Hey guys! Sooo, I decided to rewrite Echoes From The Past, mainly because I just decided to read it, and to me, I feel it was kind of all over the place and I didn't really have a secure plot, and I had a bit of writer's block on the old story. So I thought, why not make a Remake? :) Hope it terrifies and suspenses the heck out of y'all like the old one! :)

Echoes From The Past

Prologue: The Final Visit

Cashmere's POV

I hurried off to the Hermitage, to see my cousin, Aunt, and Uncle one final time before break started. It was a brisk early summer evening. The sun was shining through the trees, reflecting green off of the leaves, and making the grass look greener than usual.

I came to the Red Trail when I saw Aelita riding her bike towards the Hermitage.

"Hey Aelita!" I yelled at her, waving my arm in the air to get her attention as I ran towards her.

"Hi Cashmere! How are you?" She said, as she stopped her bike.

"I'm pretty good." I said, as I stopped to catch my breath near her. "What about you?"

My blonde hair with pink highlights blew in my face, blinding my sight of Aelita fully. Ugh, I hate having long hair sometimes.

"I've been good," Aelita said. "But I'm a bit worried about my daddy."

"Why?" I asked. I slid dirt around with my shoes, making patterns in the sand.

"I don't know, he's been acting funny lately, and it's weird." She said. She looked up at the sky, at the bright sunlight, as if to catch a twinge of warmth.

"Well, I'm sure he's just been busy, I mean he is a school teacher." I said.

"Yeah, well come on, let's go." She said, as she got back on her bike. The Hermitage wasn't too far ahead.

I ran alongside Aelita while she rode her bike into the fenced in property.

"Are you thirsty?" Aelita asked, as she got off her bike.

"Heck yes!" I said, as I continued catching my breath.

She walked up the house steps, as she motioned me to come inside. "Come in and you can get something to drink." She said, smiling.

"I'm coming." I said, as I climbed up the steps.

I walked in to see Uncle Franz playing the piano, I looked around, but I didn't see Aunt Anthea.

"Hi Uncle Franz!" I said, happily as I waved.

He looked at me through his transition lensed glasses. "Hi, Cashmere, sweetheart. How are you?" He asked.

"I'm good, where's Aunt Anthea?" I asked. He got a scared look on his face.

"Well… Let's just say she… went on a vacation." He said, jittery and skittish like.

I was confused, but I didn't think too much of it. Aelita then stepped out of the kitchen with my glass of water, and handed it to me. Realizing how thirsty I was, I drank it quickly.

"Daddy, I'm going up to my room." She said, as she headed upstairs.

I looked around. The house looked the same, even if I hadn't visited in a while.

I checked my phone. It was getting kind of late, so I decided to head out.

"Well, Uncle Franz, I'm going to get back to school." I said, as I walked over to hug him.

"Alright sweetheart, I'll see you in a few days." He said as he hugged me back.

"Okay." I said. "Tell Aelita bye for me."

"Sure will."

I walked out the house, and closed the door. The sunshine was now blocked by malicious looking clouds that looked like they could spill out rain any minute.

I heard thunder in the distance.

I quickly ran to the academy and went back up to my dorm. I'm a little of edgy of my dorm, because it's dorm 666. I've always been deathly afraid of that number, especially because my family is really religious.

I unlocked my dorm and walked in, and kicked off my shoes. I looked at the books I left sitting on my bed, and remembered I had an assignment due in math when we came back from break. Not once have I even picked up a pen this week we've been off.

I looked outside, it had gotten awful dark fast, faster than it did at night. Huge lightning bolts started shooting out of the sky, with big heavy claps of thunder afterwards.

I was a bit weary of it, because the lightning was awful close, but I just ignored it.

I decided to get started on the droning math assignment I had due, so I grabbed my math book and some notebook paper and got to work. I dug in my back pack for a pencil or pen.

I turned on my desk light and started working on problem number one, which was a basic math equation.

I started to write down the problem, when suddenly, my light started flickering. Then my power went out.

"What the-"

That's when it came in and hit me. I let out a big cry.

I big bolt of malicious bright, hot lightning struck my body, sending me into a deep midst of blackness and bodily shock. It was a crushing, burning feeling that my body just couldn't take. My head started getting lighter, My eyes started getting heavier, it was so hard for me to see what was happening. I then realized what was happening.

It got dark & cold. I could feel myself fading away from the physical world.

I took one final breath.