Perfect Lies.

Chapter-3 "What the heck?!"

When my vision cleared, I saw some blurry faces and some curious glances of Mrs. Keller, Mike, Jeremy, Kate, and Anna look worriedly at me, I was still not able to recall what happened but the pain in my head grew worse.

As I winced, Mrs. Keller held out a comforting hand to me, and I grabbed it as another wave of pain came through. The place was bright and there were white, boring walls, which I recognized, was a hospital ward.

"What happened here?" I mused

"When you fell, a small nail got penetrated in your forehead, so we called Mike and Mrs. Keller to drive you to the hospital" Anna replied with concern in her eyes.

"Bloody hell, you got 3 stitches!" Mike exclaimed, looking horrified.

"That's okay, but where's mom?" I asked, realizing her absence.

"We didn't tell her" Anna replied. A relieved sigh escaped my mouth and I suddenly felt that I was holding my breath for quite long.

"Take some rest, dear," Mrs. Keller spoke in a hushed tone, and with one last glance at me, they all left.

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After what felt like ages to me, I finally got discharged from the hospital the next day. As we drove our way back home, I saw that unfamiliar road again and those fresh visions flashed in front of my eyes.

"Where's Alex?" Kate asked, looking rather worn out due to the unexpected occurrence.

"I think he just went back to the house?" Anna tried to reason, but her idea sounded foolish to her.

"Dang!, another mystery" Mike suddenly shouted out-of-the-blue, which caught all of us off guard.

"What?"

"Today, my Choco-chip cookies suddenly got disappeared just like Alex" as the words left his mouth, I saw Mrs. Keller coughed and shifted uncomfortably in her seat while driving.

"Mom?!" Mike yelled as Anna rolled her eyes and Kate smacked Jeremy's arm for some stupid joke (what else can you expect from him)

"Sorry, Mike, I'll buy a new one for you" Mrs. Keller's face flushed with embarrassment. the ooh-so-stupid-and-nonsense conversation continued the whole way till we reached in front of my house, a deadly silence fell among all of us as we stopped there, mom's gonna practically kill me after this.

"Shay, if you want, I can help you with the reasoning thing"

"Yeah, sure, I think I need some help here Jeremy" he nodded in response, as Jeremy and I got out of the car, Mrs. Keller parked the car in a corner.

As we entered, we saw the house was all messed up, just like yesterday."Mrs. Collins??" Jeremy squeaked, but no one answered.

But just then, we heard a shrilled, high-pitched laughter from mom's room, without even uttering a word, we both ran toward the room and smacked it open.

The vision was horrible, I saw that dark-haired, miserable-looking lady whom I met in the isolated street, held my mother's hand and pressed it tightly against the wall. "You!!" I yelled as I sprung forward and pushed her out, releasing mom's hand.

"What do you want? Why are you even here?!, And how dare you touch her?" I blurted out loudly. Jeremy took careful steps towards mom and calmed her, but before he could even touch her, the lady, sprung forward and caught Jeremy's neck, smirking, she pressed his throat that Jeremy choked as he struggled to free himself.

"No!!" I yelled as I went forward and punched her in the face I don't care if she is a woman, but if she will hurt my mom or friends I can kill her also.

Carefully not to hit Jeremy, but my attempt failed as she slipped, standing in front of mom and me. But, before I could stop, my hand hit the wall and I Squeaked. But just then, I heard some footsteps approaching the doorway and saw Mike appeared in sight.

"Shoot, what the heck is going on, " he panicked and held the lady's hand, letting Jeremy off, he twisted her hand, but she only laughed, as mom and Jeremy went in one corner, I took them out, and minutes later, the lady came out, still laughing like a psycho with her hair pointing in every possible direction and scattered untidily.

"Shay, my boy, come to Mumma!!" she danced towards me, Mike stood on the frame of the door and I gave him a cautionary glance of not-to-do-anything-reckless.

"What do you want?"

"You, my child"

"Go, I'll meet you tomorrow, on the same road, ok?"

"Deal!" she squeaked and with a smirk, and left the place. Woah, this lady is a total psychopath.

"What the heck was going on?" Mike asked as we all glanced towards mom, for the cause. But she was in outer space and suddenly fell on the couch, exhausted.

"Tomorrow, I guess" I muttered underneath my breath.

"Shay, just take care of her, and feel free to call me anytime if you need anything, ok?" Jeremy spoke, his hand, still on his neck.

"Don't think about this too much, we will figure it out" Mike added with a worried expression. After Mike and Jeremy left, I wrapped a cozy blanket around mom and cleaned the house.

Now my mind was just full of questions. And the worst question was "Why was she calling me her child?"

After I cleaned the house I went to my mom's room. I know this is very strange but this was my first time in my mom's room and now I wanted to explore this room because if she was awake she would've kicked me out of her room. She is very particular about her things so if I will touch anything she will get to know, but now this room is a mess, so I have a reason. I mentally danced at my idea.

So basically my real reason was that I wanted to investigate this room because I have so many questions in my mind and I was sure I will get my answers here. so as I was "exploring" I checked drawers and then her closet but I found nothing. Of course, I will not find anything here this is not a clićhe movie or series that the answers I want to find will be there just waiting for my arrival. but, When I was about to go I saw some uniforms lying on the corner of the bed, judging by the fact they were very old and there was a name badge also where my grandfather's name was written whom name, I am not supposed to take but when I lifted the uniform up to take a good look on it a paper fell on the floor and I guess it was a small handwritten letter so I opened it but what I saw confused me more -

Dear Andrea,

Please save me, I don't want to die, but I think this will not be the case because it's already late. But remember my last words DON'T SPEAR HIM.

~Meldy

Now I was a mess because there were so many questions in my mind and now I don't know what to do because I came into this room to find my answers not to make it difficult for me when it already was. Now I will ask my mom, but I know she will give me her only answer that is "complications" but before I could think, I heard a groan so, I hurriedly left, but not before keeping the letter where it was. I straight went into my room did my night routine and went to sleep because I was too exhausted to eat or do anything else besides sleep.

But some things were still bugging me because I cannot just put them aside - 'Who was that woman and what she wanted from me?' 'What was that letter about?' 'Who was Meldy?' 'Why my mom was lying to me?' And 'What was my past?'. After thinking too much finally I slept.