Once Night Comes

Chapter 3

I woke up by my mom's screams. I was so terrified by what would have happened and I didn't actually notice that I was at home! But this was not important. Judging by my mom's screams something happened to my sister. I immediately unlocked all the lockers of my room. When I opened the door my dad was already there.
"Oh thank God at least you're here." He was worried.
"WHAT?!"
"EMILY! EMILY!" My mom was screaming my sister's name almost through tears.
"EMILY ' S GONE!" She shouted at me. My eyes were filled with tears and I froze. I couldn't move or hear. My sister was gone. It couldn't be possible. My mom grabbed me by the shoulders and shaked me.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR,  LOOK FOR YOUR SISTER!"
That moment I went out of the trance. I got out and started shouting.
  "EMILY,  EMILY" I almost had lost hope when I heard voice.
"I'm here" She was just getting out of the downstairs's toilet.
"Oh god, Emily! " My mom was just coming.  She pulled Emily in a big hug.
"Never do that again, Emily,  never"
"Do what, go to the bathroom? "
"Emily. . ."
" I know, mom, okay. I'm sorry. "
Emily unlocked her door herself, she knows how to do that, everyone here should know how to unlock his own door. I wonder if The Shadows use that against us.
As I was thinking we heard a loud scream.
"NOOOOOOOO"
Another victom.  Me and my family ran to see if the other family was friends of ours.
It was miss Hutson's house.
We ran in.
We saw her by her own. Her husband, mister Hutson, was lying on the floor, dead. His body was so skinny already,  his skin white and drops of really, really dark red blood were streaming out of his mouth. 
" I, I ,I woke up and, and saw him like that,  and, and Brien he's GONE!" He really wasn't there. She was saying that through tears, berly talked, she was panicked. 
"I'm really, really sorry." My mom said through tears.
"Where is the mark?" My dad asked. There's always a mark when somebody dies and it's always on a different place.
" His shoulder" She showed up the front part of his shoulder. And there it was - a scar-look circle and a big X crossing it. No one knows why or how it goes there. Our town is small, but the people who have studied biology and science checked the so called marks and came up with the statement that the mark was a normal birth mark and even they didn't know how it could be possible.
Mister Hutson was hosting the news every day, telling about every day's victoms. He was always giving a minute of silence for those who we're not going to see again.
"Why him . . .what happened? " My mom asked.
Miss Hutson took a deep breath and said:
"There are two options: he eather woke up to go to work as usual,  or he heard something when my poor Brien was taken, got up and got killed.
"How is that even possible . . ." My dad said staring at mister Hutson ' s body.
Miss Hutson  started crying again even louder than before.
"It's okay, it's okay,  come on Hellen, let's have a cup of tea." My mom hugged her and took her in the kitchen.
"What are we going to do with the body?" I asked my father. 
"It goes to The Yard as every single one"
Basically The Yard is a graveyard where the dead and marked bodies go. They named it like that so it wouldn't sound as creepy as it is.
Soon enough the people who were taking care of The Yard came and took mister Hutson.  My mom was hugging miss Hutson who was crying her eyes out.
My mom and Emily stayed at miss Hutson's house and me and my dad went back home. We watched the news. There was a woman who replaced mister Hutson. She talked about him and Brien. She didn't even give a minute of silence for them! It wasn't fair.  They do not deserve that!
It got dark once again, my mom and Emily came home. It was time for sleep.  My mom came in my room, kissed my forehead and said that she loved me, I said it back and fell asleep.