The Cemetery

Chapter 8

    She was in a dark room. A scream from distance broke the dead silence in the room. Someone was weeping and there were others too. She looked for the screamer but what she could see was a white long curtain hanging from the ceiling. She saw shapes and footsteps of people running here and there impatiently from the dim light. She was standing in the opposite corner of the large room. Everything was dark around her except the light crept through the white curtain.

Paige tried to figure out where she was. It was ice cold out there. She was freezing and tried to rubbed hands to warm them. She touched the wall. It felt like stone and hard. The pain from her head was unbearable and it made her dizzy. She touched the head and felt the smoothness of white bandages around her forehead. She again tried to remember what happened but it only gives her nothing but pain. She again heard the scream and this time she recognized it as a woman. She wanted to help her and ask her why she was screaming. She walked to the curtain slowly touching the cold wall. Now she was hearing voices too. Voices of people.

“The baby is coming.” Someone yelled.

The woman was screaming and panting.

“Push it my lady. Be strong.” Then she heard a little voice of a girl. ‘She must be a servant.’ She thought.
Then she heard a cruel and loud laugh of a woman. Paige was shivering from the fear. It sounded crazy. Crazy was not the right word for it. It sounded more like an animal than a human. It actually sounded like lunatic.

Paige moved the white curtain aside with her trembling hands. She was shocked to see what was beyond the curtain. A woman covered in white sheets was laying on a bed. It seemed like a hospital bed. Another three women in uniforms of nurses were standing around the bed. One was holding a basin full of water. Another one was holding the woman’s hand trying to calm her down while the last one was helping her to push the baby out. The woman was laughing and crying at the same time.

“Oh not now” Paige heard that little voice again. She looked for the owner of the voice and found two sparkling eyes at the darkest corner of the room.

“Charlotte, stop giving your comments and help me hold her. God! She’s really crazy.” The nurse who was holding the woman snapped at the girl. She came out from the darkness. She was wearing old grey clothes. They looked more like a rag than a real dress. Her hair was a mess and looked like it has never felt the touch of a comb. She came near to the bed slowly like she actually didn’t want to do so. She looked scared but she held the woman’s hand.

It was then Paige saw her hands from the tremulous flame of the candle. Her hands were full of scratch marks and some of them looked new. Paige was surprised because all of them were acting like they didn’t notice her.

“The baby is coming.” The nurse yelled.

       Now the woman was laughing more wickedly and it echoed through the stony room giving everyone goose bumps. Paige was staring at the baby who was coming out covered in blood. First she saw the head and then the other half. The nurse took the baby out and cut the umbilical cord. Everyone in the room was looking at the baby with tears in eyes. Now the woman stopped laughing and they only heard a low sound of her crying.

Suddenly the baby’s cry filled the atmosphere.

“It’s a girl my lady.” The servant girl said and Paige could hear the happiness in her voice.

“Give her to me.” The woman said. She looked more like a human now. Paige couldn’t understand why she was acting strangely before.

“We have to clean her first.” The nurse took the baby out and woman looked sad. The servant girl cleaned the woman while others are cleaning the room. Paige was still standing in the corner observing everything. The clock was ticking but the nurse who took the baby away didn’t come. The woman was getting impatient now and she asked about baby after every second.

   Suddenly her behavior began to change and she looked wilder. Her voice was changing to a rough tone and angrier.

“I want my baby.” She said trying to sit on the bed.
No one said anything.

“I said I want my baby.” She said again louder.

“You have to rest my lady.” The girl said timidly.

“No. I should go get her.” Said the woman wickedly and stood up from the bed. She was searching all over the room but suddenly stopped. She was looking at the corner where Paige was standing.

Paige’s heart was beating fast and she was shaking so badly. The woman was coming towards her slowly. Paige could even hear the sound of her long beige color dress brushing the floor.

“Who are you?” she asked pointing her hand at Paige.

“Who are you talking to my lady?” the girl came forward.

“I was talking to her. I saw she was standing here for hours.” She said.

“I can’t see anyone.” The girl said again.

“Did I ask you?” the woman snapped at her and the girl hid in the darkness.

“Did you take my baby away? You came here to take her.” Now the woman was very close to her. Paige couldn’t find any words to talk. She stood here numbly watching the woman coming to her.

“I knew it. I knew it. You took her away from me.” Now her voice was getting wilder and her face was another exception to describe demon. It was as white as a paper and it was her eyes and lips which made Paige remember something. She was trying to remember where she met her while watching the candle light dancing fiercely on her stony face. Then she remembered. It was the woman in her nightmares. The one who was coming after her calling her Rose. Paige froze and she couldn’t move. She leaned on the wall and the coldness of the wall spread through her skin like an electric shock. The woman came closer and closer and closer. And now she was right next to her. The woman looked directly into her eyes and Paige couldn’t look away from those eyes.

The woman smiled wickedly and brought her skinny white hands to her neck. Paige was struggling to breathe but the woman was tightening it. She felt her lungs begging for the air and pain was attacking her ability of staying conscious. The last thing she heard before blacking out was the echoing of the woman’s laugh through the room.

Hey! What do u think about the story!  Who is this woman?

Why is she coming after Paige?

How does she know her old name was Rose?

While all these things are happening,  where is Jayden?

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Shermi MK