"Are you ready for this?" I reluctantly ask. I can feel the vibe in the room shift once I sat on the floor and started opening the box. I can feel tingling in my hands from just touching the board. and setting it on the floor.
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be," Brittany says looking over at me.
I can feel her eyes fixated on me as I start to set up the board on the floor. I stand up and walk over to my closet. I open the door and look up and grab a shoebox on top. I walk over to the bed and set the box down.
"What's that?" Brittany walks over to me looking over my shoulder as I open the box. I flip open the lid of the box and look at the contents. It contained sage, holy water, white candles, incense sticks, and Kosher salt.
"It's just some stuff used for protection that I have." I start setting the white candles around the board and open the window so I can sage my room. I set the holy water next to the board and tell Brittany to sit next to it and make a salt circle around us. I sit across from Brittany as I look at the planchette on the board.
"Okay, here goes nothing." We both put two fingers on the board and spin the planchette around three times.
The planchette sits there as we both look at each other.
"I don't know what to ask."
Brittany tries to think of a question. "Oh, I know!" She excitingly yells out. "Are there any spirits here with us now?"
We both stare at the planchette waiting for it to move. "Is there something you wish to say?"
The planchette starts to move to "YES"
We both exchanged looks of excitement along with asking if the other moved it or not. We both look at the board and the planchette starts to move again. It slides to the letter "F" and sits there for a second, then it slides to the letter "I" followed by the letter "R" and then to the letter "E".
"Fire?" I look at the board as the Planchette slides to "YES" Me and Brittany both exchange puzzling looks. The planchette then proceeds to slide to the letter "K" followed by the letter "I" and then to the letter "L" twice. We look at each other nervously.
"Are you saying you were killed with fire?" Brittany asked in a timid voice.
The planchette then moves back to "NO," We sit there in shock and asked what do you mean? The planchette then proceeds to spell out "YOU" as Brittany lets out a soft squeal.
"Brittany I think I'm done here" she looks at me "Can we close this?"
The planchette slides back to "NO" as the board starts to shake a little. The planchette suddenly slides off the board from under our fingers slamming into the wall next to us. We both let out a startling scream as I reach and grab the planchette.
"It might be late but we have to say goodbye anyways just to be safe" I nervously put the planchette back onto the board and we both put our fingers on it. We move the planchette to goodbye and take our fingers off the board. We exchange looks of regret as my tv remote flies off the table into my closet door. Brittany screams and runs into my arms as I hold onto her. I notice my room door opening slowly as it suddenly slams shut. I flinch holding onto Brittany as I see the shadow figure in my room, pointing at us.
"Get out! You're not welcome here" I scream at it. I close my eyes to not keep looking at it, I hate the feeling of looking at it. Brittany looks up at me and lets out a terrifying scream. She pushes her way out of my arms as I look over my shoulder and see the shadow figure standing hunched over behind me. I jump away from the figure as it starts walking over to us. The pressure in the room intensifies as we run out of the room slamming the door behind us.
"Run outside now!" We both book it outside to the driveway. We stand in the driveway out of breath from the screaming and running. I look up towards my room window and see the figure standing there as if it was taunting me. Brittany sits on the ground with her head in her hand.
"Hey, are you okay?" Worried I sit on the ground next to her. All of a sudden she lets out a burst of big laughter ringing in my ear.
"That... was... INTENSE!" She hugs me "I want to do more things like this!"
I look at her for a second and a smile forms on my face as I burst out laughing. We sat in my driveway both laughing with one another.
"I want to learn that astral projection thingy you do" she grabs my hand "will you teach me?"
I sat there thinking to myself about the pros and cons. I grab her hand back "sure, but it's not easy to do, it will take a lot of practice."
She smiles and burst into excitement. "I can't wait! I've been looking into it already so I know I have to practice meditating and lucid dreaming but I am so ready!"
We both stand up "wait here" I run to my door and run upstairs. I grab my wallet that was on my nightstand and quickly run out of the room. As I run down the stairs I feel a hand on my back pushing me. I stumble down the first step before losing my balance and falling down the rest of the stairs hitting my head on the ground. Brittany heard the banging from me falling and runs inside.
"Jason!" she runs over to me and grabs my head up to make sure I'm okay. "How did you fall?" I look into her eyes "I forgot how to walk downstairs" I jokingly said so I wouldn't ask her worried. She helps me stand up and we walk out of the house.
"What did you go inside for anyways?"
"I wanted to grab my wallet, I thought we can both use some food after that" I laughed.
We walk down the street to a bus stop that was there.
"Let's go to the food court at the mall," I said throwing out ideas. Her face lit with excitement.
"You never want to go to the mall!' She said excitingly, "They opened a metaphysical shop there so I can grab some things for astral projection and stuff!"
We hopped on the bus after waiting for a while and rode it for 20 minutes to the mall. After we got off the bus I felt something was off. I look behind me at the bus driver and his face was distorted. I shake my head and double took and his face turned back to normal. Everything around me felt as though it wasn't real.
We started walking toward the entrance of the mall as I looked around me. I felt like I had to keep my head on a swivel but I tried to ignore it so I can enjoy the rest of the day with Brittany. We made it to the metaphysical shop she wanted to go to. After we entered I felt the eyes of the cashier staring at me. I looked over in her direction and I can see her looking at me with wide eyes. We walk past her walking towards the books that were in the back of the store.
I turn back to look at her, I get scared as her face looked burned and her face was melting off her skull. I look away and shake my head trying to clear my head.
"Hey look, there's a book about astral projection with tips on how to do it." She grabs the book off the shelf and walks over to the crystals and starts to look at various ones. She grabs the ones that look nicest to her, not reading any description on them. I tried to help but she shrugged me off and said "I like these instead."
We walk over to the cashier and her face is back to normal. She continues looking at me while cashing us out. Before we leave the cashier stops me
"Hey, I don't k ow if you know this but there is something following you."
I turn around looking around me for someone.
"Uh, there's no one there." I looked at her confused as I turn back around to walk away.
"It's not human!" She says reaching out to me. I stop walking and before I can say anything she hands me a card. "Call me after 7 and we can talk."
I walk out looking at the card she gave me. It was a card for a psychic with her name and number on it. I put it in my wallet as we walk towards the food court.
"Look at you, getting all the girls," Brittany said jokingly. she nudged me and raised her eyebrows to be flirty. I smile and nudge her back. I take her bag out of her hands and walk down to get food.
We grab food at the burger spot in the mall and sit down at the table closest to us.
"I'm going to use the bathroom real quick, I'll be right back" I get up and walk into the bathroom. I go into a private stall with a sink and wash my face. I look up from the mirror and I see the shadow figure standing behind me as his hands caress my face. I scream and turn around and nothing was there. Under the stall, I can see feet standing in front. Knocking starts on the stall door "occupied," the knocking again happens "I'm in here," I say with an attitude.
The knocking gets louder as the stall door starts to shake. It shakes as if the door is going to come off its hinges. I hold onto the door trying to keep whoever is on the other side out. Suddenly it stopped as the footsteps faded away. I nervously walk out of the stall and look around. I walk towards the door as the stall door slams shut and the shadow figure stands behind the door looking at me mouth open. I ran out the door as the main door for the bathroom slammed behind me.
I make it back to the table my face red and panting. I sit down and put my head into my hands and hold it there for a second. Brittany reaches over the table and grabs my wrist. I can't even make eye contact with her, I just continue looking down at my food watching it get cold."Hey, are you okay?" She moves her chair closer to me. I lift my head and notice people walking by looking at me."Did something happen to you?"I lean back in my chair and let out an exaggerated sigh. I put a smile on my face and grab my burger. I take a bite and look at Brittany. I can see she knows something is wrong with me, she should, she has known me since we were kids. I look away from her but she grabs my face forcing me to look at her."Tell me what's wrong" she started talking to me in a demanding tone, it was the first time she's ever spoken to me like that. I would be lying if I said it wasn't the kind of hot."I saw the shadow figure from the house, I think it's following me." My voice is a littl
We stay up for the remainder of the night, talking about random things that happened to us at school. We start to hear footsteps on the stairs but we chalk it up to my parents leaving for work. We look at the time, it's 6:45 in the morning."Lucky today is Saturday huh" we look at each other and get out of bed opening the door to go downstairs. We make it to the end of the stairs and see my mom in the kitchen making coffee."Good morning mom," I walk up to her and kiss her on the cheek."Oh Brittany, I didn't know you were here, would you two like some breakfast?" We both exchange looks and quickly nod our heads and say yes."Why are you two up so early anyways?" She walks over to the pantry and grabs a box of the complete mix of pancakes. She grabs her mixing bowl from the bottom cabinets and her mixing spoon."We went to bed early last night and I guess our bodies woke us up," I tried to come up with a decent excuse.She makes us breakfast and gives us both a kiss on the foreh
We both stand there in shock looking into the doorway. This demon stands there waving and smiling, our lifeless bodies laying across each other on the floor in front of it. I grab her hand tighter and run pulling her behind me. We run down the hallway that doesn't seem to end. We run and see another open door, we look inside and it's the same demon with our bodies under him, smiling and waving. "I can't do this," Brittany runs taking her hand away from mine. She runs down and turns a corner in the hallway. I run after her and turn the corner, it's a dead end. I start to breathe rapidly, I can feel the air getting thinner as it gets hard for me to breathe. I turn around to look towards the door, I see the hand of the demon emerge from the room, clenching the wall, pulling itself forward to peak its smiling face at me. "Stay away, get out of here!" I start yelling at the demon, and the demon bolts out of the room running towards me. I start to run away from it, looking behind me as
I stood looking at my wrist in shock, Brittany standing there holding the knife in her hands. I start to tear up, Brittany quickly throws the knife to the floor. She hugs me but she immediately smacks me across the face. I could understand why she smacked me so I did not attempt to get angry at her."What the hell are you doing?" Brittany irritatingly says"I don't know, it felt like I lost control of my body, I..." I start choking up, unable to keep my tears back anymore. I burst out in tears sobbing uncontrollably.I push away from Brittany and turn my face, trying to stop myself from crying. Brittany reaches her hand out to me but I push it away and walk upstairs. I look at the time, it's only 9:00 am. All of this happened in 3 hours. It felt like we were in that dream forever. I walk into the mirror and look at myself, shocked by what I see I quickly turn my face. I saw myself with burnt skin, missing one eye, as I bled from the other, skin falling off my face, and missing my l
“Are you sure?" I look at her suspiciously "are you sure you want to go in there?" Brittany looks up at me with a grin that takes up her whole face and nods excitingly. She drags me into the cemetery and we walk among the graves. She starts walking faster ahead of me, cutting in between graves, I have a hard time keeping up with her. "Brit, wait up, you're going too fast!" She starts to pick up speed and is running ahead of me. I start to lose sight of her. She is running faster than normal and I'm finding it hard to keep up with her. I run faster but she is too far ahead of me as I lose her once she goes over a hill. I stop running once I get to the top. "Brittany! Brittany! Where are you?" I look around trying to catch even a glimpse of her. I hear giggling all around me as I start to cautiously walk around. I walk looking behind tombstones where the giggling seems louder. I continue calling out for Brittany but I get no response, the giggling gets louder with every attempt. "
I look around frantically, quickly trying to assess my surroundings. There is nothing but darkness all around with various spots of light coming from the moonlit windows. My body is sent into shivers as the temperature around me drops."What is this place?"I stare down into a dark, empty hallway. My eyes seem like they're playing tricks on me as I see darker shadows moving in the emptiness of the hallway. The hairs on the back of my neck start to stand, as I feel eyes piercing through my body."Is someone there?"I can feel pressure build behind my eyes as they try to adjust to the darkness. I walk around trying to find anything that can tell me where I am. I walk over to a random door, grab the doorknob and start to twist. I push and pull to open the door but it won't budge. I turn around and start to try random doors that are around me. I walk to a center of an open hallway."Hello? Is anyone there?"I start to hear whispers coming from all around me. They get louder as I sta
"Game? What game?"I ask King Bael, he brushes off what I'm saying and walks out the door. The strength in my legs is starting to come back, but they aren't strong enough for me to walk. A dark figure walks over to me and helps me stand and walks me over to King Bael."I know I already told you I would help but I need more than just your allegiance, I need to test you to make sure you are worthy."He waves his hand in front of him as three doors appear in front of him. One door was black with golden trim, the other was oak with scratches on it and the last door was white with blood splattered across it."The goal for you is to walk through the right door.""Just walk through a door, that's it?"He nods his head, "yes, that seems simple enough does it not?"I look down at my legs and over at the dark figure holding me up. I can't help but wonder if this is some kind of trick. "Yeah, yeah it seems simple enough, but what about my legs?""Oh that, don't worry about something fr
I can see a light flicker from behind me as if it's a single lightbulb illuminating the room. I slowly start to turn around when I hear clapping rapidly coming from behind me, I almost jumped out of my shoes. I turn around and see Brittany standing behind me."There you are, I've been looking everywhere for you buddy."Her face was droopy and it was as if someone was poorly mimicking her voice. Her hand flops up as if to give me a wave but quickly plops down.Brittany?"A loud cackling fills the room, a demonic face appears behind Brittany with a grin from ear to ear. It had no eyes or nose. The skin looked as if it was left in an oven for too long. Suddenly, the light that was illuminating the room flickered out and the room became pitch black.I can feel the icy breath of something I. Front of me breathing on my face, I can feel an icy cold grip wrap around my arm and start pulling me. I fight back but whatever it is that has me is stronger. I can feel a burning sensation comin