Chapter 31

The starry night sky lightens up the house of the Woods. Blake Woods is on the balcony pressing his phone. He looks bored since he calls Irye and doesn't get through to her.

He makes a conference call with Amber and Derrick. They talk about unnecessary things most boys talk about when they meet. They laugh their way talking about gigs available and pool parties to go.

That's when Derrick asks what Blake is trying to get off his mind.

"Haven't you still heard from Irye?"he asks and requests for a video call by tapping it's icon.

The two change theirs to a video call and continue.

"Oops...Is this your face when you miss someone?"Amber teases.

Derrick laughs out loud knowing exactly whom Amber is talking to. "I guess so..

Almighty Blake becomes a baby in front if someone."

"It's been three days already and she hasn't called or answered my calls"Blake complains to them. "Am not sure what she is doing at that place she is."

"Obviously having the fun of her life"Amber says moving his eyebrows up and down.

"You should stop it...Am getting restless here."Blake messes up his hair with his hand.

They laugh and tease Blake for being cry baby in the face of love.

Meanwhile in the woods, Irye turns away from Gerrard and Claude. By seeing Irye's reaction, Gerrard thinks he must have done something really worth being angry.

When Evie points at Irye's eyes, Irye thinks that there any something else wrong with them.

She looks on with confusion and fear written all over her face, waiting for Evie to say something.

Evie is just too astonished to talk for the moment. Before she makes Gerrard suspicious of them, she clears her throat and laughs.

"I got you..You were scared for a second there right?"Evie laughs.

Irye although not getting what Evie is portraying joins her.

"Oh... I really was scared for while."she giggles.

The rest of them laugh along, oblivious to Evie trick to swipe them off the suspicious list.

Seeing that Gerrard and Claude aren't acting anyway strange, Irye's expectations of them acting scared goes awry.

She smiles to herself even though she is not sure what color her eyes have changed into.

Evie pulls her away from them saying she wants to girl talk to Irye.

"Your eyes..."Evie whispers.

Irye gets alarmed, fearing what she might hear again."What about?"

"They are back"Evie tells her. "To their normal color I mean"

Irye smiles widely "Really?"

Evie nods and smiles after her."Happy right? We've been waiting for this for long and luckily it's gone before they could see."

"Yeah... am really happy now."Irye tells her.

"But since when did it change?"Evie asks. "Did you feel something previously?"

"No..."Irye shakes her head. "I didn't feel anything. But am getting a feeling it has got something to do with here."She looks around.

Evie's smile wipes suddenly."How so?"she asks Irye.

"Remember it never went away even when we tried various means."Irye begins explaining and Evie nods. "Only when we came here, they changed color and it turns out am the only one who sees the boundary."

"So you are connected to this place somehow."Evie understands. Then do you still see someone else when you look in the mirror?"

"Right!"Irye remembers. She takes out her phone and looks at herself on it. She raises her head slowly to Evie.

"No...I see me"Her lips pull into a smile as Evie hugs her, knowing that one trouble has been solved.

"Guys come over"Mae calls and walk to her."We need to cook something. Why don't we search for food?"

"We are stuck here. Where are we supposed to find anything edible?" Claude asks.

"It's true we are stuck here but we can also search around here to where the other boundary is."Gerrard explains.

"Since there's a boundary here, I believe there will be another somewhere on the other side."Irye adds. "So we can search for edible things within the boundaries"

They get ready to go in search of food when the baby starts crying loudly. Grams attempts to stop him doesn't work as he keeps on crying.

The cousins turn, not knowing what suddenly comes over the baby.

Maybe it's just one of babies behaviors, the think and brush it off. But something bothers Irye.

"Maybe it's because he's my blood"Irye thinks and takes in a deep breath.

Suddenly a strong wind blows and the sky becomes dark.

The cousins walk back under the tree. They gather around Grams and hold each other's hands, forming a chain.

They hear sounds of laughter and whispers all around. The wind still coming on strong.

"Where do you think you are going?"A voice whispers through the wind.

An eerie sound follows, then a laughter.

The cousins becomes scared, looking around in the now dark place for the person who is speaking.

Irye starts feeling strangely uncomfortable. She gets a familiar feeling. Her head starts and aching she holds onto Evie tightly.

Evie notices something wrong with Irye as she feels her tight grip on her. She turns to Irye and looks at her well.

Irye crouches, causing Evie to balance to her because their fingers are intertwined. Evie lets go of Claude hand to cater for Irye.

"Are you alright?"she asks, raising Irye's head up. She looks into her eyes to make sure.

Her eyes have changed to black and this time Evie tells her rather than being startled.

The whispers become louder and most of the words the family hear is about killing the baby.