"Mama, Papa, I keep on having these weird dreams that a girl is standing in my room." Diana Skyfall announced to her parents one night.
"Diana, no one is there. I'm sure it's just your imagination." Sylvie reassuringly told her daughter.
"Are you sure, mama? She keeps on telling me that she was killed by people. It's creepy."
"That can't happen, pumpkin. It's a dream, it's not real. You're only a little kid, like your mother said, it's that wild imagination of yours."
"Okay papa. Now, can we go outside and play?"
"Of course we can, we'll always make time for you."
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It was night time, and Diana was being tucked in bed by her mother and father.
"Mama, Papa, can I not play the music box tonight? I want to try and fall asleep without music." Diana asked.
"Alright, angel. We'll not play the music tonight if that's what you want." Louis said.
"Now, it's late. You have to go to sleep, cupcake. Goodnight." Diana's mom said as she planted a kiss on her daughter's forehead.
"Night mama! Night papa! I love you."
"We love you too, Dia. Now get some rest."
"Okay."
They walked out of the child's bedroom and shut the door. Diana looked all around her room, and admired the night lights dancing around the walls and ceiling constructed by drywall. She followed one particular yellow star as it traveled in large circular motions around the room. She focused on that one star until she felt her eyelids droop. Slowly, and surely, little Diana fell into a peaceful slumber, with no dreams of an ominous girl standing in her room.
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And yet, she was there somehow. Diana slowly awoke as she felt an unsettling presence standing by her bed. After checking the time on the clock, standing on her lavender bedside table, she knew it was the time the girl normally came, midnight.
"Dia." The ghost whispered in a distorted voice.
"H-hello. No, you're not real! Mama and Papa told me so."
"You know I am real. They would never believe you."
"They would! Mama! Papa!"
It took a couple of minutes, but Diana's parents did come running.
"What? Ar-are you hurt? What's wrong, honey?" Louis said frantically as he walked up to his frightened daughter.
Diana did nothing, but pointed to the girl that visited her every night.
"She looks like me." Diana said in a whisper.
Her parents turned in that direction of their daughter's extended arm. They were shocked when they saw the girl.
"Why, hello there! How are you, knowing that your dead daughter haunts your precious Dia every night? You know, her twin sister? The one you killed?!" The ghost of the girl screamed.
The sound was deafening, and Diana hid under her pillow.
"I-I don't know what you are talking about, ghost. Stay away from our daughter, spirit!" Sylvie cried out.
"You see... I don't think I can unless she makes a promise. I'm tied to her, I'm her nightmare, her lurking shadow. Only she can do something when she's older."
"Liar." Diana parents said in unison.
"Why would I lie to you, mother and father?"
"Y-you are not our daughter! Now leave!"
"I can only leave after the third hour. But even then, why would I want to?"
"Di, is this true?" Louis asked.
But as soon as he turned around, Diana's bed was empty. Their daughter had run off.
"Syl, go get Diana."
She nodded, and ran off to find their daughter.
"Are you really my other daughter?" Louis asked the ghost.
"You brutally murdered me in this very room. There is still a blood stain on the wall that you tell Diana is paint. You can't hide this forever."
"I can, and I will. Aren't ghosts supposed to be good, Raine?" Louis called the ethereal being.
"I can't believe it. You give birth to two girls, and you only keep the eldest. You give me a name, and I had a birth certificate. Then, you burn the certificate, only after slitting my throat, then burning me in the fire as well. I don't know, if I was a ghost from dying at birth, I would be a good spirit!"
"Do you seek vengeance? Is that what it is?"
"No, I simply seek to kill you. Watch out Louis, I will be in your nightmares."
And after the foreboding sentence was spoken, the evil soul left the room in search of her sister.
"Syl! Raine is coming after Diana!" Louis shouted to alert his wife.
"Who is Raine?!" She asked him.
"The ghost! Get Diana out of here!"
And with no hesitation, Sylvie ran out of the house. Tightly holding Diana in her arms, she sprinted down the slight downhill street.
"You can't run forever, mother. Just wait until I kill you, and my sister!" The contorted voice of Raine Skyfall whispered.
Startled from the warped voice that has spoken in her ear, Sylvie tripped on her own feet, almost dropping the little girl in her grasp.
"Oh Di, are you okay? Are you hurt?" Sylvie fussed over her child.
"I'm fine, mama. See, I told you that I saw a ghost."
"I know. I'm sorry for not believing you."
"It's okay. But we need to go back, papa is in trouble!"
"What do you mean, she's just a ghost, she can't harm anyone."
With a fearful look in the child's eyes, she turned towards her mother.
"Yes she can."
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"Louis!" Sylvie called out to her husband.
"Syl?! Get out of here, Raine will kill you!"
"Mama, I have to get the music box." Diana whispered.
"What?!"
"I have to get it. If I play the song and I close the box, she'll go away until tomorrow night."
"Alright. Do I have to go with you?"
"You can't. I'll be safe, mama. I promise."
"Okay. Be safe."
"She won't hurt me. She's my sister, after all."
Upon hearing that sentence, Sylvie's eyes widened at her daughter.
"What? You know?"
"She told me. No wonder she looks like me, she's my twin. Too bad she died, I would've loved to play with Raine."
"We can talk about this later, go to your music box."
Silently and slowly, Diana crept upstairs to her bedroom. Opening the door to make no sound, she entered. She cranked the lever around thrice, then the song started playing. Almost immediately, the ghost of Raine got pulled into the music box, trapped for another twenty-four hours.
"Diana!" Louis called out to his daughter.
"Papa!"
He ran to Diana's room and hugged her tightly.
"See? I told you."
"And we should've believed you. Come on, sleep in our room tonight."
"Okay."
After getting settled in the sheets, the family of three bid each other goodnight. One-third slept peacefully, knowing that her sister won't be bothering them until the next night. Her parents, on the other half, weren't able to sleep. When they close their eyes, all they see is Raine.
Sylvie sees the haunting ghost of her daughter. The sinister see-through face, staring at her.
Louis on the other hand, kept on hearing that voice, over, and over again. The awry voice that spoke, "No, I simply seek to kill you. Watch out Louis, I will be in your nightmares."
Both Sylvie and Louis would have a long night ahead of them.