"Anna."

I opened my eyes with a gasp. Someone said my name. My eyes scanned the room, but there was nobody there. A dream maybe?

"Anna."

I shot up in my bed en checked my room again. What was happening to me? Was I still dreaming? Was I imagining the voice?

"Don' be scared, Anna," the voice said. It was the voice of a young girl and definitely not my own.

"Who are you?" I asked her out loud and she giggled in return.

"You don't have to talk out loud to communicate with me, silly. Just think of what you want to say and I'll know," she explained to me and I thought: "Okay."

"To answer all the questions swirling through your head, I am Melody. I'm not sure what I'm doing in your head but I won't be leaving so you better get used to me. What does entity mean?" Her voice filled my head and it was so intense I had to gasp for air.

"Ehm, entities are just beings. Something that exists from itself, it's a bit vague, I'm sorry," I explained.

She was quiet for a while and I just stared until I heard my mom call for breakfast.

"I'm coming!" I yelled and got out of bed. I looked in the mirror expecting to see some kind of change. But nothing was out of the ordinary. My body had no traces of the voice in my head.

I went downstairs and joined my family for breakfast. My mom, dad and brother had already begun eating as I took my seat.

"Good morning honey, slept well?" My dad asked and I nodded while grabbing the syrup to pour over my freshly baked pancakes.

I did not pay very much attention to what my family was talking about. I was wondering why the voice was quiet, had she left?

"No, I'm still here," Melody said, "I just don't talk all the time." I continued eating and once half of pancakes were gone I put down my fork.

"Why did you stop eating? You need to eat more," Melody commented.

"I'm trying to lose some weight. I've eaten enough," I told to her.

"You must eat more!" I flinched at the harsh sound. She dared to raise her voice in my head!

"I said no!" She clearly wasn't happy with my response, because next thing I knew a sharp pain shot through my head. I hissed and grabbed my head with two hands.

"Honey, what's wrong?" My mother asked with a concerned face. I shook my head as the pain slowly faded.

"Just a sudden headache, mom, nothing that I won't survive," I reassured her. My brother was looking suspiciously at me as my parents continued eating.

I too grabbed my fork and knife and started eating slowly. Once I ate all my pancakes I put my plate in the sink and went back upstairs.

"Did you have to do that?" I asked Melody irritated.

"Yes. You will do what I tell you. This was only a small taste of what I can do," she said threatening and I swallowed. Her voice did not sound so sweet anymore and to show her how displeased I was I ignored her voice the rest of the day.

Somehow she let me get away with that and when I laid in bed again I decided to ask her some more questions.

"You never answered my question about what you are," I said and I heard her giggle.

"Fine, I'll tell you," she said, "I'm a ghost. Do you remember playing with that Ouija board?"

I froze at the memory of the Ouija board. "Yes, I remember, but nothing happened!" But apparently something had, and that something was Melody.

She giggled again and the sound resonated through my head. "You shouldn't have played with powers you don't understand," she whispered and for a second it felt as if she laid right beside me. But as I turned my head nothing was there.

"This is only the beginning. Sweet dreams, Anna." And with that it was quiet in my head. I stared at the ceiling in confusion and in fear of what the morning would bring.

~(°-°)~

The next morning I woke up at the sound of laughter. But not the laughter of just one voice, there were two voices.

"Good morning Anna, meet my new friend, Diana," Melody's cheerful voice said.

"What a lovely host you are, Anna," Diana spoke with a deeper and more mature voice then Melody.

"Are you a ghost as well?" I asked in slight concern. Maybe instead of being possessed I was just losing my mind.

"Yes, I am indeed, love," she responded and I groaned at the heavy feeling of my head. Why was this happening to me?

The two voices were chattering non-stop about things I could not understand. For a week I had no rest, no thought to myself. They were best friends but the complete opposite.

"You eat too much, you'll be fat." "Eat more!" "That dress is ugly, take it off." "No leave it on, it suits your eyes."

I had no concentration, I couldn't sleep and when I tried to ignore them or push them out of my head, they would to hurt me. At the end of the week I had enormous bags under my bloodshot eyes, I was extremely pale and shouted at everyone to leave me alone.

I was downright exhausted and sad about all the contradictions that made me insecure about myself. I started to wonder if the voices were really ghosts or just my insecurities.

"How dare you call us insecurities," Diana seethed at my thoughts. I was fed up with their behaviour and ignored them.

"Why don't we show her, that she should not mock with us?" Melody suggested and giggled mischievously.

I was sitting on my bed and trying to focus on my book as my vision blurred and my mind was overwhelmed with fragments of what I assumed were memories.

Images flashed before my eyes. Flames were dancing all around me. I screamed when I felt the flames as if they were burning me.

Another image, I fell in the water and couldn't move my arms or legs. Slowly I sank to the bottom with only water surrounding me. I couldn't hold any longer and my body tried to take a breath. But no air filled my lungs, only water.

With a gasp I opened my eyes. I was back in my room with tears running down my cheeks.

"That's how we died," Melody explained cheerfully, "I died when my house burned down and my parents were too cowardly to come and save me."

"I died when someone dumped me in the river after being raped and drugged. That bastard took everything away from me!" Diana screamed inside my head.

"You make me mad, Anna, and I don't like playing games anymore. You disturbed our peace with the Ouija board and you will pay," Diana said rather dramatically. I expected the excruciating pain in my head again, but nothing.

No more words were spoken and I fell asleep peacefully. But I woke up again in the middle of the night with an uneasy feeling in my stomach. As if I wasn't alone.

I opened my eyes and checked my room. Two girls stood by my bedside, Melody and Diana. A shiver went down my spine as I took in their appearances.

They had holes where their eyes used to be, and their cheeks were shallow.

"We are not alone," they said in unison and as I blinked my room was filled with ghostly appearances and at the same time all their voices filled my head.

I took a sprint out of my room down the stairs and into the kitchen, hoping to shake them off. But within seconds all ghosts appeared around me and their voices never left my head.

"Leave me alone!" I shouted at them and I closed my eyes and leaned against the counter trying to stop shaking like a leaf.

"We will not leave," one voice said. "Not ever will we leave your head," another said. "You can run, you can hide, you can do whatever, but as long as you're alive, we will haunt you," Melody's voice said and she giggled.

Tears were running down my cheeks. As long as I was alive, what life would that be? Without being able to think my hand grabbed a kitchen knife.

"Do it. Do it. Do it," the voices whispered. I sobbed and my hand shook as I brought it above my heart. My hands moved on their own, there was no time to doubt.

"Do it! Do it! Do it!" the voices chanted and their shouts filled my head until I could think nothing else.

There was a pain in my chest and I gasped one last time before darkness consumed me.

I heard nothing,

Nothing but silence.