The Red Moon

Ch-15: Unknown fears

" Hello?"
" Hi there sis! How was your day ?"
" Umm, if you remember, I asked you something the other day when I met you on the road."
" What about it now? You know it's all nonsense."
"But..."
" Again they were discussing it at school?"
"Yes."
"Pay no heed to all this rubbish! See, the auditorium had a door along with some ventilators, right?"
" Yes."
" Is it not possible for the wind to enter from any of these places?"
"It surely is, but.."
" No buts, go to sleep now, Ericka. Goodnight.
"Goodnight. "
Clement hung up the phone.
Morning came. I was on my way to school with Xia walking by my side and my brothers walking reluctantly behind me, as usual, disinterested in my talk with Xia.
"Do you know the name Red Moon has a significance? "
"What significance?" I asked with curiosity.
" Red stands for blood and Moon stands for the night, it is a name imperative of the creatures who hunt for blood at night", replied Xia.
" How do you collect such weird informations?"
"Ericka, it's true!"
" Alright, I'll definitely like to meet those creatures someday. "
"Me too,it's my childhood dream!"
When I reached school, there was a gathering of students at some distance from the front gate. My conscience told me it was a bad omen,so I tried to avoid it. However, Xia, sensing the that the discussion was done on one of her favorite topics, grabbed my hand and pulled me by the side of the gathering.
" Hear!" she declared. I listened.
" It can't be an ordinary incident. "
" Yes, you're right, I also don't think it was just simply wind entering the auditorium from somewhere. The auditorium was more or less a closed space. "
" The auditorium did have ventilators but I don't think the wind outside was so strong that it could've blown away Xia's hair like that,no one else felt that wind!"
" Yes, it only blew Xia's hair and no one else felt it. "
" The forest spirits had definitely helped us."
"Maybe they're trying to fool us!"
"Yes, they can trick us into thinking they're trying to help us, so that we become grateful to them and then they'll ruin us completely. "
" We have to very careful."
"Yes, you never know when one one of those will enter your house in the middle of the night, when the moon is in the center of the sky and you're fast asleep."
"Yes, then you'll skeep in your bed and wake up in Heaven. "
" Yes, when they will get hold of you they'll insert their teeth in you and suck out all your blood and you will turn pale. "
"Oh my,that'll be so painful!"
" We shouldn't go deep into the forest!"
"Of course not,that's exactly where they reside. "
"Yes,if you go deep into the forest, they will pounce upon you and insert their teeth right into your flesh, suck up your blood and break your bones as well."
"And no one will even be able to find your body, you will be deemed as missing. "
Middle of the night? Creatures who suck blood of humans and crush their bones as well? Reside deep in the forest?
All these things brought some faded memories back to me. I was unable to tell what they were , but they felt real and unrealistic at the same time. I wanted to remember them,but just could. I didn't feel like I was standing in my school. I felt as if this was not where I belonged to, as if the identity I knew I had was completely wrong. I saw blurred visions of people talking in front of me. I felt as if I knew those people, but I just couldn't figure out who they were. As the line between the reality and unrealistic imaginations started to fade away, everything in front of me blackened out and I don't remember what happened after that.