The Deep Dark Stone Path

Chapter 35 *Dalilah*

I feel heat blowing in my face. I open my eyes and see I’m in a car. It is raining hard and the window is cold against my face. I look over and see my mom driving. I gasp, and she looks over at me. “Hey, sleepyhead. We are almost home.” I lean over and hug her tight. She lays her head on mine and continues to drive.

 I remember this part too well. We pass a cop, so I let go and sit upright in my seat. We get to a curve and my mom slows down. We go around the corner and go up a hill. We get to the top and them bam! A truck speeds over the hill and hydroplanes. She hits us, and we flip twice back down the hill.

I wake up in a cold sweat and gasping for breath. Its so cold. I look down and see the Onyx stones under me. I am in the backyard. “Help me!”, I hear someone scream and it ricochets through the woods. Then I see white moving through the woods. I get up and follow it. Then I get thrown to the ground and see a boy. “They are coming!” He gets up and runs away, then he is gone completely.

I walk to the ruins of Meyer Manor and admire the fireflies that surround the house. I walk into the house and go into the kitchen. The putrid smell makes me gag. The Meyers appear and look worriedly at me. “Have you found our children?”, Elizabeth asks me. I nod. “He killed them too. The little one is in the bathtub upstairs and the bigger one died outside, but I don’t know where his body is.”

She cries, and he wraps his arm around her. “Do you know who did it?”, He asks me. “James and I are looking into it, but we are pretty sure it is his step dad.” My hands start tingling and then everything goes black. Next thing I know I am on my hands and knees outside the ruins covered in dirt. I was digging in the ground with my hands. There is a decent sized whole in the ground and I think I have found their older son.

I get a slight headache and then I see a little boy poke his head out from behind a tree. “Come here. I won’t hurt you.” He slowly walks over and sits down. “What’s your name?”, I question. He writes John in the dirt. He walks over to the whole, looks at me, and disappears. I go back into the house and Elizabeth and Timothy are trying to ask me questions, but I can’t hear them. All I can hear is him screaming.

I rush up the stairs and I can see Terry choking this little boy and pushing him under the water. Tears stream down my face as I try to stop him, but only go right through him. Then the vision disappears. I go downstairs, and Sam is at the front door in wolf form. I go into the kitchen and see that they are gone. “I found John outside. I will catch your killer and get you a proper burial.”

Sam and I walk home, and I climb up the rope. Sam changes into a human and then climbs up. I shower and get some clean clothes on. I go downstairs and find that dad went to work, the twins are playing cards, and James and Damian are watching some movie. I walk over to James and tap him on the shoulder. He looks over and without a word follows me upstairs.

“We have to go talk to your step-father. We have to get him to confess to the murders. I know he did it I saw him. I keep having visions and dreams and they aren’t going to stop until we catch him and bury the Meyers. It is driving me crazy and I just had to watch your step-father drown a boy and there was nothing I could do to help.”, I choke up and start to cry again. He pulls me into a hug and I just cry over everything. Over these new weird powers, over James, over the Meyers, over Damian, and most of all over my mom.