Freak At The Graveyard - Cursed Demon

Chapter 7 : THE TRUTH

A picture of two girls was glued on the first page of the notebook.

Both of them had bob cut golden brown hair and beautiful bright blue eyes. They were twins. They were standing side by side near a swing. The girls had their arms around each other's shoulder and they were beaming at me through the photograph.

Their smile looked so familiar to me. Shukla , their last names. They were my new neighbors , sisters of that jerk. Their smile reminded me of that idiot's smile. His side smirk was his signature look. That smirk would make any lady with a young heart fall in love with him. I have a cold heart, I won't fall for him. Besides , he's a jerkk.

Shehnaaz turned a few pages of that pink diary but she couldn't find any more pictures. I have to return this diary back. She thought to go back to the house and return it but she didn't want to risk meeting that guy, not today.

Something caught her attention. On the last page , Shehnaaz saw a poorly scribbled crayon sketch of 3 girls. Two of them were short compared to the one in the middle . 'Jass' was written under the sketch of the tall girl and 'minky ' and 'pinky' under the shorter girls' sketch.

Who was jass ?

A little girl came out of the back door of Shukla's house . She came towards Shehnaaz. She was looking around on the ground as if she had lost something. She saw the book in my hands and approached me. Alright , caught in action .

"Is this yours ?" Shehnaaz asked her . Ofcourse it belongs to her. She was one of the twin. Her hair were now shoulder length and she looked different from the photograph.

"Yes ," she mumbled. Shy and quiet.

"It was on the lawn " Shehnaaz said awkwardly.

She nodded and took the book out of my hand. She gave a tight smile and turned back towards her house and started walking away.

" Wait , you're pinky?"

She stopeed and turned towards shehnaaz.

" No, minky."

" So which one of you reads book till late night ?" Shehnaaz saw one of them the other night . She was clearly confused wht I was asking that .

" Pinky loved reading."

" You don't ?"

She shook her head . I looked towards her and asked , "Where is she ?"

"Dead," she said blankly. She turned on her heels and walked back towards her house.

Shehnaaz was lost for words. She was just staring at her while she walking going back to her house. That Shuka wasn't lying. He had a sister who died. DAMMIT...I was wrong. All along . His sister died. He was righht, I acussed him for lying that he was making stories. Why would he?

I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE , shehnaaz thought.

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TWO WEEKS LATER

Two weeks went by. No weird thing happened to shehnaaz. She passed her time in her house reading books and ordering her meals. Her mom would be out for whole night due to her job. Baaz avoided her. He didn't went on any parties though. He spent his entire time in his room.

She still couldn't make out what happened that night That creepy lady, the bruise on her wrist . She still had deadly nightmares. She would be standing in a long dark corridor with a bright light on the other end. A person would come out of nowhere and block that end. When shehnaaz tried to run in the opposite direction she would reach the end where he stood. It was pretty weird. It gave chills and goosebumps to shehnaaz when she thought about it.

Shehnaaz was tired.

It was Sunday evening. She was as usual reading . She finished reading an interesting book and went to shut the windows. It was around 2 in the morning . There was still no sign of that Shukla. It was good in a sense, because his presence affected shehnaaz. It made her uncomfortable.

When she went to shut the windows facing the Shukla's House , She saw someone and she squealed. Minky was standing at her window staring her.

"Hey , why are you up so late?" Shehnaaz asked with curiosity.

No answer. She kept staring her as if she was deaf. Her eyes looked red and teary. Was she missing her sister? I should probably not interfere in some else's matter but I'm Shehnaaz.

"You okay ?" shehnaaz asked again.

Still no answer. Shehnaaz was really worried now. Before she could ask her anything else she turned and went away. Shehnaaz just shrugged and shut the windows. She climbed upon her bed and fell asleep.

She still had those nightmares. Repeatedly , night after night. They scared her like hell. She had a constant feeling of shortness of breath and suffocation. It was like hundreds of pound weighing you down. She wonder if it was just her or baazand mom felt that too.

Shehnaaz woke up early , as usual. She got ready and went down for breakfast. Baaz and mom were asleep. Shehnaaz hated morning routines. She didn't know she was living or just passing through days just surviving ? This was the lamest and the most boring summer shehnaaz ever lived. Dad used to take her for road trips. Bagga and shehnaaz would roam around and make plans for the next year in school. Shehnaaz had nothing to do now.

Please god, make my life a bit interesting.

She went to the lake and just stare to the far horizon thinking about life. When she climbed back to her house she saw minky. She was in her backyard swinging on the swing.

"Hey" Shehnaaz called her. She was really bored being all alone with no one to talk. She missed the fights with her brother. At least they were interesting.

She smiled when she saw me.

"What happened to you last nighht? You looked sad."

She narrowed her brows and gave shehnaaz a confused look.

"I saw you . You were standing at your window." Shehnaaz explained. " I called you but you didn't hear me."

She stopped the swing and stood up.

" I just came back to Havendell this morning. I went to gran's house."

"You were not here last night ?"

She shook her head.

Hallucinations? NO. I saw her. Or was she Pinky ? How could she be Pinky? Pinky was dead.

Shehnaaz was appalled. She ran back towards the house and climbed upstairs to her room. She was shaking with fright. She felt she was either totally wrong or was about to realize one of the most dreadful thing. She vote for the latter because all what happened in past two weeks had no other explanation.

The house I lived in was haunted.

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So very sorry for not being regular with then updates ,,,,,,,, will try to update on a daily basis. I hope y'all are having a good time while reading this :))