Chapter: 3 - Susan's Dairy

As the door opened Juwan closed his eyes in fear of what he will see. The wind touched his neck and a chill ran through his spine freezing him.

The door was swinging due to the wind and Juwan didn't dare to open his eyes. As the cold took over his body, sweat dripped from his upper lip. It was like both cold and heat were tampering with his body. His outer body experienced cold when his inner body felt hot like a piece of burning wood.

As he had his eyes closed, he thought of something spiritual and gathered up his courage. Slowly he opened his eyes. The door was open but there was nothing scary inside the room. Shivering with fear he entered the room. The air conditioner was not turned on yet the floor was ice cold.

Juwan walked to the bed and sat on it. He went under the blanket and closed his eyes, praying that he get a dreamless sleep. The fear was hindering so much that he even did not bother to turn off the lights.

As his eyes closed, his mind opened for several of his thoughts to be clarified.

What was happening to him? Is he mentally ill? Was Mary a illusion too? Is this thing temporary or permanent? Is it dangerous for his health? Where is it going to end? As the thoughts accumulated, he remembered that he was sleeping in the house where a lady hanged herself. The house was empty except for him, built inside a maze of huge trees, a kilometer away from any other human contact.

As these facts became clear, he saw something. He saw himself being eaten alive by Ms.Susan. Fear swelled in his heart and he suddenly woke up from the dream, unable to bare the pain. The light was turned off and the air conditioner was on. He got up from the bed and climbed down the stairs to the kitchen. When he reached the kitchen, he opened the refrigerator and picked up a bottle of cold water. He drank the water quickly as the chillness created a supernatural heat in his throat.

Sounds crazy but that's what really happened!

He closed the door to the refrigerator, only to find a bloody creature behind the door. Juwan screamed and jumped away from the refrigerator. He sprang onto the switch board and turned on the light. And there was nothing.

Cursing his hallucinations, he turned off the light and returned to his bed. But he couldn't sleep. Whenever he closed his eyes, Ms.Susan's face appeared in front of him. Scared to lose his mind, he went to the library. He had kept Ms Susan's personal belongings with the copy of her will in a wooden box in the library. He took the will and went through them again and again. But he found nothing suspicious. Nothing at all.

As he went through her belongings, the box fell from the wobbly table. He hurriedly picked up the files when he noticed a dairy. A dairy that he had never seen Ms.Susan write. The dairy was about 2 years old, which meant that it was written before she lost her eye sight. He slowly opened the dairy and sat on the easy-chair. He started reading the dairy. It was not much interesting but it did tell a lot about Ms.Susan. What surprised Juwan a lot was that he had never seen the dairy before. It was like the dairy had appeared out of the blue.

He went through the dairy when he reached the page that said about her losing her eye sight.

2017: June 6

The day I want to forget the most. Today I meet my excolleages. We had nice breakthrough at a party when I met someone, whom I didn't want to see forever. I had hated him from the time he left for money. Even writing his names down in the dairy, makes me feel disgusting. I never wanted to meet that greedy pig again in my life. As the party was coming to an end, he tried to talk to me. He approached me and said that he was sorry for everything he had ever done wrong. I didn't want to believe him and so I ignored him and got out of the party. The most irritating thing was that he was the main reason behind me losing my eye sight. As I made my way, home I noticed that he was stalking my car. I usually don't drive over sixty, but that my speedometer touched hundred and ten. I lost him within few seconds and I neared a bridge that had speed breaker before it. I tried to slow down but it was all for a lost cause. I felt helpless. At last I ended up under the bridge. The doctors told that the glass pieces from the window had damaged my cornea and I can never see again. Even this I wrote with the help of, Mary. My next journals, shall be in my smart phone since it has voice recording. I didn't thing that I will lose the joy in my life this soon. All thanks to that one person whom I feel disgraced to even name.

As Juwan finished reading the last page a thought occured to him. What if the journals in her smartphone had a clue of why she committed suicide? With this thought in his mind, he knew that may be he can pay back Ms.Susan by giving her justice. He felt lazy to go to his bed and so he stretched his legs and closed his eyes in the chair. As he drifted of to sleep, he heard a smooth voice from the wardrobe in his room whispering, "You are almost there..... Find me!" The voice seemed like Ms.Susan's and Juwan was disturbed that he was really going nuts. Yet he ignored the howls and cries from the wardrobe and slept like a log of wood. After all a good sleep can always cure any mental illness.