TRUTH BE TOLD

"So why are you here to see me? I don't know you."

"But I know you, I know almost everything about you and your family and what got you here."

Daniel looked at her surprised trying to place her words.

"So what you're trying to say is you're a spy."

"Not really."

"But you just said you know everything-"

"Almost everything."

"But only spies do things like that. Monitoring people who don't want to be monitored."

"Well let me get straight to the point, I'm here to save you and your family."

"And how do you think you'll do that?

"How I KNOW that I'll be able to is because, I know what the problem is and how it all began."

"Excuse me who are you again?"

"Rebecca."

"How are you related to this situation?"

"The dog killed my parents."

"I still don't get it."

"The agent has been lying to people for the past seven years about that house. The last occupants that were living in that house, which were my parents and I-"

"Wait you're the girl they said ran away and her parents disappeared."

"Yes, but my parents didn't disappear. The dog killed them and the agent buried them and told everyone they disappeared. I was just a little girl there was nothing I could do than to watch and wait."

"Wait for what?"

"Revenge."

Anika lay on her bed in the dark, looking directly at the ceiling trying to place all the past few event that had been happening.

"Daniel accused of murder, dog supposedly evil, Isabella's been acting strange, mom's apparently mad. My life beautiful." Anika said to herself sarcastically. Just then her phone rang it was Sean.

"Hello....I'm fine....oh don't worry about me ok?.....I'm sorry I don't think I'll be able to, my mom was just admitted to a psychiatric hospital.....said she was seeing things, behaving abnormal....it's ok, really I'll be fine....thanks.....bye, love you too.

Mr. Johnson lay on his bed thinking how the past few days had gone andhow he was going to tell his wife most especially his children that he had to travel for some business.

"Bullshit, "he said frustrated.

"So what you're trying to say is you know how to stop our dog?"

"Yes, but the tricky part now is the dog's in Isabella's body."

"WHAT!"

"Yeah I was expecting that response but-"

"You mean Isabella swallowed the dog or something, is that normal?"

"You've been detained just four days and you've already lost your sense of reasoning. The spirit of the dog is in Isabella's body and we need to kill the dog."

"Meaning we kill Bella first? I'm starting not to like your idea of saving my family."

"I'll come tommorow when Anika will be here and Lisa," she said standing up.

"How do you know they'll be here?"

"Cuz you want to save your family so you'll call them," she said while walking out.

Anika woke up the next morning to her ringtone.

"Hello who is this?" She said trying to adjust her eyes to the light.

"Um, it's Daniel...I kinda need you guys to come over today.....it's between life and death."

"Kinda?...you guys as in who and how is it between life and death, are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine, I just need you and Lisa to come over today."

"But Daniel- , damn it he hung up."

She got up from her bed effortlessly and went to take a shower.

"Dad, dad," Anika said as she knocked on Mr. Johnson's door.

"Ugh, he must've gone to the hospital already." She headed towards the stairs, took the first step when she heard noises coming from the basement. Slowly she walked towards the basement, the door was slightly opened opened, she creeped in and saw Isabella standing in front of somebody on knees. From the voice it was a man, Anika looked more closely from behind a broken closet to see it was the agent.

"I, I, I beg of you please I didn't see anything, I swear-"

"So they say, if I let you go, you could tell my father and we wouldn't want that, would we?"

"We wouldn't at all." The agent was shivering, it was very strange to see a fully grown man on his knees, begging an eight year old.

'What's Isy talking about? And how is the housing agent involved?' Anika thought.

"I'm sorry," Isabella smiled childishly. She picked up an old axe which was supposed to be heavy for her age and cut off the agent's head which rolled right beside Anika's leg. She wanted to scream but quickly held her mouth, the agent's eyes were open wide looking directly at her then winked.

Just then her phone rang in her pocket she quickly brought it out and cut the call. Isabella dropped the axe and walked towards the direction of the sound but by the time she got there, Anika was gone.