Waking Up as in Coming Home

The Evil Spirit

Sarah goes to Hugh to tell him his family is in grave danger but Hugh insists to finish the maintenance work first so that he can sell the house. At the end of the day, he doesn't really believe in ghosts.

All Sarah can do is to keep an eye on everyone.

"Hmmmm u try so hard to protect everyone" Sarah is reading a magazine and suddenly there's a voice appearing next to her.  She lowers her magazine. Eyes on the front, not even look at the spirit.

"U try so hard to hurt everyone" Sarah turns around to face Poppy Hill. In the split second, there's a force coming Sarah that pushes Poppy away from her a little. "Well?"

"I like tough kids like u. Trying so hard to protect ones but look" Poppy points at the front.

Sarah looks at the same direction. Her parents are wandering at the house too. Her facial expression turns serious. She closes her eyes for a few seconds. When she opens her eyes, there's nothing in front of her.

"Need not to fool me, Poppy Hill. If ur really that hmmmm how should I put it...powerful perhaps, u don't have to do anything to get me. U can get close to me by now" Sarah raises her left hand to show the bracelet. "Now that I know your name and your origin. I can easily banish u"

"Why don't u do it now?" Poppy can't go near Sarah but the surrounding only.

"Because I need to know what Olivia has done so that u keep haunting her and her children"

"I like her. I like Nellie, well the twins. I wanna keep them here to stay with me"

Kelvin and Karen were right. Evil spirits don't need a reason to hurt someone sometimes.

"Not while I'm here" Sarah says. Poppy smiles eerily then disappears.

Sarah puts down her magazine and goes off to find Olivia and the twins. Olivia wanders to a room, her reading room aimlessly. Poppy reappears behind Olivia. Sarah sees it all.

"It's so quiet isn't it?" Poppy says and she definitely startles Olivia.

"Who are u? Is this a dream?" Olivia says.

"My husband and I always love this place because it's away from the city." Poppy doesn't really answer Olivia's question. She goes to the window. "It's a good place to bond with children. The city...the world is so cruel so we always need to protect them."

"Wh...what should I do to protect my children?" Olivia turns to Poppy.

"U wake them up. Wake them up from nightmares"

Sarah sees it all. "Shit" she says to herself. Poppy is deceiving Olivia. She starts mumble a series of spells.

"I...I've been having the strangest dream. I wanna wake up too" Olivia continues.

"Then wake up" poppy lures and takes her to the window. "Jump...then u can wake up"

In the meantime, Sarah's spells break the connection between Olivia and Poppy Hill. Olivia falls back on the floor. Then she realises there's no one in the room but herself.

'That was so real.' Olivia thinks to herself. "Are u ok?" She jumps as Sarah says something and touches her arms.

Olivia pulls back. She's freezing on the skin. "Yeah...ummm I...I...I go check on the twins now" she stands up and stumbles out of the room.

Sarah looks at the place which is opposite of the room she's standing in. Poppy hill is right there watching. "Don't force me to do something I won't do" Sarah warns and says lowly. She means it. It can be heard from her tone.