The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Chapter 69

Sunshine is at Nolan's apartment.

Nothing is happening.

"See?" she tells the camera, "look at this. I just wanted to prove to all of you—nothing's happening. Look."

She glances around the room then turns the camera around, showing Nolan laying with his back on the floor, staring at the ceiling.

He turns his head and looks over at her.

"Not...sure what he's doing, but," she shrugs, "nothing's happening." A pause, testing the air. "Yeah, definitely nothing. No plates, no scary noises, no things turning on—"

"Okay," Nolan interjects.

"I'm just stating facts," Sunshine says.

"'Cause it didn't happen one time?"

She rolls her eyes. "Still don't really want to hang out here though." It's boring.

"Well, then—stop inviting yourself over all the time," Nolan says, rolling on his stomach and pressing his elbows to the floor. "I'm not making you."

Sunshine raises her brows incredulously and looks at the camera. "He invited me over, twice now. It was him," she whispers.

"While you're here enjoy yourself, or go—" Nolan pauses and inspects a cupboard. "I wonder what's in here, I actually don't know."

"Alright," Sunshine says loudly. "So that was everything."

"Well, that's disappointing," he pouts, shutting the drawers.

"Apparently there's nothing in there."

"I don't know why there would be," he sighs. "I guess there's not anything in here that I didn't put in there." He lays his head down on the ground.

Okay.
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Something's happening.

Something's happening, something bad.

Sunshine can't speak. Her throat feels like it's been carved into woodchips, and the traces of red marks bruise into her pale skin. She feels terror thrum through her body but forces herself to calm down, remembering all of Victoria's training.

She's okay. She's not getting possessed. She just needs to breathe.

And find her mother.

She grabs her camera, slides out of bed, and makes her way into the hallway, stepping down the stairs as she breathes shakily. The living room is dark and the kitchen even darker. Sunshine opens her mouth to speak then remembers how badly it hurts to.

Well.

She opens a drawer and pulls out a piece of paper and a Halloween-themed pencil. 'I CAN'T TALK' she writes. 'MOM?'

Sunshine frowns and turns, gasping softly when a white, pale figure stands before her. The darkness dissipates and she relaxes when she realizes it's just her mother approaching her.

Kat can't speak, either.

She desperately moves her hands and tries to communicate with Sunshine, but both women make it clear they can't talk. A sudden noise from upstairs startles both of them, causing them to look at each other. Sunshine points upstairs and Kat shakes her head.

They've gotta go up there.

Sunshine takes the lead and knows that, no matter how scared her mom is, she won't let her daughter go up alone—not after the whole demon fiasco last time. Even then, though, both of them are scared, and the pitch black darkness doesn't seem to help that sentiment.