Bloody Darkness

The Story

Alice

We kept waiting for Harry to tell us once and for all what was happening.

-Speak up - Drake said shaking Harry again.

-We must hurry - I said getting up the ground and keeping away from Hannah's body - Remember what Ethan said about the time.

Drake let go harry and approached to help me get up.

- Are you okay darling? - Drake wonder as He hugged me.

-No, I'm not, I just want to get out - I said to Drake with a muffled voice.

I looked back at Harry waiting for an explanation, he looked at me with doubt in his face on whether or not to tell us the truth, in the end he spoke and said:

- Twelve years ago we inherited this house and lots of money from our grandparents, we lived in California and our parents sold the house to move here - Harry said - Lilith and I were still very young, I was five and she was only three, but at that age Lilith had a hard time relating to people despite the fact of being a nice person.

Drake and I listened attentive; Harry looked tense and somehow nostalgic.

-Mom thought that it would be a good change for her - Harry continues - Grandma always liked antiques and she collect many of them during her life, but her favorite was an old wooden mannequin that was in the living room, I always thought grandma was weird.

- Where did she get it? - Drake ask.

- Let him finish Drake - I said.

- it was one month since we moved in to the house, I went to school in the morning but Lilith was still very small so she stayed home with a babysitter and then in the afternoons she took care of both - Harry took a breath - I was a difficult child who liked to play pranks but Lilith instead was always a quiet child and she like to play with anything, but especially she liked to play with that mannequin, she spent time talking to him as if he answer her, at first nobody thought that it was something as it was a girl playing with any doll, but then strange things began to occur, Lilith said that the mannequin's name was Kraven, that he said it, she spent all his time drawing herself beside him and at night she used to disappear from her bed until my parents or someone from the service found her playing in the living room.

- Do you believe her? - I achieve to ask.

-I don't know, things just got worse with time - he said - my parents decided that was enough, they took Lilith with a psychologist who said that is was better If they hide the mannequin from her and made her interact with other people and they did so, when I got home they gave the order to go up the mannequin to an unoccupied room on the third floor and they locked it. Lilith actually improved, two years after and she began attending school, she got some friends and didn't talk about it.

Harry looked at me thoughtfully for a moment and then added:

-That time, when you came home I acted so strangely because it was assumed that no one enter to that room; I know you didn't know, sorry I have to behave like that.

Drake and I were amazed at what Harry just told; we weren't able to understand how it was possible that a simple wooden mannequin was doing all this.

-I still don't understand what it has to do with Lilith? - I ask still confused - How are you so sure it's the mannequin?

- There has to be something else, I can't believe that a simple antique wooden doll is doing all this - Drake said incredulously.

-I ... - Harry said doubtfully - I follow her one night, Kraven walked beside her, the mannequin moved, it was amazing, I never said anything, I didn't want anyone to think I was crazy too.... she was just a girl ... . - Harry said more to himself than to us.

-We have to find the boys before this gets worse - I said walking towards the door.

No doubt this had left us perplexed; thousands of unanswered questions came to my mind. Why he was doing all this? Why us? And above all, How Lilith was associated with the mannequin exactly? , It was something that we'll probably discover soon.

We left the room in search of the others when the lights dimmed and suddenly we heard a scream, then the lights came back on, we went downstairs in a hurry and walked through an open door leading to another large hall.

I was sure that it was the guys so I started to run with all my strength holding Drake's hand even stronger while Harry was following us, right in the middle of the hall we saw Ethan with Vanessa who was holding a small child I recognized immediately.

-What are you doing home Jake? - Harry asked, surprised to see that Vanessa was holding his youngest brother - you should be with Mom and Dad.

- Ethan what happened? Where are Derek and Katy? -Drake asked worriedly.

Ethan looked at Harry and then to Drake.

- There's something in this house it took Derek and Katy - Ethan said.

- Harry has something to say, but we must first find Derek and Katy before it's too late - I said.