14 Horrified

Time passed by and Sei's uneasiness kept rising as they moved further inside the haunted house. The house was pitch black and all sorts of scary things were inside it. Even though this was his first time entering this kind of place, he could tell how skilled the maker of all the things inside was. Everything just seemed so realistic, even the sounds and the ghosts in disguise.

Sei's expressionless face slowly changed. His brows were knitted as he kept glancing at the girl behind him. It was because the girl, who was looking excited before, suddenly turned amazingly quiet ever since they entered the house. She was tugging Sei's shirt tightly from behind as if she wanted to rip it into pieces as she leaned her forehead on his back, as though she was hiding from someone.

Sei halted the moment they reached a dimly-lit room, surrounded by little candles. It looked like a room where rituals of witches were held. He turned towards the girl and his eyes widened upon seeing her pale face. Her mask was hanging on her neck, the girl's eyes were tightly closed and her knuckles were white from tightly gripping his shirt. Her forehead down to her neck was covered in sweat.

And seeing the girl in that state, Sei decided to go back.

"Let's go back," he said and his voice instantly made Davi's back stiffen. Her mind wasn't even working properly anymore because she was busy forcing herself to imagine pleasant things, yet Sei's voice was like a loud bang that startled her. Her grip on his shirt loosened and she suddenly opened her eyes.

However, the first thing she saw was a wooden coffin surrounded by candles. Her eyes instantly turned wide in fear. She was about to cover her eyes when the coffin suddenly opened and a hand of rotten corpse appeared.

"Ahhh!!" Davi screeched and she instantly hugged the man in front of her. She was shivering as her loud piercing scream echoed inside the house.

Sei was speechless. He was dumbfounded.

He could tell that the girl was scared to death, even hugging him so tight like she was trying to squeeze him. Sei raised his hand and patted her back as if he was trying to say, 'It's ok, I'm here.'

"That was just a ghost in disguise," he said, but the girl didn't stop shivering. She didn't even loosen up her intense grip on him.

At that very moment, Davi remembered her young self, sitting all alone, hugging her knees in the corner of a dimly-lit room. She was just ten years old when she experienced that traumatic event in her life. It hadn't even been a month yet when she found her mother's body hanging from the ceiling of her room; it hadn't even been a month yet since her burial and yet, these evil people who wanted her wealth were now attacking her, as if she was a rabbit being chased out by wolves. They did all sorts of dirty things to drive her insane and drive her out of her own home. They scared her every night, turning their huge family mansion into a horrifying place, filled with blood and ropes akin to what her mother used to kill herself. That time, Davi was just a child and she was alone in a huge house. She found out years after that those ghosts and horrors she had witnessed were all fake and were made just to make her leave the house on her own accord. However, the scar and the emotional trauma never went away even after so many years. And that cruel memory remained fresh in her nightmares, leaving her horrified every single time she remembered it.