Ouija Board

"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.