The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Chapter 30

So, that happened.

She's recovering, more or less. Everyone's okay. Everyone's fine. I mean, she's not okay. Definitely not. But physically, sure. Mentally? On the downside.

Not like that's new or anything.

She's not sure what to think of it all. Sunshine's looked back over the footage more times than she can count and it just — none of it makes sense. Well, it does. Kind of. But not really.

It's a little weird, the shift of energy in the house. It's not as dark, not like before, when her mother had been... well, under the influence of a demonic force (She really doesn't want to say the word). Uncle Tommy is still here, thank God, and he's really helping out. Her mother is happy again. Just like old times, and it makes her heart swell, truly.

Everything is finally going back to normal, and it's all she's ever wanted.

But, well, about the video. Y'know. Sacrifice sight thingy. Anyway, she feels... there's not really a word for what she feels. It's like a heavy lump in her stomach. Like, like a fat man sitting on her chest.

Sunshine remembers when she stood up and the bag was taken off, clearly Victoria was — well, gone — but then she rewatched the footage and her throat was kinda, um, yeah. Slashed? It was a very bloody and frightening sight, and looking at it brings her back to that place, to the rain drizzling over her body and the screams whipping through the wind behind her.

She'd gone back, though. For some reason the weird dagger-knife thingy was gone. But Victoria wasn't there. In fact, there was no trace of the excorcism at all. Anyone stumbling by would just admire the beauty of the clearing.

Sunshine, well. All she can think of it is darkness. She never wants to return, and never will.

So. Yeah. Victoria is gone. She hasn't been passing by the house or anything, either. Sunshine wants to find her, but she isn't even sure where to start. No last name, no given address, no known family... it's dead ends everywhere.

And there's still that other lingering option, but Sunshine really, really doesn't want to think of that.

Victoria can't be dead, right?

Well. Time to move on.

The demon — she's pretty sure the demon had decided to take on the form of her mother because that's.. who he was — that damn word, you know it, so his human form looked a lot like her. That was equally creepy, seeing Kat's face morphed like that, but she knows it wasn't really her mother. She's not scared, not anymore.

Thank God.

Lastly, well, Creepy Guy. She has a lot of questions about him that she needs to answer, but just like Victoria, doesn't know where to begin. Like, at all.

What does she know, though? He's the same guy from the abandoned house that she'd gone to alone a few weeks back. Very crazy. Insane and disturbing. That's why she's calling him Creepy Guy. But she still wants to know why he was at the site. Does he have something to do with the cult? Why does he know so much about her father? That's — weird. Definitely weird. He kept talking about him, like he knew him.

Shit. Maybe he does.

And, most of all, why did he call her that word? Luiseach? That must mean something, but she's not really sure. Sunshine will have to do some digging. Later. Not right now. She still needs to recover and get all of that ghost nonsense out of her mind.

Relaxing.

Ah. Sounds really, really nice.

Oh, why the hell not?
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Uncle Tommy is leaving.