"You should've kicked it with force" insisted John.
David, the brother of John, rolled his eyes and went to pick the football. His sister, Emily accompanied him.
They were playing football and John was the goalkeeper. They and their parents came to this new house just few hours back. Their parents, Jacob and Isabella let their children play football on the kitchen garden and they decided to arrange their new house in a good way.
The ball, which was defended and kicked by John, went many metres away from their garden and it went back of bushes. John, who was scared to go alone, commanded his siblings, Emily and David to go pick the ball. With faces of disappointment, Emily and David went for the ball.
****
At the same time, in the first floor of the house, Isabella, opened the bedroom. It was messy and she could find cobwebs here and there. "Ugh.." she was desperate in cleaning their new room. The bed was lying on the center of the room and she at once realized that her husband, Jacob was laying there.
"Bloody hell, Jacob. Sleep matters the more than cleaning, uh?" she demanded. There was no reply from Jacob and Isabella knew that Jacob was driving the car himself the whole night and yeah, he needs some rest. She decided to clean the room herself.
She was carrying a glass vase with crimson flowers in her right hand and she placed in on a wooden table, beside the bed. Jacob was laying on the bed, his whole body covered with the blankets. She ignored him and took the mop in her hands and began to clean the room.
****
"Aren't you scared?" Emily asked David.
They were several meters away from their house and they spotted their brother, John, eating the pastries which were given by Isabella to them.
"The one who kicked, should take it" David said under his breath.
The bush was so dense and Emily suggested to look for the ball behind the bushes. David agreed to her and went back to search for the football.
He went back of the bush.
Foul odor hit him hard.
Emily screamed.
Thousands of houseflies were swarming on something...something which made them shiver.
A corpse. How did it...
Both David and Emily yelled this time as the eyes of the corpse, opened wide.
David and Emily picked their speed and they ran like a bull.
The corpse stood still and shook its body as the houseflies flew away.
****
"My parents would like to see us in this beautiful place, Jacob" Isabella said as she finished cleaning the room and she sat closer to her husband, Jacob.
"Deep in sleep, eh?" she demanded. No more sounds.
"Jacob...?" she patted him.
No kind of movements did Jacob exhibit.
Isabella stood. Something...is fishy. She remembered that the words of Jacob, when he was driving the car, "Don't worry, honey. I shall pay a visit to the head of this town and shall return as fast as possible." Those words alarmed in her ears. How numb she was...
The door of the room was shut. Isabella began to tremble. "Who's lying over there?" she demanded, focusing her vision on the figure lying on the bed.
The blankets of the bed, got removed by itself, and revealed a man lying on the bed. With heart full of fears, Isabella went closer to that man.
His eyes were empty. Face full of scratches. His neck was deep cut. His tongue was protruding out. With sweaty face, Isabella placed her hand on the man.
The lips of the man, moved. The rotten teeth became visible and his tongue came out like a viper, aiming at Isabella. Isabella reacted soon by running towards the door, which opened luckily, and she ran quickly to the garden and at that moment, she heard her children yelling, "MOM!"
****
The three children hugged Isabella in unison and they all were frightened.
"WHERE IS DADDY!?" Emily demanded.
"I...don't know...he will return!" Isabella shouted.
"Will he?" came a voice and in an instant, Isabella noticed a figure emerging from the window of her room and a man walking towards them from the bush.
To make matters worse, plenty of skeletal hands popped up from the land surrounding them.