Until Dawn - Your Story

The Séance - Chapter Five

The Séance - Chapter Five

"What in god's name are you wearing?"

You can't wipe away the wide smile on your lips. "I have a better question! Are you going to wear this ... costume the whole night?", you add to Ashley's question. Chris turns around folding his hands. "You'll understand when you hear your true calling", he replies serious.

Ashley and you chance a glance. "Please tell me you are going to take a vow of silence", she teases her secret crush. Usually you are the one with the sarcastic replies, but Ashley got him really good. Chris pretends to say something, but no words leave his mouth. "Finally! My day is saved!", you exclaim laughing.

The bad thing is your friend doesn't need words to get his payback. Chris grabs one of your arms and ruffles your hair before you can escape his grip. "Oh my god. I hate you so much right now", you mumble under your breath and try to straighten your hair. "However, here is our ticket to the spirit realm!" Smiling Chris pulls out the spirit board from the several layers of his clothes.

Sam who watched the whole scene just shakes her head. "There is a hot bath waiting for me. I wish you all fun, but don't get too deep into the spirit realm", she leaves all of you alone. "You should better take this off or you scare the ghosts away", Chris looks at you shocked. "I can see you are going to burn in hell if you don't get back on the right way, little evil person!", he replies playfully angry. Laughing you snap the spirit board out of his hand and follow Ashley and Josh.

"... to the whims of the Spirit master - which is me", smiling you look at Chris, while you raise your eyebrows. Ashley on the other side of the table rolls her eyes. "The book doesn't say that", she tries to stop him. "... and all present will remove their garments at my sole discretion", without a word you close the book in front of him. Unfortunately his fingers were between the pages. "Ops, my mistake", you give him your best innocent smile. "Hey, you two. This is serious", Josh joins the conversation.

Chris wiggles his eyebrows chuckling. "Oh, I'm deadly serious", is his answer. "Is it allowed to hit him with this book before the séance starts?", you ask playfully. "You have later enough time, but let's try this now", Ashley gives you her permission. Not really sure if you like the situation you put your hands on the spirit board. It happened enough crazy things today.

"Ashley, since you're a recent convert, why don't you be our medium for today?", Chris asks the girl right next to him. She nods slowly before she looks at the ceiling. "Hello? Is anybody there? If you can hear my voice, give us a sign." Matching to her words the planchette moves a little bit.

"Woah, I don't like this at all", you mumble a bit surprised. At least the others are as terrified as you. "Did you do that?", Josh asks with a concerned look. "I didn't do anything", Ashley exclaims a bit hysterical. Chris can't wipe away the smile on his face. "Oh, it's moving again!"

The little piece of woods moves over the board trying to spell something. Back is the uneasy feeling in your stomach. Really interested you look at the planchette to find out what the "ghost" is trying to tell. Chris, Ashley and Josh are talking, but you don't listen to them.

"Oh my god... Help?", the word is like a punch into your face. "What does it mean?", Ashley wants to know, but neither of you has the answer. "How are we supposed to help?", Chris answers with another question. "How can we help you?", Ashley wants to know from the spirit. The planchette moves again, but this time faster than before.

"Warning...", this funny little game goes into a direction you don't really like. "Shit", Josh says matching to the situation. "We should know who is trying to communicate with us", you say to Ashley. Of course you noticed that she is almost freaking out. "We can't help you if we don't know who you are", her voice trembles a little bit. You can understand why...

The pointer of the board moves around and spell a word you thought you wouldn't hear again in this ski lodge. "Sister...", Ashley, Chris and you look at Josh immediately. "Whose sister?", Josh wants to know needlessly, because none of you has a sister except for him.

"Maybe we should just stop. That's not funny anymore", you try to end the uncomfortable situation. "No, I want to know that!", you look at Chris for help, but there is no way you two could stop Josh now. "Ashley, ask who it is", you know exactly you are going to regret your decision.

"Who are we speaking to? Beth?" The few seconds you have to wait for an answer seem like an eternity. The pointer of the spirit board moves to the word "YES". Your heart skips a beat. Is this really Beth? "Oh god", Ashley doesn't know what to say. Chris shakes his head slowly. "This is messed up", he still doesn't take it seriously.

"Well... Uh... Josh?...", you don't want to speak out your question. It's obvious what you mean. "I'm fine", is his emotionless answer. "So can we stop now?", Ashley doesn't like the situation either. "No, I want to know what it says", Josh insists. Alright, crazy stuff is happening and you can't stop it...

"Beth, we want to know what happened to you that night. Can you tell us?", Ashley asks the spirit with her still trembling voice. The panchette from the board starts to move immediately. "H... A... N... N... Hannah? ... K... I... L... L... Killed? No, no, no! That can't be true", you shake your head. Someone is playing a game with all of you, but who?

"Just stay calm. Ask something else", Chris still seems unimpressed, but you are sure he would never do a stupid joke like that. "Okay... How was Hannah killed?", Ashley asks the next question. The pointer which moves around snaps you out of your thoughts. "Library! P... R... O... O... Proof!", Chris exclaims. You can't think about the information, because the panchette from the spirit board flies away.

"What the hell?!", you stand up from your chair and take a step back - just for safety. "Chris!", Ashley grabs his arm, but what should he do? "No, this is bullshit! This isn't real", Josh shakes his head shocked. Your heart still tries to jump out of your chest. "I know it's freaking you out right now, but just take a deep breath", you try to calm him down.

"Listen. I don't know if you think messing with me is somehow going to help me deal with my grief or whatever, but this is not cool", none of you would ever joke about what happened last year. "You wanted to use the spirit board!", Ash defends herself. A sigh escapes your mouth. "It's not our fault!", Chris adds.

Without a word you see how Josh leaves the room. There is no way you could have stopped him now. Suddenly an uncomfortable silence appears between the three of you. "Uh... Alright, there is still this "proof". You two should probably check it out, right?", you break the ice. Chris and Ash nod in agreement. "What about you?" Yes, what should you do?

Should you try to find Josh or go with Ashley and Chris?