CHAPTER 1 THE BEGINNING

There is a girl sleeping in her room and she's so deeply in sleep, but the alarm clock starts ringing loudly causing her to

fall of her bed and wakes her up.

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Short while she's dressed up in her school uniform and enters the kitchen, meeting her older brother there and exchange greetings with him

[???] Good morning Leeyen!

Her older brother Leeyen, notices her voice and raises up his head finding her standing in front of the kitchen door and nods

his head, which means he's answering her good morning. The girl walks closer to him and sees him making breakfast

[Leeyen] Atha, help me with the milk in the drawer

[Atha] okay!

She brings the milk immediately and he takes it from her

[Atha] what are you making anyway?

She looks inside and sees him making two bowls of cereal and she turns away, but notices that something's wrong and turns back around immediately and sees a bunch of mushrooms in the bowls, and Leeyen pours the milk into the two bowls and gives Atha one and throws a spoon in both the bowls. Atha sits down but looking at the food with a very confused face.

[Leeyen] uhh? are you okay?

[Atha] ....{keeping quite and looking at the food as if he gave her horse dung} {talking softly} what is this?

[Leeyen] what do you mean? its mushroom cereal

[Atha] Yeah, but why?!

[Leeyen] well first of all, Why not? like, its healthy so...eat it! besides, its good for you

[Atha] No! i want sugary cereal not healthy cereal! ugghh!!! what did i do to deserve this, brother? what! ahh! pleeeaaasssee

[Leeyen] fine geeze i'm go..

BEEB BEEB

[Leeyen] well, looks like your bus is...

[Atha] but I didn't even eat anything!!!

BEEB BEEB

[Leeyen] no worries, you'll eat in school.

[Atha] {sigh} that will take forever! never mind. Bye though, see you at home! and no more mushroom cereal please!! byeeeeee

Atha enters the bus and waves at leeyen as the bus leaves the house.

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Short while they reach the school and Atha sees a butterfly and gets distracted by it and starts chasing like a five year old girl. Since she's to distracted by the butterfly she accidentally hits one of her classmates.

[Atha] huh ouch! {raising up her head slowly} /{gasp!} its leeken!\ (leeken stares at me as i look at him, or he probably doesn't even notice me considering the fact he's still rubbing his head because of the fall, and kinda has bad eyesight, and not even looking my direction. Leeken, your beautiful dark emerald colored eyes. your perfectly bright brown spiky colored hair. your pink lips that looks as if its red. your fair but brown skin color. always smells fresh compared to the other boys. so clean, so well mannered and with so much respect. i suddenly feel uncomfortable, as if i've been here for hours, but it hasn't been more then 3 seconds, finally Leeken notices me)

[Leeken] oh! atha!

[Atha] (suddenly i blush, and i get up immediately as if a five year old boy threw a frog on my face. then leeken gets up. but he looks at me, and i panic, thinking there's something on my face, then i realize my face was red.)

[Leeken] you got some dirt on your face.

[Atha] /phew! that means my face isn't red\ (while relief floods me, unknowingly Leeken starts walking towards me and i find myself walking backwards slowly,) /why is he walking towards me? maybe he wants to .... oh yeah the dirt!\ i trip which causes the dirt to bounce off my face. Leeken does a friendly chuckle that makes me want to smile, but i can't. cause that would be weird. Leeken offers me a hand and i want to take it slowly and save this moment, sadly i can't, just when i was slowly about to take his hand, the schools bell rings and Leeken runs to our class as if jesus was giving free blessings there)

[Atha] /so much for "well mannered"\ (i get up quickly running to our class as well)

Atha is in the class, but everywhere is loud and noisy

[teacher] today we're going to be changing sits.

the hole class goes silent

[teacher] okay, well, the people at the back will come to the front and the people in the front will come to the back. i've been getting alot of complains from there

[Leeken] um... ma'am i have bad eyesight i can't go to the back

[Teacher] well sorry, but the people staying at the back are basically blind so please sacrifice yourself for them, besides your eyesight is spectacular! How could you say that?

they change the sits but Atha's not that happy about it, she puts her elbow on the desk while resting her side of cheek on her hand

[Atha] /i can't believe i went to the back, i don't like the back seat\ (i turn to my right finding myself seating next to leeken and his eyes meet mine, but i turn away in time) /i think i'm starting to like it here\

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Short while the teacher"s in, and the students have already copied half of the note.

[Atha] |just as i'm about to write a letter, i start hearing familiar voices but can't picture where there coming from, the voices are scary and i stop writing and start looking left and right, back and forth, but i find nothing, the voices sound like an evil scary cartoon villain that sounds like a bad influence. it keeps on repeating the same words)

[scary voice] destroy that note. You don't want it, its just disturbing your life, throw it out the window. you don't want it

Atha starts covering her ears desperately hoping she won't hear it again but she still can. then leeken looks at her worriedly, just when he's about to talk, a loud voice saying the same thing only she can hear, it hits her, causing her to fall down and slam her head real hard on the floor. Atha is closing her ear with her left arm, and hitting her head with her right, hoping the noise will stop, but it doesn't. and Atha passes out, waking up in the schools hospital. opening her eyes slowly,

[Atha] huh? uh.. why am i here?

She has a quick flashback about what just happened, and she feels chills crawls up her spine, and makes a small gasp when the nurse comes in. the nurse sits on the bed.

[Nurse] how are you my dear?

a voice starts talking to the nurse but Atha can hear it

[voice] Kill her,

[Atha] (immediately i hear the voice, i get scared)

[voice] Kill her, they don't even pay you right! You deserve so much more then this demeaning job! kill her!! KILL HER

[Atha] ( the woman's coming close to me and i freak. i fall off my bed and get back up) No please i didn't do anything!! DON'T LISTEN TO HIM!!

[Nurse] what are you talking about? maybe you need more rest, come and lie down

[voice] when she lies down, KILL HER!!!!

[Atha] NO!!! i mean... do.. don't worry, i... i'm..fi... fine.... i'll... he... head back to class hehe. (as i'm about to run, the schools bell rings) /must be break time\ i'll be going now, bye

Atha leaves the room in speed, the nurse keeps looking at the door, and her eyes turn red for a second and turns back to normal, the nurse touches her eyes .

[Atha] /i'm still running even after leaving the hospital, i hear the voices trying to influence kids to do wrong. the voices won't leave me alone, i'm not sure anymore if there talking to me or them. although, the voices don't refer to me, but if there not talking to me why am i hearing there voices\ (i'm deep in thought and i accidentally run into leeken. but instead of making us both hit the ground, i bounce off his chest causing me to almost fall down, but he catches me and i stand straight, as leeken stares at me worriedly,)

[Leeken] what happened to you back there?

[Atha] back....? ( i remember everything) oh yeah, um... well, i'm not pretty sure,

[Leeken] hey let's go over there and sit down, you must still be a bit dizzy right?

[Atha] /i'm flattered by leeken's concern for me\ (but as we walk over to a bench, we get closer to people and i'm hearing the voices again) /which remaineds me, i didn't hear the voices from leeken\

they reach the bench and sit

[Leeken] So.. what's wrong?

[Atha] (as i'm about to speak, i'm hearing the voices again from the people next to us, and i close my ears and leeken tries to remove my hands but i keep it desperately closed, and i get up and run away from that area, expecting leeken to chase after me like they do in Kdrama, but instead he talks to his friends with a worried face. I hide in a small cupboard in the cafeteria) /its quiet, remainds me of when i and my brother would play hide and seek, although its almost hard to breathe\ (I warm, and hear footsteps, their getting closer, but i don't hear any voices, so i feel comfort, then the cupboards door opens and i find leeken shoving his head in the cupboard, and i flinch and hit my head in the cupboard) ouch!

[Leeken] hah, come out of there, what are you doing?

[Atha] How did you know i was here? (i come out of the cupboard and stand, i and leeken walk to wherever he's taking me to)

[Leeken]come on you've been hiding there since kindergarten.

[Atha] And you always find me. But why?

[Leeken] hm?

[Atha] I mean since kindergarten, you've always been looking for me whenever i run, you always look for me...why?

Leeken stops walking and turns to Atha as their eyes lock, their silent and only staring into each others eyes, then Leeken breaks the silence and changes the topic.

[Leeken] hey what's going on?

[Atha] oh, um...What do you mean?

[Leeken] Earlier, you know,

[Atha] oh....okay....well i'm not sure.

[Leeken] don't worry, tell me later. mrs Hina calls you.

[Atha] What? what did i do?

[Leeken] don't be worried, your not in trouble.

[Atha] really? okay.

Atha goes to mrs Hina's office, then she offers Atha a seat, then she sits down

[mrs Hina] so, how are you doing?

[Atha] oh! well i'm fine thank you,

[mrs Hina] then why were y-

the school bell rings, and Atha tries to run after saying bye to avoid the question, but mrs Hina stops her and points the chair for her to sit down, then Atha sits down and they talk

Short while, Atha's in her class

[Atha] /i'm finally in class\ (just as i sit, i start hearing the voices again, but it gets louder and louder, but i just can't stand it anymore, its coming from many people in this class, its getting hard to breathe, the noises are everywhere, i feel suffocated. I go close to the teacher. |at least i don't here anything from her|

[Atha] ma'am please excuse, i need to go to the bathroom (she gives a nod, but before i could step outside she stops me, and i take a few steps back until i stand in front of her)

[mrs Inatago] wasn't it break time a few minutes ago? hmm? wasn't it, class?

[all the students] YESS

[mrs Inatago] Go to your seat

[Atha] (i embarrassingly go back to my seat, hearing the entire class chuckle except Leeken) /thank goodness. Seems like its only leeken that has a bit of sympathy here\

short while Atha seems okay but the voices start coming again, and she starts covering her ears, and the teacher notices

[mrs Inatago] Atha we need your attention i'm explaining something, this is not the time to play games Atha!!!

Atha still continues to shield her ears, and mrs Inatago goes closer to Atha in anger just as she's about to whack her with her cain Atha releases a loud scream causing the teacher to fall out of shock, while all the students cover there ears, after the scream Atha immediately falls but Leeken catches her in time, then the schools bell rings and everyone walks slowly to there clubs, looking at Atha, but Leeken continues to hold Atha

[mrs Inatago] Uh.... um... eh... um... {Clear throat} Leeken dear, um you know her house right?

[Leeken] what? oh, yeah

[mrs Inatago] Good, take her home for me, i.. i'll call her brother

Leeken carries Atha and puts her in his car putting her on the left side then he gets in it and starts driving

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Short while, their almost there but Leeken gives a few seconds to look at Atha, when Atha is about to regain her consciousness, she's awake but her eyes are still closed. When she's about to open her eyes, Leeken starts talking so she keeps it closed to hear what he's saying.

[Leeken] Atha, your acting really weird, i hope your okay, {staring at Atha for a few seconds} himp, she's cute,

Atha hears everything and wants to smile but doesn't. then their there and Atha decides to open her eyes then Leeken opens the car door and wants to wake Atha but sees that she's already awake, then makes an unnoticeable smirk, then Atha gets out of the car, and looks as if she's about to fall, then Leeken helps her and puts her arm on his neck. Then Leeken's about to knock, but before he could, Leeyen opens the door and drags her then gives her a brief hug, then Leeken bows his head a little and Leeyen does the same.

[Leeyen] Thank you, your the one who brought my, sister right, haha, thank you

[Leeken] ah.. No is just that, the teacher said i should take her home, So there's no need to thank me

[Leeyen] Thank you, for bringing her back, safe and sound,

[Leeken] Thank you, sir, or should i say, your welcome, uh i have to go now, bye sir,

Leeken enters his car and leaves, then leeyen notices Atha sleeping on his chest while he was holding her waist,

[Leeyen] she must be tired

he puts her to bed, then he goes to his room, and lies on his bed to think.

[Leeyen] {remembering what mrs Hina said after Atha left the office}

He remembers when Mrs. Hina called Leeyen

[Mrs Hina] yes, she said something about hearing voices and peoples sins.

[Leeyen] what do you mean? i..is there more to it? like more information?

[Mrs Hina] yes, she said it sounded like bad influence, but i don't understand. Hello? helloo?

[Leeyen] .... Okay thank you, ca.... call you back later, bye

FLASHBACK ENDS

[Leeyen] {remembering 12 years ago]

FLASHBACK TO TWELVE YEARS AGO

Atha, there parents and Leeyen are in a church

[Mother] yes she said she had this ability to hear bad influence... honey, talk to the pastor for me, mm, tell him what you hear

[Atha] .... well sir, in school, whenever i'm near people, well some, people, i hear scary voices. Its not always the same thing they say every time and for everybody. Its different words for one person and everybody.

[Pastor] What do they say?

[Atha] ..... Bad things.

[Pastor] Do... Do you mind listing them for me?

[Atha] well sir.... they say alot of things.. for different people, but i'll list as much as i can sir.. "you see that girl, she's pretty close to the well, just push her" {Gasp} i'm very scared just by remembering it.... and others, i'm very sorry,i can't list any more.

as she sobs her mother kneels on the floor to hold and comfort her while Atha rest her head on her chest as she stands.

[Mother] Please what can you do to stop this?

[Pastor] .....hmmmmmmmm..... Nothing.... i'm sorry.

[Mother] .... WHAT ARE YOU SAYING??!!!!

she stops holding Atha and stands up, then Leeyen goes to hold Atha's hand

[Pastor] Ma'am don't worry i know what to do.

[Mother] please, what? please what can you do?

[Pastor] the only thing i can do is to pause it, i'll only stop it for a while, then it will continue again, and can never be stopped

[Mother] whys that? isn't it a curse?

[Pastor] because its her gift not a curse. And it can only be stopped once.

[Mother] {Gasp} a.....a gift? but how can that be? this is punishment and suffering!! this can't be a gift!!!

[Father] Grace, that's enough, you said you could stop it for a while right? and why can it be stopped even once? or at all?

[Pastor] yes exactly. And because each gift in this world can be stopped.

[Grace] But what kind of gift is this? how can it help? And these voices.... what are they?

Folds his arms and lowers his head with dark shadows under his eyes.

[Pastor] ..... Demons.

[Father Mother Atha Leeyen] {Gasp}

Atha feels scared and worried and squeezing her skirt and Leeyen's hand.

[Grace] Demons!?! but..but how? we are children of God *by Gods grace* how?!!

Grace falls on her knees, squeezes her skirt, lowers her head, and starts shedding tears.

[Grace] How? {sniff} what kind of gift is this? among all the gifts in this damn world... {Loud sob} its this.

[Atha] mom.. don't cry..

Grace gets up, wipes the tears of her face, then turns to Atha.

[Atha] he said he can stop it for a while... so... it means it'll come back... when i'm old enough to handle it.. what i'm saying is.. God has a reason for this... he gave this to me for a reason... it might be helpful in the future when i get it back... so please don't worry.... and stop crying... we don't know what the future awaits, so let's be calm, and let the pastor do what he can do...

they all turn to the pastor

[Father] so what can you do? how long can you stop it?

[Pastor] I can only stop it for 12 years,

[Grace Father] 12 years?

[Pastor] mhm.

[Grace] that might be enough... but how can you stop it?

[Pastor] it would be to complicated to explain. and i have connections with God, and i am a pastor, so, i'll just say "i will do it with the Holy spirit" and i will pray, God will understand

[Grace] thank you, Rick, your the only pastor i know, and our friend.

[Pastor Rick] I just do what i can do.

Rick kneels down and touches her head and prays for a few minutes, then he's done

[Pastor Rick] she will not hear them again for 12 years, but after 12 years she will hear them again, and can never be stopped.

[Grace] thank you so much, God bless you

[Pastor Rick] thank you, and have a nice day

[Grace] you too, bye. let's go.

[Father] i'm happy your church and house is the most nearby place, so if we're in trouble, you'll notice. well thank you, bye

FLASHBACK ENDS

Leeyen is lying on his bed, then he stands up and goes to Atha's room and sees her sitting down on her bed leaning her back on the wall with her legs curved close to her chest and her arms curled around them as she shines her eyes

[Atha] {Sob} Brother.....is...is it back?

[Leeyen] {quiet gasp}

Leeyen makes a fist and tightens it

[Atha] {whispering} Leeyen i'm scared. The voices.... the voices are ba-

[Leeyen] I know!!... {sigh} i know

Atha gets up from her bed and goes to hug Leeyen. he holds her back with his right hand while stroking her hair with his left

[Leeyen] {with a soft voice} Don't worry.. everything will be okay, by Gods grace, we'll meet pastor Rick tomorrow okay.

[Atha] okay. Its been a long time since we've seen him.

[Leeyen] yeah that's right.

END Of CHAPTER ONE (1)