I kept staring at her till we approached the hotel building. I just don’t seem to understand how she’s acting so normal. It doesn’t make any sense, who is she and why does she want to help me?
Once we entered the hotel, she stopped at a particular room, as she opened the door, it made a cracking noise.
"Whose room is this?" I asked
"Mine, come with me." She leads the way.
Walking into her room, I came across multiple posters of Christ and nuns but what shocked me the most is the framed picture she had of Amy.
"Why, why do have her photo here?"
"Do you know her?"
"She’s dead isn’t she?" I held the frame and caressed it.
"Not exactly, Amy Wise the nun is no more but Amy, her granddaughter is alive."
"I don’t understand."
"Amy Wise is the granddaughter of Amy Jane Wise the nun. She was named after her grandma because her parents believed that Amy is her reborn. They look very alike, and their habits are almost the same."
"But Amy told me that her grandma works at the church."
"That’s her twin sister, Amy’s grandma was a twin, the one I’m talking about isn’t here anymore but the other is alive."
"How do you know about this?" I asked
"I know a lot and I also know that you’re a victim just like I was." She responded
"Victim?" I questioned
"Yes, I know what’s happening with you. I know that you see me everywhere you go, I know that he is after you and most importantly I know that he wants you to join them."
"How do you about that? Who are you?"
"I can’t explain everything, it’s hard to process just trust me." She said
"No, I wanna know what’s wrong with me, I wanna know why I keep seeing this, tell me everything."
She whiffed "Okay, this is kinda hard to believe but it’s true. It wants you and it won’t stop till it gets you. Just the way it took my body, it wants to take your soul. The person you address me as isn’t me, it’s my body. The devil didn’t take my soul it took my body and everything I had." She sighed walking toward me "Sometimes I feel like it’s a curse, not a blessing, and sometimes I wish it took my soul away."
Her words throbbed me deeply, I can’t believe I kept on blaming her for something she had nothing to do with.
"But, why did it tell me to stay away from Amy Wise?" I asked
"It told you to stay away from Amy because Amy is holy, she’s pure, if she stays with you, it can’t hurt you." She responded
"Ohh, then we just need to get Amy to stay with me, right?"
"No Rachel, it doesn’t work that way. With or without Amy, it will hurt you but not physically, Amy can only protect you from the outside but not from the inside. Tell me one thing, before it told you to stay away from Amy, did it attack you physically?"
"No, it didn’t, it mostly appears in my dreams," I responded
"Exactly, Amy can’t come to your dreams, can she?"
"No!"
"I know it's hard to step it down but that’s the fact." She said
This makes no sense, why will it decide to take me, I mean all demonic powers attack people for a reason, what’s my reason? I was about to talk when she spoke.
"When you opened the door at 3:15, what did you see?" She asked
"I didn’t open the door."
She widened her eyes as she stood up "You didn’t?" She questioned
"Yeah! Why are you so shocked, isn’t it just a rumor?"
"No, it’s not, it’s way more than a rumor. If you didn’t open the door then how, how did it find you?" She asked
"I don’t know"
"It’s either one of your family members has been cursed by the devil or you have a dark history, if not then I don’t know any logical explanation."
"It’s definitely me, I think I’m the cursed one, no matter how I act happy and satisfied I’ve been through a lot."
"Relax, it’s going to be fine." She placed a hand on my shoulder
"I hope so. But what exactly is the devil?"
"I don’t know, it’s neither a devil nor a demon. It is a creature, an evil force, its something mankind has never seen. I hate to break it down to you but it's worse than satan."
"Oh, lord!" I sighed "Isn’t there a way to stop it?" I asked
"I don’t know but If I survived it then there is definitely a way for you to do the same."
"How did you survive it?"
"It was hard, I don’t exactly know what happened but I think Amy’s grandma saved me."
"Grandma" I whispered to myself
When grandma told me to trust her, I think she was referring to Caroline.
"But do you how we can stop the devil or anything like that?" I asked
"If I remember clearly, he always poses as a person, he might be around you yet you have no idea of him being there. Wait a minute, what day is this?" She asked as she quickly walked towards her calendar, she flipped through the paper "What year is this?" She asked
I told her the year then she asked me about the month and then the time. This is quite strange, how can she not know the year, doesn’t she live in this world? She looked around the room, thinking about something, as our eyes met, she instantly lowered her gaze.
"What’s wrong?" I asked
"Nothing" She hurriedly responded
As I walked towards her, I stepped on something which made my feet slightly bleed. Caroline turned back and gasped, looking at the blood she began screaming "Get it away from me, get it away from me, get it away from me." She repeatedly yelled as her eyes began flickering, and she fell to the ground.
I began hyperventilating and instantly rushed out of the room. What is wrong with her, why is she acting so weird, it was just a slight of blood.
"No Rachel, it’s dangerous, tonight is the night he's been waiting for, don’t make any wrong move." I heard her say
I didn’t turn back as I continued to walk, she’s crazy, she’s acting crazy. She needs help.
"Rachel come back, I should have told you the whole truth at first, come back." She said as she clutched my hand.
"The whole truth?" I questioned
"I’m not what you think I am." She said; her eyeballs flickered and it turned into ghastly black.
I instantly pulled my hand away from her, she’s horrendous, I should have known, she might not be the devil but she was not real.
I quickly got to my room and slammed the door shut, I rested my back on it. Closing my eyes, I let out a breath. I turned around and looked at Alice, she was sitting on the bed staring at the floor.
"Alice are you okay?" I asked walking in her direction
She turned around and looked at me, a broad smile appeared on her face
"It's 3:15"
"What?" I questioned
She stood up and began walking toward me, as she took a step forward, I took a step backward.
"Alice what are you doing." I took another step backward as I began panting.
She quaked and her body began molding into something different, something I have never seen before. It was extremely tall, at least ten feet if not more. I let out a boisterous scream and the floor swayed beneath me. The last thing I heard before the darkness consumed me completely was the voice of Carolina telling me that the devil took Alice’s body.