A Dead Man's Bride - Cursed One

Chapter 4

After Jessica and her dad returned home, she headed to her room and looked at some information about Edunsteen, the place where she was to go next day with father Mendez. She loved to travel and hence she was quite excited about the journey and experience being on such a trip.

While looking out for information there was one particular thing that caught her attention, there were couple of people reported missing. What was surprising was that, in spite of all efforts no one could find them and if they were dead, their dead bodies were never found as well. This kind of missing pattern was quite odd to catch anyone's attention, however she could only find very limited information hence she decided to get all the info once she would reach the place.

It was a good day, Jessica was able to spend such a long with her dad after a very long time, they spoke about how the time had passed by so soon. Every time she would get to spend with him, she would ask him so many questions about her mother, she missed her a lot. Her father knew how much Jessica missed her mother and that she never expressed it to him, it only made him feel helpless and he would ask God to keep him able to fill in any space in Jessica's life, for he loved her and had only one want that his daughter should lack nothing.

Day had passed and the night had come, Jessica was checking if she had packed her luggage well for the journey. After ensuring all was in place she went to bed, packing had got her too tired and again that night she got a very unusual dream. She stood in a field, looking up towards the sky, as she looked up she had a smile on her face for the clear blue sky looked so beautiful but then the brightness of the day turned into dark night. It terrified Jessica, she tried running to take shelter but her feet rooted into the ground. She kept sinking inside, the land beneath her feet was swallowing her, she kept on screaming for help but nothing happened in fact she was taken in completely. In horror and darkness, with mud choking her and blocking her sight all her struggles failed and she gave in.
Wishing for death to come so that the fear would end she stopped breathing and in that moment she heard a sound, sound of some one digging the ground to rescue her and as the sound grew louder and louder, someone grabbed her hand and pulled her out. She felt so relived, finally she was able to breathe, she cleared the mud of her face and her eyes to see who had helped her and she was shocked to see the same stranger. He looked at her and as Jessica gathered her strength to get up to thank him, he disappeared. She looked around for him but he was nowhere to be seen and then as she turned around he stood right behind her, held her hand and whispered in her ears words from that strange language. Jessica woke up terrified, she was soaked in sweat and rushed to the washroom to splash water on her face but as she saw herself in the mirror she was stunned because for real her body was covered in mud from head to toe.