Ethan James is now spending his life in the library school which he informs the principal if he is allowed to use the library school for his time.
The permission was granted and now here he was reading a children's novel compared to an adult novel list suitable for his age.
Stuart Little by E. B. White it's his book choice today. He leans on his back on the chair.
The book is a realistic yet fantastical story about a mouse-like human boy named Stuart Little. According to the first chapter, he looked very much like a mouse in every way.
"One of the most honorable creatures in all of literature".
Ethan James frowned, the nose stuck on the book looking up. There stood Mrs. Montgomery, the librarian old woman. Glasses on her crooked nose staring down at him with a smile.
He jolted. Mrs. Montgomery dragged the chair and took a seat facing him.
"Act like your age. But I enjoy seeing you read children's novels while other students in this school don't, except for Ms. Decker. She loves to read just kinda differently than you. She loves horror, thriller novels".
Like her mother, "I beg your pardon?"
He spoke. "No. I mean she loves reading so there is nothing weird about it". He chuckles. "So, Ms. Decker loves spending her time here alone too?"
"Yes. You wanna know actually this table is her favorite spot. Corner of the room, beside the window".
Mrs. Montgomery pointed on top of the desk where Mia did craved her own name there. He smiled. "I sat on my chair alone until she came". said Mrs. Montgomery.
He muttered something... like her mother too, twice. Mrs. Montgomery couldn't figure out what he just said.
He spoke again, "Oh. That's good. If you don't mind, I will try to continue my reading. I will ask you anything about children's novels. I would like you to find it for me".
"That will be my pleasure, Mr. James and now I have a new friend to accompany me here".
She smiles, pushing the chair. "Have a nice reading". She walked back to her table. He then carved his name on the desk using a pocket knife.
Belle writes a prescription inside the patient files, she then looks up at the parent in front of her.
"Mr. and Mrs. Johnson it's very clear that Eve had something living inside her. But first I need to make it clear that you both must answer my question".
The parents nod. "First, do you believe Eve's sickness is based on science facts or possession that is attached to her now?"
"Science". said the parent.
Belle sighs, "That means I cannot help her for further treatment". The husband shakes unbelievably.
"What do you mean? You are the doctor, help us. Is this about money? I'm sure we can pay. How much you want!"
Belle clears her throat, she said this. "I don't need extra money if you two don't believe possession facts rather you believe science facts".
"Tell us then, what it had to do with possession and science facts to our daughter!"
Belle then leads the parent toward the monitor room, standing at the hallway in which there are two-way mirrors where they can see Eve's at the age five or seven inside that room playing with a doll.
The little girl will not notice they were standing outside of this room monitoring her.
"This is what I try to say, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, that your daughter wasn't your daughter, she may be your daughter from the outside but not the inside".
Belle nodded to the male nurse, where he brought a bamboo stick at his hand not so big or not so tall with a size of 70cm.
The nurse entered the room and took a swing, whip the stick on the floor which made the girl jump and cry around the corner.
The father tried to stop the nurse from trying to scare his daughter with the stick.
Belle needs to act fast before it's too late. The nurse then left the room like nothing happened. Because that was his job to do.
"You're not a doctor but a psycho!" The husband growled, "I told my wife that we cannot trust this place but she says you are the best doctor that could help our daughter with this disorder".
Smirking, "Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Johnson, have you family recently visited India?"
"What it had to do with the country of India and my daughter. Stop making it difficult for our family, tell us what it was!"
He breathed, "What is it attached to our daughter!" His wife calming him down, she spoke.
"Yes, we are, a month ago. I noticed Eve changing after we got back. Eve used to like mac and cheese with sausage or anything junk food made by american people but then she stopped.
"Our neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. Hardeep, said that his wife cooked fish head curry that day. Eve smell that curry. She demand and scream to go there.
"Just we had too, if we don't she begins to pull her hair out or hurt herself. She became more and more weird after that incident, she didn't know how to speak in English but Punjabi or Tamil language which Mr. and Mrs. Hardeep told us.
"The Hardeep's is our family translator now for Eve and what she needs or what she wants to eat, we will know from them. I can't cook Indian dishes for my own daughter because I don't know how".
Belle nods to understand, "And Mr. and Mrs. Hardeep will cook for Eve?" The parent nodded. "Indian food is the best.
"Panipuri, Biryani rice, any specific Indian dishes your daughter will eat without hesitation or hurting her tummy. Her tongue suddenly needed South Asian food.
"You wanna know why she acts like that?"
The husband and wife stare at each other. "If you could tell us". said the wife. "Please. I do believe in ghosts and I know something is wrong with my Eve since we got back from India".
Belle nods and takes a step forward. She studied Eve's swollen eyes after crying, something had been told to her and images she could see another girl lived inside her.
Whether it is true or not this girl really needs help and sending this girl back where it came from.
"When you called Eve's name did she respond?"
The wife shakes no, "The Hardeep's say that our daughter's name is no longer Eve but Divya Sethupathi. Eve told us, that her name now". Belle push the speaker button on.
"Divya?"
The girl looked up but nowhere she couldn't see Belle, just a two-ways mirror. Belle speaks in Tamil language which shocked the parent, the girl responds to Belle question and answer.
After a minute the speaker button went off, Belle turned to the Johnson's.
"Surprise aren't I? I can speak Tamil".
The husband looked annoyed with Belle but not his wife.
"She is possessed definitely. I am sure of what will happen. You should study the place or ask the villagers around there before you enter a place that wasn't yours.
"As I know the story which this Divya told me, your family visited the place where the government seized the palace as a heritage-listed tourism site where you were in it.
"That palace belongs to Kabir and Durga Sethupathi. Divya had a younger brother, Kamal Sethupathi when she died at the age of twelve in 1860s. Together her mentally ill Uncle, Sanjay Sethupathi also lived there".
The husband spoke, "So are you saying this Divya girl possessed our daughter? That doesn't make any sense, why our daughter!"
"Why? Let me continue the story about Sethupathi family. I will make it short, I promise. That night when Divya is asleep in her room, her uncle went to her room and raped her.
"And the worst, for her uncle satisfied sexuality, which he needed more passionately, orgasm from Divya's body, he took the bamboo stick near the bed and shoved it inside her with pleasure. Which you see your daughter is afraid of the bamboo stick earlier.
"She died that night and her uncle is free out there while she suffers. So, Divya possessed Eve after the urn still remained Divya ashes suddenly fell down on top of Eve's head accidently and broke while she was walking inside Divya room".
Belle smiles, "And it follows your daughter since".
"Oh my God! What should we do?"
"That's what I've been asking you to believe because Divya lived inside Eve. You were almost late for this, if you are... Divya will take control over Eve's body and you will raise Divya not Eve for the rest of your life".
The wife almost passed out, the husband spoke with worry face. "Tell us doctor? What should we do to get our daughter back".
"I will arrange your date with Doctor Raja Saravanan as soon as possible. He will help you there. And you must fly back to India and return this spirit back to her place, there will be a pujas conducted by the exorcist expert. My prayers are always there for your family".
Later, Belle slept on the sofa for the past forty-five minutes until one of the doctors burst inside and woke her.
Shocking, eyes red like the devil. She stared. "I'm gonna kill you, Bitch!"
"You've been stressed lately. Care to share". Doctor Juanita Berkeley takes a seat on the sofa across from her. "What's bothering you?"
Belle sighs out loud, she said. "What bothers me is you!" Trying to sleep again but can't. "I just met my dead husband, am I going mad? Mad as mad hatter. Tell me, Berkeley, do I?"
"That wasn't him, Belle. He may look like your dead husband. Did he claim who he was when you saw him?"
Belle shakes no, "So. he's not your dead husband at all. You missed him at that time, you were dreaming while still in daylight".
Belle leaned on the sofa, her eyes met Berkeley. "What if that man is my real husband?"
"It cannot be, Belle come on stop for once, for the sake of your life he's dead for good. Don't be sure about it. Come on, let's get you therapy with me. Right now! Because you need it. Let's breathe, Okay".
Belle and Berkeley close their eyes and start to breathe deeply and let out. More deeply breath and more letting out.
Belle farting as she lets it out the air, chuckles, Berkeley sniffing.
"Urgh! NO. NO. You are so gross!" shout, Berkeley. "You seriously got Hydrogen bomb farts. It smells weird".
"I got canned beans with scramble eggs and toast for breakfast today. Does it smell so weird to you?"
"Are you kidding me! I'm going to die. Your farts are toxic!" Berkeley runs toward the window and opens the hatch. She breathes air outside. "Seriously you are disgusting".
Belle, smirking, "You said you wanted us to take a deep breath so I did... with a smell". Then she laughed. "Oh my God this is so funny, serve you right. You woke me up, this is my payback time for you. So take it.
"I'm trying to sleep in here, make sure no one is disturbing me".
Berkeley up from the sofa, she turns to Belle again. "I will get my revenge on you, Belle you wait and see I will fart on your face. Let's start the fart war starting today".
"You ON!"
Later that evening. Natasha inside the car waiting for Arman and Mia.
Earlier today, she got a call from Belle that she couldn't pick the twins from school as the matter of fact the patient suddenly turned violent, Belle and other doctors with nurses and the guards had to handle them by risking their life.
Luckily Natasha is around the neighborhood. Her eyes scanning around the school, she caught Ethan James out of nowhere carrying a ladder on his shoulder with a pocket tools bag clipping around his waist.
She takes a look closer at him as she is familiar with the features she has known since she was sixteen. The features of Victor Gibson.
He is now climbing the ladder and begin to hammering the wall with nails. She noticed there were cloths hanging around, banners exactly what it looked like. For students and parents meeting, she guesses.
Carefully he hung the banners back where it belonged.
About a minute later, the school bell rang, and students began to rush out from the building.
Ethan James carefully climbed down the ladder before he got injured himself if the student accidently bumped into the ladder and he fell down with several broken bones.
"Natasha, what are you doing here?" Arman opened the door with Mia standing beside him. "Where's mom?"
Natasha doesn't like being called 'Auntie' or 'Aunt'. Prefer the twins called her by the name.
"Get in!" Arman and Mia climb inside the car and shut the door. "She can't make it. Handling violent patients was the worst. I'm sleeping over at your mom's house tonight and I cooked".
"Great. I'm starving to death, " said Mia.
Natasha turns to her with a smile. "You always get hungry, honey, is that him?" She points at Ethan James. "Your mother told me about him. I agree with your mom about this one, he definitely look like your dad".
"He's not our dad, Natasha".
"True, because he's been dead for several years. Dead people won't return nor turn into zombies. If he was a zombie wow! How amazing he is walking from Kansas to New York. Took a year to get in here".
Natasha's eyes still focus on what he's been doing now. "If he was your dad. No one could deny it". The twins didn't say anything. She spoke back.
"I'm gonna stop by at the market, you mom asked me to buy the groceries. The fridge is out of stock because your sister eats a lots. How is that possible small girl like you eating like a monster, Mia".
Mia shrugged, she said. "I'm just hungry. I really am hungry". Natasha rolled her eyes up. Drove the car back on the road.
Ethan James kept his eyes on the students for a while then carried the ladder back on his shoulder.
He did notice Arman and Mia getting inside the car with a woman other than their mother, but who is that woman? He thought.
"Mr. James, lucky you are still here. The principal says that the girl toilet is leaking on the second floor and be careful dear. The floor is pouring with water, and flooding".
He smiled with a nod. "Alright, Mrs. Harvey I'll take my tools first at the back. I'll be up there any moment".
"Good". she smile.