him. Don't search for anything! Don't believe in him. He is not what he seems to be," she replied in a scared voice, trembling,

"What are you saying, was the backdoor open? What is it?"

Cookie moved some steps behind and was whining like he was scared, the moment Mary looked Cookie, he ran away inside. I knew animals, were alarmed of any danger, just before it was gonna happen. But it's May after all, what was happening?

Mary walked forward, and whispered in my ear, "Listen to me." Then she turned around to see behind her,

A cold shiver ran down my spine, and the surprising thing was, that odor came from behind Mary. Her eyes were cold, emotionless, exactly like those robots that kids play with. For a split second I thought this wasn't the May I knew, but then her eyes changed, they became more decent, gentle, and brown just the way I knew them to be. "Abby?" Her voice now sounded more natural to her,

"May, what happened exactly?" I asked her again,

"What am I doing here?" she asked as if she had woken up from a trance, 

"I don't know, you tell me,"

"I was literally just passing by your house," she paused and held her nose scrunching, "Throw the garbage out, Abby. It smells so bad."

"This smell literally came in with you, May, we have taken the garbage out,"

She looked at me confused, "With me?" she said it like she almost didn't believe me,

Just then there was a loud thud, I quickly told her to go back home from the front door. After I was assured that she was out of the house, I followed the noise. That's when I found Cookie was gone too. I called out for him. I looked in the kitchen, in his usual play area, and returning back to my room, I heard his whimpers,

He was under my bed. I patted his head, "It's okay, I'm here," I said softly and slowly pulled him out of there,

There was a knock on the door,

"Hey, Rose!" I hugged her as soon as I opened the door,

"You look exhausted,"

"Y-yeah, I'm okay," She forced a smile, I hurried and helped her with the luggage in my room,

"Make yourself at home," I told her, I wanted to tell her everything that happened right now, about Mom, and May, but she already looked like she couldn't take anything more,

"Thanks..." her voice faded.

I quietly waited till she was comfortable. "My mom. She was drunk," She started,

"She was so drunk that she muttered some things which I couldn't figure out. Her emotions were bursting out. Once she'd be sad, she would sit in a corner of the house or under the table and cry, Once she'd be normal, she will sit on the sofa, and laugh for no reason. Once she is angry, she'd break things, today she broke her favorite vase she got from Venice,

She told me like a dozen times that Dad isn't treating her well, or she doesn't have any friends to vent, and she threatened me to act like how she wants or else-" She was in tears,

"It's okay, Rose, it's okay, you don't need to explain any further, you're safe now." I moved forward and hugged her,

"I felt it'd be dangerous to stay around her," She said,

"Maybe. But don't worry, you're always welcome here," I paused, now it was time to tell her what happened. "So, some thing happened that I need you to know." Then, I narrated every detail. 

"Now, Mom's in her room and May has left." I completed. "It's going out of hand." She said then looked at the wall as if she was trying to remember something,

"What are you thinking about?" I asked,

"When I was coming to your house, I saw the same girl but this time she didn't have a ball and seemed pretty normal, she handed me a paper ball which read Ouija."

"Okay, what is that?"

"It's like a board game, but it's for calling spirits or something,"

"Hold up, I'll Google it," I said and pulled out my phone,

"See, I told you it's a board," she said as the images popped up,

"The board looks vintage, pretty primitive,"

"Extremely dangerous. Keep out of reach of children. Read the instructions carefully before playing the game. IT INVOLVES SPIRITS," Rosa read.

"This looks serious,"

A sudden cold breeze hit me, which made my heart fall into my stomach because, One, the window was closed, and two, I could feel, literally feel someone watching me and Rose.

Something was constantly glaring at us and that's what made me paralyzed. One can feel when they are being stared at, but when you can't find the eyes that are staring at you, that's when things go downhill.

I glanced behind, but I saw nothing, "What?" Rose raised her eyebrows asking me, I shook my head, and focused in the screen. Then something clicked in my mind. "I have a theory." I said, and she turned to me,

"What if that girl wants to tell us something but she can't so she's handing us paperballs? Do you think the desk and the ouija thing are related?" I said.

We kept giving our thoughts on this topic. It was almost three in the morning, when I heard footsteps approaching. Soon, Mom stood in front of us, looking dehydrated and pale. "Rosa? I didn't know you stayed the night?" she asked,

"Yeah, it was just a quick plan." Rose shook it off,

"You both should know, that if you dig further into what you're doing, you might awaken something you'd regret, so just go to sleep, okay?" Saying she went back to her room. Her voice was a bit hoarse, and now I was sure of the fact that this wasn't my mother.

"You heard her voice?" Rose asked me, "She has never called me anything besides Rose,"

"Maybe because whatever is on her mind controlling her, doesn't know what she usually calls you."

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