Final Nightmare

5. The answers to the problem

Zari.

"So, you're in Cali? How the hell is this going to work Cairo?"

I watched as Darrin paced back and forth in his living room. He had the phone to his ear as he was talking to Cairo trying to figure out a plan.

"Salt? You want me to put salt around the bed?" Darrin stopped and stared into space with a dumb look on his face.

"In that case she might as well throw salt at every demon that comes at her. We should have done that, maybe you and Chris would have gone away, and we wouldn't be in this mess. Probably would have still been in high school living out or dreams and shit, " Darrin palmed himself.

"Don't tell me to calm down, you did not see what the hell I saw in her apartment Cairo. It looked like some botched up demon person with its head upside down." Darrin shouted.

"Darrin calm down it's not his fault," I ran my hands through my hair and sighed heavily. Things can never end up right.

"Should have thrown salt in their face," Darrin mumbled as he plumped down on the couch beside me with the phone still to his ear.

I laughed a little at how mad he was and shook my head. He has every right to be mad about this situation. We were all reassured that nothing else bad would happen, but I guess that's not how the cookie crumble.

"So, you're saying that since Chris's mom stepped on his necklace, it released that ugly thing?" I listened intensely in this conversation because I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

"So, it's her fault?" Darrin arched her brow.

I sat back on the couch and stared off.

"If she knew that demon was in that necklace then why would she step on it?" I thought to myself. I stood to my feet while taking the phone from Darrin.

"Cairo, do you know where your father is?" I asked maybe he could give us some sort of answer.

"Hell no." Cairo chuckled. "That man hasn't been in our lives since he took Chris and I to the amusement park, after fighting over that one girl."

And that's when it clicked. The creepy guys, the white figure standing in the middle of the road, the hospital and its demons, the black figure that was standing on top of the steps, the black figure that was just in my room.

"I think y'all dad is the cause of all this. Put the pieces together Cairo. Everything thing that we've been through has at least one form of person watching us. That could have been y'all dad lurking, trying to figure out what he could do next to split us apart," I looked up at the ceiling to see the lights flickering. That gave me the indication that my thinking process was on the right path.

"Nah, that can't be him," Cairo sounded in disbelief. "There's no way in hell he would terrorize us like this for so long."

"Then why do you think we kept finding our way back to the same exact amusement park? He's there just waiting for us to find him." I sat back down and ran my hands through my hair.

It was silence on both ends of the phone as we wrapped our heads around the thought.

"That makes a whole lot more sense," Cairo and Darrin mumbled in unison.

"Think about it. You, Chris, and Mama J are still in Cali while Darrin and I are in North Carolina. It's not me who wanted to be away from y'all, it's him. We're on both ends of the country and he was hoping that we wouldn't find out. It's like he doesn't want Chris and I to be together." I placed my finger on my chin. By now my mind was racing with theories and they all sounded as if the thoughts could be possible.