A Collection Of Dark Stories

The Curse Of The Black Jewel

"to those who wear the black jewel around their neck would someday meet a horrible fate. a fate so horrible that it would also satisfy them in the last days of their dying breath, fulfilling their deepest and darkest desires at the same time"

into the little shops of a small town held a bazaar of cheap items mostly the usual items found in every bazaar; clothes, shoes, bags, toys, 2nd hand technologies, and jewelry. a young lady went into the bazaar to look for something that catches her eyes' attention. she was scanning every store and every item of every store she had just passed by. she was not one to trust strangers however she would buy something that would greatly interest her regardless of whether she trusts the merchant of the item or not but she would not easily fall prey to greedy merchants just overpricing the items as she either leaves or they would lower their prices for her.

after minutes of shopping she came upon the conclusion that nothing of interest was caught by her eyes. she decided to head back the opposite way back to where she came from. on her way back a merchant tried to call her attention...

"Psst hey lady over here"
"are you referring to me? who are you?"
"you can't leave this town till you buy something right?"
"well i can't go back empty-handed..."
"well i just got the perfect thing for you"
"how do i know you're not some preying merchant?"
"tell you what how about i give it to you as a gift? free of charge"
"just like that?"
"yes just like that."
"but what is it?"
"see for yourself as i have no regrets giving it to you free of charge"
"regrets for what?"
"well...you seem like a pretty lady and i don't want you to end up empty-handed"
*lady opens the package "its...its... beautiful!"
"i knew you would eventually like it. why don't you put it on? here let me help you"
"why not" *places the necklace around the lady's neck "now lets put this on around your neck"
"do you happen to have a..."
"...mirror? yes i do always prepared!"
"thank you again kind sir"
"my pleasure... now better head back before it gets dark we're about to close"

and so she gladly went back not being empty-handed in the end. it was already getting dark as stores have closed one by one. she went back into place before nightfall. when she reached her home she was excited to take a glance at the mirror. she was checking herself out especially her eyes focused on her new jeweled necklace. she was amused with the necklace's beauty that she was starring at it for a full minute before she came back to her senses. she then took a selfie and posted it to her social media. she got the usual number of likes from her usual friends and later on some usual comments. her status saying "got a new necklace" but the comments of her friends are asking about what necklace is she talking about as they can only see her bare neck and chest area. she found it odd and took another selfie again and the same thing happened; only her skin is shown not the necklace. she found this extremely odd as she can in fact see her necklace on her own selfie after she reviewed it herself. it was only later that she got double her usual notifications. more likes and more comments from the people she don't really know. it was rather odd for her to have random extra comments coming from others but having more likes was already normal for her case.

the next day she have received a whole lot of comments and reactions on her recent picture. as soon as she checked on it. she was surprised to see herself bleeding especially on her neck and chest areas, but there was no signs of a necklace to be seen on her picture and a whole lot of people thought she was doing a Halloween effects make up or even playing a sick joke of pretending to slit her throat. a friend even visited her that day only to see that she was alive and well and wearing the same outfit she wore the other day. only thing is now that she can see her necklace.

"where did you get that? i haven't seen that necklace before"
"didn't you saw my selfie last night? i posted one"
"yeah you did and its not funny okay, i was worried about you"
"huh? all i did was take a selfie and posted it online"
"then why was there blood involved? this isn't Halloween you know"
"can we try something? let me take a selfie right now and show proof" *takes selfie & shows it to friend
"looks normal to me, nothing unusual there" says friend
"huh... that's weird... when i take myself alone all sorts of weird things happened..."
"well i'm here now and we can do as many tests as possible just to assure you and i both that everything's normal as it is"
*hands over her phone to her friend "here take lots of picture of me with different post"
"how about i do that with my own phone instead"
"are you sure about that? well okay then"
"you're the vain one here after all so yeah lets do this"
*takes pictures "there you go, do more poses different ones and lets focus on that necklace"
"upload that later or PM it to me"
"will do. just saying if my friends ever question me about why i have a dozens pictures of you. i'm putting the blame on you okay."
"yes of course"