Sight

Twenty Five.

"So what do you think happens next?" Avery whispered from under her blanket as she cowered behind it. "Sh." I hushed her, annoyed and fixed my eyes to the screen, automatically scooping and shoving handfuls of popcorn into my mouth.

The feeling began to build as she walked closer and closer to the door with a knife, I couldn't breathe, it was building and getting louder, it wasn't even music, it was the unbearable silence, and just as she was going to open the door, the lights snapped on in my room and the blaring music sounded, causing both Avery and I clutch onto our popcorn bowls and let our throats to let out blood curdling screams, "Girls! Girls! Calm down!" Dad yelled and I sighed in frustration and relief, and then paused the movie.

"I just, I came up here to ask you if you girls wanted some ice cream." Father asked and Avery jumped off of my bed, "Yes!" She yelped and ran out the room. I nodded and smiled at dad, then slowly got off my bed, "One second." I said and walked over to my corner table with my books stacked.

I was looking for a pair of scissors to cut off the label at the back of my pajamas which were driving me insane. As I looked around and inside the table, I saw something, or rather someone, out on the curb, adjacent to our house, across the lawn. I looked up and walked towards my window, and peered outside, there was definitely someone there, just standing there, not moving, just watching. I couldn't see the person's face, but I could tell it was a man.

"Hon?" Dad called out from downstairs and I yelled back a response saying I didn't want ice cream anymore. I simply continued to look outside the window and then a car passed by, showering the figure in light, and there he stood, Daniel, with a grin and his green eyes looking like balls of fire as the light passed over them.

My eyes widened and I took the flashlight from the drawer of the table and shined the light at the figure, he continued to stand there, now not with a grin, but a carefree smile, and in his hand, he held a knife.

"AVA!" I shouted and noticed she was right behind me, "What the hell?" She questioned and walked up towards me, "D-Daniel. He's there, he's there." I pointed outside and Avery seemed to suddenly pale, she slowly nodded and walked and stood in front of me, and outside she looked, taking the flash light from me, and shining it all around, but obviously, he was gone.

She turned around and looked at me with a gaze so sickening it caused my insides to wrench, "There's no one there." She said carefully, as though a particular set of words strung together would break me.

I nodded and giddily laughed, "Of course, I don't know what I was thinking." I raised a hand to my head and acted as though I was light headed, "You know, I think I ought to get some rest. Is that alright?" I asked Avery and immediately she looked coated with guilt, "Was it something I said?" I rolled my eyes, mostly out of annoyance, but smiled, "No. Just feeling out of it, why don't you go to home, Ava, I'm kind of tired anyway, I'm sure you are too." I sighed and she nodded, a wary look of her own, "Sure." She said but I think she knew subconsciously that it was only a ploy to get her to leave me alone, the suffocating vibes I'd been receiving from her, on late, had caused these unprecedented feelings of suspicion to arise.

Once Avery had left I walked over to my dresser and slid open my laptop, immediately I began researching hallucinations. What I found surprised me.

Hallucinations could be signs of brain tumors, of other neurological disorders, such as dementia, causing the fickle human brain to be held prey to these convincing illusions. On further and further drifting, I came upon the hallucinations relating to superstition. Research and fanatics believed that one would have hallucinations according the tales of what God had not been able to send down to Earth directly.