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SOMEONE IN THE ATTIC
He walked towards his home thinking, it was almost dark, the weather was getting cooler by the day and winter was conquering the surrounding. He was getting chills both due to the cold and the thought of ghosts living in his attic. He reached home when the dark had fallen and street lights were the only medium of light. He went to his room, changed and went to the living room where his parents were watching television. He walked and sat on the sofa beside his mother and said, “Do you believe in ghosts?” his father looked at him and asked, “why?” he knew his father was going to get angry at this but he couldn’t stop himself from saying, “Sean thinks there are ghosts in our attic.” It wasn’t Sean’s thought actually, Sean had only guessed it but Henry had actually believed it and gave it a thought. His father looked at him like he was crazy, “There are no ghosts, and if they exist they don’t live in our house. Stop making a mess of everything, you put that cat, and in the morning you said you heard voices in the attic, you and Sean have been watching many of those ghost hunting videos. I cannot stop Sean but you are not going to watch those videos again.” Henry knew there was no point in arguing, he walked back to his room, but when he opened the door his heart stopped, for a second he thought he had seen someone standing near the window. He walked to the window and looked outside, but there was no one.
He then heard a tapping noise from the attic, it felt like it was right above him. He walked out of his room, and went right below the attic door. He then, very slowly, brought the stairs down, a small creaking noise came but he was sure his parents had not heard it because the television’s voice was too high. He slowly climbed up, he could still hear a tapping noise from up the attic. He hoped that his parents could not hear it, if they could he was sure his father would come to check and he would see him climbing up, which would make him very angry and he might get locked in his bedroom for days for doing this. He went up very slowly, the stair creaked and he made sure those creaking noises were not loud enough for anyone to hear. He reached up and looked towards the place where the tapping noise was coming from and he could see a child sitting and tapping the attic floor.
He did not go up but said very slowly, “Hello?” his voice echoed in the otherwise empty attic. The child did not seem to notice him, he was about to call again when someone from behind him said with a angry voice, “STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!” Henry lost his footing in shock and before he could look at the person behind him, he fell and everything went dark.
Henry woke up in the hospital and was told after five days, he had had a bad fall and broken his arm and also fractured his skull. His father had gone to office but his mother was there so he thought of telling his mother about it. He called his mother who came, she looked very pale and her eyes were red, she looked like she had not slept well since. “Mom, I saw something in the attic.” His mother’s expression changed from a caring one to angry one, “Do you know how much worried we were, due to your little detective work? There are no ghosts in our house, you just lost your footing and almost killed yourself.” He was really confused that women had shouted and said something, he couldn’t remember what, but that women had shouted loud enough for his parents to hear, “But mom I saw it, there was a woman and a child, she pushed me.” His mother’s anger flared to greater heights and she looked murderous, when she spoke it showed that she was very angry, “Look Henry, your father and I are already very worried due to your fall and all. Please don’t make it worse for us.” Henry became silent but in his mind he was still thinking and depressed because nobody was listening to him, he did not know what to do. If his own parents didn’t believe him who would; but then it clicked, Sean, he would believe him. He himself thought there could be ghosts. But Sean thought this as an adventure, after seeing Mr spooky’s so many videos they were interested to interact with ghosts but his recent interaction had showed him that ghosts were not something to be messed with.
After two days of staying in the hospital, he was discharged. He went home and directly to his room, and not long after his father opened the door and sat on the bed, telling him to do so as well. He sat beside his father, who seemed quite interested in a poster on the wall. After looking at the poster and thinking a bit, he said, “I know you are interested in ghosts and all, after watching those ghost videos. But those people in the videos just act in front of you, not with their own family, so stop doing it with us, you could prank a friend, Sean maybe, but please stop messing around. Like that day you see, you almost died, you had lost a lot of blood, and your mother was really worried, we both were. Please stop doing this to us.” He knew there was no point in arguing so he just nodded and said, “I am sorry.” His father left and closed the door, not long after that he slept.
He was in deep sleep when suddenly he woke up, he looked around and saw no one, he thought he had heard someone call him. He looked at the clock, it seemed to have broken, the hands of the clock had stopped at fifteen past three.
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