Anna & George

George

"Sir, here's the bottle of water. Where's Mrs. Parsons?" My secretary ask. Looking around to find Anna.

"She just left." I said and take the water to drink it myself. "You heard what she said right? About the shop? What do you think about it?" I ask her.

"Well, have you heard of the urban legend Rita the tarot reader?" She ask.

"Yeah, once when I was a kid. Why?"

"It is said that every 100th Halloween, Rita will show herself to someone with a troubled heart and would read a tarot for them. There was this one man who believed to have seen Rita and that the tarot reading she did for him all became true, so maybe that's what happened to your wife?" I frown at her. Is she hearing all the nonsense she's talking?

"You actually believe that urban legend is true?" I scoff.

"Yes I do sir, but you clearly don't."

"Of course I don't believe in such things."

"Then please explain to me how she got the tarot cards? For your wife to do something like this is so out of character, why would she do it?" She challenge. I look back at the wall where I've seen Anna a while ago. Maria has a point, this is so out of character for Anna. Hell, she hates scary stuff like this, but then again she also loves watching paranormal documentary, horror movies, conspiracy theories and everything. The tarot cards as well, where did she get them from? I look at my secretary again when a thought pops up.

"Surveillance camera. Let's check the CCTV." I stood up and hurriedly walk to the elevator. We head to the security surveillance office.

"Good afternoon sir. What can I do for you?" The head security ask.

"Can you find the recordings of Anna, from the moment she came inside the mall." I said. He nodded and sit on his desk. Moments later, we saw Anna walk in at 11:59 am and went straight to the escalator, next she is shown going inside their shop at the 6th floor. She was gone for awhile before we can see her walk out of the shop and head to the escalator going downwards and exit the mall. I lean back and frown. "Is that it? Can you check if she came back in?" I ask the HS. I waited for awhile before he calls me again.

"Sir, Mrs. Parsons came back at twenty minutes past one." He announce. We look at the screen again showing Anna came back in looking at her watch. She walk around the ground floor, window shopping as she said. We watch as she went to the first floor to do the same until she gets to the ninth floor, she was walking and glancing at the shops until she stopped in front of the wall where she claim the shop was, she stare at the upper part for a while before we saw her walking closer to it and the screen goes black.

"What happened?" I ask.

"I don't know sir, the camera seems to have malfunction." He said and tried to play the part again but the outcome is still the same. I look at Maria and just like me, she's confuse. He tried to fast forward the video and the camera was working again. We can now see Anna hurriedly walk away from the wall and walk to the escalator, for some reason she look back and just stood still. She runs back towards the wall and that's when me and Maria saw her.

"Can you go back to before the screen blacks out?" I ask. He did as told and rewinds it. I look intently at Anna's hands and sure enough she's not holding something. "Fast forward it and stop the moment after the black out." I said again, he did as told and stop at the moment Anna stop running. I look at her hands again and she's now holding something, the tarot cards. I lean back and run my hands to my face. What is going on? I thank the head HS and walk out of the room with Maria on tow. We went back to the bench I was sitting before and look at the wall again. "Our mall is not hunted right?" I ask.