In the middle of the night, I woke up to drink some water. I usually do that. As I turned back after drinking water, I saw a dark figure. The same figure Ann had detailed about. At first, I thought I was dreaming. How was it possible? The doors were tightly shut and the windows were locked, then how come this thing came in? The thing was glowing blackishly. My blood pressure rose up. (I could feel it). I gathered all that I had(I am talking about my courage, which I had a stock of less than 20 per cent.).
I asked- "Who are you? What do you want?"
It replied in a dried voice. That gave me a tremor.
"I am Janet. I want Ann."
My insides did a backflip. Janet? No way, my head started to revolve. It was hard for me to believe, I tried opposing the blacky(I named her, Blacky)
"Janet is dead. Why are you haunting Ann? What did she do to you?"- I shouted in the top of my voice in the hope that someone in the room would wake up.
"Ooooh!!Don't scream, Sara. No one will wake up, look around you, you fool."- Blacky said. Her figure wasn't clear. It merged like a kind of mist. I looked around, me and blacky were standing inside a bubble, I say.
Okay, what can I call it? It was a sort of golden layer over us, under us and around us.
"What the hell is this? Leave me away. I can do dangerous things to you."- I said trying to look dangerous(Which was much more difficult to do).
A laughing sound issued from her.
"You can do nothing to me, Sara. Dear, this is me, Janet. How can you harm your best friend, your sister? Do you know why I came here? It was just to see you because you are the only person who remembers me. I am forgotten by all. No one offers prayers for my soul, except for you, Sara. I have come to you; to see you once again, just once."- She said.
The voice just sounded like Janet's. My heart melted when she talked about her soul and prayers. It was quite true, all had forgotten her. But the voice in my head jarred me back from my thoughts.
'No, Sara. She is not Janet.'- Half of me said this and the other half opposed this. But I went along with the first one. I am sure, she isn't Janet. She never can be.
"You aren't Janet. I can feel it. Don't try to fool me, I am not the type of person like whom you thought. It would be better for you if you say the truth."- I emphasised you, hoping that Blacky would take it threatening. And my instincts went true.
"You guessed it right. I am not Janet, I am here past. Ann was my sister."- Said the voice again.
"There you go on again, telling lies. There is nothing like past, present and future, okay? They are just imaginary things that form in artistic minds. One more lie, and I'll finish you off."- I stopped abruptly. I was surprised at how I was talking to her. That was really creepy. how could I even hurt her?
"No, there is. Present life Ann was my sister in the past, Amy."- It was all so confusing.
"How on the hell, did she become your sister? I'd like to know that."- I said.
She still spoke to me calmly in her dried voice.
"That's a big story, Sara. I am not Janet. I am her past, I am Alsace. I am the soul of Alsace. I come from my previous life."
"Previous life?"- Now that is quite unbelievable. After all I said to her, she was still trying to convince me with "previous life" tales. Previous life; that was something I heard in Aunt Mary's fairy tales.
"Yes, Sara. I come from my previous life. In that life, present Ann was my sister; Amy. We could only stay together for 14 years. My wish to live with her is not yet over. Please help me."
I just took a glance at Ann, her figure was shimmering as I was looking through that bubble, she was sleeping peacefully without knowing anything. I turned towards Blacky, now her figure was getting more and more invisible. I thought about it. First, let me listen to what she has to say. That is the way, right? And then I will decide what to do. So I looked at her disappearing figure and finally said.
"I will help you. But first, tell me what happened in the pa-"
Before I could finish my words, I heard a call
"Sara, what are you doing?"
I was so surprised. Before I could turn back, I fainted. It felt so sweet(???). And everything just vanished
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