Next morning, instead of calling Jack, she called Kevin.
"Why did not you guys come up? I have been waiting" Kevin asked soon after picking up the call.
"We were just busy, and the baby blue game was boring maybe that is the reason I do not feel like playing any midnight game, but talked to Jack yesterday, he said, he will join you soon so we will," Alizy replied.
"Alright, I will wait and do not forget to bring Stella," he said in a deep voice.
"Kevin, there is something I wanted to share," Alizy said worriedly.
"Listen I am busy at this moment; I will call you later." Kevin said carelessly.
"Sure," Alizy said but he cut the call without listening it.
"It was rude!" she looked at the phone.
She called Andy.
"Hey, what's up? Alizy, how are you doing?" Andy said is a pleasing tone.
"I am doing well." She said sadly.
"HA-HA, no you are not, come on, do tell me what happened, after all I am your childhood friend, do let me know what happened so that we could find the solution together," Andy said.
"It is about that doll, she kept on teasing me, her voice, her walk, her laugh, her clap each and every thing is so disgusting," she said irritably.
"Funny, you always hated the dolls buddy, what happened? what are you taking about? doll and you, nice joke, and for your information let me tell you that dolls are non-living, how could they laugh or do whatever you are saying" Andy said laughingly.
"None of you guys listen to me, you just know how to laugh over serious thinks, Jack did the same and you are doing so as well," by saying this she cut the call.
"Listen? Hello?" Andy said but there was no one on the other side of call.
That night Alizy decided to sleep, she shut the door of her room, but did not turn the lights off.
She went to her bed; her mom came to her room with a glass of milk and turned the lights off.
"Mom, could you let them on, I am being scared of dark" she said anxiously.
"But you never were," her mom left the room and Alizy turned the lights on again.
At about 10 pm, she woke up the lights of the room were off, the window was opened and the light of moon help her eyes to adjust in dark.
She heard the sound of footsteps again, at this time someone was coming upstairs, firstly there was dragging sound then, scuttling as if someone with light footsteps is walking.
She heard a faint raspy sound as if someone is whispering.
And then came the most familiar voice.
"Aliiizyyy, Ego sum super tecta gradum" (Aliiizyyy, I am on the top step).
There was darkness on her room, and then she heard someone knocking at the door of her bedroom. She trembled with fear.
"Who is there?" Alizy asked with fear.
There was no response.
Someone knocked the door softly.
"Alizy, ooh early bird! Are you sleeping," Jack said in a teasing tone.
"Jack! How? Why? at this hour!" she talked to herself and stood up from the bed came near to the door.
"No, you are not Jack! I know it is your trick, I know you are that doll and you have changed your voice," Alizy said.
"HA-HA, silly girl it is me, believe me it is me, open the door, "Jack said laughingly.
"You wish! I will never open the door, I have seen a lot of movies where ghost changes her voice and you are doing the same," she said at once.
"Honestly Alizy, you are born without a brain, if I were a spirit why would I keep on knocking your door, Spirits do not knock the door," Jack said.
"If you are Jack answer my questions," Alizy said.
"Alright," Jack replied.
"Which quality of Jack defines him?", Alizy asked
"That he is a foodie," Jack replied instantly.
"What Jack loves to do?" She asked.
"He loves eating, teasing, breaking rules and all those things which amuse him," Jack replied.
She opened the door. And there was no one.
She was shocked, she wore her shoes and went downstairs,
"Jack?" she called him.
Her father was watching a documentary.
"Yes dear? Do you want anything?" her father asked with care.
"Dad! Did Jack come?" Alizy asked.
"Yes, he came, he was just sitting with me, then he said that he had to attend a call and left the room;" he replied.
She went upstairs, "He might be Jack," she was talking to herself.
She went to her room and shut the door.
Turned the lights off and went to sleep.
Hardly five minutes were passed she felt someone's presence in her room.
She tried to look in the dark but found no one.
Soon after she closed her eyes, she heard some noise under her bed.
She screamed, "Mom, Dad."
Someone was there under the bed and that someone was consistently scratching the bed.
"Who is there?" she asked loudly.
"Aliiizzyy, I am under your bed," she heard.
But this was not the sound that she had been listening from the last two days it was sound of a male.
Someone shook the bed so hardly, she shouted. She immediately got up from the bed, and turn the torch on from her mobile phone.
Put the light under bed.
"Jack?" She said with surprised.
"Yes darling, it is me, Your One and Only Jack," he said in an informal way.
"Get out! You jerk," she said wrathfully.
"All right Sweetheart," he said and came outside.
He dusted off his cloth looked at Alizy and winked.
"Jack, did you knock at my door?" she asked.
"No, it was that doll," he said it laughingly.
"Why you came at this hour?" she said furiously.
"Well, I heard a news and arrived here," he said.
"News?" Alizy asked.
"Yup, a news!" he replied in his teasing tone.
"Okay the news is casted by my closest friend Mister Andy, and the new is that you have gone mad and soon your parents will shift you to an asylum."
"What? Mad?" she asked irritably.
"Yes, MAD! Alas," he said anxiously then he held her hands kneeled down.
"Alizy, I promise, I will come to mental asylum daily, just to meet you, my dear," he said in a pretended sad voice.
"We will miss you a lot," he said while looking at her furious face consistently.
"Get out!" she said.
He stood up, took a bubble gum from Alizy's side table. Unwrapped it, put it in mouth and open the door to left, then he stopped, turned and said,
"You will miss me, mi amore." Jack said.
"What does mi amore mean?" she asked with interest.
It is an Italian word which means, "my love". He replied.
"Jack, tell me one thing, how many languages can you speak?" she asked while thinking about that doll's language.
"I can speak all of them" he said with vanity.
"All of them? Even Latin?" she asked curiously.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because Latin is the language of that doll," she said fearfully.
"Oh, is that so? Whoa" where is that doll, I am being so impatient to meet her," he said excitedly.
"It is not a joke, Jack, why can't you take anything serious," she said angrily.
"Alizy! In my whole life, if I ever took any thing serious, it is my love for you." Jack said in a romantic way.
"Jack!" she called her name with love.
"Yes, mi amore," he replied with a smile.
"Get out!!" she shouted.
"Okay, okay, I am leaving," Jack said and opened the door.
"Jack!" she called him.
"What? Did you already start missing me?" he replied.
"No! that doll in in the cupboard, downstairs. Please take that with you, please," she requested.
"Sure!" he replied.
They went downstairs.
Alizy opened the cupboard, the hair of that doll was messed up.
"Whoa, such a beauty," Jack held the doll and hugged her.
"Alizy, I fall in love with this doll, she is just the other you with long hair, I can see the reflection of yours in her," he said while touching the face of doll.
"Jack! A very serious question, from where did you got such thoughts, are you born with them, or took special training to think like this?" Alizy asked is a serious tone.
"Well, I have decided something," he said.
"good" she replied.
"Good? Ask me what I have decided?" Jack said.
"Ok, tell me dear Jack what have you decided" she asked carelessly.
"I have decided to sleep with this doll, as she is your reflection so I will imagine as if you are sleeping with me and I will hug her as well," he said in her teasing tone.
"HA-HA, very funny" she said with a serious face.
"Aww, you are blushing," he said naughtily.
"I am not"
You are
I am not, you are such a flirty person, you fall in love with every other girl, you just want a girl living or non-living.
"Non-living?" Jack asked.
"Yes, the way you are holding this doll is live example of what I said." Alizy said critically.