I'm still here

Chapter 2

I didn't have words to say.
I felt numb.
Tara was dead?
How?

I looked at Mrs. Morales and said, "I'm so sorry. How did she die?"
"She committed suicide.", she said.

"What? Why?", I asked.
I was shocked.

"I don't know. She started behaving weird after she visited your house.
Two days ago she left without telling me where she's going. She was found hanging down the Banyan tree in your previous house", she said.

I gasped.
Tara committed suicide in the same house, under the same tree.
I couldn't help but cry.
This wasn't something I could even think of.

"She left this for you.", Mrs Morales said, handing me a diary.
I opened it and saw the first page.
It read 'For Lisa'.

I just hugged Mrs. Morales and came back home.
Without uttering a word I went to my room and locked the door.
I had to read what Tara had written for me.
With a pounding heart, I opened the diary.

Lisa. By the time you'll read this, I would probably be dead.
I so wish I could tell you about all that is happening but they just wouldn't let me do that.
That's why I'm writing this letter to you.

When you and your family left that house I was glad that you're safe now but I had no clue that you have put yourself in danger.
The house you are living in is the same house where the Cyrus family used to live before.

No it isn't a co-incidence that you could manage to find only this house out of all the places.
Wendy isn't gone.
Hadley isn't safe.
The exorcism wasn't a success.
I wanted to tell all this to you before you moved into that place but they won't let me do that.

They won't let me live.
I know I'm gonna die soon but Lisa you have to do something.
Changing houses is not going to help you.
There's something that Wendy wants from you.
Find out what it is.
This time you won't be having Riley or the Waters or Katie..it's just Wendy and Amelia.

They are way too evil.
Even an exorcism couldn't combat them.
Be careful Lisa.
You need the key to that closet.
It's you who has to save everyone now.
Goodbye.

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I couldn't help but cry.
Tara is dead.
She would have been alive if I hadn't asked for her help.

Now that I know  that this is the same house where Wendy used to live when she was alive, I'm sure that I wasn't imagining that Ouija board and Amelia's voice.

I have to find the key to the closet. But that is next to impossible.
Maybe I can break the lock instead of wasting time while looking for the key.

"Mom? Can you please come here?", I asked.
"Yes Lisa, what is it?", she asked.
"Mom do we have a hammer sort of a thing? I want to break this lock", I said pointing towards the closet.

"Lisa! Why do you want to create a mess! We'll find the key to this closet. We have just moved in!", she said.

"Mom please. I want to see what's there in this closet", I pleaded.
"Fine. There's a box kept in the hall with the label 'Tools'. You'll find a hammer in it.", she said.

"Thanks mom", I said with a smile.
"Good luck with that closet and Wendy",mom said.

How does she know about Wendy! I never told her that I saw a corpse in the closet. I myself am not sure that the corpse I saw, was Wendy.

I quickly went downstairs to fetch a hammer.
Thankfully there was no one to question me.
I quickly grabbed the hammer and ran to my room.

I was too scared to do this but I convinced myself for the same.
It took some three or four hard strikes to break the lock.

With trembling hands I opened the closet.
It was empty.
'How's that possible? I saw that corpse in here', I said to myself.

It wasn't empty. There was a paper lying down in there.
I picked it up and unfolded it.
It was the same Ouija board.
I immediately put it back and closed the closet.

I saw a girl standing behind me, in the mirror.
The same girl whose corpse was there in the closet.

I had never witnessed anything as scary as that.
Her face was completely mutilated, scars all over her body.

I turned back but she was gone.
Just when I heard a whisper right in my ears ," I'm still here."

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So this again was a long update but I haven't written the story further so I would need atleast two or three days to write another update.
So please don't bug me with messages about late updates.
Like I said, I have to study as well.
happy reading😊