Emily woke up the next morning with a pounding headache in her forehead... She sat up and turned around... She was in the hallway. She scratched her hair and tried recalling how she got there... She couldn't...

Ouch!!

She looked at her hand.. She had claw marks on it.. Exactly four strokes... She yawned and cracked her neck.. But they hurt. Then the thoughts of yesterday came back up again... She remembered how she got there...

She quickly rushed into her room for a quick shower and a cloth change.... She was going to leave that house.

As she stepped into the bathroom, water had overflown from the bath tub to the ground... She took her toothbrush and as she was about brushing... She noticed something on her bathroom mirror.... A note was left.

Perhaps it was Dylan...

She smiled to herself... Maybe to make her know of his leaving...

She picked it and opened it up to read... And it read thus..

Dear Emily
I have a song for you... Ring-a Ring O'roses
A pocket full of posies
A-tishoo! A-tishoo..
We all fall down...

Die! Die!! It's time for you to die.
What will kill you Asphyxia? Perhaps your own.....

"No!!! I'm not going to see it." She said as she squeezed the little card a rose petal fell off and turned into blood on the floor of her room.

She took the paper and threw it into the bin... She got dressed and ran out..

"You have got to be serious? All that happened when I left you?" Dylan asked observing the claw marks...

They were at Munchies Pizza Palace.. Emily, Dylan, and Stephanie as Emily narrated her ordeal of the previous night...

"I think I need an exorcist, I don't believe in spirits but.... I think Akeela is doing this." Emily explained.

After a while of silence... Stephanie spoke up...

"Dylan, remember our plan? We can't get an exorcist if we don't have a solid proof that a spirit is doing this. You work with the school's technical department... We need security cameras in each of our homes. It might have happened to Emily, but it could happen again to anyone else."

"Alright I will get the cameras installed before the movie tomorrow." He replied.

They ordered pizza, and as they had begun digging into it, Stephanie had a notification beep. It was from her Mum, telling her to get back home ASAP...

"Sorry guys, I need to leave... Dylan you need to come over and install it when no one is around... Especially not my sister... She could leak the plan out to her 'imaginary friend.'" Stephanie said hanging her bag. She headed home.

"Never leave my side again... Promise?" Emily said...

"I promise" Dylan said with a smirk..

Dylan was 6.5' tall, on a blue coloured loose shirt, and birty brown denim jeans with a matching jacket.... He was broad shouldered with a dusty brown hair. He had promised to stick around and get the cameras installed in her house and Stephanie's that day...

As Stephanie got home, her mum informed her that they were going to take Karla to see the psychotherapist and probably might just be able to help Karla.

"That's not bad" Stephanie commented.

They left, and Stephanie quickly texted Dylan to come over with the cameras to be installed. He did come over with them. He put one in Karla's room, one in hers, one in her parent's, one In the hallway, and the last one in the living room.

"That's all done... Now all we have to do is.... Here take this" He said handing over an iPad to Stephanie.

"Switch it on... It's automatically connected to the camera and you can see the happenings of your home whenever, wherever." He added.

Technology...

"Thank you so much, Dylan... Have you done same in Emily's?"

"Yes I have. I'll be passing the night at her place. She's terrified." Dylan said packing up to leave.

Yeah that reminds me..

"We are shooting the Halloween movie tomorrow. I hope you are prepared because you are the main character"

"Yep"

"See you then" He said leaving for the door.

"Wait... Dylan how can I ever pay you back" She asked.

"Hmm... How about remaining pretty and never crying" He chuckled and bade goodbye.

You're just so nice.

Stephanie still holding the iPad switched it on and saw her room.... It made her smile... So she looked into Karla's room... Sipping a cold drink, she observed her room from hers. Nothing unusual had happened yet. She stared and zoomed where necessary... Everything was still intact.
So she kept it aside and got a movie from Netflix to watch. It was the latest release. She sat up, leaned over on one side, then did on both. Soon she was fast asleep.

"You are welcome, Ma'am. Please have a seat" Mrs. Brown, the psychotherapist, said.

"Karla, dear, what's Mum saying? You have an imaginary friend?"

"Yes"

"You can see her, right?"

"Yes, only I can."

"Is she here with us now?"

"Mmm... No she didn't accompany me today. She said she had unfinished business at home."

"Did she tell you what that was?"

"No, that was all"

"Why do you like her?"

"Because she's always with me and listens to all my problems."

"But Mum and Stephanie do too"

"Mmm... They exempt me from some 'grown up talks', and Stephanie is always with Emily and Dylan, her best friends. I'm not allowed into the inner circle because I'm still little. This upsets me" She concluded.

Mrs. Brown exchanged a glare with Mrs. Lockwood.

She begged the latter to excuse her and Karla as she wanted to have a personal examination and ask some other disturbing questions.

Meanwhile... At the Lockwoods'...

Stephanie was still asleep when her phone rang... She woke to answer it, and it was Dylan calling to check up on her. She replied saying nothing had happened yet and had been caught on camera.

While still on the call, she picked up the iPad. She saw something white, probably made of plastic. It closed up and reopened. It took a minute and a half for Stephanie to realize that it was an eye and the eye lid. Something was definitely wrong...

It must have been Akeela..

She quickly told Dylan on the call, and the latter remained silent... She checked her phone and the reception had failed. It was only then that she remembered that the call that woke her up wasn't her usual ringtone, but the nursery rhyme....

Oh my, the Rhymes....

At each completion of the rhyme, Akeela mentions what would kill the victim... Unless it's being stopped before the completion.

Stephanie stopped for a brief second. She had been so sure she picked up the call before its completion. But how sure?

She summoned courage to move down to Karla's room, and all had been fine. She saw Karla crying and imagined they had returned while she fell asleep. She moved closer mentioning her name as she did.

"Karla, is that you? What's wrong? Speak to me."

"The psychotherapist said I might be loosing it." She replied amidst sobs.

"Oh dear, come here. You have your perfect wits" Stephanie said hugging her as she rested on her bosom.

Something from under the bed touched her with a tap... It was continuous. She bent over slowly expecting the worse as she swallowed in her saliva. She stopped.

To her utter disbelief, she saw her sister... The one she just hugged.

"Ste...Stephanie. I'm not the one you just spoke to.... It was Ak..Akeela" Came the shaky voice.

Soon, slowly Stephanie looked up and oh what she saw couldn't be over emphasized..

Her eyes met with the apparent Akeela for the first time, she got a glimpse of what her face actually looked like... Her eyes shone like they were made of glass, her lips had blood drips at the edges, her face looked white, her lips like they had been stitched up by an Amateur Surgeon, and she had crouched forward.....

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" Stephanie and Karla cried out in unison. The windows locked up and the doors, too.

Their parents ran up at the sound of their cries and when they came, they pushed open the door only to find the two sisters locked in each others arms..

"Honey, what is it?"

"Mum.. Akeela"

An eerily sound was heard as four perfect strokes of cat claws were dug up on Stephanie's skin.... The impact was deep.....

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Author's note: Yikes 😂!!!! At a point I freaked myself out... As I was writing, the Lights went off, the standby fan turned on, and I heard a voice at the background. Not to mention the fact that the doors closed on their own 😂...
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