OUIJA BOARD

Chapter 7: The Shadow

It was already It was Saturday morning. We still had 8 more day till we get to leave this hell spawn. I rubbed my head and I didn't feel really good at all. I felt like I was about to faint. I felt nauseous. Maybe I did run out too much blood. I should have treated my wound. It was 9:47, I got of of my bed and ran towards the bathroom. I turned on the lights and looked at myself in the big mirror. I looked horrible indeed. I looked like I have been casting in a horror movie. I had a big bruise in the bottom of my eye making it look like I actually had a black eye. I had three scratch marks that had dry blood. There was faint drenched blood in my pale skin. On my collarbones I had three scratch marks looking the same as the ones on my cheek. Katy was right, I lost so much blood that I turned really pale. Just as pale as a vampire would be. My dark brown eyes made me look even worst since they kind of looked black. "Mina? I don't mean to disturb you but we need to speak Milady," someone said calling out for me. It must have been James since he didn't just come into the room. I turned off the light and went to oh open the bedroom door. I didn't notice before that I was the only one in the room. I opened the door and there was James standing there. He looked at me with wide eyes,"Milady! What happened to you? We must get you cleaned!" He said looking at me head to toe. "I..no it's fin-" I started. But then I was disrupted when he grabbed my elbow and gently tugged me towards the parlor. There was a lady that was cleaning up the broken vase from yesterday. The lady looked up and saw James and I standing in the doorway. "Yes?" She said continuing. "You need to get Mina here cleaned before breakfast." He said leaving me at the doorway standing alone. He was really nice for a butler. He looked like a teenager. He had sleek black hair comed to the side. Nice little pointy nose with green eyes. Some freckles to on his nose. They were barely noticeable from how lightly colored they were. He had a nice jawline to. Anyways he looked like he was a 15 year old. 3 years older than me which is a big difference. The lady ran towards me in her tip-toes while putting both of her hands in the bottom of her dress making sure it doesn't fly up. "Follow me Milady," she said as she led me to another hallway I didn't remember seeing. The hallway had multiple portraits on the wall that definitely looked old. She noticed me looking at the portraits and she smiled. The one I was looking at was a boy that looked exactly like James. Except smaller. "Well that be James Milady, of course smaller version, he was either 11 or 12 on that portrait of him." I swiftly nodded while I admired the other paintings. "Since you look trustworthy, you think you could handle a small secret?" I looked at her in curiosity and in interest. She figured that I was listening so she continued,"Those extra paintings are James family, they used to live here..until.." She looked down in sorrow. I cocked my head,"Until what?" She didn't bother looking up,"Until one night they were murdered.." It looked like she was about to cry. So I gave her a small hug, she didn't hug back though. "I don't think that's appropriate here Milady," she said when I let her go. "Well I say it's appropriate because I'm comforting you, not anything else more personal Ma'am." I said as I put my hands on my hips. She lightly smiled with her rosy cheeks and sweet eyes of hers. She looked like she was in her 30's or 40's. She was very sweet by the look of her. "Shall we continue? We need to get you cleaned up." She said turning. I nodded and I followed her once again. She took me to a dressing room. There was a seat that had a large mirror like those celebrities in Hollywood usually use. She made me sit down and she dragged a chair to sit next to me. She also brought a few things like a warm wet towel. She carefully cleaned my face making sure she doesn't hurt me. When she was done, she put some bandages to cover nth scratch marks. Of course she didn't cover the bruise under my eye because there was no need for band aids. "May I say not to offend you, you've gotten pale!" She said as she examined my skin. I nodded in agreement. "I could see why," she said as she looked at the blood drenched gown. "Come here, I have appropriate clothes that you could wear." She said standing up once again. She brought me to a huge closet full of dresses and such. "Wow," I said looking at the dresses. "Wow indeed," she chose a dress that looked formal. It was just a simple white dress that had a thin brown belt around it. She also took out some flats that were white. "Here, you could change in here while I go out and gather a few things Milady," she said as she closed the door behind her. I examined the white dress. I took no time putting it on. I looked at myself in the mirror. I can't believe a dress fit me well with my glasses. I could here the lady call out from outside the door, "are you done?" I opened the door. "Ah perfect! Let me just come your hair and you will be done." After she comed my hair she took me to the kitchen and left. In the table it had multiple Foods on it. I could see Joey, Jeff, Philip, Anna, and Katy also wearing formal clothes. I laughed at what the boys were wearing. "Shut up, these tuxedos are tight, they should we worn to dinner better off," Philip groaned almost tearing his bow tie. I laughed and sat next to Anna. "So your looking pale today?" Katy said rolling her eyes. I just laughed at her random comment. "So are you guys sure you want to try the board again? Especially you Mina.." Philip said directly at me. "Yeah, I don't care." I said as I looked down at the foods. "If you get hurt not my fault it will be yours Mina." He said reassuring me. "Yeah I get it." I said shaking my head. After we ate we went outside for a change. We got to change into swim suits. I almost drowned since I forgot I needed to swim in the deep part duh. As I was swimming i saw Joey staring in the deep part of the water. I saw next to him,"What's wrong?" I asked. He didn't budge. I stared at his face, he looked pale. I looked down and tried to see what he was looking at. In the deep part of the pool, there was a black shadow in the water. I kept on staring at it. Could it be just one of our friends playing a prank on us? I looked around and saw Katy was on the lawn chair. Philip was playing with a beach all along with Jeff. Lastly, Anna was in the Jacuzzi. James and the others that work around the mansion are inside. Except for the lady who helped me dress, she took care of us outside. I turned back to the shadow in the water. It looked like it was already coming to the surface, but in a dead manor. Joey was still staring. As the shadow was on the surface I put my hands over my mouth and tears started forming in my eyes. There was a little girl. The water started turning red. I screamed and tried to take Joey out of the water but he didn't move. I continued screaming until the little girl stared at me with devilish eyes. I froze in fear. She then opened her mouth so wide that I didn't know it was possible. As she did she lunged after me and bit my arm. She sent me down under water drowning me. I heard a splash from above. I had a hard time seeing since I was underwater. I was then grabbed from my waist and pulled. That's when I blacked out. Everything went completely blank. I can't remember what happened. I woke up to a headache and groaned as I rubbed my head,"ergh, what happened?" I said out loud. I saw James sitting in a chair right next to the bed I was laying. He was reading a book until he heard my voice,"Ah your awake! Glad to see your not severely hurt." He said as he picked up my left arm. "I see it hasn't healed yet." I gave him a questioning look. What hasn't healed yet? He looked at me and frowned,"so you have forgotten?" He asked almost in a whisper. I raised an eyebrow. What was he talking about. Since he was picking up my arm I decided to look. There was bloody bite marks close to my shoulder,"What happened? Why is my arm bitten?" I said as I winced in pain when I poked it. "You were drowning somehow, I don't know how you've gotten that bite mark, I saved you from drowning and brought you here to rest since you had your eyes closed." He said stopping for a moment,"Also I needed to give you CPR to save your life.." My eyes widened. Wait CPR!? So this boy put his mouth on my mine? Oh you have got to be kidding me, I thought to myself as I flushed in embarrassment. I didn't know what to say so the only thing I could do is thank him. He nodded and said your welcome. Then there was a knock in the door. Someone opened the door a creak,"Is Mina awake?" A male voice asked. I looked up and saw it was Philip. James stood up and opened the door so he could see I was awake. He breathed in relief. I sat up from the bed,"Is there something we need to talk about?" I said already knowingly. He nodded and stepped into the room. "I shall leave you two alone," James said before stepping out. He didn't bother to close the door but that was fine. "We need to talk-" he started,"I'm still doing to OUIJA board tonight Philip." I said sternly. He shook his head,"well it's not about that, it's Joey." I stood up in alarm,"what about Joey?" He stood up and told me to follow with his finger. I followed him to the pool. "You gotta see this." He said pointing at the pool. There was Joey in the pool. Same spot. Same stare. It looked like he hasn't blinked or moved at all. He was just so still and unmoving. That was already creeping me out. "How long as he been there? Has he moved?" He shook his head,"No he hasn't moved and he has been there in that same exact spot ever since you drowned..which was about 2 hours ago. Sun is almost down too and he can't stay there forever, we need to find a way of getting him out since I sense something bad will happen if he stays there the whole night or even the whole week!" He said worriedly. This isn't good at all. We have to get him out before sundown.