The door opened and Regan flinched. Vesper was standing there with a messy look. Her hair was disheveled, the opposite of what they were at school—sleek straight, and her eyes were drowsy. She was wearing short pajamas.
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When Regan saw that, she realized she was on pajamas too. She cringed embarrassingly at herself. She probably looked even worse. But who cared about looks in the chaos that she found herself in?
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"Regan, what are you doing here?" Vesper asked, yawning and then made a confused face.
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Regan felt even more ashamed to have woken up her friend in such hour. "Vesper, I really need your help, call the police, hurry!" she urged with a shaky voice.
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"Wait, what happened, why should I call the police?"
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"Someone is in my house, and my aunt is inside!" Regan said panicked and lowered her voice to not wake any other people up. The night was silent, so people could wake up easily if odd raised voices were heard. That was the least she wanted.
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"Are you serious Regan? Who is in your house?" Vesper asked, folding her arms.
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"I am dead serious, I saw it, please call the police, I don't have my phone...!"
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Vesper on the other hand didn't seem very affected. She took it as a not important matter, knowing that Regan was paranoid. She stepped out in her slippers and closed the main door behind her.
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"Regan, come on, you must be exaggerating. How about I come in your house and check it?" Vesper suggested putting her hand into Regan's shoulder but then jerked it away faster then the wind. Her shoulder was hotter than a spoon on a hot plate. Vesper waved her hand on the air and sighed frustrated.
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"What?" Regan said, not understanding why she did so. She acted as if she burnt her hand.
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"Nevermind. So, how come we go and check your house for anything wrong?"
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"Okay."
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Vesper's steps were tired and Regan could tell she was annoyed. She opened the front door of Regan's house and Regan followed her from behind, scared and terrified.
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Vesper entered first and stood in the kitchen. Everything looked normal and fine. Meanwhile when Regan entered, she felt a weird presence. She wasn't even sure though, but she couldn't sense it.
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"So, where is that someone in your house?" her short tempered friend asked with a tired look, "What's the point of waking me up over nothing?"
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Regan stood there ashamed. She knew that the 'thing' meant to terrify and mess with her, and of course, not show in front of others.
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She was going to answer her but footsteps were heard from the staircase.
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Her heart nearly went away until she saw Monica coming downstairs.
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"What on earth are you both doing in the middle of the night?" Monica asked with a bewildered look. When Regan saw her, she let a long breath. No matter what fear she felt, Monica was safe at least. Well, how would Regan explain this?
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"You told me your aunt was sleeping!" Vesper hissed in her ear, making her flinch.
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"I...I-"
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"Okay, so Regan came in my house and told me someone broke in your house, aunt Monica," Vesper interrupted.
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"What? Regan is this true?"
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"I swear s-someone was here, I saw the b-bathroom's door close itself, I heard noises and saw it's sh-shadow!" she explained, rushing in her words. She hated she stuttered but she was hell scared now.
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When saying this, she knew there was no way that Monica would believe. Regan felt exposed like no way before. She somehow could sense it or him making fun of her. Or this was just fabled irrationally in her mind.
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"And why I didn't hear or saw anything?" Her aunt asked sitting on the couch.
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Vesper did the same.
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"Because you were sleeping!"
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"And why you weren't? I gave you these pills."
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"Pills?" Vesper asked confused.
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"This person was in our house and you wanted me to sleep? I could still sense it's presence." Regan regretted saying the last sentence. Both her friend and aunt were standing as if she were crazy.
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"Whose presence?" Vesper asked.
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"I'm talking about that person who broke in." She referred it as a person, there weren't any better choices of words.
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"Okay girls, stop it already, you're both tired and woken up from sleep. There's no person in our house. Vesper, get back in your house my dear. Forget about this." Monica said as she eyed Regan with a reproachful look.
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Vesper got up and mumbled goodbye.
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"Regan, go to your room and sleep," Monica said strictly.
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"But-"
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"No buts, go now and sleep."
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Regan did as she was ordered, despite that her heart started pounding rapidly when she came in front of the white door, the entrance to her so lovely room. She heard her aunt's footsteps, she gulped and entered in her room.
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Everything that she saw and heard there lashed in her mind. Wherever her eyes landed on the walls, illusions of shadows appeared. She was angry at her aunt for not even slightly believing and for looking like a fool in her friend's eyes.
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It was a bit hard to be believed, but still, shouldn't Monica have tried?
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"Mine...."
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Regan bit her lip to prevent from screaming. She didn't know if she was hearing things, and if she was, why would she hear this word? It reminded her when she was at Vesper's house, and the crimson word in the mirror.
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Fear engulfed her in all directions. The weird energy lingered and it took her fear of being watched on another level. She was also forgetting the roses matter. Each thing was scarier than the other.
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But she knew something: she couldn't stay in her room anymore. She was afraid to even stay in the house, the place she once considered perfect.
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She quickly grabbed her iPhone and saw the time. It was 3:13 am.
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She wondered if it was just a coincidence, these strange things in her house, and the icy eyed man in her dreams. Or if they were related.
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But she was wasting time. The more she stayed in the room, the more danger awoke. The sense of negativity grew and she felt like suffocating. She finally stormed away from her room, but then closed the door quietly, not wanting Monica to hear.
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She turned on the lights, but damn, in a flash, everything turned pitch black. The bulb's light faded fast and Regan realized it was an energy problem.
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"Oh, damnit!"
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She had her phone on hand, so the flashlight could be used, but the phone was dead. She couldn't fathom it, nor did she had time to analyse why or how the phone's battery drained that quickly.
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That was the last thing needed. Panic and fear spread again in her whole being.
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"Shit, that's not fair!" she whispered in frustration.
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She didn't know if her fear was coming from the darkness; after all she hadn't been very afraid of the dark before, but her mental state wasn't the best now. Her heart beat crazily and she could feel sweat prickling her forehead. What lay in the dark? What secrets did darkness hold?
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Naturally, these all made the girl even more frightened. It was like her fears wouldn't ever end.
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The most frustrating thing was that she couldn't see anything. The corridor's windows were shuttered and lights from the road couldn't enter. Or maybe even lights from the road had a disconnection problem.
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Regan felt something dark as she walked irrationally, having to trace.
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"No...no," she shook her head.
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Was that a creepy horror game?
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She walked, halting in her steps. She knew the way around, the corridor wasn't very big after all. But nothing could be seen in the dullness.
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Soon she imposed to stop because she hit a wall. At least that's what she thought. A wave of dread and mystery washed over her.
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Suddenly, she felt something stroking her hair. She jumped away immediately, but she couldn't see anything. Her heartbeats were out of place and her legs felt like ice. She couldn't yell or move, as if she was trapped and frozen.
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She knew something, that she would never forget this experience. Feeling like her whole being would be swallowed by the nothingness. Feeling like, if she dared a step, she'd fall into an infinite abyss....
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