Chapter 44

It's sunrise. Birds chirp and hum,feeling happy it's morning. The do what they usually do. Sit under the tree doing nothing particular.

Now that's there's enough food, they don't worry about starving. Mae makes breakfast ready for them to eat as soon as they wake up and they eat.

Blake's first day behind the boundary goes well so far until something happened.

It's midday which literally feels like a whole day to Blake. Irye has already told him about how time stops behind the boundary.

Unbelievable but a day they spend behind the boundary is a whole three days outside.

Blake tells them the real days they've spent behind this boundary which marvels them.

They begin to worry the more, scared they could spend a year in there without knowing.

The more they worry and get scared, the more the tension in them rise. Abigail's ghost will end up killing them. How many days will they have to be fighting her when she is a spirit and they are just humans.

Speak of the devil and he appears. Irye is the first to notice. Now that she is getting to know more about herself, she is accepting what is in her.

She doesn't get worn out and collapse whenever she changes characters like before.

She's learnt to become one with it and explore it's powers. She's learnt to be strong and how to communicate with her other self.

A strong wind blows and the weather changes. The place suddenly becomes dark.

Blake yells on top of his voice, Irye's name because the place is windy and makes it almost too hard to hear.

"I think a storm is coming. Do you experience that a lot here?"He asks, yelling.

Irye looks at the young man sitting beside her and feels pity. Blake knows nothing about what's happening. She knows it's bound for him to find out anyways but not now.

It may be soon but she doesn't expect it. While Evie and the others are busily looking for things to protect themselves and the baby, Blake is looking for shelter.

"Yeah it is."Irye says, looking at him. "A big storm is coming. And i don't know which one of us it is going to hurt this time." Irye looks down and her voice is full of pity.

Blake stands up abruptly. "Shouldn't we look for shelter?...or something strong to stay under and hold on to?....or...."

"Blake..."Irye interrupt him. "You need to know something. She stands up, joining Blake. "It's not just a stor....."

Something quickly passes by and her eyes change color as she looks around. Blake unknown to what's going on also looks around.

"It's not a what?..Why are you looking around? Is someone aside us here?"Blake asks amidst the strong wind.

"Yes and very dangerous"Irye looks at him.

Blake takes a sharp breath and points at her eyes."Your eyes are black."

"Yeah they should be"Evie pulls Blake along with her to where they are.

Beside Grams and the baby, the cousins and Blake crouch under their usual tree.

Blake is held down by Evie and Claude when he wants to go to Irye in thought of protecting her.

"Stay down, she can handle it."Evie whispers in his ears.

"She is going to be hurt. Why would she be there when we are all taking a sort of shelter here."Blake retorts.

"Just stay down and watch.. Think of protecting yourself. Why do you think Gerrard's shoulder is wrapped?"Mae says..,a bit harshly because she's getting annoyed at how Blake's acting.

Slowly, the wind slows down, leaving the place dark.

"I think the storm is over"Blake says, standing up but squats quickly upon hearing an eerie laugh.

Evie chokes on a laugh and covers her mouth. "Well I thought someone was going somewhere."she teases and looks at Blake. "Why don't you? The storm is over right?"

Irye rushes in front of Blake and the family. Her hands gestures for them to stay alert.

"Stay back. She's here."Irye says to them and turns to following the sound of footsteps of the ghost she only can hear, with her eyes closed.

Soon Abigail comes to sight. She is standing in front of Irye anf laughing.

"I see you brought a new friend."Abigail says, her eye on Blake. "Should I add him too?"

Her witchy voice annoys Irye. And not being able to hold her anger, Irye rubs to get an they begin fighting.

Their actions startles Blake and he attempts to go and stop them only to be held back by Gerrard. He shakes his head telling Blake not to dare take a step.

Blake squats back down "Who is she? Why are they fighting?"

"Shh..we don't want her attention to be on us."Evie shuts him up.

Blake is a bit offended. He suspects they are hiding something from him. He comes a the way there to check on them. The least they could do is explain situations to him but they rather hide them from him.

He keeps his pain inside not wanting to trouble them. He plans on asking for an explanation later when all this is done, even when he doesn't know when it will be.

Abigail hits Irye at the rib and she falls on one knee. Blake becomes worried. His heart almost beating out from his chest at every hit.

Irye returns a punch and tries to catch Abigail who slyly tries to pass by her to the family.

With Abigail turning, she throws Irye with a massive amount of strength when Irye is off guard and she hits on a tree and falls.

"No!"Blake yells and runs to her.