Voices

Chapter Two: Sylvia

Later that day what Sylvia said really started getting to me about how I should take her warnings as warnings and not just suggestions, I talked to Via about it and she told me not to worry about it that much and that Sylvia didn't make mom disappear that is just a coincidence said Via. It seemed like Via thought this problem was silly and didn't really care. I wonder if this thought will get to her too . But Via did say not to worry and that mom will be okay the police will find her. Which was nice to hear I mean i've been telling myself that but it's more comforting when somebody else does. Me and V went down to breakfast my dad wasn't out yet I guess the thought of losing mom forever hit him too. I decided to make breakfast for me and Via, Via was going too but I was afraid she might not remember how to cook so I decided to do it for her. I was the older twin only by a few minutes but still older. I made us blueberry waffles. I remembered how much Via liked them because she could taste blueberries much better in waffles for some weird reason. I wasn't that hungry so I brought the waffles to my dad's room to eat. He was lying in bed still not wanting to talk much so I just left the waffle on the nightstand, it was sad to see my dad like that although I was kinda used to it my dad was like this when Via was in the hospital. I was really upset and I didn't know what to do. I just sat on my bed and texted my friend Jeremy for a while. He made me feel better. He always does, we began planning our science project. It had something to do with magnets. I wasn't really paying attention. Jeremy was coming over to my house to work on the science project later today. I went out to the cafe with Via even though she wasn't supposed to, she really really wanted to go with me so I agreed. To be honest we had a lot of fun and I'd do it over and over. It was so weird hanging out with Via but a good weird. I was just trying to waste time while I waited for mom to come back home. I talked to Via more about Sylvia, she could actually control my future and maybe she can control me or you or maybe anybody?! Via told me that I was acting crazy, "Tiff, this has gone on for long enough you should tell somebody go to mental hospital something, these things you're saying it's not normal for a 13 year old girl to say, you need to get help Tiff" Said Oliva. I refused to get help, Sylvia was real and she was seriously dangerous. I told V i'd get help just so she'd get off my back then I said I had to go work on my science project with Jeremy as I was leaving something happened Via stood up and grabbed my shoulder tightly and turned me around facing her looking in her eyes, I was paralyzed of fear, She put her other hand on my other shoulder and lifted me up moving her hands down to my waist and said to me, I'm not that easy. Then dropped me back down on the floor while I was being lifted by my twin sister. I felt like I was being shocked, and my sister's voice was muffled a little. Via fainted and I tried waking her up but she didn't then Sylvia came into my mind saying "i'm not that easy" over and over. Trying to ignore the increasingly loud voice I picked Via up with almost all my strength and ran out of the cafe onto the streets of Tokyo. Our house was quite far from the cafe and I had to carry my twin all the way there, I started walking and I got a ton of weird looks i'm pretty sure one of the people I passed called the police and even though I wasn't sure I'm not taking any chances, I ran with Via in my arms still not waking up, I looked around the corner of this clothing store, and saw an old restaurant being destroyed, I didn't see any construction workers there I looked down at V and then bolted for the broken down building. I jumped through the broken window almost dropping V on the cement floor on the inside of the building. Her eyelids fluttered a little so she was waking up, I had a backpack and I put my water bottle in there. I swung off my backpack and splashed Via's face with a little bit of water waking her up, She woke up panicked and disoriented she screamed who I was and where she was, For a second I got a little worried but she came back in a few minutes and remembered who she was, her family, her friends. She didn't remember what had happened before she fainted. I told her what had happened, " We were at the cafe drinking tea and then when I got up to leave it's like you got possessed by some demon or-r" "Or what?" Via asked. I screamed "Sylvia!" "what, who's Sylvia, is she one of your friends?" That's weird I thought "that's weird, you remembered everything but Sylvia" I said. Via didn't seem to be following all that much. I brought Via back home and explained to her, who Sylvia was and what she had done to V. Via seemed shocked but she believed me, like she did the first time. I said out loud Sylvia, why did you make Via forget about you and why did you possess her in the first place?! She didn't answer. I asked again Sylvia, why did you make Via forget about you and why did you possess her in the first place?! No answer. Via left the room to go get a snack sense she was hungry and smelt cookies I brought home from the cafe. I said one last time Sylvia, tell me why you did that, I don't understand. All of the sudden all of the lights in my and V's bedroom turned on and faced me making my shadow appear I heard Sylvia's crusty voice saying, You see Tiffany- then my shadow appeared and something crawled up from the shadow with arms as long as the torso legs longer than the walls eyes red with a stitched a mouth screaming, I AM NOT THAT EASY, THE GAME HAS JUST BEGUN. Then my lights shut off and my shadow disappeared. I stood there in shock. I was horrified. I just saw the monster that had been living in my head "Don't think so carelessly there Tiffany, you have no idea what I'm capable of" said Sylvia hauntingly. She was alive in my head. Maybe Via was right. Maybe Via knew something bad was going to happen and she was trying to stop it, but how did she know? This is all so confusing I thought to myself nothing makes sense. I thought I had everything connected. While I was in the middle of almost having a panic attack the doorbell rang, I ran down the stairs to answer the door I nearly fell down the stairs but then luckily didn't and quickly answered the door it was Jeremy I completely forgot he was coming to work on the project, I was already super overwhelmed "Ohh, hey Jeremy." I said "hi Tiff? Are you okay, you're acting weird?" asked Jeremy. "yeah i'm fine, come in!" I was so nervous for some reason I don't even know what I was so nervous about. Me and Jeremy walked up to start working on our african heritage project. We began brainstorming and I kept talking about random things in the middle of when we were working like when Jeremy asked me who we should do the project on, and I began talking about who we should do our project on Viola Desmond and then began talking about what if everybody had a voice in there head and then I almost started talking directly about me and Sylvia, luckily Jeremy stopped me before I could give away my secret, and said that I was being super tense. Jeremy decided to leave and said he'd just come back later to get working on the project to be completely honest. It was a very big relief that he left, I did not know how long I could pretend to not hear Sylvia in my head. After Jeremy left she seemed to be quiet again which was so nice to not hear anything anymore. I wished I could just stop hearing Sylvia in my head. It was now getting impossible to ignore, Sylvia has been bothering me so much lately she's never really acted this way before. It was very weird. I met up with Via and her friend Nora at this park they were just talking and having some ice cream that looked delicious, I walked over to there bench by these two tall bright tree's I introduced myself to Nora sense i've never met her, we talked for a while about school and Via's health until I got up to get some ice cream, I did want ice cream but I got up mostly because Sylvia was being loud again and it was really bothering me. Whenever I was around people Sylvia got really loud and she wasn't talking. She would just make these extremely loud noises that were either very high pitched or very low pitched, I should've gone deaf by now, I got some just chocolate ice cream which is my favourite. I've never ordered from an ice cream truck before. It was a little more normal than it should've been, I was ready for some weird ice cream server but no, the guy was normal there just nothing special about the interaction. I guess it was just my mind creating scenarios in my brain like usual. I grabbed my chocolate ice cream and walked over to Via and her friend. We talked for a while until Via and I had to go for some family event so we turned away saying goodbye to her friend which for some reason I didn't know her name but she looked familiar. Via and I walked back home which felt like a long walk. We barely talked for the entire way home, which was weird, I wonder if she was mad at me. Sylvia of course just had to chime in saying yeah of course she's mad at you, I asked out loud why? Via looked at me confused but I didn't pay much attention to that and paid more attention to Sylvia she said, why wouldn't she be mad at you. Via then shouted out Tiff, I'm not mad at you if that's what you were thinking that was weird, maybe it's just that twin telepathy I asked her how she knew? She just shrugged and motioned towards me saying the look on your face, it says it all. Ohh, that makes more sense. I said. Via looked at me and said what did you think gave it away? I don't know twin telepathy? I jokingly said, we both laughed a little and went back to walking. I saw a house past the two we were right behind. I began running with my hands in my hoodie pockets. With the sun shining on our house, Via shouted Wait up Tiff! I kept running hearing Via say oh, it's on. Via wasn't really supposed to run all that much but she seemed fine and it's not like a little cardio would kill her. I beat Via by quite a bit which felt good. She was always more athletic, I was a good runner but Via was super fast, I probably hurt her ego a little. I checked if she was alright. She was breathing super heavy leaning against the big maple tree in our front yard, her face was bright pink and she looked super tired. She was actually happy though, I think she was proud of me but just didn't want to be a sore loser in front of her twin. We walked up our creaky stairs up onto our deck opening the front door and dad was standing there.