74|Bargain

~Rory~

Lilacs. It hit me like a wind brought by a super typhoon.

Someone was watching me from the couch. I couldn’t see in the dark, but like Elijah said, I don’t need my eyes to see what’s around me.

A strong current in the air, like static energy, flickers in the dark. Two other individuals are inside this house. One stood right across from me where mom’s beige couch sat, and one was upstairs, right inside my room. The one downstairs wears the static energy. It’s my dad, or who he should be based on his scent and his silhouette that’s becoming visible as my eyes adjust to the darkness.

The other’s essence, the one upstairs, glows like a bulb with a day’s life left on it.

Fear had my heart galloping wildly inside my che