//A/N: This is my first story collaborating with SuchandraChatt10. English is not our first language, so please ignore any grammatical error. Hope you like it. Please vote and comment! 😊
"Mom! Why are we going to that place again?" The woman remained silent. "MOM!" Samuel, the oldest child, exclaimed. "Sam, we ar-" "Dad, isn't this place, uhm..familiar?" Madelyn, the youngest one interrupted, while James was totally quiet.
They reached there when sun was already going down. There was an eerie feeling around the house. The trees surrounding the house were not trimmed for a very long time, which added to the spookiness of the place. The man got out of the car and exclaimed, "Hush now! We are here at last". Within this two years nothing has changed. The place still had those those trees, those benches in the garden, that swing in the backyard. While the family was busy taking out their belongings, the woman was busy admiring the surroundings, which was full of so many memories from the past - some were good and some were miserably bad. She was overwhelmed by the memories. Her thoughts were interrupted by Madelyn's voice " Momma, where are you?"
All this two years they had avoided this place because this is the place where one of their child died . His name was William, he and Madelyn were twins. Till this date no one knew how he died. His death was mysterious and horrible. William's body was found in the backyard, his throat was slitted, and his face was burnt. The woman could not bear this pain and she and her family left this place. This place always reminded her of that fateful day, the pain in her chest was not comparable to any thing else in the entire world.
The first week was totally normal. Madelyn, Samuel and James were having fun and they had totally forgotten about William because they were too small when that incident took place.
From the second week they started encountering some weird activities,like flickering of lights, different sounds at midnight. They thought it was some kind of electrical malfunction or some sort of problem in that area, therefore they use to avoid it.
But one day, the woman received a weird message when she was in the living room from a unknown number. It read "LOOK BACK THE CHANDELIER GONNA FALL ON MADELYN!" As soon as she looked back, the chandelier came out of the socket and Madelyn was standing just beneath it. Thankfully her father was there to save her that day.
The next few weeks were the worst part of their life. She suddenly started receiving phone calls from unknown numbers. Though she never answered them. When at last she answered them she was shocked! The voice resembled her dead son, William . Then she informed this to her husband, when she understood that that the matter was out of their hand, but it was too late by that time. That night they heard Madelyn's shriek, but when they reached Madelyn's room she was not there. They searched a lot but they were not able to find her out. They decided to call the police. When they were leaving, James and Samuel shouted horrified, the man and the woman rushed to their backyard only to Madelyn dead in the garden. Her throat was slit open and face burnt just like William's.
They informed the police, so because of this reason it was strict order that the family can't leave their house at least not until the police find some clue about Madelyn's death.
Then for few days they encountered nothing. After that they saw a new lady in their neighbourhood. One day she came around. She was told the whole story. "She is going to take all of you with her!" The lady said abruptly. The woman asked "What should we do?" " We need to communicate with her, what she wants and why is she doing this to your family?". She was a psychic so she knew how to deal with this stuffs.
That night they decided that they will communicate with Madelyn's soul. So at night they all gathered in their house and started the ritual. When the lady was trying to communicate, all of a sudden all the mirrors in the house broke together. She went close to those mirrors, so that she can see the reflection of that spirit in that mirrors. Every mirrors had reflection of a burnt face.
Suddenly the light went off , but the power was restored after sometime and everything went back to normal. The next day suddenly the lady started to behave weirdly. Little did they know the following night would perhaps be the biggest nightmare of their life.
At night when they went to sleep , the woman felt a creepy hand on her back but as soon as she looked back, there was no one. She saw a figure standing there, as soon as she turned on the light there was no one. She again turned it off there was a hazy figure, again she turned it of there was no one. After three attempt she felt that the hazy figure is coming close therefore she stopped whatever she was doing and went back to her bed. Then she started hearing sound , rather cry of a baby. She saw a cradle, she went close to it, and when she bent her head, it was a baby. She took a closer look and the baby's face look similar to their daughter Madelyn. Her face was totally burnt and his throat slit into parts ...
She shouted and went few steps backward. He fell upon something as soon as she opened her eyes and looked back he saw William's dead body lying. Out of a sudden when she was gazing at her son's dead body his eyes opened and with a shrill cry William said one thing " I'm gonna take u all I miss u mumma " by hearing her shout her husband came out with James and Samuel. They decided to leave that place then and there, but as they were leaving the room , they saw that lady sitting there in the couch. They were amazed to see her, she said nothing she only said I know how to save u guys from the ghost, she insisted them to chant a mantra , but to their shock as they Chanted those lines they saw numerous figures crawling towards them as the light was dim they were not able to see them, as those figures came close they were able to see their burnt faces around them. The man pushed that lady away, the lady due to the thrust went straight and stand in front a mirror. The lady turned slowly, it was then when the family was able to see her actual face. Her face was brutally cut and her hand and legs were burnt. She was a dead soul.
All of them tried to ran out of the house but the door suddenly closed. " You guys go and sit on that couch I am trying to break the door" the man said.
The woman took her James and Samuel and sat on that couch. After several tries the man was able to break the door, she came toward the couch, " I opened it now we can run away, Honey, we will be safe..come ..hon-" the man was horrified by seeing what he saw. He saw his wife and children lying dead all of their throat split into halves. As soon as he attempted to touch her wife a burnt hand crawled upon her shoulder and grabbed the man's hand firmly. He saw several figure lurking towards him. " she is going to take u away " this was the only thing that they were saying over and over again.
The man somehow was able to free himself from the burnt hand's grip. As he tried to escape, the door closed and
something was written on the door- "THE KNIGHTLEYS, COME WITH ME, WE WILL HAPPY AGAIN TOGETHER!"
Veronica woke up and exclaimed "Knightley! Isn't that my uncle, Jonathan's last name? It was a weird dream!" she murmured to herself.
