That night, Jess was creeped out. She didn't want to sleep at all, not on her own.
"Ill just be next door." Nick reassured. "I promise."
"But I don't want to." Jess cried. "You saw what happened!"
"Don't worry!" Nick said. "We have called a priest to come and try and make the 'entity' disappear."
"I know but i'm still scared!" Jess said. "You saw what it did to me last night."
"But it used up a lot of energy earlier." Nick said. "You'll be fine."
"Well if i'm not, then don't blame me." Jess sighed, wiping her eyes.
"Don't worry, yeah?" Nick said. "If I hear anything, Ill be right in."
"Okay." Jess said, and Nick kissed her forehead as Zoe poked her head around the corner.
"Night Jess." Zoe said.
"Night." Jess replied, and she flicked off the light and they both left.
In the middle of the night, she heard her door slam shut, and she sat upright in bed.
"Oh my god." She said to herself, before running out of bed and trying to open her door. It wouldn't open. "DAD! DAD!" She screamed, cried and kicked at the door. No one came to her rescue.
The camera caught her stop hitting the door and screaming, but turned to face the wall with a blank expression. Yet again, she stood there for exactly three hours, and stared into space.
But what came next was a mystery. It looked like someone grabbed her by the throat in pushed her down with a big force. Her feet never left the floor, but fell to the ground, stiff. She remained on the floor for the rest of the night.
...
Nick woke up the next morning, and the first thing he did was wake Zoe.
"Zoe." He shook her.
"Hmm." Zoe said, coming to her senses. "What?"
"Jess didn't do anything in the night." He said. "Isn't that weird?"
"No." Zoe said. "No. She finally had a good night sleep. Thats good."
"She might not have." He said, throwing himself out of bed. Zoe did the same and followed him into Jess's room.
He walking in and saw her laying on the floor.
"Jess?" He said, rushing over. "Jess!"
"Oh my god." Zoe said, kneeling next to her and shaking her. She sighed in relief when Jess began to wake up.
"What?" Jess said, noticing her throat hurt. "Why am I on the floor?" Her voice was croaky. Nick looked at Zoe who had tears in her eyes.
"I don't know." Nick said, helping her up. Jess was a bit dizzy. Nick helped her stand up and she was a bit light headed.
"Woah." She said, swaying onto her mother who propped her upright.
"Jess?" She looked at her with concern. Jess put her hand to the back of her head. "Are you okay?"
"I," She began. "My head hurts." She rubbed it. "And my throat." Nick looked at the back of her head and she did have a fairly big bump there.
"You hit the deck hard somehow." Nick said. "You said your throat hurt?"
"Yes." Jess said, tilting her head back. There was a bit of bruising there, and Zoe could almost see finger marks. Jess swayed again, and Nick caught her.
"Lets get downstairs." Zoe said, looking at Jess who looked a bit distant. "Get some tea."
"Sure..." Jess said, taking shakey steps downstairs to the living room. She layed down and her mother bought her tea while Nick looked through the bedroom camera footage.
"Oh God..." Nick said, whilst watching it. He winced when he saw her hit the floor.
"What?" Zoe said, leaving Jess in the living room to see what he was talking about.
"Look..." Nick said, shocked. He showed her the video, of her kicking and screaming, and then watched her walk back and stand there for three hours. Then, Zoe couldn't look when you could see something hit her neck and push her to the floor.
"Oh my god." Zoe said, tears in her eyes.
"What?" Jess said behind her, making her jump.
"Jess! You should be laying down.
"I know. Just show me the video and then I will lay down." Jess said, and Nick played it for her.
Jess watched the video but couldn't react how she normally would. She rubbed her head where a headache was forming, and when she saw what happened, she winced again. This didn't go unnoticed by Zoe.
"Lets get you layed down again." Zoe said, and Jess shook her head.
"Im going to be sick." She said, making a run for the toilet, only just making it. Zoe held her hair back for her.
"Maybe I should get you checked out."
"Im fine." Jess said, looking at her mother, and she paled rapidly.
"Jess?" Zoe said, looking at her worriedly. Zoe gasped as Jess fell towards her, and Zoe couldn't hold her up. "NICK!"
"What?!" He rushed in, and saw Zoe putting a very pale Jess on the floor.
"She just passed out." Zoe said, getting the hair out of Jess's face. Her forehead was covered in beads of sweat.
"Shall I call an ambulance?" Nick asked, and Zoe nodded. She put Jess's feet in her lap to try and get the blood flow up to her head.
Jeff and Dixie walked through the door to the house, rushing as they knew the patient to be was a friend of theirs.
"What exactly happened?" Dixie asked, assessing Jess's pupils.
"Last night she got a bumb on the head and had lack of sleep." Zoe explained worriedly. "Ill explain more in the ambulance.
"Ill carry her in." Nick said, picking Jess up and carrying her outside before putting her on the bed.
"There is only room for one im afraid." Jeff said. "One will have to drive."
"Ill drive." Nick volunteered. "Look after her."
"We will." Dixie said as the back of the ambulance shut.
"Want to explain?" Dixie asked Zoe while Jeff drove.
"Well, they both seem convinced the house is haunted." Zoe said. Dixie wasn't expecting that response.
"Is it?" She asked.
"Im not sure." She said. "They are convinced. The evidence doesn't lie either."
"So what happened?"
"Well, I thought the house was perfect, but then things started happening that I couldn't explain. We had a house warming party - you were both invited but we couldn't find you and you obviously didn't get the message - and Jess and Britney went upstairs. They found a ouija board."
"Ouija board?"
"Yeah." Zoe said.
"Whats that?" She asked.
"A board with numbers and letters used to talk to 'the dead'." Zoe said, and shivered. "Well, we heard a scream, went upstairs, and they were shocked. The glass they had had been thrown across the room and all the drawers and doors were open. I thought it was just them until we saw a video." Zoe explained. "Its hard to explain. Come over later and i'll show you."
"Sure i'll come back after the shift." Dixie said. "What has this got to do with Jess though?"
"Well, we went into her room in the morning to find her lying on the floor with a bump on her head and bruises on her neck." Zoe said, begining to cry. "We played back the camera, and she got out of bed after her door slammed shut, kicked and screamed to try and get out, then just walked backwards, stood in the same spot for EXACTLY three hours and then, it looked like she got hit in the throat and she hit the floor. She had been laying there since we found her."
"Woah." Dixie said, and was about to asked a question but was distracted by Jess who was waking up.
"Jess?" Dixie said. "You're alright darling. We are nearly at the hospital."
"Hospital?!" She said, sitting up. "Why?!"
"Calm down Jess." Zoe said.
"What happened?!" She said, worried.
"You passed out." Zoe said.
"We are pretty sure that you have concussion." Dixie said softly.
"What?" Jess replied. "How?"
"You don't remember?" Zoe asked.
"I remember waking up and banging on the door." Jess said. "Then I can't remember anything else."
"I'll have to show you when you get home." Zoe said, and pushed Jess back down onto the bed.
"Im going to be sick." Jess said, and Dixie got her a bowl and held her hair back.
"You're going to be fine." Dixie said, and Jess looked at Zoe who had tears in her eyes.
"One minute guys." Jeff shouted from behind the wheel.
"Okay Jeff!" Dixie replied, and put the bowl down after giving Jess a tissue. Theyarrived at the hospital a few seconds later.
(Just like to say, don't use a ouija board at home! They really can be dangerous...)
