“Mia? What the hell are you doing?!” Amanda yelled.
“Packing” Mia answered. The incident that happened last night had terrified her.
“We’re going to have to go sooner or later anyway. I’m leaving right now.” Mia added, firmly.
“Well, you’re on your own, because no one else is go-” Amanda started.
“-I am." Alex interrupted.
Kristan had walked in next.
“Either all of us are going, or no one is. We’re not splitting up.” Kristan said. There was a hint of desperation in her eyes indicating that she, too, wanted to leave.
“Fine. I’ll go pack up.” Amanda mumbled as she left to go. Kristan turned to Mia.
“Have you been hearing whispering? I keep hearing someone say Leave.” She said slightly shaking.
Mia shook her head no.
“Last night I heard someone whisper to me though.” she replied.
“This house is haunted,” Alex said.
Mia shook her head to disagree.
“Not necessarily. Our minds could be playing tricks on us. You kno-”
Kristan looked at Mia, disbelief shining in her eyes.
“You’re not paranoid of these kind of things?” She said raising an eyebrow.
Alex sighed and got up to go outside for fresh air. She walked around the house and found something in the back.
It was a pond. But what was in it, didn’t look like water. It was a thick curdled silvery substance. She knelt down and looked at the liquid with curiosity. Slowly, she edged her finger to the surface of the liquid. Her finger was about a millimeter away from the liquid, when all of a sudden, she was pulled back by a pair of strong arms. She looked up and saw a pair of stunning green eyes.
“Hi, I’m Harry.” he smiled. Alex sat up and scanned his face. “A-Alex” She said hesitantly. He continued to smile.
“It’s nice to mee- What’re you doing out in the middle of the woods?” She interrupted him.
“Might as well ask you the same question.” he asked.
“Camping.” She answered, looking down.
“Oh, so you decided to “Camp” in an abandoned house?” He asked smirking.
Alex turned red. He chuckled and patted her shoulder. She winced at his touch.
“You’re freezing.” She said taking his hand off her shoulder. “Sorry.” He said looking down. She smiled. “It’s fine.”
He looked up and looked into her eyes. Alex blushed and looked away.
“So...you never told me what you were doing here.” She said pointing out.
“I live he-” the strange boy started.
“ALEX!” Alex turned around and saw the girls running towards her.
“WHATHA HECK, YOU SCARED US!!!” They yelled in unison.
“Sorry.” Alex replied quietly.
“Jesus..let’s go.” Amanda said grabbing Alex’s hand.
“Wait. What about… Harry?” Alex had turned around, but Harry wasn’t there. He had disappeared.
***
It had been around five hours since the girls had left the abandoned house, and they were all tired, hungry, and thirsty.
“I’m stopping,” Amanda announced dropping her bag. The girls nodded and dropped their bags as well.
“I’m going to go see if there’s any water around.” Lucy decided, as she left to go find something to famish their thirst.
20 minutes had passed searching for something to drink and, still, not a single sign of water was to be seen. Lucy decided to take a break and sat down.
From the corner of her eye she saw a shimmer. She turned and sure enough a small lake was visible.
“Finally!” She got up and stumbled to the water.
As she approached the water something started to pound in her head. Her knees started to lose balance and she fell to the ground.
Her head was killing her. It felt worse then a migraine. She felt as if she was going to black out when suddenly the pounding stopped. She looked up, and saw a boy with green eyes.
“You sure you want to die drinking this ‘water’?” he stepped aside to reveal thick, crimson liquid with protruding lumps. The lumps slowly started to unsurface from the blood.
Heads. Severed heads were unsurfacing. Lucy gasped and fell back.
“They’re souls. Go back to that pond you saw your friend at earlier.” The boy smirked.
Lucy looked up at the boy with fear. “I won’t hurt you… yet.” he announced, getting closer to Lucy.
“Who- Who are you?” She managed to ask.
“Fahima” He replied in a thick voice and disappeared taking the horrid sight of the lake with him.
Lucy stood up drenched in sweat.
“HEY!” Amanda called from behind causing Lucy to jump. As she got closer her face
turned from happy to depressed and in pain within seconds.
She put her head in her hands indicating her head was hurting.
“Dehydrations kicki-” Amanda started.
“It’s not dehydration and this isn’t water. We need to leave and right now.” Lucy said firmly, as she grabbed Amanda’s hand and walked off towards the others.
There was no way Lucy was going to tell the others what she saw. They would call her
a lunatic. The question was, was she imagining things or had all this been a warning? A sign?
