The Others

Chapter 2: Voices

We took all day to finish unpacking and when we finished it was already night. Everyone else were already asleep in their own rooms.

I woke up with Spot, Shaggy, and Elmo on in my bed. They're all big dogs. Elmo laid on my feet at the bottom of the bed. Shaggy and Spot occupied the sides. I sat up rubbing my eyes as the adjust to the dark.

"Mozart?" I called for him. He wasn't in the room which was weird. My door was wide open so I climbed out of my bed. My feet shivered at the touch of the cold wood floor and I put on my rain boots from the end of my bed. I looked at the time of my alarm clock on my dresser. 12:30 I read.

I sighed and walked out the room closing the other three in the room. I could see Mozart sitting by the railing in front of Lily's room. Was he just staring at her door?

"Mozart come on..," I could hear how tired I was and when Mozart didn't move I trudged over to him still rubbing my eyes. When I got over to him I could hear Lily whispering in her room... She was talking to someone... And they were responding. I pressed my ear against the door.

"You live here too?" I could only hear Lily's part and only the sounds of someone whispering back.

"Yea of course we can be friends!" She was excited this late at night.

"I can't even tell Abby? She saw you earlier though... Ok ok I promise I won't say anything....... Thank you for giving me Rosy....... Do you have to leave so soon?....... Ok I understand," the whispering then stopped and I saw Mozart walk off back into my room. The door swung open and I looked down to see Lily looking up at me while hugging her doll.

"What are you doing Abby?" She looked at me with curiosity.

"Who were you talking to?" I asked slowly.

"No one," Lily said before closing to door so I couldn't ask her anything else but I stopped her with my foot and came in her room. No one was there.

"Who's Rosy?" I asked as I looked back at Lily. Lily held up her new doll that she hasn't let go since we got here.

"That's her name. Isn't it nice?" Lily smiled proudly.

"Mhm," I sounded more annoyed than I wanted to. I put Lily to sleep and left her room. I was tired. When I'm tired I see things but this was the first time I heard things.

I went into my room and almost forgot to close the door. I turned to close the door and I say a woman with a vale over her face standing on the top of the steps staring at me.

"Who-" I started to ask but my door slammed shut in my face. I screamed and grabbed the door knob. It didn't have a lock but it felt like a force wasn't letting me open the door. When I let go the door opened slowly again and the woman was gone. I closed my door again and hopped back in bed between my dogs. I slipped into the covers completely. I spent that night under my covers and barely got any sleep.