"You just can't listen to me.for once can you!... why do you keep acting like some wasted spoilt brat! What if something had happened to you! I've had it with you non sense, your just becoming a problem to me now. Your grounded!"
"What?!!", Lily looked up shocked, because it was the first time he ever said that to her.
"You heard me! No TV, no game... no playing... you just stay in your room and do dishes everyday for the next one week! Period!".
Lily sat on the bed hugging her legs to her chest, and her chin above her knees, with tears pouring out. "You are just like your mother!!!", he yelled and stomped out, slamming the door behind him.
Crystal stood there as Andrew walked out, then walked up to Lily. She was at first confused what to do to make Lily to stop crying, but she was still feeling guilty for putting Lily in that situation. "Lily?", she slowly stretched her head and placed it on Lily's head, while slowly kneeling right next to her. Lily immediately jumped into Crystal's arms and hugged her tightly.
"I wish my mum was here!", Lily cried and hugged Crystal tighter. Directly opposite the door, is a dressing mirror on the wall, right over Lily's bed. As Crystal stroked Lily's short brown hair, she looked up in the mirror, and saw the door was still slightly open, and could see Andrew sitting on the dining chair tapping his feet angrily.
As Crystal kept her focus on the mirror. Immediately her heart gripped with fear as she noticed a dark figure with a black long cloth, covering it's face and downwards, surrounded with some dark smoke around it, standing right next to Andrew. She didn't know how to react, so she slowly turned her head to the door to see, but saw nothing but just Andrew, but then the door slowly shut itself. Lily was still in her arms crying. She gulped in some saliva and turned back to the mirror, which frightened her more.
She noticed in front of the shut door in the room, a woman dressed in black rags stand still, with one hand holding a cloth covering her head and face. Crystal's eyes widen and her heart started pounding against her chest. Crystal hugged onto Lily tighter and took a deep breath, as she noticed the woman in the mirror walking closer to them, almost about a feet away, Crystal was just too scared to turn around. The woman or being behind, stretched her hand slowly towards Crystal's back .
Out of fear and fright, she quickly turned to behind with a scream, breathing heavily. This time, Lily noticed and rose her head up.
"Crystal? what's wrong??".
Crystal kept breathing heavily and shooting her eyes at all corners of the room, shivering and scared. "Crystal??", Lily pulled on to Crystal's clothe and started becoming scared, noticing Crystal's behavior. "Crystal what's wrong?... what did you see?... Crystal stop it I'm getting scared now...".
Crystal slowly calmed down and turned back at the shivering little girl clutching on to her top.
"Uh.. umm... nothing...", Crystal replied in a slightly lower tone, as she held Lily's shoulders and hugged her.
"It's okay..."Crystal added as she placed her hand on Lily's head.
That night, Lily was too sad to eat dinner, while Crystal was too terrified to leave the room, or leave Lily alone, while Andrew was surprisingly so angry, he didn't care why the two didn't come out for dinner. Crystal slept with Lily in her hand.
At around 3am, Crystal was woken by the sound of dishes falling in the kitchen, she sat up and looked at Lily who was fast asleep, then contemplated whether to go check or leave it for Andrew, who was sleeping on the couch in the living room. But curiosity couldn't let her be. She slowly walked up to the door and took deep breath before turning the knob.
As she opened the door, she noticed nothing weird or Strange in the living room. She first stared at the kitchen directly opposite, the table and then the snoring man on the sofa. She then browsed her eyes back again to the kitchen door. She saw the same black clothed being which she saw that evening standing next to Andrew. She froze up and stared at the figure. She started to hear whispers of different voices, as the dark creature walked into there kitchen through the door. She didn't know why but she felt like it was calling her, as the whispers got louder. She slowly walked to the door and pushed it open gently. She stood in front of the door, looking around the kitchen for the 'Thing' she just saw.
She felt a warm liquid drop in her face. She wiped it with her finger and realized it was blood. As terrified as she was, she summoned courage and rose her head up slowly.
It's was something that almost looked like a woman crawling. Her skin was pale yellow and her hair soaked in blood. She had only about six rotten teeth in her mouth, her eyes were filled with blood, her nose looked like it was cut up straight, giving it a pig-like appearance, and her ears were chopped off. Her elbow was bent facing inward, her neck was turned upside down, and there were alot of sores, cuts and open wounds on her body, which made her look like she was decaying. She was wearing rags and smelt like rotten meat. She had an extremely creepy and maniac smile on her face, and her head kept twitching around.
Before Crystal could open her mouth to scream her lungs out, the creature from the wall let out a hiss and bounced on her, with it's hands on her neck. It slammed Crystal's body on to the floor, adding extreme press on Crystal's neck. Crystal held the creature's hand, trying to pull it away, while trying to gasp for air. The creature brings it's face very close to hers and whispers in a foreign language.
"Ave regina mors est".
Crystal couldn't understand her, but was too busy struggling to breathe. Almost about to pass out, she heard Andrew scream.
"Crystal!!!", he slammed the door open with a bat in his hand.
"Crystal. Crystal! are you okay? I heard noises!"...
Crystal was on the floor holding her neck and rolling on the floor, taking deep breaths. Andrew ran to her and knelt next to her. As Crystal tried to balance her breath, she was also shivering, with her eyes rolling at every corner of the room, moving backwards on her back out of fear.
"Crystal!!! what's wrong?", he tried to hold her shoulders and calm her down, but she kept breathing heavily, holding on to her chest, and pointing behind the opened door. Andrew followed her finger and looked at the door.
"Crystal?? what are you pointing at? there nothing there!", he grabbed her harder to prevent her from moving backwards.
"S-- S-- Sh-- She's... she's..", Crystal tried to say, while pounding for air. "She's th-- the-- there!",she struggled to say. Andrew looked back at the door but couldn't see anything.
"What?? she? she?.. who's she??".