It was Us

|| Phases

[would love if you leave behind your reviews. The longest chapter so far! And this is dedicated to my sister for it's her birthday, enjoy❤️ ]

The night was dim but calm with pale lights lit up in the hallway. Jeff was fearful anyway, she could've been a little strong if the place was anything but silent. Before her parents left for a trip, she had assumed that she could survive the night without them which felt kind of hard now. She should retire to sleep which would stop her brain from making out horrible thoughts, Jeff thought. When her feet touched the first stair to proceed to her room, a faint sound echoed in her ears, scaring her to bones. She turned around to find nothing, so convincing herself that it was her brain playing, she started strolling up the stairs. The faint sound she first heard grew more, scaring away every strength remained in her. She shuddered at the thought of her house having got ghosts. Extremely frightened, she slowly twisted her neck behind and gasped.

There was someone.

"Who-who is that?" Scared as never before, she asked with rational thoughts being blocked out of her brain at the silhouette. Hugging her quivering body, she tried bolstering herself to face the situation that only felt turning worse. Her wobbly legs tried making a movement toward the shadow resemblence of a being. Her shivering hands searched for something sharp to attack but what if it was someone stronger than her? What would happen then?

A cold sweat broke out from her forehead. Whoever there was still, making her think of a possibility of it being a sculpture. Then, she had hit on running away to her room and then she'd manage to call the cops and tackle this stitch, yes. Turning around as quickly as she could at the moment, she bolted upstairs, when not even half of the steps had been crossed, a loud laugh dispersed the silence out of the place, turning Jeff stoned. Anxious, then suspicious, she swirled around and stayed disbelieved. Running a hand over her red sweaty face, she yelled, "Are you freaking insane, Nandini?!"

Tears had pushed down Nandini's eyes but her laughter hadn't died yet. "See, my dre-dream came true too soon," laughing hysterically, Nandini threw her head back watching Jeff breathing harshly, half releived and half furious.

"I'm killing you now for sure." Jeff ran to her but Nandini didn't draw up her chortle.

"Ahh, Revenge is so sweet." Nandini smirked at her, regaining her poise though laughter still roamed in her tongue.

"How did you even get in here?" Jeff warily asked, diverting the topic so that she could escape her teasing. Jeff knew she soon would describe her face features which indeed was horrified. Nandini simpered on having caught her intention, anyway, being a good-hearted woman that she was, she chucked her teasing for time being.

"I intended to meet all of you since, you know, it's been a long time. And when I reached, I met both uncle and aunty and on hearing that they're going out, I thought I could get spare keys from them somehow and achieve my dream," she narrated, a smug smile playing on her lips. "Yeah yeah." Jeff rolled her eyes at her.

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"Now are you going to ghost around here or sleep?", Jeff asked, sitting on her bed.

"Nopes, actually I'm gonna change into a white dress, sit by the window and chant spell to release spirits!" Nandini solemnly asserted.

"I regret asking you to stay the night here already." Jeff shook her head remorsefully.

Stifling a chuckle, Nandini explained,"I could have denied but who knows, a ghost may haunt you or someone may really break into your house with a knife and..." She shook her head sorrowfully at her, "that's why I'm staying here."