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Chapter 11~ Rosaries

I was trying to sleep when I got home from school. Earlier, I at last knew the meaning of the inscriptions in the gates. It still haunts me, I can't sleep after that Spanish class. I didn't attend the next class because my head is pounding so I went home early. I was so tired so I asked the nurse to allow me to go home because I wasn't feeling well. I still am. I am now sitting in my bed, hugging my knees, rocking myself while staring at my drawings in front of me. I still couldn't sleep.

I don't know how many hours I stayed in bed just staring into space. I decided to draw, but it seems like my drawings are also haunting me. It was full of demons, shadows, gates, and weird shapes. I'm getting insane.

I hugged my knees tighter, I feel like I'm getting claustrophobic because my room is getting darker, smaller like it will eat me alive. My room is getting cold, my body is trembling. Tears are starting to blur my eyes, my chest is heaving, I feel like the shadows in my room are demons who are coming for me. I feel like there are also monsters under my bed, I sound childish but I feel so scared. My drawings looks so real, the demon staring back at me. What if I was the one who really draw that demonic painting at Mr. Chavez' office?

What if I am really getting crazy? Do I need a psychiatrist now? My heads aches again, I closed my eyes letting my tears fall. It's so painful.

Even if you hide, even if you scream, you will always meet him.

I shake my head, I don't know what to do anymore. I don't really understand what's happening to me.

Even if you run, your salvation will not be enough, you will be ours, till death you'll be claimed.

"Stop please.." I whispered, shaking my head. I'm so tired of hearing those voices. I'm so tired of this.

I looked around my room like I've never seen it before, shadows are now crawling through my walls, I covered my mouth in shock when I saw that my crucifix on the wall in front of me is slowly turning upside down.

The Alluring Woman will never be divine

Blood are starting to crawl in the crucifix, my room is starting to get covered in blood. I am now shaking, sobbing because I am so scared. I screamed at the top my lungs and hugged my knees tighter when bloody hands are appearing from under my bed, crawling until they grabbed my legs.

"Stop! No please! Stop!!" I screamed the loudest I can, I grabbed the headboard as the hands are dragging me down. I closed my eyes still screaming, please Lord help me. Please..

"Stop! I'm begging you please stop this!"

"Arabella wake up!"

My eyes swiftly opens as I get up from my bed. My chest is heaving, I gasp when I found Emily, she's now holding rosaries in her hands. She looks so worried and I closed my eyes wiping the sweat trickling down to my forehead. Was that a nightmare? It felt so real.

"Are you alright? You're always having nightmares." She rubbed my back and I looked at her, I wanted to cry, I wanted to tell her everything that's bothering me. I wanted help, but what if she don't believe me? What if she thinks that I'm going crazy? I don't want to be sent in a mental hospital.

I stared at the rosaries she's holding, maybe God can help me. Even if I don't really believe in him that much, and I don't really pray and thank him, maybe He can help. Maybe He can take away those demons in my body.

"C-can I have one?" I pointed at a black rosary, she also stared at it and narrowed her eyes at me.

"Sure." She gave the black rosary to me and I encircled it around my wrist, where my 666 scar is marked. I saw her eyes widen when she scanned my legs, she covered her mouth and I did the same when I saw what's in it.