chapter8

Cheif and Genji were both staring at me through the silence. The expressions on their faces bore through my head making a migrane occur. I pressed my fingers against my temples and closed my eyes.
"Octivian?" Eloise asked. When I opened my eyes shes was looking at me worriedly. "Whats wrong?"
"Nothing, Nothing.." I reassured her. "Got a little headache thats all."
I asaw Cody write something down on his clipboard he had taken out of his backpack. I wouldve told him it wasnt the supernatural activity that was causing it, but the two people who were we not even 2 feet away from me.
"So lets begin," Cody stated, breaking the short silence.Everyones eyes were on me, whether confused or just focused.
"So give me the gist of it." Cody said. Looking at my from behind is square rimmed glasses. "whats been going on?"
My eyes circled the room. I looked a Eloise who was staring at me waiting for an answer. Suddenly I felt a chill go down my spine, and then there was something on the wall behind her. I squinted to see it.
"DONT SPILL THE SECRE-" was all I read before Eloise turned around and it was gone. She looked at me. "Octivian?" I shook my head violently.
"Oh, sorry." I didnt know what to say. Should I heed the warning on the wall? Should I tell them? It would be for my own saftey...
"Ive seen some supernatural sightings." I told Cody, I explained further what happened.
"Ever since I bought that painting, things have been going wrong." I concluded. Eloise let out a sigh.
"You should get rid of that painting, Octivian." She told me.
"It wont matter." Cody pointed out. "This house is still going to stay haunted."
After this Cody pretty much started walking around the house, and he told me he sensed alot of supernatural energies in the house. But I already knew there was something watching us the entire time. When we got back downstairs there was another chill down my spine, and there was something else written on the wall, this time in blood.
"YOU MUST PAY." The three words stuck in my head. Eloise screamed. She was staring at the message, then everyone else looked. I turned to Cody.
"There you go." I said.
Cody walked over to the wall. He examined it. Then he swabbed the blood with a Q-tip and put it in a container. "Ill take this to Booker and Copper, they might be able to identify whos blood it is. Cody nodded, to Eloise, then looked at me.
"Thanks for letting me into your house to look around." He pointed to the wall.
"Dont wash that off just yet, its crucial to the investigation." I nodded. In the condition my house was in now, I wouldnt care if it stained my walls. With a wave goodbye Cody was gone, but Eloise remained at the doorstep.
"Come with me." She asked. I turned back to look at Genji and Cheif who were petrified in their seats, and just turned to follow her.
When we were at least 6 feet from the house, she stopped to look at me.
"Octivian..." she looked me in the eyes, it was drizzling, and we both had our hoods on. I looked up to meet her gaze. Another worried expression walked across her face.
"Im worried about you." she looked down at her shoes. "This is dangerous. You should move into a new house here, I mean, I dont want you getting hurt!" She looked up at me again. "I mean... what happened with the knife and all, and the dresser..."
"Calm down." I told her. She kept going.
"and I just, the blood on the wall-" she was crying now, but it didnt look like it in the now sudden downpour that was around us. I put my hand over her mouth to stop her.
"Calm down." I repeated. She looked at me then threw her arms around me and sobbed. I didnt know what else to do, but hug her back in the pouring rain.