"Let's just call Allan please," Zuv pleaded.
"Ugh whatever,! Don't you hear any sound ?" Nora asks him about the creaks upstairs.
"No. Dialing Allan- EMERGENCY" Zuv screamed on his phone.
Nora got startled with the sudden burst of energy.
"Any moment now. I can go to sleep." Zuv rests in a peaceful position smiling wide.
"What the heck Zuv. " Nora was still unsure of the sounds she had heard. So she takes her phone and walks up the stairs, dragging her one feet after another. She takes two steps and sits down it felt impossible with that body somehow she a few more steps crawling while Zuv gave up on everything and had gone to sleep.
Nora sat there for a long time gathering and wondering if living her life was wroth it or not. The steps started looking blurry and she heard a loud bang. Nora immediately turned to upstairs and then towards Zuv. He was as startled as she was, they looked at each other and the door bell rang.
Zuv went to open up the door. Nora tried to stand up but wasn't able to move.
"What's the emergency?" Allan asked Zuv and stepped in. the air was weird. they looking at each other.
"Can you go get Nora over there." Zuv asked with a worried face.
"yeah sure." he looked back and forth.
"what's going on?" Allan asked and walked towards stairs, another thump and creak came from upstairs and Allan paused.
"Is anyone else there?" Allan asked softly.
Nora and Zuv swung their heads left to right.
Allan quickly headed upstairs and checked. There was no one which felt odd.
"There's no one." Upstairs didn't have any complex layout just two bedrooms with very little space.
"Must be a cat?" Zuv spoke.
"maybe" I replied.
"Is that your emergency? next time call police for that it's safer that way. For a minute I thought you are trying to kill yourself again." Allan sighed.
Zuv and Nora looked at each other and at Allan. their face made it clear there was more to the story Allan had to be part of.
After hearing their entire story.
"Why didn't you tell me before. I could have helped. I know I screwed up before but I will take responsibility and keep you safe." Allan looked at Nora with tears filled in his yes.
After a minute of silence,
"We need to drive to this location, so we called you. They have more information about it." Zuv spoke.
"Let's go." Allan walked down.
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"Pam, Can you please tell us what happened," Crystal spoke.
"I don't know much about it. " Pam replied , a 40 year old women in her cooking gloves stared blankly.
"please anything is fine." Crystal asked again after everyone took turns explaining what had happened and what they know so far.
"It's a nightmare I want to forget." Pam got angry and emotional.
"You are the only one who can help her." Crystal started tearing up.
"Alright stop acting Crystal." Pam sighed and sat down.
"Was I obvious?" Crystal asked Zuv.
Zuv nodded for the overacting.
"There was a family living there when I was young, secluded but active members of the community. They worshiped god dearly. I became friends with one of the daughters. We played around pretty much everyday. one day her father was accused of robbery. Not sure of what happened that husband and wife forced their children to kill themselves for the ritual, saying that would set everything back again. then they killed themselves." Pam spoke.
"That's not exactly what I heard though." Crystal spoke.
"They didn't want god's name to be sullied. The robber got caught but the family had already met it's tragedy. The story got mixed up and got out of hands. I was too young but I know the story." Pam spoke.
"So the haunting were exaggeration too?" Crystal asked.
"That's what I thought, people were freaked out and each night a new story about the house spun. I was always attracted to that house, but never really went in. Until the end of school day, we decided to check of the haunted house as a memory, then got cursed." Pam slowed down.
"cursed? Like Nora?" Crystal asked.
"yes, It doesn't stop at the first person. After she dies then curse gets to the next person and then next." Pam spoke.
"How did you survive.?"Crystal asked.
"I got lucky, I guess. I don't know why I survived. We were five people, maybe curse stopped acting after 4 died just like that time. Or maybe she remembers me and have spared my life somehow." Pam spoke.