Queen Mary

XIX

When the door slams, I feel Colby jump behind me, and the floor shake under my feet. The guys on the other side of the door knock on the door and ask if we're alright, and Colby assures them we are. He tries to open the door, but it appears to be locked.

"Thank you, Do you mind if I ask you some questions? Do you have a way to communicate with me? I ask in to the room. I can feel it here. I haven't seen it, sense walking in the lobby to get to our rooms, and honestly didn't think much of what I saw until I got the same feeling walking into this room. 

"If not, I do have these two flashlights." Colby says, Pulling the red and blue flashlights I've seen so many times in their videos and setting them on either sides of us on the end tables. "All you have to do it touch them, and they'll turn off and on." He says. 

"Thanks Colby. So how about this, I'll ask you questions, and you can turn on the flashlights to answer, sound good? Turn on this red flashlight for yes and that blue one if you aren't up to talking today." I say aloud. Almost immediately the red flashlight flickers and turns on.

"Holy shit dude." Colby says, and I laugh a little. You'd think being a paranormal investigator he'd be used to this kind of thing. Before I can ask another question the red flashlight turns off, and I feel cold air on the right side of my neck, and whisper in my ear.

"Bianca." It says. I almost jump, which startles Colby, but I decide not to worry just yet.

"Yes, my name is Bianca, did you know I was coming?" I ask, and the blue flashlight turns on. So it didn't know I was coming, but it knows my name? "We're you listening to me and my friends talking? Is that how you know my name?" The blue flashlight stays on, and now I start to sweat. What is this? How could it know my name if it isn't something that just knew I was coming, as some spirits have that ability, and it wasn't listening in on us? Then I ask the question I really wasn't looking forward to asking anything this week.

"Did you follow me here?" I ask, and I hear Colby's breathing increase, and he takes another step closer to me. The blue flashlight goes out, and the red one flickers, before turning all the way on. I freeze, is this the thing that I've been seeing off and on? And if it is, what does it want? But then how did it appear to be human in the lobby? 

"Do you want to hurt me?" I ask, and almost kick myself for doing so. The red flashlight turns off, and back on. It does this three times, before the bathroom door slams shut, and I feel something burn my side. I yelp in pain, and Colby grabs me by the arm and tries to open the door, yelling for Sam and the other guys. Finally, the door busts open. Colby and I damn near fall out of the room and into Jake and Corey who were the first two in front of the door. 

"Shit what the hell happened? Are you guys okay? Everything got really quiet and then slamming!" Sam shouts, all of them having panicked expressions on their faces. Colby turned to me.

"Are you okay? I heard you yell what happened?" He asked me. I had almost forgotten about the burning in my side until he said something about it.

"I think I'm okay, I felt something burning on my side. It still hurts, but the initial burn was a lot worse." I said back to him, my hand finding my side. Colby reached over and gently pulled the bottom of my shirt up, revealing scratches on my hip. He gasped, and then ever so slightly touched one of the scratches.

"I don't think we've ever gotten evidence like this before, no ones ever been hurt like that on one of our videos." He states, looking over at Sam whose hand is covering his mouth. All of them look pretty shaken up honestly. "Maybe we should stop while we're ahead, like this thing is already showing it's violent." Colby says to the group. Sam shakes his head.

"We came here for a reason though, to find out what is actually going on here. To get answers and figure some shit out. How are we gonna do that if we give up now?" He asks. "I understand if Bianca wants to leave, that's 100 percent understandable. But I can't see myself leaving without talking to this thing and figuring out exactly what is going on." He finishes.

"I don't want to leave. Plus, I need to tell you what it told us. I'm not sure if this is the same thing you guys have been dealing with since your first time here, it knew my name and said it followed me here. What I wanna figure out is if it followed all of us, or one of us specifically." I said.

"Wait how do you know it knew your name? You guys didn't have the spirit box or anything with you in there." Corey asks, eyes wide as could be. I take a deep breath in, I don't know that anyone will believe me.

"It whispered my name in my ear.." I said. For a moment, there was pure silence.

"It whispered your name? So it singled you out apart from the rest of us, that's never a good sign." Sam said.

"I'm not sure if the camera picked it up, but it did. There was a coldish breeze and then Bianca responded to it. It communicated through the flashlights a couple times. Which is how we figured out that it followed us here. Now if we're in agreement that we're staying, we need to figure out from where and why it acts the way it does. And exactly what it is. I do think we need to be more careful, it's already violent, and we cant have anyone else getting hurt." He pauses and turns to me, cupping my face in his hands. "And you, I don't know  if this thing is targeting you or what but I think maybe you should stick with one of us at all times." He says, and the rest of them nod.

"Yea, that's probably for the best. At least then if something does happen you're not alone, someone will be there to help you." Sam says.

""Honestly, is it a good idea for any of us to be left alone? I mean sure it was violent with me but whose to say it wouldn't get violent with someone else too." I say. Corey speaks next.

"I mean I don't know about yall but I really don't wanna be alone in this place, and what just happened solidifies that for me. But I mean it's up to you guys if you wanna be left alone, I just know I'd rather not." He says, looking at Sam and Colby, who both nod in agreement. 

"Well if that's settled, do we want to make our way upstairs and then make a plan as to how we're gonna handle all this?" Jake asks. Sam nods, and puts the camera away, Colby continues to film as we make our way upstairs.