Chapter 1

Chapter 1

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It rained that night, with the heavy rain and thunder my eyes were opened and awake even though I’m just coming from slumbering. My mother woke me up with terror in her eyes. I’m asking her but she didn’t answer me. Her palms were both trembling while holding my small fists, I almost stumble to the mahogany floor because she was fast and I step my sleeping gown because of it. I was required to wake myself but the dream is still there, just like a nightmare in lucid dreaming. I wanted to shout for someone to wake me up, but I can’t find my voice.

I wanted to my father but his nowhere to be found. Until we heard a loud bang of noise to the first floor of the house and I heard my mother telling something that I didn’t understand. As if she wanted me to hurry. Other loud bangs and followed by another until it didn’t stop. I scream when I heard a gunshot. My mother took me and carries me to hurry our way until we enter the room full of blankets and one cabinet to the other side near the wide window. She opens the cabinet and put me there.

I saw my expression full of confusion and asking her why do I need to go there inside. 

Because of fear and scared of what happened that night, I was crying while my mother is crying too.

She said I need to hide there, don’t make any sounds, and whatever may happen doesn’t go out from the cabinet before she closed the cabinet. 

I gulped.

I feel the cold sweat all over my body and my heart was beating so fast inside my chest.

I cover my mouth with my two hands and still trembling. I don’t know where I should fear the thunder or to my situation I don’t know what happened that night. I wanted to stop the nightmare, but it didn’t. Someone wanted to suffer again to these vivid memories I wanted to erase in my brain.

I’m shocked when the door on that room bang opens. 

I heard my mother screaming to stop someone I didn’t see. I peeked through the small hole in the cabinet to see what is happening outside. My eyes widened when I saw how they kill my mother using their fangs and talons. They are hairy, with red eyes, fierce fangs, and large bodies of monsters. My world stops when I saw my mother was bathing in her blood to the floor. 

I feel weak at what I witnessed.

I was even more surprised that the two monsters have become human beings. I saw one of them approached the cabinet where I was hiding, and it surprised me when he opened it. He was smiling at me.

I feel his hands and my small hand while pulling me to pull out to that cabinet. I fell to the floor when I also saw my father lying outside the room at the door, bloody and unconscious, bathed in his blood while it opened his eyes. Another screaming from the first floor and loud bangs I heard.

One of them releases my hand and then ran to escape but one thing they said before they go.

“We will come back to you.”

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When the nightmare was done my eyes opened. The first thing I saw was the old ceilings of my room, I’m bathing from cold sweat and my heart was beating fast. I get up from the bed and go to the window to open the curtains. I saw the fog from the outside this morning. I need to wake up because I have a trip to Caroline province and visit the old mansion of my family.

I stretch my body and wear my robe before I went to my room.

My auntie died last week because of her blood disease and yesterday was her funeral. I have nothing relative to my side right now and one thing about her statement in her last well testament I need to sell the mansion. She’s my father youngest and only siblings, I don’t know my relatives to my family side so I need to find another solution to finance my daily life, there’s nothing problem in my college studies because I am scholars and in this summer before I can go back to school I need to finish what I need to finish and besides I need to budget the savings of my auntie she passed in my name too, I need to be smart.

After cooking a simple meal, I ate my cereals, French toast, and drink chocolate mallow drinks. While I was eating, I still think how I should sell the house, is there someone in the Caroline would buy that or do I need to reconstruct before I sell it and anything things I could do.

I need to prepare a list of plans and I write it on the piece of paper but if no one can’t buy that house I think I need to find a side-line or minor job just to stable my finance. I think I need to forget that mansion; I don’t know if I could enter the mansion because of murder happened last 8 years that I wanted to erase the memories but it keeps on coming back and I think I can’t run to that nightmare. 

I took a deep breath and put the ball pen to the side of the paper.

“What should I do to my life right now?” I asked myself.

I didn’t finish my breakfast because if the trip needs to catch up. After I clean my plate, I go to the shower and clean myself. After that, I checked the house if I double-locked all the windows, doors, and if my things are complete.

I look again one last time at the house before I leave because I’m not sure if when I come back to this city.

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