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Chapter 3: Again?!

So, It was Tiria's number. Me and Fidi were looking at each other with an "I have no idea what's going on" look. Fidi opened the box and tried dialing the fourth number to know to whom did it belong to, turned out to be, it was Tiria's. So, it's four of us now, Me, Aetos, Fidi and Tiria. So, we ate our lunch, all of us were watching our favorite TV shows. Aetos and Tiria were enjoying. Aetos looked like he has no memory of what strange things happened. He acted strange. Tiria was enjoying her time at my place. Her smile is everything. Me and Fidi were looking at each other constantly, we didn't talk much that afternoon but both of us knew what had been going on in our minds. The feeling of fear. so the day goes on, it's 8:00 P.M. and as I enter the kitchen to drink a glass of water, everything goes dark, there is no electricity. I start finding the torch light in the kitchen cupboard, I couldn't find one. Fidi takes the torch from the box in the living room and turns it on. It showed me the way from the kitchen to the living room. I went to the living room. I was thinking about these strange things happening and I went outside to look. It was pure darkness, not even a single light. But when I look into the sky, there is an object flying, yes, it was a comet, Halley's comet. I shouted " Aetos, Fidi, Tiria come! there's a comet passing, hurry up!", They rushed to see the comet, we all saw the comet passing, it was beautiful. What I loved about Aetos, Fidi and Tiria was they enjoyed the view of that beautiful comet passing rather that getting their phones out, ready to shoot the footage of the comet, like people do these days. We could see the tiny shining particles around the comet that were wearing off from it. It was a wonderful view but that's when I remembered, Halley's comet already passed yesterday, that's why there was a power cut. But it's happening again, why is it all repeating again? I was scared, I tried calling my mum and dad, but the phone was not receiving the signals, it was dark but then I went to the backyard, I saw the view from there, but I found some weird thing there, there was one house with lights. I went back into the house, lit up some candles and we all were sitting on the couch. I told them about the one house that has electricity. So, we all were freaked out. So, we decided to call our parents, but our phones were dead. My brain was messed up. Aetos had a plan. He decided that he would write a note saying "Hey! Don't freak out. Didn't mean to disturb you but you're the only house who has electricity here, the whole city is in dark, we are not even receiving signals to call people, Can you do us a favor? Can you please open the box, there are a few phone numbers in them. If you guys have a running internet connection ,can you call up those numbers and tell them to come to this address? "#3 , 2nd block, 252nd Avenue street" It will be a lot helpful. Thanks" and stick it on their house door because we were scared to go talk to them. but Fidi got another addition to the plan. She brought a box from the basement, she put a torch and city map in that so if they are good people, they may find their way to this house and help us. I know this sounds dumb but we're teenagers and we most of the things we do are dumb. So, It was a box, filled with a torch, city map, a paper with our phone numbers. We decided to close the box , put and envelope on the outside of the box with the main note inside it. So, We decided that two of us would go and place the box at the house and two of us would stay in the house. So, Aetos, my dear friend, decided that Me and Tiria should go out and he and Fidi would stay at home. I stepped out, closed the door, opened the main gate, closed it back again, turned the light on as I stepped into complete darkness, So I took the spare map I had, to know the way to the house, it looked like the house was just two blocks away from my house. So, we started walking. Tiria was close to me. She was the second reason why my heartbeat was raising. The first one is the fear of darkness ,of course. There was no sound, not even the sound of crickets, complete silence, except for our footsteps. So, as I pointed my torch through the way, It was not showing the way, It is still dark, It's like there's a dark matter on whom the light's not falling , We were scared to walk but we had an urge to enter into it, So me and Tiria looked at each other for a second and without further waiting we quickly entered into that area, there was nothing, and when we looked behind there was no dark matter, It was normal, the light was working then, It was strange, so we reached the house and we wanted to open the main gate, we couldn't it was locked, the gate was high and so were walls, so I got an idea, however we are not gonna talk to them and if we just place the box outside, what is the guarantee that they are gonna come out and pick up the box? So I decided to just throw the box inside with great force and run away. So, that's when I throw the box over wall, I hear a sound of glass broken and I knew it was because of me throwing the box, Me and Tiria gave a wicked look to each other and quickly ran away, we went along the same way we came this time after we ran half way, when we looked behind and reflected the torch light, the dark matter was still there, but we stopped looking at it and kept running home. I reached home and I get this sudden headache. Readers, you must have noticed this already but this was when I realized that everything was repeating once again, The box which we received, the broken glass, the phone numbers, Tiria's phone number, The note. Yes, It was us who did all this and threw the box into the house but we received the same box with the same things, events are being repeated, just as I read in the comet article. But the real mystery out there is "WHO IS IN THE OTHER HOUSE?".......