Chapter 33: Chapter 33

It was ten in the morning and everyone gathered in the living-room thinking about the tragedy that was about to come. Silence seemed to envelope them and they embraced it. The clock ticked slowly.

Jasper phone pop up a notification. He opened the text.

Josh: “Bruh, the car is faulty and should be ready in two or three days times, do you think you can wait?”

He replied, “Yes I can,” he added the address and sent it to his brother.

Louie got irritated and angry. He hissed out loudly.

“What’s wrong,” his girlfriend Stacie asked.

“Nothing,” he replied sharply.

Ezekiel decided to lighten up everyone’s mood, he took out the deck of cards and shuffled it. “Whether y’all are in or not we’re playing this.” He said to his friends

The curser and the cursed stood outside the cabin, and waited for the ticking time to strike. Their heart was full of hatred. Lack of love boiled their anger even more.

The sun was much more hot today, they wondered how they could still be happy when they know evil lurks around them. Time ticked on, and they were impatient. They couldn’t wait till the time the student had read the book. 4pm was like waiting for eternity. Once the clock ticked 12 in the afternoon, the ghosts would strike.

The friends were unaware of what went on outside but continued to play their game to have fun.

Then the clock ticked 12pm.

It started with Ivan, he felt his memory wiping off, from when he was young, and he saw the face he knew effacing. He held his head and trashed around on the chair. His friends held him tight. After he calmed, he stared at their faces blankly.

“Ivan, are you okay?” Stacie asked.

“Who is Ivan,” he asked.

“No, it can’t happen, it can’t,” Patrick cried.

“But it’s not yet time,” Danielle yelled at nobody in particular.

Patrick held Ivan face and kissed him, it felt weird to Ivan. His memory was gone.

At that moment, it hit Patrick, “Sadness overcame him, and it broke his heart. He held Ivan’s hand and cried; “I will remember you forever, till you get out of this.”

Ivan scrunched his face, “Why is he crying?”

No one said anything; they could not fathom how they’d explain it to him.

Danielle was next. She found herself alone in the cabin, her friends in a pool of their own blood, she got up from the floor and stood up, taking a step, the floor creaked, she took another step the floor cracked, more steps the floor broke.

Suddenly, she fell down into darkness, screaming. Whilst her friends called her name, she wailed I. Reality hit her, as soon as her body thumped the floor, and she fell unconscious.

“Danni! Danni!!” Ezekiel shook her lightly. She didn’t answer.

“What the fuck is happening,” Louie bellowed out angrily. His voice boomed with anger.

“Louie calm down,” Jasper tried to calm him, but he pushed him away.

Ruth cried out loud and screamed, as she couldn’t feel her face, her hand and her body. What was wrong with her? Within a few minutes their lives had turned upside down.

He scattered the table and took a seat. His knuckles stretched out and his face turned a shade of red. He reached for the smoke beside the table and lit it, as he felt anxious to smoke.

Ezekiel looked at his friends, and fall back on the chair. Rubbing his eyes, his minds took another dimension of thought. “What is happening to them,” he questioned. Relaxing his back on the chair he fell asleep unknowing.

Stacie and Jasper, sat facing each other.

“What do we do?” she asked fear lingering in her voice.

“We have to wait for Elena,” Jasper answered.

“When do we know she will come,” she sighed.

“Let’s just hope she comes sooner.”

It was 8pm in the night and they’d fallen asleep on the chair except for Jasper who couldn’t sleep, every thirty minutes, he noted the time.

Ezekiel would wake with a snore and felt like it was hard for him to breath. The house felt weird, plates fell and broke. This happened whilst the winds howled harshly beating against the windows. The clock fell from its usual place to the floor, and the light flickered off and on.

They were all awake by now cause they couldn’t sleep.

It seemed when they sleep; the ghost knew and would make the light go off and on.

Also, almost all the windows were broken. Few hours more, morning would come and it would stop, they thought.

Jasper had it in mind to call the police in the morning cause his sick friends needed taking care of, until Stacie and him found a way to break the curse.

He got up, took torchlight and headed to the guest bathroom.

“Where are you going, are you crazy?” Stacie said.

“I want to use the toilet,” he said and left. He got back few minutes after and took a seat. And he knew not when he fell asleep, leaving only Stacie awake to watch their friends.

“Jasper,” Elena called her, looking around she found her standing in front of the lake.

“Elena?”

“Yes, I will say this as quick as I can.”

“Okay” he nodded.

“You have to find the grave of the nurse that died in the same hospital my mom worked in,” “And”

“You must burn the book beside her grave,” she said, “that’s all.”

“Why can’t I burn the book here?”

“Your friends may have read from my mother’s side of the first, but she’s not the real owner of the book.”

“So how do I find this woman’s grave,” he asked.

“I don’t know, I’ve helped you so now you have to help your friends and keep them alive, once you burn the book, they will come back to their normal selves, and this is my stop.”

“Thank you Very much Elena.”

“You know its my time to leave the purgatory, cause I’ve seen the light, we’ve all seen the light, but they don’t want to cross over yet, they don’t want to believe its over for them. Save your friends then they will leave, cause the nurse was there when everything happened to your friends. She never let anyone saw her.”

“Why,” Jasper asked out of curiosity.

“Because her throat is still slit, and her clothes are still stained with blood, she has dried blood on her mouth when her spirit left her body,” Elena explained.

“I believe you will save your friends because if you don’t and this book gets to another hand the same thing will keep happening. Save your friends lives and everybody’s lives,” she said.

She faded slowly, “Goodbye Jasper.”

He watched her fade into the air. “Goodbye Elena.” And he woke up.

Just then his phone notified him of a message, he opened it.

Josh: “I’m coming tomorrow Bruh, Alex is lending me his car,” he replied, “okay, see you soon”