The dead woman.

Mika took Ezekiel to a bar. he figured that Ezekiel needed a much-needed break after his conversation with Eli, judging from how Ezekiel looked it’s clear that there was something going on in his mind. Ezekiel had at least two cigarettes and hasn’t even touched his Russian vodka. Mika was more inclined and open-minded to listen to Ezekiel because no matter how lonely he sounds somehow whatever he says somehow makes a lot of sense.

Mika knew Ezekiel back when they were little kids. Mika was barely 8 years old and only hanged out with Rachel because she was the only friend in the neighborhood that he had but there was one thing about him and Rachel that they had similar ideas on and that’s usually taste in boys. Ezekiel was the most cutest guy in the neighborhood. He was at least eight years old, but he was the biggest heartthrob the whole goddamn neighborhood. when Mika was eight years old, he was dealing with a bogeyman in his room and this bogeyman was somebody who wore a soldier uniform and is covered in blood and lots of it. Thousands of tiny holes in his body and he looks like he lost an arm in the process. He kept walking towards Mika, chasing him down around the house in the dead of night and every time Mika tried to report it to his family. They just chalk it up to him, imagining things and hinting too old to have nightmares. He was often laughed at for it. it took one day of falling asleep in class for Ezekiel to notice. this only made Rachel jealous but then again Rachel was always jealous of Mika and Ezekiel’s friendship.

Anyways, Ezekiel asked Mika, “ what makes you tired at school? I mean yeah, school is boring but you never get bored of it. I know you too well you love it here.” Mika was hesitant, but did explain the bogeyman that he sees every night and Ezekiel would reply simply. “how about I sleep over at your place one of these nights just so I can see it myself.” at first Mika didn’t know what to say. He was worried that Ezekiel was gonna get himself into trouble or worse. It might make the bogeyman mad, but Ezekiel reassured Mika manage to convince him to let him sleep over at Mika’s house.

Ezekiel slept over at Mika‘s house that night after playing video games the two of them went to sleep in sleeping bags, Mika wakes up in the middle of the night around maybe 12 o’clock in the night and sees the same figure once again covered in holes bleeding walking over into Mika‘s room and Ezekiel sees this person, walking towards Mika, groaning in pain and horrible agony, Ezekiel quickly ran into the bathroom, leaving Mika alone with this thing. Mika was frozen. He didn’t know what to do, but then Ezekiel came back out of the bathroom with a first aid kit and hand it over to ghostly figure and make up watches as this ghostly figure reveals to be a young man clearly a soldier covered in dirt and dust. He is strapped to the nine with knives and guns and it’s clear that he was just as sad and scared as Mika was. Ezekiel ask the man. “who are you and why the hell are you here? You know he can’t help you he’s just a kid.” an Ezekiel would soon get a whisper from the man before the man fully disappears. The next morning Ezekiel was eating breakfast with Mika, and he went along, grabbed a certain book from a bookcase and showed it to Mika explaining that the guy that was the so-called bogeyman wasn’t the bogeyman. It was Mika’s grandpa. Mika looked through the book and found out a lot of information about his grandpa and that he was a scientist working on the field before he got drafted. He wanted to be a medical assistant or at least a doctor in the future, but he never got to live that long to see it through. He was killed by a mine during the start of the war after he got shot at several times and he knew he was going to die. He left behind a son and daughter. Mika’s father and Mika’s auntie Raven. The only reason why this bogeyman showed up was because he wanted to see his grandson. Mika didn’t stop seeing the bogeyman, but at least now he’s glad the bogeyman always visits him. He stopped seeing the bogeyman as soon as he turned 11 and when that happened, he never saw him again, but he knows he was still there always checking in on him. That’s why he’s not totally inclined to believe that all of Ezekiel’s vision was truly manifestations or delusions. Yes, he doesn’t believe in ghost, but he believes in Ezekiel and he knows whatever Ezekiel sees has to be based on some reality.

so of course he’s gonna wait an hour and hear out exactly what is going on with Ezekiel because now he looks tense as hell like he saw a ghost. Something a lot more scarier than a ghost. Finally Ezekiel talked a little bit exactly on what he saw. “ I saw a lady on the road that night.” Mika prepared himself for what he’s about to hear. Worst case scenario Ezekiel either saw something and crashed the car or worse. He thought he saw something and crashed the car. But it didn’t occur to him what he is about to hear is going to be a lot different than what he expected. In fact, it’s going to be a lot darker than that.

“ she was bloody, she was covered in holes, do you remember the soldier that you saw in your dream that turned out to be your grandpa?.. I’m hoping you remember that, right…” Ezekiel started sound like he was horrified that he was going to say, Mika hesitantly nodded in agreement, but he was just as scared as Ezekiel as much as he tried to hide it, Ezekiel would reveal “ It was not done by bullet holes… I think I did. It was a screwdriver….” Mika’s expression started to shift as Ezekiel continued. “ I don’t know why, but I remember doing that to that woman stabbing her with a screwdriver her.. and that night of the accident, I saw her there covered in holes and bloody.. She was trying to ask me something but I was driving and I didn’t want to hit her so I swerved and I swerve too much next thing you know I hear her again standing right next to me in the car through the window, she asked me why I killed her…. How what am I saying?.. finally losing it?.. I’m just losing it am I?… Mika say something I don’t know what’s going on..” Mika was horrified at where he was hearing honestly just in shock. Ezekiel was admitting that he killed somebody with a screwdriver not just killed brutally tortured somebody with a screwdriver because the screw screwdriver is not an instant kill. That’s something you do overtime and the fact that he says she had a bunch of holes indicate that he tortured her and he saw her on that road and he doesn’t know or remember why but then again when he survived an accident, he didn’t remember who the fuck he was in the first place. Either way all of this was just too much to handle and damn right disgusting to find out. But Mika thought about it maybe there’s something about this. Maybe there’s some way of finding out if whatever Ezekiel was saying was true.