Trapped

Unanswered

A/N: This chapter will mainly be conversations between the characters but next week's chapter will be back to normal.

"You've been gone for six years."

"No, the man in the white van took me yesterday."

Natania reached out and tried to touch Alice's arm but it went right through her. Alice took a step back but Natania just stood there in complete confusion.

"Natania, how did you do that?"

"I-I don't know I just tried to touch your arm."

"I don't understand what's happening."

"What happened after you were taken into the van?"

"I woke up and I was on a stretcher in a dark room. I got up and looked around but I was alone so I started walking around the room because I was unsure of what to do but then a hand came up from behind me and placed a white cloth over my nose. I woke up again and I was wearing a hospital gown and there were blood stains on the gown and on my hands."

Natania looked around at the tap and the red liquid was still dripping from it. She looked back at Alice ready to ask more questions but her thoughts were cut off by the look of horror in Alice's eyes.

"Alice, what's​ wrong​?"

"We need to get out of here now!"

Alice started running and Natania followed.

"Natania!" Natania heard a familiar voice call out her name.

Natania stopped but Alice continued and soon Natania couldn't see her anymore. Natania looked back and saw a figure approaching her and finally she realized it was Nessa.

"Nessa, how did you get out of the room?"

"I found a way to get back my soul."

"Wow, I never thought I would hear those words come out of anyone's mouth. Do you remember Alice?"

"Yeah, she was your childhood imaginary friend."

"No, she lived right next to me."

"You live between two people, the old lady who died and me."

"Then who was I just running with? I'm not crazy!"

"I saw you run out of the kitchen alone!"

"I know she's real."

"I need to tell you something. When you and your family moved in my mother told me that when she was younger there was a girl named Alice who lived in your house when she was our age and one day she was kidnapped and months later they found out that she had been brought to this house and killed but no one knows how she was killed but we know she was kidnapped by her uncle who was known to kidnap young children but for some reason he was never caught by the police.

Natania thought back to when she would hang out with Alice and play in her own backyard but Alice never wanted to go play in her own backyard and Natania only knew about Alice's family because once she asked her about her family and she said that she lived with her little sister and her mom and her​ dad but after that she quickly changed the conversation and never spoke about them again. Natania​ thought that the old lady that lived in the house that Alice had said she lived in was her mother but she never really thought about it too much.

"I need you to see something in the kitchen." Natania said still caught up in her thoughts.

The girls walked in silence towards the kitchen and the only sound that was heard was the sound of there shoes on the wooden floor. When Natania snapped out of her thoughts she pointed to the red liquid that was still dripping out of the tap.

"Is that...blood?"

"I don't know but Alice saw it and she said we needed to get out of here."

"Natania, I've told you already she's dead and you've never met her before."

They both then heard a loud sigh and looked around to see Alice in the door frame.

"Natania, I need to tell you the truth. I was kidnapped by my uncle and my body was found here but I didn't lie about my family, I did have a little sister and I did live with my parents but we lived in your house years before you were born but after my body was found they moved away. I wanted my little sister back but since you moved in and you were her age I decided I would be friends with you but I realized you were getting older and you would realize that I wasn't ageing so I "disappeared". When you were younger I would say it was a magic trick when you would try to touch me and your hand went right through me but when we were in the kitchen and you tried to touch my arm and it went right through I realized i couldn't say it was a magic trick so I pretended I didn't​ know what was happening but the story about what happened to me when I got kidnapped was very true and I didn't realize so many years had gone by since I "disappeared".

"Are you saying I imagined the police cars in front of your house and your family moving away without you?"

"I'm sorry but yes, you did."

"I felt a sense of guilt when you told me that a man in a van had kidnapped you because I thought I was your best friend and I did nothing to help find you but this had nothing to do with me, you lied to me."

"Natania, I didn't lie to you about everything but yes, you had nothing to do with what happened to me. Look I'm sorry but I need to go, I wasn't supposed to be here for so long.

"Where are you going? What about the red liquid coming from the tap?"

Before Alice could respond she started to fade away but before she disappeared into nothing again she gave both Nessa and Natania a sad smile and whispered
"Sorry."

"Natania I know that what just happened is probably really confusing and I'm sorry but where is Beth?"

"The last time I saw her she tried to kill me, this house has been doing really weird things to her and I don't know if I'm willing to risk my own life to get her back to normal also I think she's possessed."

"But we can't leave her here if we do get out of here."

"It's between us trying to save her and being killed or us just leaving her and possibly getting out of here alive."

"Ok, for now let's just try to find more notes and while we're looking we could try to sort out the whole situation with Alice."

"I don't think it's worth it she's​ gone forever​ now and there will always be unanswered questions. I just can't believe she's dead and that I imagined almost everything, it all seemed so real."

"I can't believe her uncle would do such a thing and her family didn't do anything."

"What do you mean?"

"My mother said that when she disappeared everyone in the neighborhood was surprised because her parents didn't report her missing until two weeks after she went missing and they moved away as soon as her body was found and they didn't even try to get justice for her."

"She's gone now and I think I need to try to forget all of this, let's change the conversation and try to find some more notes please."

"Ok, but there's so many things that don't make sense about what happened to her."

"Nessa! I don't want to talk about this anymore."

"Fine."

Thank you for reading this chapter. Most of the story is conversations between the characters but I hope you still enjoyed it.💛😀