𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ; 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝

NINETEEN

"It doesn't make sense. To get imprinted into the loop would take a strong emotional response to the trauma..." Edwin paced around the dinning area, worried for his best mate "Frances, did he tell you anything that might've caused him to get stuck in the loop?" Crystals attention was on Frances, who stood up straight with her arms crossed "yeah- he went through some shit" Frances looked down at her feet, not wanting to tell the others about his personal life, it wasn't right for her to do that without his permission "What did he go through?" Crystal questioned "Uh- I won't be the one to tell you. Charles should tell you, it was his experience." Edwin let out a huff "if you don't tell us then we won't know why he got stuck in the loop" Frances glanced at the black haired boy "His dad was a shitty human, okay? There." 

"Edwin, what are we going to do?" Crystal asked him, Edwin didn't know what to do, he never experience something like this before.  "I don't know-" He flipped through the pages of his small notebook, hoping to find something that can help Charles from the loop "If I hear this music one more time i'm going to loose my shit!" Crystal yelled all of a sudden, getting angry at the music that repeated every two seconds. Edwin looked up from his notebook, his mouth opened agape "That's it crystal! The music!" 

Frances raised her brows "Is the music the trigger..?" Frances walked to the two people who stood near each other "Its a possibility. The music keeps playing, it has to mean something.. Have you two seen a victrola anywhere?" Edwin questioned, causing the two girls to glance at each other with weird expressions "A victrola.  A phonograph. A stereo?" Frances mouth opened when she realized what he meant "Oh like, a radio?" Edwin snapped his fingers "yes! Where is the music coming from?!" He looked up at the ceiling "Brandon controlled the volume with the remote upstairs" Crystal reminded both of them "let's go" 

They all rushed back upstairs in Brandon's room "he pointed this way" Crystal picked up the black TV remove off from the bed, pointing it to the wall where Brandon did last time "Why would the music come from the walls... unless... there's something inside of it.." Frances helped Edwin moved the brown drawer from the wall after he stuck his head inside. On the wall was a short door, Crystal walked over and opened it up, seeing a small room inside "Well, this isn't creepy." Frances cautiously entered the dark room, luckily Crystal found the light switch.

"what the fuck" Frances eyes went to the small TV's that were next to each other, cameras in every room of the house "son of a bitch owned an electronics store." Crystal starred at the TVs, angry at Brandon "In Hope's diary that Charles found, she said she felt like someone was watching her.." Frances looked up towards Edwin "That explains how he knew exactly where to find that letter in the locked drawer." Brandon sat on his bed with the pistol in his hands, after he shot himself the cameras turned off, but quickly went back on.

"You said the loop is imprinted into the walls of the house. If it's not the music, could it imprint into something else?" Crystal took out an old VSH tape, she then took a hammer that laid on a desk, wanting to smash the tape "No!" Edwin shouted, stopping her "if this is holding the loop, destroying it would be the same as destroying the house... I could- we could lose Charles." Edwin placed his hand over his heart, not wanting to lose his best mate. "Shit" Frances cursed, not knowing how to stop the loop. 

"if we can't destroy it... what if we remove its images?" Crystal suggested, Frances got confused on what she meant by it "How would you do that?" She crossed her arms over her chest while looking at Crystal "Erase the image-" "and the curse" Edwin cut off Crystal's sentence "we could record new images over them or static them" Frances didn't understand what they both were going on about, but she trusted them to do the right thing. 

While Crystal was trying to erase the images, a loud clicking noise was heard from behind "Do you guys hear that?" Frances flashed her flashlight to the dark room, a large hand came out from the corner, Edwin put his hand in front of Crystals mouth, stopping her from screaming "It's a Misery Wraith. I'd often see them sulking about hell. They feed off of negative emotions.  The pain in the loop must've drawn it." Edwin let go of Crystals face "just think happy thoughts" He informed the two girls "I don't think I can do that" Frances looked at the white creature who twisted its limbs "you have to" Edwin said one last time before Crystal's head shot up with her eyes plain white "David"