Chapter 3
For the rest of night Theo tossed and turned and kicked and pulled. She would start to doze off, then have a flash back of the house. She finally sat up in the hard bed to see a man standing at the foot of it.
"Who are you?" Theo asked.
"Theo it's me" the man had a deep voice.
"Who?" she was very startled.
"Just read the letter" the man told her.
"But…"
"Read the letter" he said as he got wide eyed. Blood started to drip from his eyes, his fingernails slid off his hands and his lips turned black. She was startled and started screaming. Soon enough a nurse came running in.
"What's wrong what's wrong?" the nurse ran to her side. Theo sat paralyzed as the nurse put her hand to her forehead.
"Wow you're getting hot" the nurse called the doctor in. He came in and looked at the paralyzed Theo. After awhile she finally calmed back down. She laid her head back on the pillow and the doctor left.
"You'll be fine Theo" the nurse winked as she dragged her nails across Theo's body as she left. Theo remembered the nurse from a couple years ago, they had a lot of fun for one week.
Theo knew she wasn't going to be able to sleep till she read the letter. So, she picked it up from the side table, looking at the front again. Dr. David Marrow. She quietly started to open the letter. She was nervous and her hands twitched, she tried so hard over the last two years to forget everything that had happened. And as she started to read the letter every little moment of her experience of the house came back. Everything she did, said, heard, touched- it was all back now. She read the letter carefully, over and over and over again. She finally fell asleep, with the letter in hand.
The next morning the doctor was first to see her, he left her to sleep, as he brought in Frank. He watched her for a minute, his hand in a cast, but otherwise healthy. He hadn't really been in the emergency room…
"Doctor only made it up, he knew you wouldn't get some rest otherwise" Frank explained to Theo as she was getting ready to leave the hospital. She saw Frank differently now, maybe it was just the guilt.
"…So, what was in the letter?" asked Frank.
"I have to go meet with a Dr. Marrow" she explained as they headed out of the hospital.
"And who's he?" Frank asked as Theo took in a deep sigh. She knew she would have to explain the whole story to him, it would be hard, but she had to. She felt better with more people around, so they stopped at a small diner, which was full of people. Theo started…
"It all started with a letter I got, just like this one…"
After about an hour or so, Theo stopped, finished, and sat back to see what Frank would think.
"wow." That's all he could practically say.
"Yeah, wow"
"Well, I want to go with you back to the house" he told her.
"I don't think so, it's kind of personal" Theo told him
"No, let me. I know this guy, he's a ghost hunter, he could come to officially say the house is ghost-less" Frank told her. Theo thought for a minute, it was a good idea.
"I have to talk to Dr. Marrow, we will see then" Theo smiled as Frank kissed her lightly.