This chapter is sort of an addition. Please enjoy!
Chapter 6: Dreaming An Answer
The night of Lakister's funeral, Mush was disturbed by a strange dream while in bed. He suddenly woke up, looking around before assuming everything was all right.
Still a bit frightened by the grisly and gory death of Lakister, he decided to get up from his bed, and walk downstairs into the kitchen. He fixed himself a guacamole-cream cheese sandwich which he then filled with jelly and ketchup, which he ended up throwing in the garbage.
He was still disturbed by the dream, and couldn't remember what it was. Mush slowly sat down on the kitchen table, trying to remember as much as he could. He went up to the sink and started to wash the dishes to clear up his mind.
At the same time, he was oblivious as he wrapped the dishwasher cord wire, which was in the back of the sink, into the small holes of the dish rack beside the sink. He didn't notice the wire that was tangled in the dish rack, as he finished the dishes.
He was about to put in the last cup into the dish rack which was partially full of water, as he spilled the water onto the cord, which resulted in a sudden shock of electrocution.. Mush fell back in surprise, as he hit his head on the table behind him and fell unconscious to the floor.
"Mush," said his father in the morning, startling Mush as he rose from the kitchen table. "What were you doing down here? Did something bad happen?"
"No father," he replied. "Nope, I'm fine. Can I just drive the car outside? I feel tired and stressed out."
"So suddenly? Anyway, I'll be in the house the whole day," his father said, but Mush ignored him and went to the garage door. The garage door machine suddenly shocked him when he tried to press the button, making him jump back. He suddenly remembered the electrocution shock that occurred last morning and how he had passed out. He opened the garage door manually and drove away.
"What kind of dream did you have?" asked Jill on the phone, talking to Mush. "Was it positive or pessimistic?"
"It seemed sort of in the middle," explained Mush. "As if something was telling me to do something. Any clue on what it could be?"
"I'm not much of a dream analyzer," said Jill, "But I believe your dream was related to this death killing that's happening to us."
"That's what I was thinking," said Mush hanging up, and he decided to stop a florist's shop to get more flowers for the funerals coming up. He saw Catherine at the front table.
"Hello! How are you, today Mush?" said Catherine, watering the plants. "Please, I will give you half price because you special."
"Oh, ok. Thanks!" said Mush, as he just stared at the flowers, looking for the right ones for the right people.
Mush's father sipped coffee in the kitchen and put his coffee down to do the dishes. When he approached the sink, he saw all the dishes in the dish rack, clean and new.
Confused, he decided to put the dishes into the dish washer.A shadow of a person was cast reflecting against the dishes, and Mush's father turned around in conufusion. There was nobody.
"Oh, Mush sweetie," remembered Catherine. "The police officer, Parkey want you, and says we meet somewhere. I need to come also, he says, but he need you to talk to first."
"Huh?" said Mush, who didn't understand what she had said. His jacket zipper got between the handle of a small shelf, and it opened as he turned around. Mush pulled away, making the whole shelf open up scattering pieces of paper everywhere. Catherine got up to him and started to clean the mess, but Mush pulled her away suddenly. There was a valentine card on the floor among the different papers, and an X-Acto knife sticking into the word on the card, which was FATHER.
Mush's father was unaware of the dishwasher cord being tied with the dish rack. He picked up a few plates from the dish rack to put into the dishwasher, and pulled down the dishwasher lid. The cord of the dishwasher connected to the lid pulled the dish rack on the counter at such full force, sending the rack flying into the air, and causing a huge butcher knife to fly into the shoulder of Mush's father. He fell down in sudden surprise, as a pool of blood surrounded him making all the other glass shattered onto the floor. The dishwasher cord ripped and threw a heap of electricity towards the home phone, making it spark and die out.
Mush looked at the valentine card with the knife in it, and suddenly understood what it meant.
"A sign," he whispered to himself, and then knew that his dad was in danger. He ran out of the flower shop, leaving Catherine confused and bewildered as she cleaned up the mess. Mush ran outside to his car, and started to dial his phone number. It didn't go through.
"Shit," he whispered anxiously, as he started to drive his way home. Driving through all the red lights, he reached his home in three minutes and opened the door, only to go into the kitchen and find his father in a heap of blood on the floor, with the knife sticking out of his shoulder. Mush could see that he was still breathing, as he trembled and knelt to his father's side.
"Dad!" he stuttered, and went over to the table to pick up the phone. It wasn't working. He got out his own phone and dialed the ambulance.
The ambulance arrived soon enough and was commanded to bring Mush's father to the hospital. Mush stared at the scene outside his house.
"Then why would he be in this whole thing?" said Mush, talking to Jill outside his house as the ambulance carried his father away to the hospital. Mush had forced Jill to come to the scene from her water work.
"My father's accident of close death had a sign to it, when I was in Catherine's flower shop. But why would death hurt my father when he isn't involved in this?" said Mush. "He was never in the blimp, and now he nearly died."
"But maybe it's family related," said Jill. "You know, like you had affected your sister's life, and now you're included in this. Your father was your next relative, and was then affected."
"No," stated Mush. "No. That's not correct. I don't think my father was supposed to die in the kitchen. His accident may help another death, such as when I was used to help contribute to my sister's death, when I called her on the phone. But right now, we need to know who's next."
"You're the only one to knows the answer, not me" she said. "Try to remember."
Mush looked deep inside his head, and tried to remember someone important who had died after Lakister in his vision. It wasn't Sophie, or Frank, or Jill…he remembered the person who was blown up in the blimp.
"Parakarry," said Mush, looking back from his vision. "He's next, and I remember that he wanted to tell me something." He looked up his number and called him. Parakarry immediately answered the phone.
"Mush, tell Jill and Frank that we're all meeting in my house basement," Parakarry said. "If what you're saying about death is true, then we have to be somewhere safe."
I hope you're enjoying the story so far! The next chapter will tighten the plot even more, and there may be a death. Please don't forget to review!