The Ash Woods

Chapter Four

 Y/N POV

I woke up to the sound of my name being called frantically and the closet door handle shaking vigorously. I look out the seemingly small window Lily had set up for me to light up the closet during the day since it hadn't had a light bulb installed yet. It's daytime! I hurriedly unlocked the closet door. As soon as I did that, it swung open allowing the bright light to enter and almost blind me. Once I could see, I saw a worried Lily trying to understand why I locked myself in the closet. It took her a moment to understand what was going on before she hit me with a wave of questions.

"Y/n what happened? You look like you didn't sleep. Why did you lock yourself in the closet!? Oh no, your nose is starting to bleed again. Mini! Get me some tissues! Y/n's nose is starting to bleed again!" She yells out. Then she focused on me again and dragged me to the bed closing the closet door behind her. Once I was on top of the bed, she sat down beside me. It was then that Mini entered the room holding a box of tissues with Liam walking right behind her. Mini passed the box of tissues to Lily, then sat on the bed. "What happened?" Liam asked while Lily started to wipe away the blood.

"She's having another nosebleed," Lily explained as she proceeded to stuff two tissues up my nose. Mini proceeded to ask the questions from there. Unfortunately, though, it was questions I had already heard from Lily just recently. "What happened to you? You look terrible. Why are your eyes puffy and red?" she asked. "Oh- uhm... I just got something in my eyes last night," I said unsure of what to do. Should I tell them? I decided to tell them what happened last night.

"Um... Last night something came into my room. I think it was searching for me. However, as you could see I hide in the closet in an attempt to get some protection. I don't know what it wanted. Although it did seem really mad it couldn't find me. It tried opening the closet door, but thankfully the lock on there was strong enough to hold it. I think the thing was a male person. It had a very deep voice." I said explaining what happened last night. The entire time all three of them were quiet. That is until Lily spoke up. "Liam, go and prepare breakfast. Mini lead y/n to the dining room and get the drinks ready. I'll search the room for some clues," she said with an unreadable face.

Mini got up, grabbed my hand and hauled me off the bed with surprising strength. Then, she dragged me to the dining room once Liam left to go to the kitchen. Once we reach the dining room, Liam is already placing down the breakfast for all of us. Mini let go of my hand to go and prepare the drinks once I sat down in my chair. As soon as Mini put the drinks in their respective spots, and Liam Set all of the food down, Lily came out with a blank face. When she reached the dining chair, we all prayed for the delicious food. Liam said the prayer. "Dear god, thank you for providing the delicious food on our table. Please keep y/n healthy and safe. Omen," he said.

"Omen," we repeated. We all took turns taking the food off the serving plates in front of us. There was pancakes, egg, sausage, bacon, bread and hashbrowns as the food. For the drinks there was apple juice, orange juice, water, chocolate milk, regular milk, lemonade, and iced coffee. "Do you usually cook this much food?" I ask while eating. "Just when we have guests, otherwise we just have cereal or toast," Liam answers. "Y/n I have some bad news and some good news," Lily says with a straight face. "What's wrong?" I asked her.

"I'm sorry but something followed us home from the hospital. I don't know how or why, but all it left was a note behind saying you have three days before something happens. Whether it's good or bad I don't know, but don't worry. I got you something to protect yourself at night in case that person attacks you. Mini will be staying in your room for safety." Lily stated with worry while passing me the note left behind. Three days y/n. There was a symbol on the bottom. the same symbol from the last note I had received from this stranger. I shudder at the thought of something bad happening to Mini.