Chapter fifteen – Flaming Eyes
　　Third Person POV.
　　“I think he,… ”
　　She waited for him anxiously to hear what he had to say, as to whether she was sick or it was something else.
　　“Well,.. ” he continued but stopped.
　　‘I think it’s no time to say this to her but might even take it wrongly. ’ he thought.
　　“I think you could really be sick, I will take you to the hospital later. “
　　He said politely.
　　She released a breath she didn’t know she was holding, then she realized she really wanted to be sick rather than something else. But she didn’t know what she was afraid of.
　　“Okay but don’t you have a personal doctor for personal examination in the house?” she asked curiously.
　　“We did, but you never liked being examined by them but preferred the public hospitals so we laid them all out. ” he said.
　　‘That attitude is still there, even after loosing my memory?’ she thought.
　　“Okay thanks, I will eat what you brought me and take the utensils down to the kitchen when I’m done. Please go and have some rest see you tomorrow. ” she said.
　　“That’s okay but allow me to wait on you then I can guide you the kitchen. “ he proposed.
　　“No thank you, I’ve walked this place a thousand times to get lost in it. ” she said absentmindedly.
　　“You are right, please I will leave now. Have nice dreams. ” he agreed.
　　“Okay thank you bye. ” she said.
　　“Huh? You said? Ah OK. ”It finally registered to her what she had said earlier.
　　She had her late night meal and decided to do what she had said she would before, taking the utensils to the kitchen. As she walked the hallway, she saw her shadow on the wall but something was amiss, it was wearing a cap and trousers from the shape of it’s legs. While she was wearing a dress instead, she looked at herself and back at the shadow. She held the utensils in one hand and waved her hand but then suddenly realized that the shadow wasn’t holding anything like she was but rather started dancing. She tossed the utensils on the ground and started running and shouting,
　　“Ahh! Ahh please help! Please help!!!”
　　The servants heard her shout and came out of their rooms to see what was happening.
　　When she saw so many shadows after her, she shouted louder and knelt down and held her knees crying out. They got to her and Fred was the first to ask in curiosity,
　　“Emily what’s the problem with you? What’s going on? Why are you crying?”
　　When she heard his voice, she leapt from the floor into him and because he was caught on a wares, they both landed on the floor but he still held her to himself.
　　“Please… help, my sh..adow, no it isn’t me, my… shadow is somet..hing else while I was waving, it wa..s d..ancing. ” she stammered in fear.
　　The other servants nodded to themselves and tried to comfort her saying,
　　“This is nothing, you will understand it all later. ”
　　‘What? You think I am a fool? How do they expect me to understand something like this? What is normal about this? Do I really belong to this place? So many strange things happening in a go. I was supposed to celebrate my birthday tomorrow but look two days before and I have had no peace. ’ she thought in fear.
　　As the people around her thought she was okay, they told her to go back to bed but she wasn’t ready to let Fred go.
　　“Fred please stay with me, I don’t want to alone. ” she pleaded.
　　She was more comfortable with Fred than the rest.
　　“Okay, please go back to bed, tomorrow is going to be a long day. Make no mistakes. ” ordered Fred.
　　The other servants left to go back to sleeping.
　　“How about I carry you back to bed?” asked Fred.
　　Huh?..
　　Third Person POV.
　　Two guys followed a girl in darkness, she hurried her steps in fear but they wouldn’t let her off. She neither knew why she was followed nor where she was going. She was about to run but felt a hand on her arm then she suddenly turned to look at the person brazenly. They saw her flaming eyes and enraged face and backed away,
　　‘Wasn’t she supposed to be afraid? ’ they thought but it was already over for them.
　　Before the guy that held hers could remove it, it caught fire and he set in flames. He shouted in fear and pain, as the other guy watched in shock and fear, he was too afraid that he forgot to move. But then suddenly realized the situation he was in and started running, after taking four steps, he got stuck and couldn’t move anymore. Roots from nowhere started creeping up his body even as he struggled to free himself. Fear engulfed his body and mind but it was too late to escape, he turned into a statue after breathing his last.
　　The other guy in flames watched his counterpart turn into a statue and could only continue screaming, the flames set up on his entire body. He watched as he burnt into ashes.
　　Emily watched as the scene played in her eyes yet she couldn’t do anything about it. She also started screaming but suddenly became tongue tied when the girl turned to look at her. It was actually herself, she walked towards as she smiled, goosebumps spread on her body as she watched her. As she walked towards her she jerked awake screaming on top of her voice. But saw some of the servants already standing in the room looking at her with worried faces.
　　“Where is Fred?” was the first thing she asked in panic.
　　They looked towards the door and he walked in smiling and with a cake on a table and him pushing it.
　　“It seems I’m a bit late, have they already wished you. ” he asked.
　　No one answered and he saw their tensed faces so he asked,
　　“What’s wrong? What’s happening?”
　　“I had a very bad dream Fred, something is definitely not right and I can feel and see it. ” she said in panic.
　　“Hmm, I intend to tell you everything after the birthday today, so please do push the dream aside for now and celebrate your birthday okay? It’s a nice surprise isn’t it?” Fred quipped.
　　She nodded and they starting singing her the birthday song. After that, they all shouted together,
　　“Happy birthday to you Emily!! ”
　　“Come on hurry, slice the cake you have thirty nine more to slice. ” said Fred.
　　“Why thirty nine?” she asked.
　　“I’ve already said, I will explain after the birthday, so please slice this one. ” said Fred.
　　She sighed heavily and made her way to the caked and sliced it. She ate a little bit of it and thought,
　　I can’t afford eating too much already, I have thirty nine more to slice. ’
　　But unknowingly to her, she had only nineteen more.
　　She washed up and came out to meet another cake in the room, she walked towards it and attempted to slice it but the knife went up and slice the cake it self. She backed away and looked at the others and asked,
　　“Did you see that or am I the only one that saw it?”
　　“No you weren’t the only one, I saw it and they also did. ” Fred confessed.
　　“Okay, you better have a better explanation about all these. I am both afraid and confused, so please is there something I should expect during this time before I get more scared?” she said.
　　“Well, it’s okay then I will tell you, you have nineteen more to slice and your shadow will do the others. ” Fred gave in.
　　“Thank you everyone for your efforts. ” she said with a sigh.
　　“Don’t thank us now we have more surprises in store for you. Please come down with us to see what we’ve prepared. ” said one of the servants.
　　“Okay, I hope it’s not too much, you don’t have to bother about me. ” She said smiling.