UNBELIEVABLE !

I moved forward towards the staircase when I felt a force holding me back . Victor was holding my hand . I turned . I was shocked from what I witnessed. I saw eyes with fear and a mixture of guilt and pain in its depth. Victor was kind of panting. I bent down to my knees.

" Are you okay ? " I asked .

" Y-yeah I am okay "

I nodded. Then he said " I need to tell you this . The soul infront of us is not a pure grim reaper. What usually a grim reaper's job is to collect soul of a person after that person meets his destined death . But here the soul will force you to give up your life . Remember it will try to harm you , torture you or will show you illusions BUT IT CAN'T KILL YOU UNTIL YOU ALLOW IT TO " .

" Okay....I get it " I said .

" Listen whatever you will see is just a mere illusion. It's upto you . You have to differentiate between reality and illusion. " He said.

" But how ?"

" You have to figure that out . I need a little more time . Will you hang in there buddy? "

" Yes I will. "

" Now go ."

With a heavy feeling crushing my chest I went upstairs. After checking the corridor I turned towards my bedroom and that's when lights went out . Pitch black . I felt clouds sprawl across the sky . The wind was wild . I could hear the rain which was splattering against the window in the corridor . The pattering sound of the rain and the darkness was just like icing on the cake of my fear . There was a small cabinet on the way to our room . We didn't had much stuff to store so we used to store extra things in the cabinet like glass bottles, cable wires etc .

I bent down on my knees and started crawling towards the cabinet hoping to find a source of light . I reached there after great difficulties because I would greet a wall or something everytime I moved . I was on high alert because the thought of someone jumping on me wasn't ready to leave my head . Anyways, I opened the cabinet and started searching for something. I found a torch. To my luck it was working because half of the cabinet was filled with damaged stuff . I turned it on and started walking . Then I heard a weeping sound . The sound was faint .

Hesitantly I opened the door of my bedroom . The first thing I saw was Jennifer as I stood at the entrance. She was sitting on the bed motionless .

I turned my torch around the room . Then Kely caught my eyes. She was standing in a corner opposite to the bed . Her head down low but it seemed as if she was staring at something on the floor .

"Kely ? " I said .

No response.

I glanced at the floor . And my heart hammered against my chest as I was looking at the lifeless body of Ben on the floor .

TO BE CONTINUED