A TRIP TO THE FARM HOUSE

Chapter 3

I spent the rest of the day in the room , nobody knew that i was in the room except Reen who forced me to go to the table for supper. Mom had prepared rice with some chicken parts on it, which was not my type, I preferred the same rice but with nothing in it, just pure rice. Weird right?. And there was also spaghetti and lettuce in the other plate.

"You've been here this whole time?" Mom asked, her eyes set on her plate, but I knew she was talking to me.

"Yah , i have been sleeping in my room" i answered, "not my thing right?"

"Thats new from you" Dad said, his eyes stuck on me for quite some minutes.

Dan glanced at me with an unreadable expression on his face.maybe he also knew that something unusual  was happening to his innocent litle brother me, but i didn't care if he knew  or not , Dan wasn't my guy.

I was the first one to leave the table just because i was not in good mood and food didn't even taste better.

"Don't forget that tomorrow we are going to the farm house" Dad reminded.

Although Dad loved taking kids like us to the farm house, nobody loved that place,neither Dan or even Mom. The place was creepier and you could even run away from your own shadow.

I locked myself in my room again, i did not want anybody to come in. My mind was full of unbelievable flashbacks of what happened earlier . I needed to be alone and clear about my head. I was having enough already, so noise and charts couldn't do any better.

I was thinking that if slim was really sure that he saw me at the supermarket, and that librarian saw me getting out but didn't see me getting in, that means they really saw me, they couldn't  all be lying about it. That clearly meant that they really saw me at two different places in the same or closely arranged time segments. But that was not me they saw, I was sure about that. The question waswas, who was it? Or should I say him?, who could that be?, that was the question which was trending in my head.

In the morning I woke up and cleaned my teeth then i went to the table to get some breakfast. All of them were already done with breakfast i was the only one remaining.

I saw Dad Preparing for the trip, he was busy packing staff's in the pick up car.

"Lone be fast we are waiting for you" dad said when he saw me eating so slowly.

"I'm done " i said though i was still not happy with the trip. It was 8 : 30 am when we entered the road to the farm house.

Me and Reen were sitting in the back seat , Dad was alone in the front driving, we didn't want to talk to Dad just because he always selected us to the farm house although he knew that we hated that place.

After driving for a while , we pulled over at a certain filling station .

"We should take a rest here, if you wanna go to the toilet you can go" Dad said and left the car .

"Well , i have to go to the toilet" Reen said while opening the door, i was the only one who was left in the car and i had no reason of going out.

I was busy looking at Dad talking and laughing with the filling station's workers i didn't know if they knew each other or he was just trying to act friendly . 

Something disturbed me , a text message, i received a text message from an unknown number. I opened the message but i was confused, the message was blank, totally blank , not even a full stop was written on it .

I thought he made a mistake so i decided to text back "who is this ?" i waited for some minutes then the unknown replied "you".

"What , this guy must be drunk " i talked to myself and i didn't text back.

I looked up to Dad , he was still busy chatting, then i saw Reen coming back from the toilet but when she saw me she stopped and stared at me like she wanted to say something strange.

She turned her back and run back to the toilet, it was strange , she was really acting like something bad had happened.

Meanwhile, Dad was still chatting and he didn't know that something strange was happening.

I felt so unpleasant, i had to go and check out Reen but when i was about to open the door i saw Reen coming back . She was walking very fast as if she was coming to say somebody is dead over there.n opened the door and got in the car faster, she was exhausted and almost breathed fire.

I looked at her , waiting for her to speak up but she wasn't speaking.

"What happened, why did you go back there?" I asked

"I just saw you in the mens toilets corridors when i was getting out then again i saw you here" Reen said in disbelief.

"What! You saw me?" I asked again.

"Yes i did!" She yelled

"But i didn't go out since you left the car" i said and opened the car door .

I had to go check for myself if there was really somebody like me in there .

"Lone where are you going ?" Reen asked but i didn't answer her i pretended like i didn't heard what she asked.

I walked to the toilets faster so that Dad could not stop me, i didn't care what was going to happen next, my aim was to see that guy who was confusing people of being me.

I passed by the womans toilets and reached the mens toilets corridors, the corridor was so silent as if it was a graveyard.

"Is this a rest house or a filling station?" I asked myself when i thought of so many toilets like those at a filling station, i have never seen a filling station with so many toilets like those.

There was nobody there and i couldn't even hear some footsteps. I started moving through the toilets, they were all closed and there was nobody inside.

I walked to the last room but still i didn't notice anything strange . "There is nobody here" i said to myself.

Few seconds after spitting those words, i heard sound of a door being opened in my back, i turned back and i saw that the door was really opened, i moved closer to see if somebody was in there but the moment i got closer the door was strongly closed and it caused alot of noise.

"Who's there?" I yelled but nobody yelled back, i could hear fear telling me to run but i selfishly ignored the fears speech.

I moved closer to the door and stood opposite to it, i knocked three times but nobody replied, my fear level was increasing, my heart was pounding harder and faster, was even sweating because of fear.

Dad, did you tell mom that we have arrived " Reen asked.

"Yes i did , i called her" Dad answered.

After supper Dad was outside with his pc, me and reen were in the house, we could not go out there because it was too dark and we much hated the darkness.

"Good night bro, I'm going to sleep" Reen said and moved away .

"Good night, sleep tight " i replied.

Dad was outside, Reen had gone to sleep, i was the only one left at the sitting room. I took my phone and texted Ellen "hey girl " , it took her almost 15 minutes to reply but the reply wasn't what i was expecting, she said "i hate you and i don't wanna talk to you anymore " . I tried calling her but she didn't pick up the call. I didn't know what made her hate me but maybe it was because i visited her rarely.

Dad was done with what he was doing outside, he got in ,closed the door and gave me a goodnight. I had to go to sleep too but first i hard to check if Dad closed the door the way it is suppose to be done. I checked it and it was really closed nicely.

I went to my tin- creepy place that I called bedroom that day.I  switched off the phone and then i laid myself down, trying to shut my eyes. I couldn't easily fell asleep, I had so much happening around me that kept my brain awake every sleeping hour.

"I cant believe I'm really sleeping here" i whispered to myself while looking at the window pane which even a kid could break it with his fist. I felt so unsafe in that lame- creepy- wooden house.

 The house was not safe to sleep in , but the fact that i was not alone made me brave and i slept easily like everything was back to normal. I counted on Dad if things were to get awkward.

While asleep, deep down i heard my phone ringing, i thought that it was the beginning of a dream but when i woke up i realized that it was real, the phone was really ringing but i switched it off when i was sleeping.

I did not believe it , it was impossible, i have never heard a phone ringing while switched off, i took it to see who was really making the impossible call.