FEAR

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter 16

                We all look towards the door nervously. Abigail’s hand holding tighter onto mine as another forceful push slams against the door. I knew what was behind that door. It had followed us just like the priest had told us it would. It was never going to leave us alone.

“Leave now!” the priest screams towards the door.

A roar comes from behind the door, another powerful push against it which should have caused the door to open, but it didn’t. It was as if the door was resisting what was outside. Like some kind of force barrier.

The house begins to shake vigorously; ornaments on shelves crashing down onto the floor and shattering into hundreds of pieces as pictures also started to break from its hinges.  But after a few moments, the shaking had stopped. There was now only silence. But we knew what-ever was outside had not gone. It was toying with us like this was some sort of game.

Seconds go by and a silent chill sensation begins to surround us, filling up the floor with a light fog that comes from the gap from under the door which starts to become thicker until it had surrounded the whole house like a white smoke and moving around like some sort of eerie Wraith.

“What’s happening?” I ask the priest, shaking from the arctic coldness. It was hard to see through the thickness of the fog. Its thickness was starting to become suffocating on my throat that I find myself gasping for every breath that I take.

“It’s trying to get us out of the house. This place has been purified with the sacred vows of our Lord Jesus Christ. Abaddon cannot enter here!”

“But we can’t stay in here. We will freeze to death,” I mutter to the priest, my bottom lip quivering. The coldness was becoming unbearable. “What are we going to do?”

“Wait here... I have to find something. Do not go anyway near that door.”  I nod, as he vanishes out of my sight and into the fog.

“Daddy, I’m cold.” Abigail mutters, shivering frantically. I take off my jacket and place it around Abigail to try and make her warmer.

“Don’t worry Abigail; everything is going to be okay.” I say looking down to her as she continues to shiver.

“You can’t stay in there forever!” the voice roars from behind the door. “You can’t run from me! I will always find you!” it then laughs hysterically.

Seemingly, there was no escape. We were trapped inside the house in arctic-like conditions, each gasp of breathe that I take felt like it was going to be my last. I didn’t want it to end like this, but there was no other way. The monster that was behind the door was waiting for us, and I didn’t want to imagine the cruel things that it was going to do if we were to leave the house.

“Abigail, I want you to hold onto me okay?” I say to her, as she grips onto me tight. “This will all be over soon, I promise. Just close your eyes and think of mommy, okay Abigail?”

“Okay daddy.” She whispers quietly and closes her eyes.

Emotions came over me, trying to fight back the tears that felt like they were going to pour out from me. I knew this was the end, even though I hated to admit it. There was just no other escape, except death. But at this moment in time, I welcome death. I couldn’t take this any longer. I just wanted this to all be finally over.

“Are you still thinking of mommy?” I say quietly, my voice beginning to choke with emotions.

She nods and holds onto me even tighter.

I close my eyes and hold onto Abigail, holding her as tightly like the first time that she was born. I’ll never forget that day, hearing her cry for the first time and then peacefully sleeping as I held her in my arms that were shaking uncontrollably at the time.