Chapter fourteen
The sun is up.
"How long have I been asleep?"
"What are you going to do Jamie"
"You got to get away from here far as possible."
"Jamie you a murder."
The sun reflects on the cupboard, there is a little girl about eight years old, her eyes are blue, and she has light blonde hair she is wearing ballerina shoes, wearing a white dress.
"Who are you?", says Jamie, "I am Avery,"
"who are you talking to?"says Lilah,
"Can you not see anyone? It is Avery"
"They cannot see me" says, Avery, "I am trapped in this house only visible when there is light."
Jamie keeps quiet and looks over to Lilah, Avery?
"What has happened to you?"
Thhe dark shadow from the corner now emerges; it is MRS. Brighton, "where is Avery?"
"Avery what has happened to you?"
"Well, I stayed with my grandparents till I was eighteen"
MRS. Brighton and Lilah can now hear Avery; that is my baby says MRS. Brighton Avery continues.
"I was on my way back from practice, and a blue car pulled beside me and offered me a lift. I rejected the lift because four guys in the car were smoking weed and drinking. The one guy then stepped out as I attempted to run they grabbed me and did horrible things to me, the same thing that happened to you and Tracy after they were done they"
Avery pauses, "they tide my feet took me to a park and fastened me to the back of the car and drove with me across the concrete my skin was bruised."
Jamies is teary, "that is the most vicious thing that could happen to anyone."
"After they were done they started to panic, they thought the best way to get rid of me is by chopping up my body and putting it in the pipe of this house."
Mrs. Brighton's eyes darken as a coldness fills the room.
"Did they ever find your body?"
"No, but I forgave those guys the same way you should learn to forgive others."
"Do not listen to her, she wants you to get into trouble, they will lock you up."
"Do not listen to them says Avery you should go back. Everything you think is happening right now is not real, your stepdad was never mean to you he did not touch you, this here and what you think has happened with your stepdad is all in your head"
Avery stops taking as she fades, "set me free from this house a voice whispers to her."
"How do I do that?"
"Have my decade's body removed from those pipes."
"Lilah now whispers she is not real."
"You need to leave this house before cops come looking for your here."
Avery looks to the dark corner, and she sees Raphael. "Lilah is right. That is not Avery,"
"How do you know she was a baby the last time you saw her?"
Yes, says Mrs. Brighton, "that is not Avery."
"That is not my daughter."
"Do not listen to her, we need to leave this house."
"Ok, Mom, when it gets darker, we will leave this place and never return." Jamie hears whispers, it is coming from Avery, "do not leave, your Mom needs you Scott is fine you will be fine."
Jamie has not eaten all day, she starts feeling tired, "you cannot leave who is going to feed you? You're only a kid, Live your life do."
Jamie feels in her gut instinct Avery is telling the truth, "set me free" says Avery the voices of Lilah, Raphael, and Rebecca are all in your head.
Jamie screams stop, as she holds her head, whispers all around her, she hears a car, and she hears screaming and gunshots. "If they are all in my head, what happened to those guys?"
"Who has done this to Tracy and me?" There is a light shining beneath the cabinet.
It is silver as Jamie walks over and picks it up. It is a knife. "Jamie, you did nothing," says, Lilah. "That knife does not belong to you," This is the first time I see this knife says Jamie,
Avery disappears, Jamie thinks about what Avery said.
What if Scott gets well?, and her mother needs her? She walks down the staircase as she walks around the house, it is silent, and the wood is creaking with every step she is taking.
Jamie walks to the kitchen and notices something sticking out beneath the cabinet. She bends down and sees it is a photo in black and white.
It was a picture of the Brighton family. Avery was in a cradle, and the family stood around her.
Jamie got this sharp pain in her head as she held her head. "I need to go home to get painkillers, Jamie."
"You have your medication in the backpack" says Lilah. Jamie now reached into her backpack, taking out her medication.
Sleep says MRS. Brighton, you will feel better when you wake up. Jamie now doses off to sleep.
She hears sirens all around her, and she see Scotts Body in a bag as they bag him close and load him into the ambulance, suddenly she sees her mother calling her as she runs up to the mother.