October 2011
2 weeks till the disappearance
Thalia :
  The air around the Libray was quiet, but the tension wrapped around us like electricity waiting to cackle.I told my friends the reason for my absence.And now they had a plan :a very dangerous one.
   "You want to come to my house?"I screamed,not believing any word they just uttered.I  became tone deaf as I  repeated  it again."Why just why?"I addressed,my voice came to a shrill.
   Nate recoiled and nodded on agreement.
     The girls looked at each other."I know it sounds bad.But we need to gather evidence.Anything"Sasha commented.
   Nate stared with wide eyes as a lump bobbed on his throat.
"Are you sure ?Or have you lost your shit ."He replied with a toss of hand.He gaped."The man is powerful like Hulk and Thor powerful."he sputtered.
The girls looked offended."Nathaniel, what the hell is wrong with you.This is about Thalia."She retorted angrily.
Nate zipped his lips and raised his palms in surrender."I warned them."he whispered to me as I shoved him.
   "H-He's  right.But we have evidence but is too easy and a bit unbelievable."I added on to the horrified girls.
  Sasha crossed her arms over her chest and raked me then Nate.Her sapphire blue eyes wide with knowledge.As I peered in ,I felt a strange sense of calmness and a spark of something.She blinked then replied,"I know that something had to Nate at your house but I do know this. There is something wrong, and we want to help."she answered, but Hayley scrunched her face confused .
     Sasha's eyes widened as if she saw something horrifying.
I know you're hurting, but we're right here.
"Ready ?"

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I felt a tad bit uneasy about inviting my classmates over.I know the rest are girls, but it still made me unsteady.To add feul to the fire, Nate came back, which surprised me even more.
  At the sidewalk ,Nate looked at me and nodded with a look of determination with his  hands shoved  into his   pockets.But with a frightened glance at my door.A lump bobbed on his throat covered in sweat.Even though it wasn't only us ,people's unblinking eyes followed us and the world was sluggish and wavered.Their  attentive eyes and the thick air that sucked the life out of you was still evident.
     Hayley seemed unbothered  and was engrossed with  her Blackberry  with a hot pink off shoulder top and a lacy choker.
   The air was crisp, and the branches  of the trees waved in the air as laughter carried into the air.The coldness affected no one because Sasha's  tanned but toned legs were exposed by her denim shorts.Her tone but leaned arms were exposed to bitter chill and her spiritual glass beads shimmered in the dim light.
     Nate gaped at the house and swallowed his fear, then eyed me.He then popped in an earphone, and the unusual darkness fell upon us.
  Sasha observed the house with keen and caluclative  as I escorted them up the stairs that creaked and groaned.
   Nate stared at the cross and gulped as his skin drained to the colour of snow.The looks of uncertainty were shared between us as we entered into thick darkness.
    Our footsteps echoed, and the floor creaked as unusual cold air spread throughout ,the pulsing lights and deep shadows in every corner.
   Positivity and happiness leeched into the lack of heat of the house as the door slammed shut from the bright and livelness of the outside.
Witn a glance at Hayley,she  shuddered,blew some vapor out, and rubbed her lean exposed arms and commented,"Man ,this place is cold."
   Sasha nodded and tried to add life back to her thighs and gnashed her teeth."Very."
    Her eyes then landed on the dark corners, and the windows with its white sky and silver of tree. With her  brow knitted in concentration.
   Nate's body  tensed beside me and gaped at his outfit.A green long sleeved shirt over a  blue T shirt   then eyed me.
  We upseted something.Cold writhed on my feet as Hayley jumped, then looked at the creaky floorboards and the darkness that felt like bricks.
   Sasha bit her lip  and frowned hard  as Nate froze like a scared  rodent.
   "Guys,"I yelled  and stood at the foot of  stairs.Hayley flinched and gasped at any sound  and eyed the dark corners with a gulp.The lights that accerlated up pulsed and glowed like heartbeats.
    Hayley snapped her gaze to the ceiling and muttered,"Guys,I think the house is alive, or is it just me.It blinked."She commented her voice to a shrill.
  Sasha's ends of her lips  stretched into a reassuring grin."It will be okay.Don't panic."
     Hayley forced a smile as Nate blended with the backdrop,quiet and unresponsive.But Sasha's own fear was shown by her erected hair's and fake grin.
   Hayley forced a long nervous laugh."You didn't tell us that your house was haunted."
   Sasha gave her a  pointed look.We climbed up the stairs, and as I went up, the air felt thinner, and the hallway strenched before me with the flickering lights but behind me the others trailed only barely. To them, it felt as if they hiked a mountain and broke into sweat before  with heavy legs and weak limbs.Sasha inhaled a deep breathe and leaned against the wall and Nate staggered next with pasty skin and hands on knees.And Hayley rubbed her thighs then placed her hands on her chest.
   "Oh man.I felt I just did some cardio."Hayley remarked.
  "So did I, and I'm not forty."Nate squeezed out.
  "Me three,"she panted as her chest rose and fell, but she stood straight with noodly legs."And I do track."She stretched her hands  and popped something as Nate eyed me  with bug eyes.
   "Man, this house gives me the heebie Jeebies."Hayley commented and jogged past me with a shudder.
   Nate's eyes met mine, and then the corridors dimly lit light that flickered.He passed beside me, and I squeezed his arms.
   "You okay ?"I asked.
   He chucked loud and forced a smile that exposed his gums."You know  just peachy."Then it landed on the study.Its the door agar.
    "There's something off about this house."Sasha wondered,her sapphire eyes met mine.
  I took a deep breath as Sasha sucked in a long breath and surveyed the house.My fingers hovered on the knob  as the others waited for me to get on with it.I pushed the door open and stride in as the others followed suit.My eyes trailed the wooden floor and the carpet.
  I raised my chin and flashed a grin at them.Hayley's eyes widened, and Sasha's lips parted in amazement.
"Oh my God."she paused,"that's so ...um amazing."
Sasha still gaped at my bulletin board of nightmares as it trailed every paper and cardboard with new and old drawing stacked and stacked onto each other.They all deviated all the horrors I lived through by waking and sleeping of grotesque drawings.
     Sasha's trembling hands went to her lips.
  Then Hayley grinned and smiled after the look of horror and disgust melted into a look of joy and praised.She jumped and smiled wide."Wow ,like, oh my God.Your drawings are so amazing and so detailed.Have you ever considered going into horror or oh my God ,anime and animation."She beamed.
  Nate eyed me with his lips pursed into a thin line and shoved his hands  into his pockets.Hayley exposed her pearly whites causing her bracelet to shake as she skipped to my bored and pulled them one by one with a lock of disgust.She glanced over and watched.
   Nate removed his earphones and stared at me with cold ,dead eyes.I averted my face to my window.My room was the only place that felt save.My window was open as the sun that dipped in the horizon as my curtain blew in the wind as it was the only room ,small and comfortable with the right amount of light.
   Hayely seemed distracted by other things such as the sun ,my closet  and the baby blue carpet and even my gloe on the dark stars.She skipped towards  my body length mirror and twirled with her hair as Nate remained quiet and sat on my bed with a fixated look at my door like a dog on alert.
    Sasha still observed my drawings with deep concern as her blue eyes seemed to deepen from its usual hue as she fingered her beads on her necklace with strange symbols, and then she turned o. Her heels and placed her two fingers I'm strange places:outside my window ,at my door and even at my ceiling as I watched with a cocked  head.My feet moved at its own accord  and before I knew it I was in front of her.
   She stopped and dropped her hands and smiled."Hey ,what's up?"She asked ,her voice low as she blinked her stormy eyes.
    "What are you doing ?"I blurted, then checked myself."Oh my goodness.I'm so sorry."I sputtered.My eyes landed on her necklace as the strange glass beads took shape.A swirl ,flames ,water, and planets.
    She smiled, then shuffled her feet."I was checking the energy of  your house."she narrowed her eyes."Your house has a lot of darkness, and the energy in here is chaotic.Theres an angry and sad presence here."she concluded ,her eyes deepened to the colour of the sky. 
   I staggered back, confused, and echoed."Energy.What ?"
   She smiled ,her eyes wrinkled and her skin pale.Her smile took me off gruad.She towered over me and had to look down on me.She turned her body away."There's something wrong with this house."she replied, then walked towards my window."This neighborhood.Everywhere is off, but there is no ghost that died here but an entity."she continued.Nate was on his feet and stood there ,unmoving with his breath fanning, and his chest rose and fell like waves.She narrowed her gaze at me and then looked at nate with a frown again."it's posion.It leeches onto people and don't remain the same after it catches them."Her words were spoken softy like a prayer.Something I would hear at chruch.
  A shudder ran through  my spine as the ajar door darkened and creaked loudly.A golden light emittrd from the hallway."We are not alone.It is here, and it is watching us."she concluded ,her voice returned from its solelum prayer  and her eyes returned to its usual sky blue, but she wasn't amused.
    "What ?"Nate sputtered as Hayley just rose a brow. I'm rapt ."What ?Excuse me ?What ?"
  She nodded and crossed her arms with a nod.My feet become wobbly, and my heart hammered.Her eyes widened as she grasped my wrists and slowly escorted me to my bed.Her  eyes eyes were solemn as Hayley followed suit.She placed her hands on mine and smiled.
   "We are here for you,you know.You can tell is anything.Anything on your mind."
   My breath hitched as I tried to erase the imprinted images that happened previously.My father's tall hulking figure on my room door.The next instant of him on me and him yelling profanities and degrading words.
    My screaming and kicking only to be slapped.And then the quiet.The silence as my world froze, then shattered.Sweat broke out of my skin as I blinked tears away.
    I turned my gaze towards my board of horrors and took a deep breath.
    "How long have you been drawing ?"Sasha asked.
    The wrinkled sheets of my bed seemed more comforting than her gaze.
I gained the courage to look at her eyes and muttered,"Since 2007.My drawing style has changed . It's not a style thing.I can't literally stop."I tensed.
  She nodded in agreement and said ,"I know."I reeled back as her eyes surveyed the house."You have nightmares too.It's the house.Its energy."
    I had no idea how she knew about my nightmares and how it affected me mentality.I couldn't sleep the whole night, and my urge to draw winter wonderland,vanitas, and motifs about death.
    I took a deep breathe then glided to my drawer and spread my drawings onto the sheets as Sasha and Nate observed them and a soft gasp slipped her lips and Nate leaned then stared at me with wide ,frozen eyes.They got more graphic and more detailed as Haley sat on my desk and shifted awkwardly.
   Sasha flipped through my journal and compared my landscape to small quick sketches.
   "...It kept getting worse.I joined some local art competitions, but they found my drawings to creepy and advised me to see a physicist or go for counseling. Others defended that they were suppressing my freedom of expression."I went on.A cold breeze blew into the room as giggles and laughter carried into the girl.On my seat was gushing Hayley .She kicked her feet,swiveled her seat towards us, and typed happily on her cell phone.
   "Girl ,really?"Sasha snapped.
     Pink climbed up her neck."Why not.The mood here was depressing."Her eyes widened.
   A thought ran through my head.I grabbed  a sketch that caused the blood in my views to freeze, but her laughter pierced the quietness.
   "Look,"I pointed out at my drawings that was on the bed.
  Life returned back to Nate as he snatched it and observed it."In my dreams ,I'm not alone.There's somebody.A presence or an entity that I know is real.Who watched me like a Shephard that watches over me but fails.
   In each picture was a girl---a corspe being carried by a stranger about Nate's age in a snowy plateau wearing something viking, and in the other one was an inuit boy.I couldn't help but sketch this or even glowing green eyes completely on colored pencil.
  "Whoa,they look kinda smiliar."Nate pointed out with a smile.
  Sasha's face fell."It's a guy."she paused, then turned to me."Since when ?"
   "Six months ago."I responded.We were both fixated on my drawing.It was crumpled ,smudged, and in detail.My dead body was being held by someone.He blurred from  looking like a viking or an Inuit person.A cold feeling washed through me then before I knew it.
  My eyes snapped opened to icy blue sea that strenched far.Above me was a cresent of people clothed in hides and furs.I  rose my head above the water with a deep breathe only to be blown by a strong gust of wind and ice spread on my wet skin.A gasp escaped my  lips when the robed black figures watched me  as I kicked back.My body convulsed from the bitter cold as flakes of snow showered on me.A boot crunched as a stranger walked towards me.His glowing green eyes widened as a cloud of smoke escaped his lips.I couldn't see his face it glitched from the howl of the wind. His face was hidden from a shadow, as I crawled out the water, and the bitter chill bit my fingers, and my chest shriveled in my chest as I forced air into my lungs.
Ice and frost spread on my skin as each crawl felt like crawling on mud.My fingers swelled till a charcoal colour, and my lips chapped.
"Help me."I croaked,eyes blurry as I crawled towards the people, but they stood there unmoving,still as statues, but they were huge except for the boy with glowing green eyes and the corners of his lips turned into a sneer then a gasp.
    With shaky limbs , out of bone chilling cold.He stepped forward, a bit reluctant then eyed a man next to him.He towered the boy as he struggled to eye the man who exposed his sharp teeth.Then   he bolted towards me ,his  hide cloak flapped in the wind.
     A sense of familiarity washed on me as he fell to my level and I fell exhausted ,eyes heavy and body consulting like a fish out of water.He wrapped his hands around me as my life leeched before my eyes which fluttered. His eyes winded as a gasp escaped his lips.He darted his head back and forth as I tried to make his face as he turned abd screamed in a language so foreign to my ears yet they stood infazed.He had a mane of chocolate hair that framed his brown face.
    My head lolled ,my eyes rolled under my eyes  as frost grew on my skin, and my hands fell useless at my sides.
   Seconds  passed and and it passed. My life leeched from me from the eager fingers of ice.
      "No, no, akka."He screamed and shook me. A loud splash.The world was blue ,cold, and inviting.His screams faded as I sank below.
  It felt so tangible.So real.
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Sasha stared at Thalia hard.She suddenly froze when she talked about the stranger.She narrated that she didn't feel alone even if she didn't see him, but she could feel a presence.Thalia then staggered but with quick hands.Sasha grasped her wrist but Thalia stood there unmoving then he head went back.
   Sasha's heart hammered in her chest when her eyes popped open.A scream locked in her throat as Nate was on his feet and screamed."Holy shitballs that ain't Thalia . That's a demon."
  Hayley froze from her seat as Sasha's heart hammered in her chest, and she watched Thalia's pupils turn milky white and her temperature rapidly decreased.Her lips turned blue, and the whole room was freezing but then as fast as it came.It went.
They stood frozen . Sasha's heart hammered in her chest, and Thalia's body loosened into Sasha's arms, but she was cold.Bone chilling cold.With shaky arms ,Sasha escorted her onto her bed carefully as Nate wobbled past with wobbly legs  and weakened body.
  A scared Hayey watched ,her eyes darted to the walls and sun.The neighborhood was quiet.No one seemed to be out and cars streaked soundless.Hayley closed her eyes,tried to calm herself then  silently recited sutras and  repested mantras but with gritted teeth Sasha.
  "Oh my God."Nate repeated as he shook his head and paced around the room."Oh my God."He went on and ran his hands through his hair.His eyes were bloodshot, and his heart was heavy, but Hayley didn't react but recited 'Om Mani Padme Hum'.
  He ran his hands frantically and yanked some some as his heart hammered."Oh no.This is what happens when you come.Oh no.I shouldn't have come."
   Sasha hesitated to wake her up.Too many thoughts swarm through her head about what happened.Sge couldn't believe.This house held demonic energy.The chi and the charka hee was messes up.The sense of worry disturbed her.If she stsyed here longer would she leech the posion into her own self.She shuddered and watched her.Her chest rose and fell as she grabbed the blankets to warm her.It was all too strange and concerning.With a glance at a panicking Nate and yet with a cocked head at a calm and composed Hayley.Her body trembled all over and so did her fingers.
  "Nate ,calm down."she gritted out ,her voice hoarse.
   Hayley stood there frozen but her glistened skin and quietness gave her away.Her lips moved but it wasn't aloud.
  She was praying.She never saw her as the reglious type but hey.Fear brought out things on people.Hayley was on the curveier and bustier  side, and her squirming made her realize.She truly did not no her.
  Nate gaped at her as if he been slapped."Calm down.Calm down.Jesus.Are you hearing yourself."he replied,his voice high pitched.
   "Something happened here.In this house."Sasha's blurted.What was she doing.Thalia was on her bed.She was cold and unconscious.But this question haunted her."What happened?"She demanded with a straightened back, but she couldn't help but glance at her.
   "No shit."He retorted,eyes wide and voice cracked.Nate froze ,eyes swiveled about the room with his fake smile and forcef laughter."this house is cursed.This family is cursed.Everyhing is cursed."He continued to laugh so hard till he wheezed.
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My eyes snapped open.Something unfamiliar dropped on me.I froze.Pins and needles was everywhere and my teeth chattered like hell.I slowly rose up and tried to bring back life into my skin.
   "What the fuck is happening."Nate  shouted.
  "Nate please."Sasha countered.