Torn Apart

Something Strange

Pov (Layla)
After what Millie told me I couldn't help but feel scared but I knew what I needed to do I needed to research and find out what happened in this house maybe then I could understand what was going and why? I grabbed my laptop and sat by my desk I started by googling my house nothing came up apart from photos I pressed the news tab but nothing came up, I then decided to go to a housing website that basically gives you the house history but nothing came up head over to the local library as soon as I get there I go over to the file cabinet and start to look throught the dates for anything connected to the house A lady walks over to me "Hi can I help you?" She says "Yeah how long have you lived here?" I ask she smiles "Nearly 50 years dear" she says I smile "I wondering if I could find out the house history for my house" i say smiling "And where do you live hon" she asks I give her the address she looks shocked "You live in the house where that poor family died" she says I'm shocked "huh" I say she looks at me "There a new paper somewhere they only lived there for 5 years the husband thought his wife was having an affair one day he shot her and then he shot his daughter she was only 5 before turning the gun on himself such a tragedy" she says I'm shocked "Was the daughter called Harley by any chance" I ask a stiffness suddenly appearing in the air "Yeah how did you know that?" She asks "Erm just a guess" I say knowing if I brought up the fact my sister was talking to a ghost named Harley she would probably run a mile and have me locked up "Here's the news letter" she says handing it to me "Thank you" I say before leaving the library and going home. When I got home I read the newspaper Millie room is clearly harley old room a shiver runs through my spine how could a father do that to his own child, I shiver again when I look at the girl just how Millie describes her She's smiling in the photo Her blonde hair in pigtails her big blues eyes looking at the camera her mum smiling happily Harley looks just like her then the dad he's wearing a large coat and a top hat his face looks kind you wouldn't believe he killed his family, My heart breaks I put the news paper down and sneak into my mum room yes I'm looking for the box she told me not to but I need to see what inside it maybe there something Harley needs maybe that's why she still here I make my way over to her wardrobe opening it Bingo, I pick the box up and carry it into my room making sure to close the doors as I leave, soon as I get to my bedroom I put the box down on my desk and close my door I open it the first thing I see is a baby blanket with the name Harley and the date 09,11,2000 written on it a sudden sadness ran over me she was only five when she died I put the blanket to the side and continued to look throught a repunsal doll that had been styled to match her hair I continue to get stuff out and then the photo begin there of the family and the house and for a minute I get lost looking at the photos and intreged that I forget why I'm doing this once the photo end I place everything else back in the box. I grab my laptop again and head over to reddit I start by typing in my address and that's when I see it over a 100 posts made I start to look at the top posts. The first one reads I moved here a month ago at first the house was perfect but then the nightmare began I saw my past everytime I closed my eyes then when I would walk up I would see a guy staring at me in a large coat and a top hat it was horrible I moved out about a month later. The second post read It's haunted I can confirm it started with my daughter seeing a little girl then my teenage son start to see a teenage girl and then I started to see a man all of them where creepy and evil I moved out shortly after. The 3rd post read It's creepy so much weird stuff happened to me in that house my family hate it there and we're so glad we moved. I keep reading each one getting more interesting by the second, each person seeing something diffrent I close my laptop before calling uncle Colby. "HI layla are you okay?" He asks smiling "Uncle Colby I'm scared something happened and I'm terrified first Millie see stuff on a night now I find out that people were murdered in this house and now it's haunted" I say "Okay start from the start" Uncle Colby says "Okay then" I fill him in on everything that happened and what I've found out he looks intreged. "I'll speak to your dad about this" Uncle Colby says "okay but don't mention the stuff Millie sees I'm not supposed to of told anyone" I say he smiles "Okay then" he says.