𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 | 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧¹

𝙴𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚞𝚎

Bunny sat on Joshs bed staring up at the ceiling as she waited for Deena. Deena was currently using the bathroom and Sam was downstairs in the living room trying to find a movie to watch.

The doorbell rang, Bunny jumping up at the sound.

"Who's that?" Josh asked.

"I ordered a pizza. Come with me." Bunny says, Josh and her leaving the room, passing the living room and seeing Sam still looking for a movie.

Bunny opened the door, paying the delivery man and taking the box into the kitchen where Josh was waiting.

The phone rang, Bunny hearing Deena yell, "I got it!"

Josh opened the box as Bunny spoke, "you were on your computer so you didn't answer me when I asked what you wanted. Is pepperoni okay?"

"Yeah, pepperoni is good."

      It went silent as the two heard grunting and shouts from the hallway, the two running in to see Sam tied up with the telephone cord and Deena holding her stomach where she was bleeding.

      "What the fuck happened?!!" Bunny shouts, walking next to Deena.

      "I don't know! I was on the phone with C. Berman and she just stabbed me!" Deena explains.

       "We have to get her back." Bunny tells the two, earning nods from the siblings.

•••

      They had stuffed Sam into the trunk if Deenas dads car, driving to C. Berman a house.

      When they made it there, they spilt up, looking for ways to get into the house after she didn't answer the door.

Bunny turned the corner of her house, seeing Deena trying to hoist herself through the window, only to get pulled in by someone.

"Don't fucking move!" She hears someone yell, assuming it was C. Berman.

      "Wait, wait! Stop, please, please! We called you!" Deena yells.

        She looks through the window seeing Josh and Bunnys heads.

       "Why the hell would you come here?" She asks.

      They take her to the trunk, Deena opening the trunk to show Sam.

       "No! no, no, no, no! You need to leave! Right now! You have no idea what your doing!" C. Berman tells them.

     Bunny stops her from walking back inside, Deena speaking, "Yes. Exactly, You are the only person who knows what we're dealing with."

      "Which is why, i don't want that thing anywhere near me. Get that car and 'it' off of my property." She tells Deena.

       "Her name is Sam." Bunny says, "You could have watched us dead on the six o'clock news, but you didn't. You called us back."

"I can't help you with this!" C. Berman says frustrated.

  "You are our last chance! The witch--"

C. Berman interrupts Deena, "No, I'm sorry."

She starts to go inside but Bunny holds her still, "One of my best friends is possessed by her and tied up in a trunk, but you... You saw her and you survived. What was different? Please. Maybe something happened to you, something that can help us stop her."

"There's not! You can't stop her. Run, far as you can, fast as you can! That is your only chance!" C. Berman says, beginning to walk away only to stop when Deena speaks again.

      "Look, we can't just run! Look, Sam... we can't let her die. I won't. Please!" Deena yells.

      "Please?" Bunny asks.

      "Just, keep her away from Major Tom." She gives in, all of them going into her house.

"It's completely fine. She's tied up in the bathroom, so she like, totally can't leave right now, we're cool." Josh looks at her nervously, Sam then growling, "Yep cool. Cool, cool."

"Take a seat." C. Berman tells us as we all sit on the floor in front of her, "In Shadyside, the past is never really the past." C. Berman starts as she opens a book,

"This was July 12th. The Summer of 1978. The first day of camp." She pulls out a photo, throwing it on the floor in front of the kids, "A week later, my sister was dead."