The wedding went well, and I had to cover up my scar.
Crystal was busy and Zuv was not having fun and his eyes screamed sleep and his hair never seen it messier. Did I sleep better than him? We ate and left as soon as possible.
Zuv started driving us back all the food and cozy outfit made me take a nap. Nothing but darkness as I closed my eyes weird there was so much sunlight.
"Wake up Nora, Nora!!" Zuv started shouting.
"What happened." I asked hating the bright sunlight,
"Gosh you gave me an heart attack." Zuv hit the starring.
"what" I looked at my hands I was holding knife again. It shook me to the core what the hell, how can this happen to again, aren't we out of the house,
"Why do you have that. You almost tried to kill yourself again and to make it worse I was driving in this highway. " Zuv slowed down and diverted his path to beach side restaurant.
"I don't know, why I have this. I remember leaving it there. Allan was there too." I was a loss of words.
"Zuv tell me what happened as precisely as you can. It doesn't look like one time problem." I asked him as he stepped out.
" Well I don't remember the time but, yeah maybe it's on call logs," Zuv took his phone out and checked.
"Mike called me multiple times and Allan too. Apparently Allan felt weird and had bad dream, through Mike he got to know where we were and came here. Then I didn't trust him but we couldn't find you. And when Crystal got to know that Allan was describing a black house with red door she took us there." Zuv explained his side of the story.
"So the house is haunted?" I asked,
"Yes, it makes people hypnotize in a way and traps them, she said it was like a boogie man in her town. and it's a hush topic so nobody knows exact details." Zuv spoke.
"Allan asked me to wear the ring. I'm wearing it and it's still happening." I spoke.
"Yes, ring doesn't have that much power but Allan did call me minutes before you tried to kill yourself again." Zuv said.
"What?" I asked.
"You were sleeping and I though he was paranoid but after few minutes I saw you with that knife and ugh thinking about it just makes me overwhelmed. God I miss my alternate dimension. I never had to witness something like that. Life was boring and I love it." Zuv hits his head.
"Right! Do you think it's going to happen everytime I seep. I can't stay awake all the time and I'm not sure what's going on exactly and how to solve it." I tried to think with missing pieces.
"True, we need more information on this. Should we go back? It's no use going back if you keep doing it." Zuv spoke.
"Let come back tomorrow, I don't think we will be able to find anything in one day, not when Crystal isn't around." I spoke.
"Yeah, she doesn't know the whole situation, she thinks everything is over." Zuv replied.
"We thought the same thing too. I wan to sleep so bad." my eyes dropped.
"nah Lady, you aren't going to do that. Wait here I will get some water." Zuv headed towards the restaurant, my eyes were dry and watery. I kept looking at Zuv nothing particular running inside my head just the eyes screaming to get sleep.
I closed my eyes for a second, and heard car door open. I quickly turned back to check on it, there wasn't anyone but I'm sure I heard it right, and there's no other cars nearby, and no people either just isolated space farther away from restaurant. Weird feeling of being watched. I turned around got jump scared by Zuv standing holding water bottle.
"What the !! Why are you just standing there?" I asked still panicking and a fast car flew close by. Zuv pulled me closer losing one of the bottles.
"Ah, that assh*le."
"What were you checking so closely?" Zuv asked after letting go of hand. My hands were bruised by the force he had pulled me.
"I heard car door opening so I came to check. I guess I was worried for nothing." I took the bottle and drank some water.
"oh okay. Don't worry it might be the ghost." Zuv spoke his expression were not kidding.
"yeah?" I went around and opened the door.
"You had locked the door right?" I asked.
"I think so, I don't know. I'm sleepy too we didn't get to sleep last night." Zuv sat in his seat and looked around one more time if anyone was here, but no one was around.
We drove back to our place, and the challenge began. We started to experiment how it actually works. I tried to sleep and Zuv tried to stop and wake me up when I tried to kill myself.
when I first tried to sleep I couldn't make myself fall asleep easily, it took around 30 minutes to the killing point. Sometimes knife would appear and sometime I tried different methods, and sometimes I would hold my breath. Each time Zuv had to get creative and stop me from killing myself. slapping my face to cold water he tried to all.
we each got alternative sleep cycle. We did this day and night we slept a lot but never fully recovered. We didn't even have energy to talk.
"We can't keep doing this, is she back yet?" I asked Zuv about Crystal.
buzz buzzz
"It's her thank god"
"hey, crystal. you back in town" Zuv asked.
"I will be there by the evening. I did collect some information. I will forward the address. She won't talk to outsiders so you will have to wait for me." Crystal replied.
"Yeah? " Zuv replied while being on speaker.
"Are you alright, sorry it took so long." Crystal spoke.
"nah, we will be there." Zuv cut off the call.
"so should we leave now?" I asked.
"If I drive at this rate we will make it to the grave soon." Zuv spoke exhausted and slow manner it took him a minute to finish a sentence.
"I agree" I blinked being so sleepy knocking my head against wall, and saw someone in the window looking inside.
It took me few seconds to draw head back to that state and there wasn't anyone.
"I saw someone by the window" I spoke.
"No energy " Zuv spoke closing his eyes.