The Demon Side: 6

The Demon Side: 6

“Liaaaam”, Mike shouted. “Can you hear me?”. Mike waited for a while but he didn’t hear any reply. It was total silence.

“Mike, what’s going on?”, Raimonda asked. She’s always asking and asking. Her life is a total mess.

“I don’t know”, Mike answered. How am I supposed to know?, he asked himself.

They all turned around and went back downstairs. Timmy went ahead of them to the kitchen. “Liam?”, Timmy said. Everyone got confused about what Timmy said and they followed him to the kitchen. For their surprise, Liam was sitting on the chair next to the table, swinging.

“Where were you?”, Mike asked his son. “What’s going on?”.

“What do you mean?”, Liam replied in a question. “I was sitting here the whole time. I didn’t even move”.

Mike, Raimonda, Timmy, Daniel, Miranda & Christina all exchanged glances. Was this some kind of joke?, they thought. “Come on, let’s continue our breakfast, what are you waiting for?”, Liam interrupted their silence-glancing conversation.

“Uhm, I’d better go to work. I’m kinda late”, Mike said. He was trying to get out of the subject. Before Mike could even take a step, Raimonda called him. “Mike, take out that box with you and throw it somewhere”.

“But honey, I need it for my work”.

“Why would you need a box full of bones for your work?”, Raimonda asked a reasonable question. But when it comes to that box nothing is reasonable.

Mike agreed with his wife. He grabbed the box and left to throw it somewhere while he’s on his way to work.

“Well, I’m going to my room”, Liam said. “I have to finish decorating it”.

“Me too”, the boys and the girls said together.

Everyone went to their rooms. Liam started putting everything together.

“Where do you think the bones came from?”, Daniel asked Timmy.

“Beats me”, Timmy replied. “That box and this house are freaky. It’ a good thing that dad is going to throw it away”. Timmy went and sat on his bed when he remembered something. “By the way Daniel, why did you freak out when you opened that box? I saw you holding a paper or something”

“Let’s not talk about it, please”, Daniel ignored his brother’s question because the whole idea was wrong. Daniel thought that it’s better if he kept the whole idea as a secret.

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While on his way to work, Mike passed by a dumpster and he threw the box in it. As soon as he threw it, he had flashbacks, and Liam felt much pain and fell on the ground. “Ughhhh”, Liam let out as he was falling.

Mike’s flashbacks were when he was thrown into the walls of the hospital and how it was possible that Liam could do it when he was dead.

Liam’s pain was gone. He stood on his feet again and sat on his bed. He started hearing footsteps coming from above of him. Then, the footsteps stopped. Liam couldn’t hear footsteps anymore but he heard something calling his name. “Liaaam, come here. COME HERE LIAM”.

Liam stood again and he started to hear footsteps, again. He started following the sound. As he was walking, the footsteps became louder and louder with every step he took.

The sound led Liam to the attic. He entered it but there was no sound of footsteps anymore, and there was nobody there. He started exploring the attic when his eyes landed on a partially burned picture on the ground. There was a guy in that picture but it was kinda blurry. He turned it around and saw that there was a name written on it.

“Chris Bennett”, Liam read the name outloud. Maybe that’s the name of the guy in the picture, he thought. But what is it doing here?, he asked himself.

Liam got out of the attic and headed toward his room. He saw the exact same dark figure he saw before standing infront of his bedroom door. As soon as Liam took a step, the dark figure entered his room.

Liam rushed toward his room and entered it, but there was nobody there. There was just one thing that confused him and it was that his computer was on. He sat there and saw a page talking about Chris Bennett.

He started scrolling and saw the exact same photo that Liam found, on the internet. Liam started reading.

“Chris Bennett is one of the victims of the demonic sacrificing that were used in “Dorothy Swan” church. Dorothy Swan was known as a witch and she built a church after her name, but she used it to communicate with all kinds of demons”.

Liam got scared and turned off his computer. He got out of his room and went to the kitchen.

“What are you doing here?”, Raimonda started. “Weren’t you decorating your room?”, she said as she was cooking.

“Uh, yeah”, Liam replied. “But I thought that maybe you need some help”, he suggested.

“No thanks, dear. Everything’s ok”, she said. “But if you insist, come help me chop some carrots”.

Liam started helping his mother inorder to forget about what he has read. “By the way, Mom, what is the name of the hospital that I was in?”, he asked.

“Dorothy Swan’s Hospital”, Raimonda answered. “Why, honey?”.

Liam didn’t believe what he has just heard. He froze in his place like a statue. “What-What do you mean Dorothy Swan?”…….