The Curse

Safety Compromised

Anthony became alert. Treading cautiously, he pulled back the blinds a bit. The house was surrounded by those creatures! He drew back in fright. What was to be done? Where would they hide? He woke everyone up. "Whassamatter?" said Jackson groggily. " Get up," hissed Filip with an urgency in his voice," We have been surrounded." This was enough to snap him out of his beauty sleep.

"Go to the basement. Go, go ,go," Filip urged.

After everyone was down in the basement, Filip locked the door. Everyone was terrified and the colour drawn from their faces. "Right,"he began," I know this is alarming but let's keep our heads. First I think we should grab some sort of a weapon in case we are attacked. Since dad keeps all his carpentry stuff here, we should have no problems. And don't stray away, keep together unless it's absolutely necessary to separate out. Jillian gripped John's hand tightly.

"Let's go upstairs. But don't reveal yourselves." Everyone trooped out of the basement. All of them stayed in the living room with abated breath, expecting the door to be broken down any minute now. But the aliens just stood outside, inspecting the house. "They aren't very bright it seems," said John,"Why are they still waiting outside?"

However, the next moment it sounded as if they were barging into the door. " OK I take that back," John said sheepishly. "L... Let's go upstairs," said Jillian in a trembling voice," They will break in any minute." Grabbing anything that could be used as a weapon, they rushed upstairs and locked themselves in a bedroom. Jillian was the last to go, limping behind. She could hardly feel her leg anymore. Sophie was the first to notice this.

"Does it pain even more?"

"We don't have time to think about my leg," she said, willing to keep it quiet. They did not know how long they stayed in the bedroom. They held their breaths every time they thought something moved. After what seemed like hours John opened the door to a crack. Nobody seemed to be around. Everyone trooped downstairs to the dark and empty living room. It didn't look like there had been an invasion a few hours back. But it was a lot more unsafe now - the aliens knew that they weren't alone and the door was broken, which had been the only barrier between them and the humans. Sophie shivered in the cold. With nothing else left to do, they grabbed some food and water supplies and locked themselves in one of the upstairs bedrooms, lest the aliens came back. Everybody was stressed out and fell asleep on the floor. Jillian , felt really sick. She couldn't feel her legs at all and the sensation was slowly spreading to her entire body. At the same time, she was unable to keep her eyes open at all. As she slowly drifted off to sleep, she underwent a strange sensation. She felt as if she was flying away to a far off world, away from this strange and dangerous place inhabited by aliens. But as she looked back, she saw that the others weren't coming. And was that her body lying in the room? Wait......noooooo!