Wormed Into my Heart

Chapter Five: A New Beginning

She put the fire out, and grabbed the bones that didn’t burn. She put them in her basement. She flopped onto her bed, and what she did set in. She wanted John again. She wanted to have John raise the baby with her. He was dead.  She got an idea, and she got into her car.

She walked to the cemetery, and walked to John’s grave. A grave she had visited too many times. She knelt down and she rested her hand on his name. John Quinones. She wanted him back. How could she talk to him? A seance? She pulled out her phone, and she tried to find a medium in LA. One was open now. She got back up onto her feet and she went to the medium. 

She walked in, and the room was filled with dolls and seemingly weird objects. She felt a chill creep down her spine. She picked up a stone, and was suddenly interrupted by the sound of someone entering the room. She couldn’t see him, but she called out, “Hello? Is anybody here?” 

Although she couldn’t see anybody, she heard a man’s voice in a thick Greek accent saying, “Hello, my name is Bartholomew Demetrius Alexandre, the unusual. What are you doing here?” Sarah said, “I’m here to speak to my husband.” A shadow emerged from a part of the room, and he asked, “Is he dead?” Bartholomew looked no more than five feet tall, and his skin had olive properties. Sarah said, “Yes. He passed away almost a year ago.”

Bartholomew led her into a room that was dimly lit with candles. He told her to sit down. As she sat, she noticed the shelves upon shelves of books with titles like, ‘How to Summon a Demon for Dummies’, ‘How to Perform a Seance.’ There was a round table, that was set. He said, “Do you want a seance?” Sarah hesitantly said, “Yes.” He grabs some food, and puts all of it on the plates in front of them. He sits down across the table from her, and he motions for her to hold his hands. He asks, “What is his name?” “John Quinones.” She replies. He says, 

“Say this phrase with me, ‘Our beloved John Quinones, we bring you presents from the dead. Commune with us, John Quinones, and move with us.’”
In unison, they say, “Our beloved John Quinones, we bring you presents from the dead. Commune with us, John Quinones, and move with us.”

Bartholomew says, “I feel him among us. Ask him anything that you want.”

Sarah said, “John, I’m sorry for what I did, I love you. How can I fix this?”

"He won’t respond.”

“Do you want the baby to be yours?”

“He doesn’t want the baby.”

“Do you want to help me raise it?”

“He doesn’t want to.”

Sarah felt her heart fall into her stomach. She says, “Do you forgive me?”

“There’s no response.” 

Sarah began to cry. Bartholomew says, “Goodbye, John Quinones, thank you for your time. May you go in peace.” They seperate their hands, and Sarah feels devastated. She loved John, but because she forgot him, she had to pay for that. 

Bartholomew tried to comfort her, but she was a mess. He asked her, “Do you want to tell me about what happened?” Sarah explained everything that had happened in the past year. She felt as if a weight was lifted from her shoulders. Bartholomew said, “Wow. The only advice I can give you, is to get a legal divorce with John, because he doesn’t want any of it to happen.” She agrees, and decides that is what she should do.

She was ready to divorce John.

She found out that she didn’t need an official divorce decree, and she changed her name back to Sarah the tiktok famous worm. She was ready to move on with her life, and she was going to start by moving out of the house she and Chase bought together. 

She needed to find a new house. She needed a real estate agent and so many more things. She had to do it all by herself. She found a real estate agent, and she asked to see one of the houses she found online. 

She drove up to the house, and she took a deep breath. The agent was already there, and so she stepped out of her car, and she saw the agent. She shook her hand, and she asked, “Are you Sarah?”

"Yes, I’m Sarah.”

She said, “Great, let’s take a look inside.” The agent opened the door, and ushered Sarah in. Sarah looked at the house, and she immediately wanted it. She got a tour through the house, and then she decided that she wanted the house. She said, “I want to make an offer on the house.” 

The agent shakes her hand and says they can talk about it.

                                                                                                                                     

Moving day. She was going to move out of this house, and she was ready to have a new start. She looked at the house she bought with the father of her child, and the child was due in a few months. She looked at her stomach sticking out, with her baby girl inside. She was happy that she would get a life with her baby. She would work hard to make her baby’s life good. She was finishing up all of the packing as the movers she had hired were in the basement. She was putting away all of her clothes into boxes as the movers ask if she made model skeletons. She was confused, and said, “No, I don’t.” A look of horror washed over the mover’s faces. One of the movers asked, “Then what are the bones in the basement?” Sarah forgot about the bones of Chase in her basement. She was horrified. The movers quickly called 911 and Sarah tried to stop them. She didn’t cover up her tracks as well as she should have. 

The police arrive and the movers tell them that there are human bones in the basement. She realized that there was nothing she could do, and they would eventually figure out that Chase has been missing for months. When she looks at the police, her eyes well up. She didn’t want to cry in front of the police, but the tears started to flow, and she just sat down on the curb as her tears consumed her. A police officer came and sat next to her. He asked, “What happened?” Sarah, between sobs said, “Chase Hudson lied to me about being married to me after I lost my memory in a car accident. He accused me of horrible things, and I got so mad at him. He put me in a big mess, and I should have handled it by talking to someone. My anger just built up and I-” The police officer said, “I understand. Can we take a look at the bones?” Sarah agreed, and she took them into the basement. She showed them, and asked if they could take them for evidence. She agreed again, and she would come in for questioning. They shuffled her into the police car.