Chapter 12
"What...I mean who"
"Shhhh"
The lights started flickering and then they went off. I looked around to see that there was the woman I saw from yesterday coming from out of my mirror. She was wearing all black dress and there was black veil covering her face. She turned her tear stained pale white face towards me. I held Dean's arm refusing to let go. She seemed to be floating above the ground. She crossed the bed and went near the wall behind Dean. Turned towards us and started coming close to me and Dean. As she came close to me I heard a loud bang from a gun.
"Aaaahhhhh..."
"I'm sorry" Dean said putting back the gun he just fired.
"Are you okay?"
"No I'm not. What the hell Dean, a little warning would have helped. Why the hell did you fire a gun anyways? She's a ghost"
"Hey it worked didn't it. And a little thank you would have been enough." He said rising and turning away from me.
"Yeah, thanks I guess. Oh my God! What are we gonna say when someone comes over. You know asking about the bang."
"Nothing. It was from outside" Dean said matter of factly.
He was now touching the same wall that the ghost of Annabel Milford was touching. "Uh...what are you doing?"
"She was here. I think she wanted to show us something"
"Oh really" I said not believing him. "Well I'm hungry and I'm going downstairs to get some dinner" I said rising from my bed. As I got up I realized I couldn't stand properly and I ended up falling on Dean. "Owww...I'm sorry"
"Don't be" Dean said looking down. A small hatch had opened up at the bottom of the wall. We both bent down to see it. It was a small niche.
"Okay I'm gonna pry it open and then you put your hand in there and see if there's anything inside"
"Cool"
Dean lifted the niche by wedging a knife and I put my hand in to retrieve whatever was on the inside. My hands could feel something like a book.
"It's a book or something" I said dusting the thing. "Oh my, it's her diary. It's Annabel's diary"
"Wow great work guys" Sam said looking at the diary. We had come back into the boys' room with the diary.
"Oh thank the concussion queen here" Dean said taking swig of his beer.
"Ha-ha, Very funny Dean! Well it's an interesting read. She is a regular girl of 1800s. All prim and proper, respectable and God-fearing who going around in the right circles. It's like reading the diary of Rose Dawson from 'Titanic'. But look at the entry of 15th January."
"The date of the first disappearance" Sam said.
"Exactly, she sounds disturbed. She says 'oh God, I thought we had left it all behind England. It seems to have followed us here'...now read two weeks later."
"'Today father told us about another girl who went missing. He looked concerned. He was having sleepless nights. I could hear him walking outside my room. One night I saw him leave the house with a gun in his hand. I ought to find out what was going on'"
"See here we can see that Milford was worried sick about the whole situation. Now read what happens after the third girl's body is found?"
"'Oh God what should I do. Shall I tell father or not? The blood is on our family's hands now. It's on my hands as well. How can it be? We are a perfect family. I was good girl. Things were so much better until I didn't find out the truth. Let's hope he keeps his promise'"
"Okay does this mean it's her? Or is it pointing a finger at someone else in the family?"
"Yeah, well we know that soon Sammy if you figure a way to open the rest of the pages since they are stuck together. We tried to open them but..."
He said pointing to a tear in the page.
"What did you find out?" I asked.
"Well I guess you were right Yamini. Eddie and Lydia were seeing each other during his research on the book. Lydia was angry after she read his manuscript. It was a breach of trust for her according to her. She told him about the secrets of her family and he went and he wrote it in the book. Also she told me that they found an altar in the attic during Eddie's time here. Right above this room"
"Wow that's intense. Do you think he knows something more about this haunting? Remember he told us something about something's being more important than fame. Oh man I don't feel so good"
"Yeah you right. She said he said that it wasn't Annabel but one of the men. She was really angry at that...are u okay? Yamini"
I got up and ran towards the bathroom.
After what felt like an eternity of throwing up I stepped out to find two very concerned faces looking at me.
"Hey boys its okay. I'm alright. Maybe it's just too much stress. Plus Dean, you said it's not a concussion."
"Okay that does it lady. You're staying back here tomorrow and we will send in the doctor."
"Nooo, please I wanna go with you guys. Plus you know my room is haunted"
"Stop arguing Yaminee. You'll be staying here in our room." Dean said.
"Who died and made you the boss here?"
"Yeah real mature Yaminee"
"Yamini Dean's right. You'll be safe here. You need some rest anyways. We'll keep checking on you" Sam said with concern on his face.
"Fine be like that both of you"
I huffed and puffed and finally sleep took over.
When I awoke, I was in a shower. It was cold. I closed the shower and stepped out to find that I was in a locker room. I saw that one lockers was open. I went over to it and pulled out a pair pants and t-shirt. As I finished wearing the clothes I heard someone calling me.
"Yamini...Yamini...Guys where are you"
I stepped out into the hallway. I remembered this place. It was my brother's college. I had come here to leave him with mom and dad. I had come after that a countless number of times after that as well. I saw a girl with a black hoodie pulled over on gym pants and sport shoes. I called out "hey...wait up"
As I went close to her she started running away from me. "Please wait. I just want to know where am I"
I was chasing her and she was sprinting now. Finally she stopped at the end of the hallway. And walked in a room next to her. I followed her as pushed the door to the open. I found her hoodie on the floor. As I bent down to pick it up. I saw her standing in front of me. She was wet and what was the smell. Her mascara was was running down her face. "He's gonna get you, just the same way he got me. Your brother was smart he moved away. Now it's your turn. What will you do? aaaahhhh"
Suddenly she was on fire. "It hurts at firssssst then it's all goodssss" she said in his voice. She changed into him. I fell back and got up and started to run out the door. As I came in the hallway I heard my name again "Yamini...please save me." It was Yash. The voice was coming from the opposite door. I went over there but the door was locked. I cleared the fog on the door screen and saw that Yash was facing me. "Yash open the door." He just smiled at me and said "go"
"No open the door...please"
"It's too late for me...you go"
We suddenly heard the room behind me open up. He looked at me with worry and hopelessness in his eyes.
"Go..go...get out" he yelled at me. I saw white pale hands creeping up from behind him and pulling him back. I heard his familiar laugh again. He was out. "Go...please save yourself" and Yash was pulled into the darkness of the room.
"Nooo" I left the door and started running towards the end of the hallway. I ran towards the doors which led outside. I reached for them and looked back to see the entire place was on fire and he was running towards me. I opened the doors...and there was light…..
I got up and realized I was sweating profusely. I saw that I was alone the boys had probably went out. Then I looked for the watch as outside it was too bright for early morning. It was 12 am. Wow really, I got up to wash my face. My throat was hurting like I was holding back tears. I came out of the bathroom and saw that the door had opened. It was Sam and Dean with breakfast for me. They looked concerned as they placed their stuff on the table.
"Hey you okay?"Dean asked.
It was as if someone they had thrown that hot coffee on my face. I began to cry. No crying won't be the word I was not the word here. I was balling my heart out uncontrollably. They both rushed over, Dean was near my feet holding my hands and Sam was next to me holding me. Both were just holding me. I knew why was I crying so hard. The dream had made me realize that maybe I had abandoned my brother. Left him in a madhouse rather than helping him fight his demons.
"Yamini, it's okay. What happened?" Sam kept saying.
"Shhh...it was just dream" Dean said.
After a few minutes I realized this thought was never gonna leave me alone. Get up and stop being such a girl. Get a hold of
yourself and get up. I wiped my face and straighten myself. Then I released my hands from Dean and myself from Sammy's huge arms.
"After that awkward moment can I have something to eat. I think I get really cranky when I'm hungry" I said smiling again. The boys also gained their composure.
"You okay?" Sam asked.
"Of course I am. I'm really sorry for that."
"That's fine"
They both were looking as though I was a ticking time bomb. "Guys I'm sorry okay. Please can you not look at me like that."
Dean was the first to break the silence. "So tonight's the ball"
"Oh yeah"
"Who's going? I know I'm not"
"Sammy why not?"
"Cos it's a ball Dean that means you are expected to dance."
"So? "
"Hey don't I get to choose"
"No way lady after all that money spent on your shopping. You're going"
"Speaking of shopping, how come you guys knew what to buy?"
Both boys went red in the face. "Well...huh...it's a part of the job. You know you have to look the part you're about to play. Its
elementary" Dean said smirking.
"We still haven't decided who goes?"
"How about all three of us. There is a lotta ground to cover."
"Yeah she's right I have a feeling that the ghost might strike tonight"
"Why cos he emailed u?" Dean asked smiling.
"No because I was talking to Eddie in the morning and he said that he did know about the family curse. He thought one of the
reasons that Milford figured it was witchcraft was when the priest told him that the murders were committed on a no moon night.
And tonight is one such night"
"But shouldn't it be an open and shut case. We have found that she was attached to her diary. Can't we just salt and burn that?"
"Well we aren't really sure that it was her"
"I mean we still don't know who attacked you in the forest?"
"Also why is the sheriff still hanging around?" Dean said.
Great, it seemed that we were still no where near to solving this 100 year old puzzle. I got up and went to the window. I could see
the road that had brought us here. There was a sign that read 'Milford family graveyard. 2 miles ahead'
"Have we looked at the rest of the family yet?"
As I turned around I saw Lydia was there with another woman.
