Haunted Me

Chapter 1: Wake up

I woke up with a loud bang on our door. It was a not a door knock, it was like somebody was knocking their head on the door. I could say it was a head, because it was my sister banging her head on the door.

I was not shocked, as she usually sleepwalks but this was different. I couldn't say what was happening. The bang grew louder and stronger. I saw her head hitting the door, but I can somehow feel that it was more like someone is actually holding her head and banging against the door as if punching a hole through it.

At this point I was shocked, I called out to her in panic.

"Hey! Stop that! Jenny?"

The banging continued.

"Jenny…"

She stopped for a moment, looked at me. Her eyes blood red. She asked in a whisper,

"Why did you let me die, john? Why?"

The whole house shook. For the first time, fear gripped my heart. It was not my sister's voice. It was someone else.

“Jenny, you are alive. I wouldn't let you die. What are you saying.? “

She fell to the ground. I ran to her and lifted her from the floor and lay her on the bed. I ran to the door to call my mom and dad.

I opened the door and found my sister standing outside the door.

“Jenny?! What?! “

I looked back and the bed was empty. My legs gave up and I fell on the floor, unconscious.

 

Chapter 2: next day

Next day, I woke up in the hospital. I found that I was unconscious for two days. I saw my mom sitting next to me.

“Mom, what happened? “

My mother was very afraid, she was almost crying. My dad patted on her shoulder. She left the room, and dad answered,

“Nothing Son, how do you feel? Gave us a shock there, champ. “

"I don't really remember, dad." I started explaining everything that happened last night. "I saw jenny banging her head on the door, dad. I was scared, and she said that I let her die. I would never do that, dad. She's my sister, how would I let her die. Also, the voice was not hers, it was like someone else spoke through her. After she fell, I picked her up and lay her on the bed, and I ran to get you and mom. When I opened the door, she was on the other side of the door, dad. I turned back to look at the bed, and it was empty. After that I don't remember anything."

"Dad I’m scared. I am not sure if Jenny is alright. Where is she? Is she well?"

His dad was listening to all in shock. But he didn't want to disturb when his son spoke. He asked one question.

"Who's jenny, son?"

"Dad, this is not the time to playing games with me. I am in a hospital and you are saying you forgot your own daughter? Let me talk to the doctor and get you a bed next to me."

I was laughing at him. But my dad's face clearly said he is not joking.

"Dad, it's Jenny! My sister!"

Dad slowly spoke, "Son! You don't have a sister"

I did not speak another word. I left the hospital two days later.

My father and I are more like school buddies, but I don't think I should talk about my sister to him. It seems they don't remember her. But my memory is clear. I have a little sister, she is Jenny. She is a small cute little cuddly sweet sister that anybody would want. Blonde hair, chubby cheeks. How is it that only I can remember her?

 

Chapter 3: Father and the son

We went to a church on the way back home. The pastor looked at me curiously. His name was Daniel. He took me to a separate room. He wanted me to tell him everything that happened the other night. I explained everything about non-existent sister Jenny and the things that happened that night.

“Hmmm, so your sister, Jenny when she was standing outside the door, what was her eye color?"

I was surprised, this pastor believes me and not only that, he asked me a question about Jenny. I was happy.

"I do not exactly remember, Sir, but I think it was normal and not red."

"Son, look, your mother and father does not think you are mad, but they think there is something unusual happening around you and they are very concerned, you understand?"

"Yes, sir"

"Good. Now let's call your sister."

"What?!" I was surprised. But it felt like the pastor knows what he is doing. "alright"

I was sitting in a chair. The room was filled with crosses and there was holy water in bottles around me. There were 6 more pastors apart from Daniel. All 7 of them were standing around me.

There was another chair right opposite me.

Daniel came next to me, and said in a soft voice, "Jenny come out".

A small figure of white came out of my body and stood next to me. I felt its hand on my shoulder. With all the things happening around, I was feeling comfort with the touch.

It was Jenny's hands.

Daniel started talking to jenny. "Why are you back jenny after all this time?"

"I have come to warn you. Something that lurks in the dark is out again" it was jenny's voice.

With that everything went dark, and the sun light alone pierced the room through a hole. The crosses on the wall started shaking, the wall seemed to vibrate, the holy water looked like it was boiling, and all seven pastors were thrown away. Jenny was holding my shoulder stiffer.

Someone or something got up out of the chair I was sitting in, and walked straight to the opposite chair.

It looked like jenny and the shape changed the very next second, it started to look at me with red eyes. The pastors returned to their position.

"Ha ha ha! Nice to be back here!" the sound rumbled across the room, and the figure took notice of Jenny. "Oh jenny, you are here! why have you come? to save this little young man. You know how I like the taste of the pure souls "

Then he looked around.

" Oh, what are you all doing here? A welcome party for me?" laughed the voice again.

Pastor Edward, one of the six, shouted, "You have no place here, Gargorath, go back to the hole whence you came"

"Edward, don’t shout! " With that pastor Edward mouth sealed and he couldn't speak "Jenny made a deal with me, you can't simply ask me to go away. I am here to collect my fee that’s all."

Daniel softly spoke out "Gargorath, the deal was broken was long ago and it’s no longer valid, you have no right to claim him"

"Oh! Daniel you are still alive? Hmm I did think I might have come back sooner. Anyway, I am not going back. Give me the boy" in a silky voice.

This time jenny spoke, "you can’t have him, I won't let you"

"O Jenny, you developed courage? Because of the almighty lord standing behind you? Where is he now?" laughed the creature.

"The deal is broken?! Oh Daniel, the deal clearly stated that I will be friends with everyone who is born as an only child in the blood line. I just came to be friends with him"

Jenny shouted "I won't let you do it again, I won't let you fool me again. You can’t have him"

"Ha ha! I feel itchy in my hand all of sudden, hmm" Gargorath scratched his own hands

"arraggh noooo!!! Arrrrgghhh my hands, Father, help me, Jenny its burning” I screamed. There were nail marks on my right hand.

Amidst the scream, I heard his laughing voice loud and clear, "if I leave, I am sure you know what happens, don't you?!"

I felt like my whole body was on fire, like shattered glass pieces piercing through my body, as if my soul being ripped apart.

On the side of my eyes, I saw Daniel walk forward and stood in front of me, blocking Gargorath view on me. The pain reduced. Slowly I felt Jenny's hands on me. There was no more pain

"You think you can send me back? Daniel. You are not like your father."

"I know that, Gargorath. Now I must ask you to leave him and go away." Daniel shouted, and with holy water in his hands shouting "in the name of god: father and the son and all things holy"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" laughed Gargorath. "you guys are still doing that. Ha ha ha ha. He won't come my dearies, you have failed him, the human race has failed him". "We are going to rule you. There will be no more of father and the son, there is no holy."

Daniel was in his knees, "Father I will give my life, I will give my soul, I will give everything for this boy's life. Please have my soul in trade for his, please help me save him."

The sun light lit bright across the room, Gargorath face shrunk,

Daniel threw the bottle of holy water on Gargorath, and said "Our father will always be there for who is willing sacrifice his own soul for others, now go back to the hell hole you damn creature and never return to earth"

Gargorath’s voice was not silky anymore, it was a squeal of a creature unheard on this earth, the entire room shook from his voice and his last words were "I will come back, my dearies"

There was silence. I fell unconscious. The last thing I saw was jenny's face.

Chapter 4: final: Jenny’s story.

I woke up back again in the hospital. Dad and mom were sitting next to me, my mother was relieved to see me wake up.

Daniel spoke first "How do you feel, son".

"I am good, thank you sir" I replied.

 "Sir?"

"Yes?"

I explained "I can see Jenny in that chair in the corner. Can you see her too?"

Daniel said "Oh! Don't worry she came to check up on you. "

I finally had chance to ask about jenny, "Sir, why is it that I can see her and she is not even real. I believed her to be my sister. What exactly happened.?"

Daniel started to explain the connection between me and Jenny

" Jenny was born as a single child in her family. She lived in the year 1945. Since she was alone, she believed if she had a brother, she wouldn't be so lonely. Gargorath was an evil demon that took advantage of her thoughts. Gargorath made a deal to be friends with her and whoever is born as a single child in her blood line.

Gargorath took a form of an elder brother visible only to Jenny's eyes. Jenny started to think Gargorath as her brother. The form it took was yours, john. 

Somehow, Jenny felt the connection to you. To your soul, though you were not born. She was living with you, though it was Gargorath feeding of her soul and life, some part of you was there with her. You hinted her that Gargorath was evil. 

Soon, Jenny was found dead in her room in an unimaginable way. My father came to know about Jenny's death and visited the house and felt the unease feeling. Jenny was not lost, she was still there, trying to reach out to someone, screaming for help.

My father fought with Gargorath and saved her soul, and died in the effort. Gargorath waited for the next child in the blood line and somehow it was you. It was that connection why you felt you had a sister all of a sudden, and Gargorath tried to take advantage of the same connection this time.

I immediately came to recognize the name Jenny and your name was john." Daniel completed the story.

I felt bad for jenny. She is my sister whether or not she is alive. I felt the connection more than ever.

I wanted to speak to her and turned to look at the chair. But she was gone. I couldn't see her anymore. 

But I am sure she is with me, her brother and I will be there for her, if she ever feels lonely.

~The End~