In The Walls

We all had an edgy night, every little sound seemed alarming, and we all wished to hold on to our remaining sense of practicality. Rayn said the door knob was jammed because of its ancient origin and had never been replaced, Dream sticks to her truth, she knew she saw something and thats why that night she slept in Alessias room. The exhaustion dawns upon everyone after some time, breaking the physical possibility to stay awake. I wanted to stay awake, however, I don recall the moment of dozing off. All I know is I got a nick of sleep utmost, nightmares clashed against my night, and I woke with a faint sound of whispers. My head remembered these muffled voices very well, the same I heard the other day. I dug in my pillow trying to avoid the whispers, sleep felt like morphine, desperate my mind wished to have a doze, but I couldn . By this time, it was dawn, the morning light late at rising because of the winter delay. I heard the coffee machine, this little grinding thing, Jennifer owned. She was grinding coffee beans fresh in the morning, it was our morning delight even in the dorm days. The smell of the coffee was tranquilizing and marvelous, Rayn couldn imagine a morning without it. I blocked the voices and came out of my room, rubbing the sleep off my eyes. I wasn walking, I was drifting in a zone, a machine chargeless, a soulless zombie, coffee, my remedy, my fuel, my charge. Jennifer poured me a pure cup. ”Long night? ”

”Felt like I got bare minimum to a nectar of sleep, ” I said and gave a push to Rayn who was dozing off while waiting for his coffee. He wakes up in nervousness, I guess I wasn the only one at the edge, night might have been hard on everybody. I looked at their doorknob, the lock was broken, Ryan did that last night. He is not a very patient person, when it comes to the person of his concern, he doesn hold back. Jennifer sat next to him, assuring him, she passed him his cup. He held on to it, the warmth, the sigh of relief, she placed her hand around his, that was a different kind of warmth that no heat can compete with. I could see their togetherness is still growing strong. I wanted to check up on the girls, I knew Alessia, I knew she mostly had the toughest night to go through. ”Should I go check on the girls? ” I asked them, Jennifer slightly nodded.

”Just check if they
e asleep, let them sleep in, ” Rayn said to me in a low voice. I agreed and proceeded to Alessias room. I stood at the door, remembering how Dream and Jennifer both were on the other side last night, trapped. I wanted to break the lock of Alessias room, I wouldn want to imagine her on the other side of the locked door. I cracked open the door finding Alessia asleep, the other side of the bed was empty. I assumed Dream must have been in the washroom. I was about to leave the room, when Alessia woke up in alertness from her sleep, her breathing frantic, I went to her, taking her in my arms.

”Shh! ” I assured her, and she grabbed onto me like she escaped some hell hole. I patted her hair, I wanted to tell her that Ill never let anything bad happen to us, Ill get us out of here, she doesn have to be here, in pain. However, how much of it could I actually walk the talk? I didn even know where to begin. So, I did all I could in that time, I held on to her.

She looked around, her eyes trying to find Dream. I gave her directions to the bathroom, she left the bed and went to the bathroom door, she knocked once and entered, finding no trace of Dream. She looked at me, with fear asking me ”Where is Dream? ”

We both hurried to Dreams room, Jennifer and Rayn joined us knowing something went south again. Alessia didn wait at the door, barging in; she stood in paralysis in Dreams room. We found her passed out on the floor, her room destructed upside down, and she was slathered with paint. However, what makes all of us skip a heartbeat, was the walls. She painted the walls black and other colors like a maniac. There were pentagrams drawn on each wall, like its your home, Ill kill them all, its here, random numbers to signs that I couldn make out. Standing there I felt a quiver down my spine. We all attended to Dream, putting her on the bed, although we tried, we couldn bring her back to consciousness. Alessia recommended moving her back to her room. None of us wanted to spend a second in that room, so we moved her to Alessias and called the medical emergency unit.

The emergency team gave us an ugly look, she was fine according to them, a bit dehydrated and there was a bruise on one side of her head which they suspected she had drank too much and knocked herself out. As ridiculous as our end of the story was to them, agitating was for us. We were not believed, I never felt betrayed by humanity. Honestly, our words did sound like absurd talk, however, us living in it gave it life. After the medic left Alessia and got the pack of cable ties, she tied Dreams one arm to the bed. We all tremor about her actions, and many questions we threw but she was at her own demise. She locked Dreams room and threw the key in the garbage. Finally, I got a hold of her frantic, I could see the pain in her eyes, she couldn take to witnessing Dream suffer, no matter what it took.

”Why? Am I that wrong? ” Alessia yelled back at us. ”Do you guys have a better plan? ” Her heavy breathing against our words. ”Do you want to call anyone else for the authority, try the police, or a shaman or a priest? What will it take to make you guys believe this goddamn place is **ing haunted? I told you not to move in, I told you this place is not right! What will it take? Dream to be completely under procession? ” she collapsed on the floor crying to her heart pour all around her. Jennifer was also teared up by Alessias heart wrenching words. We all knew the truth; there was no denial anymore; we were at our doom. This place as bluntly put, was haunted, no more practical, critical of state logic. It was blunt and out we could see the invisible ghost now, we could breathe the heavy thick air, the wishers were not only to us anymore, but we all looked around as we could hear the faint voice coming from Alessias room. ”Shes awake, we have to protect her. ” We all emerged into the room, Dream writing something while speaking incomprehensible words. We were all scared to our souls to approach Dream, but Alessia wasn , she jumped the gun as soon as she saw Dream acting insane.

”Alessia no! ” I tried to hold her back, she already had Dream in her arms. Dreams neck cracked as she started to laugh like crazy. She hugged Alessia back.

”Pretty, pretty, pretty… ” Dream says in a completely different voice. With one swing she stabbed Alessia on her back. Alessia let go of a scream from the pain, as Dream swung another hit one more time. I held Dream and Rayn did the same, detaching her from Alessia. Jennifer looks down on the floor at the pack of cable ties, taking it at one go.

”Hold her still! ” Said Jennifer locking her against the bed frame. Dreams strength was still human, she screamed for a moment and passed out.

”Why would you do that? ” I got Alessia from the ground, bleeding from two areas of her back. The stab wasn too intense, Alessia used my room to change, and Jennifer helped her with the wounds. Rayn and I sat in the living room spaced out, with no clue what to do.

”We have to leave this place, ” I said to him.

”I know, but will Dream be okay? I heard once processed at a place, you can only be free from that place or something… ” Rayn not too sure of his words.

”Thats right. ” Alessias voice echoed, she looked like she had already gotten a hold of herself. ”The wounds were minor; don worry I am fine.Alessia takes a seat in the living room with us. Jennifer, still traumatized from the entire incident, finds a sense of relief in Rayns arms. ”Even if we take her, it doesn guarantee she will be back. I should have told you guys before I had visions of this day, every cell in my body since the day I set foot here told me to escape. Dreams eyes are different, I can feel the old her, thats why I held on to her. We need a professional to help us bring Dream back ”.

We were doomed, none of us would have left Dream, trapping us in that apartment till we could free her. Till then we decided to stay in the haunted apartment 07.