Whisper episode 3

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🤫 WHISPERS 🤫
Written by Kemmy B. Gabriel
🖤 Chapter Three 🖤
Wanna know what’s more worse than a bad bus day? A bad singer singing a song you know or in our case, singing our own song and not being able to correct her. We had arrived at the school after a terrible bus experience, then we had to wait to sign in for late registration and the wait was killing. Then this cute girl with big brown eyes started singing our songs with her terrible and loud voice. She also got the lyrics wrong a couple of million times.
“Sitting at my table
Wandering where you at
Looking out of the window
Hoping you would pass
Boy, you got me reeking…”
“Thinking! It’s thinking!” Emy shiuted out unbearably.
“Oh, hello, do you like Vivid k-ss songs too?”
“Yes, so please stop spoiling it,” Judith snapped.
“Oh really? What’s wrong with my singing?” The girl asked with a frown.
“How about everything, from your voice to the wrong lyrics you are singing.” Judith said harshly. Her cheeks flushed pink, she coughed and composed herself.
“It’s not like you can sing it better,” she scoffed.
“Sing it better,” Emy chuckled, “ironic.”
“Boy, you got me thinking
Hope I’m still breathing
As I wait on you
Dude, don’t keep me waiting
As I dream ’bout you
You’ve got that ripped jeans
Perfect tousled hair
Smile that got me scre-ming
M-m-m-my oh!
M-m-m-my oh!
You got that cologne
One urging me to purr…” Judith sang while glaring at the girl. The girl’s face turned pink, she looked down in embarrassment.
“Oh, you do know how to sing it better, sorry about that,” she apologised with shame. “So, are you guys like fans too? You almost sounded like Honey there.”
“Er…” Judith stuttered, I glared at her.
“I’m a super fan!” She suddenly shrieked. We instinctively shifted away from her. “So what cult are you? Honey Haven, Emerald Garden, Karela Area or Candy Land?”
“What?” I asked with a stifle laugh, such crazy things fans can come up with.
“My name is Adriana Ramon, freshman, you?”
“Er… Why is she still talking to me?” Judith asked nervously as she shifted away, like the girl was a diseased human. Sage sat next to her, she pushed Judith back forward.
“Because you answered her,” Sage chuckled, “hi, I’m S… Tammy,” she coughed up her cover. “Tammy Hamilton, and that peac*ck over there is Elizabeth, but you can call her Ellie or Liza. The green jelly beans is Cheryl.”
“And the cute one?” She giggled, referring to me.
“Ida, call me Ida.” I replied sharply.
“Are y’all sisters?”
“No,”
“Yes,”
“Related,” they all answered at the same time.
“Huh?” She asked confusedly.
“Don’t mind them, we met on the bus few minutes ago.” I lied with a wide smile.
“Bus love,” she laughed.
“Your future is crook,” Judith blunted out. Sage nudged her.
“Is she always this sarcastic?” The girl asked chucklingly.
“Only since she was adopted by aliens and had her brain switched,” Emy laughed.
“How would you know that, we met in a bus.” Judith said with a gnash of her teeth.
“Right, bus,” Sage drawled playfully.
“I have a brother here, senior though. He’s really overprotective with friends and one of them is my boyfriend. They are the popular group in this college.” She said proudly.
“Do you realise that we don’t care?” Judith asked rudely again. Sage pinched her arm with a glare. “ow! But we don’t care.”
“Sorry about that,” I apologised, “nice meeting you Adriana.”
“Would you hang out with me? I really want to have some friends of my own, can I?”
“No, read my l-ips, N-O, no.” Judith pronounced slowly. Sage face palmed herself while Emy laughed.
“I guess I’ll see you around,” Emy smiled.
“Yes! First friend! You?” She asked me.
“Erm, we’ll see,” Sage looked away as a way to say no.
“Oh Cheryl, my brother is going to love you! He loves green a lot and you literally look green. Plus, your dress style is simple, just the way he likes his girls to be. Yay for me! I found my brother a girlfriend!”
“Girlfriend? Me? No way!” Emy exclaimed. Okay, this girl is annoying.
“Adriana Ramon,” the secretary called.
“Present!” She shrieked, jumping up to her feet. “Gotta go now, see you around friends!” She ran off. We heaved a sigh of relief.
“That girl talks too much,” Sage sighed.
“And Judith, that was too rude.”
“I’m always rude.” Judith snapped.
“I think we need to split up, staying together is bound to drag attention.” I said as a matter-of-factly.
“I agree, especially with how obvious Emerald is,” Judith glared at Emy who responded with a piggish snort. “We split up into two?”
“Judith and Emy would have been perfect since they know how to balance each other, but as much as they balance, they fight and argue a lot. Sage, you go with Judith and make sure she doesn’t get pregnant,” Judith rolled her eyes at my instruction, then muttered to herself. “Emy since that girl has friend zone you, you will see her more often. I trust you can handle her because you are a great coverup, and can certainly keep your mouth and pride shut. So you and I are going it alone, got it?”
“I don’t need a babysitter, I’m a grown up lady who can take care of herself.” Judith said angrily.
“Your pride and mouth won’t make that a reality, just look what you did just now.” Sage pointed out. Judith sealed her mouth while mentally cursing.
“And beside, you will have a personal bodyguard to bail you out of trouble since you are a trouble magnet.” Emy said with a wink.
“Isn’t that your thing?” Sage chuckled.
“I don’t attract trouble, just the weirdest of boys.” Emy said proudly.
“Then it’s settled, we return home separately and tell each other what happened in the day, huh?”
“Definitely.” Sage smiled.
“Of course, of course!”
“Eh, whatever.” Judith said with an indifferent shrug. We kept shut after that, just to our thoughts.
“My cousin and her family moved in with us yesterday,” I heard one of the student say to the other.
“Why?”
“They heard the whispers at their house two days ago, they had to run before it returns.”
“That’s impossible, little to no people ever survives after hearing any of the whispers,”
“Not impossible, just rare. That is why they ran away before it came back. The whispers wasn’t that intense, it is only when they hear the sound in their ears. Honestly Fern, I’m tired of this town, I need to move out.” The first one cried.
“I heard the mayor is planning to hire a demon slayer to destroy the spirits,”
Another girl laughed sarcastically. “Haven’t he hired witches, psychics and even ghost hunters? What happened to them? Where are their corpses? Demon fire, he would be killed too. Whatever is haunting this town is stronger than any force. The mayor is trying to cover up so others wouldn’t know, but sooner or later, the world would know and no one would come here.”
“My brother and his wife already left the town, they want to protect their little girl you know. Maybe after every single should is wiped out, that’s when the killing would stop. I get too scared to walk at night.”
“You still walk at night? Our house is sealed immediately it clocks 8. The killing usually takes place from 9 to midnight. After my aunt died to it, we have been very careful.”
“The mayor also issued a new law that no one is allowed to go into the forest or any bushy area for now. People die at anytime there.”
“Who wants to die will die, have you forgotten the spirits that burns the house of people along with them?”
Goosebumps crept allover me, I was terrified. Was there like a serial killer in town? What the hell?
“My father told me that he picked up some girls from the airport, took them to the isolated house…” A gasp ran escaped their mouth. “Seriously, he was as shocked as we are. He said the house belongs to one of them, probably a far away relative who came to visit her hometown, unaware of the danger. They will wish they never did.”
I felt the sudden urge to use the restroom. I looked at the girls, their faces were as pale as vampire’s. They heard it all.
“My father thinks that the mayor would find out soon, then send them out of the town or give them somewhere else to stay, that’s if they aren’t dead by then. Those innocent girls have no idea what they have gotten themselves into, the dark house isn’t a place to live in.”
“That’s their problem,”
Why would Victoria send us to a haunted town? What is going on?
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“We are moving out of this house and that’s final!” Judith shouted irrevocably as she burst the door open.
“Let’s not jump into conclusions…”
“Conclusions you say? Everywhere I turned, all I kept hearing was the whispers and death. I don’t want to die, we need to go back home.” Sage said anxiously.
“I don’t believe though, Tori loves us and wouldn’t want us dead so…?” Emy was unsure, but at least she supported me.
“If we are going to stay here, then we are moving out of this house, get an apartment.” Judith concluded and stomped off.
“I hate when she’s like this,” I sighed, throwing myself on the chair. I couldn’t concentrate in class, I was scared out of my wit. All I had been hearing so far is about whispers and seeing whispers everywhere. I gulped drily and rubbed my palms against each other. If indeed the house was haunted, then we would have to move.
“That’s by the way, I met Adriana’s brother, his name is Sandro, he is so cute!” Emy squealed. “He said he loves my hair and invites me to sit with them tomorrow at the cafeteria, isn’t that wonderful?!”
“Yeah, wonderful.” I said mirthlessly. Emy started babbling about her crush while I thought to what I had seen so far.
Later at night, I laid in my bed staring at Victoria’s picture with tears in my eyes. Tori was like a big sister to me, a sister and a mother. After my mother died six months before my debut, she was always there for me. She loved me, she cared about me, she wouldn’t want to hurt me in anyway.
“Tori, are you a bad person? Why would you send me here? Send us here? I know you love me very much, at least that is what I think. Please, if this is all a prank, make it stop, take it away. But if this isn’t and you have nothing to do with it, prove to me that all I’ve known about you all these years isn’t false, that my love for you isn’t for nothing. Even if you don’t speak, just ease my anxiety and give me a reason to remain strong and hold my ground. If you are indeed cruel, then take my life before dawn, I don’t want to be alive to live reality. Please.”
I pleaded and cried for hours before I slept off, tears soaking my cheeks.
“Candy Crush,” someone whispered softly, “wake up my candy,” it said in a singsong. I opened my eyes with a yawn, I was tired. There is only one person that calls me Candy Crush.
I jolted to life immediately realisation hit me, I threw the covers off me and ran to where my feet took me. I followed the musical giggle. “Candy Crush, where are you?” She sang.
I found myself in the garden behind the house, a perfectly manicured sea green ground. I kept walking forward until I was out of the house, wandering deeper into the woods. I kept walking for hours, until I found myself at a small lake. The air smelt sweet and wonderful. The sky had worn it dark garment, her little diamonds sewed into her dress shinning brightly. The moonlight shone down on the oak tree in the middle of the lake. That didn’t matter to me, what mattered to me was the girl standing at the tree with back turned to me.
“Victoria,” I called shakily. The wind swept her hair around, black hair or so. She laughed and leaned on the tree, still not showing me her face. “Victoria?”
“Time, time Candy, you are running out of time. Whispers, whispers…” Her words were unclear. The air no longer smelt sweet, it smelt like rotten flesh and garbage.
“Tori, I don’t understand…”
“Whispers, remember the…tree… They are getting stronger, I can’t…”
I shielded my eyes from the sudden gush of wind. “Tori! Tori!” I saw through the wind, she turned around to reveal the face of a distorted girl. Tori had a dagger right in the middle of her forehead, blood soaked her once beautiful yellow floral dress and she had a severe gash in her throat. Blood sipped out of it and ran down to her stomach.
“Don’t leave the house or you will be vulnerable to them, don’t let them leave Candy, trust me…” Her head fell off. I scre-med, jerking up from the bed. I cupped my mouth, breathing heavily.
“Remember the oak tree…” Her voice echoed.
Oak tree.
Oak tree.
Oak tree.
Victoria was trying to tell me something, and I’m not going anywhere until I find out what, even if it would cost my life.
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Dark robe floated behind her, she paced around her alter, chanting incantations. The red fire burnt up in the alter, the music drummed loud in accordance to her steps. Three beings appeared behind her, she turned and snarled.
“Victoria is back!” She shouted furiously. “After all this time, she still found a way to return to ruin my plans! How many more times do I need to kill that girl before she burns in hell!”
“Victoria cannot be alive, she is dead, we burnt her body with the sacred fire…”
“I know what I felt, there is no power strong enough to shake me like this. I placed a spell to conceal her from coming out, it won’t hold for long. Now girls, I need you to find a way to burn that house down before she breaks free.” She commanded.
“But we can’t go near the house, it’s protected.” One of the being protested.
“And beside, she can’t do anything. Soon the black moon would arrive and we would have enough energy to attack with one strike. They would all pay for what was done in the past, not even Victoria can stop us.” The three beings echoed.
“It better be, but don’t let your guards down, we have no idea what she’s up to.”
And I better find out soon… The woman thought.
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To be continued.
You see, Victoria isn’t the villain, just someone. Then who is she? Who is that woman? What are the girls part in this?
Find out as you keep up reading, more mysteries to be unlocked.
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🏵️🍃 Authoress Kemmy B. Gabriel 🍃🏵️