KailaAfter I killed the couple who were living in the house in the place I didn't know, the pinkish cloud brought me back to the mansion. However, I had been unable to understand why this was happening to me. The old woman was probably just making a monkey of me. She knew that I felt the difficulty of the curse, but she still didn't say anything about it. It wasn't her mistake at all; it was mine, because I was so choosy that I didn't want to talk with her.It was already midnight when I arrived at the mansion with the cloud. I knew there were marks of blood on my clothes and I could smell them by myself. I took the winding stairs down to the living room. It was already midnight, and the servants and workers might be sleeping in the rooms.The darkness seemed to swallow me. I searched for the light switch and turned it on. I was not wrong; I saw in the antiquated mirror that my clothes had many red marks, especially my skirt, because it was white.The door suddenly cried out. I saw s
"Goddammit! What are you doing here? Are you watching me sleep? Can you get out of my face? You ugly woman?" I scowled. I sprang from my bed, donned my pink sneakers, and went towards the window. I opened it and let the sunlight enter the room.That day was so bad because I had not slept well, and then I was irritated that when I woke up, the first woman I saw was the old woman who cheated me. She was wearing long black pants and a leather coat, the same as the clothes she was wearing the first time I saw her. Her ugly face seemed to have changed a lot. Some of the veins on her face, which seemed like snakes and wanted to bite me, were gone.There was one more thing that I realized about her. She wasn't too ugly at all, and her eyes were mauve, which turned me curious because we had the same eyes. However, it would never cross my mind that we had a connection to each other just because of that. I wasn't bragging, but I didn't want to have any connection with that ugly woman, because s
LilIt was my first time seeing cars, vehicles, motorbikes, and many other forms of transportation going back and forth on the highway, though it was already night. The lampposts and the lights from them seemed like stars in the sky, illuminating and twinkling. But unlike them, the stars would never run out of light even though eons elapsed. I was walking against the wind, and I didn't know where my feet would take me. What I only knew was that it was searching for another victim again.There were many huge houses on each side of the streets. Some have two floors, others have many, like buildings. The other thing I noticed in each house was that their doors and windows were all closed. It might have been because it was already night and nothing other than that. Nothing would happen if I walked all night on this highway. It needed to stop so that everything would come back to normal.My feet eventually halted. I might be tired of walking, but I was wrong. There was a two-story house ne
If I could say a word, I had already shouted everything I wanted to say. I knew he was a kind man, for he didn't seriously hurt me and he wasn't irritated though my body wanted to kick and punch him. He was kind, that even though I didn't reply to his words and questions, he still didn't go anywhere. But I also knew he wasn't as patient as paper. I didn't know what he could do to me if he was out of patience.After a while, my feet brought me towards the man, and I continued kicking and punching him. As it were, it was like playing boxing, and I didn't know what it really wanted to do. I didn't know if it was just playing with the man or if it really wanted to hurt him. Perhaps it was just a warm up and the real fight was going to happen.As what I expected, the play round was over. Everything was getting more dangerous when the curse used its real strength, the strength of dark magic. It controlled my arms to punch the man's face, making him tumble down on the ground. It controlled m
KailaI knew a little bit more about Alicia; she told me that she was already dead and that someone had cursed her. Why couldn't she rest in peace? After that, she did not tell me more about herself. Though she didn't remove the curse on me, I did not waste the opportunity to conspire with her, because I also wanted to be free.I knew Alicia could help me get rid of it because I knew she was powerful, but she told me that she could not remove the curse once it had already infected my body, but I should not worry because she knew it could not easily control my whole body. She was going to tell me what to do in order to get rid of it when someone knocked on the door of my bedroom."You should go now, for someone might see you here," I said."Kaila, have you forgotten that I'm already dead and you're the only one who can see me?" Alicia responded.Maybe it was also a power that I could see ghosts; maybe I had a third eye; or there were many hidden things about me and my family. My parent
Alicia suddenly showed up by my side and said, "I know you're now thinking again about the guard you killed, but don't worry too much because I can help you forget him."I faced her and asked, "How can you help me?""That's so easy, Kaila. You only need to make yourself busy.""But how can I make myself busy?" I queriedI sensed that there was something she wanted me to do. As might be expected, she would only use me for her own benefit. But I wasn't sure yet."Do you remember what I mentioned about something you can do to break the curse?" She sat down on the concrete-hard chair at my right side.Her words sounded interesting, especially since my sole aspiration was to get rid of the curse, which also came from her. I experienced a dilemma. She probably would not tell me anything without expecting an exchange, or she could also benefit from what she wanted me to do. But as long as I could do it, I would never waste an opportunity to find out what I needed to do in order to break the
LilMy hand knocked on the door several times, but there was nobody there to open it. until it realized the door was not closed. My hand slowly thrusted it, which made a sharp-crying sound. I entered the house and slowly shut the door. As I turned, I noticed it was so spacious there. The living room had three couches and a glass-topped wide table with four wooden vanished chairs around it. There were many paintings hanging on the walls, and a tile-made staircase wounding to the second floor.It was a huge house, and there might have been a lot of people living there. My body started searching around the house. There was nobody there, but the curse would not stop searching for something it could not find. We climbed the stairs and I was surprised by what I saw.The room was covered with hanging black curtains that reached the floor and danced as the wind blew, and there was something happening just then, but the body of mine would not give them privacy.Behind the curtains, there were
I was lucky that my parents didn't see me going towards the bathroom, or else they would surely have scolded me and asked a lot of questions. Perhaps time didn't move when I left home, and perhaps time in the place where I was moving didn't move though I was no longer there. I didn't care about that anymore. If time wouldn't move, then it favored me, and if time would fly, it favored me too. Time was time, spending itself on everyone. It couldn't be seen or touched. It would only pass by and would never come back again.The only thing I didn't want to happen was when the curse would consume much of my time because it could affect my whole life, my schooling, and the dreams I wanted to achieve.After I took a bath, I dried myself with a towel, then wore my blue underwear, plain shirt, and black pants. I hung the towel back on the clothesline and got out of the bathroom. When I was walking to the kitchen, I saw my mother brushing her long, curly hair. It seemed like she was talking alon