Eyes of Devil

I woke up this morning with a feeling of curiosity. Well, I always feel this kind of feeling every time I wake up in the morning because I feel like I'm stepping into the world. I don't know if I'm in the real world. yah! Because I'm actually a weirdo and everyone knows that. But for me, being a weirdo is nothing compared to a special person, but not special like a mental or something just the same as normal people. Yah! I guess it's like that! And I'm still happy about being a weirdo, because I can get a lot of attention from all the people that believe in paranormal stories like I do. Yah! Spirits kinda stuff because I can predict people's lives and that's how I believe in myself. I have abilities that not all people can have. But criticisms are everywhere. There are still people who don't believe in spirits, because for them everything that is impossible always has explanations. Well, I always respect their different opinions. People have different beliefs, opinions and their own judgment in life, and we all have the right to respect each other. My name is Erica. My mom told me she got my name in the Japanese magazine because I look like a Japanese person. When I was 8 years old, I started seeing things that no one could see like I do. My parents have already noticed it, but they keep quiet. Maybe they don't want me to grow up and believe in the spirits or elements that surround me. One day it's late in the evening, we are already in our own bed and this is the time I really hate almost every night. My body has started to feel the fear hiding inside my body, my eyes are fighting not to fall asleep because if I let my eyes close the night will be my worst nightmare. At that moment, the feeling uncomfortable is starting, and I can't control it. I have the feeling my nightmare is going to start now, and I can't fight the sleepy feeling even if I don't want to sleep, but controlling it doesn't work now, until I close my eyes. I can feel the surrounding silence. I can't feel the air from my electric fan. It feels like somebody is standing beside me. My curiosity wants to know who they are. Yes, them, because I sense not just only one person but more than two or three, but because of my fears, my mind told myself not to open my eyes, but then they started to grab my feet, my legs, my hips my whole body is touching so many hands, and I am still not opening my eyes because I am thinking that their faces are the ugliest thing I'm imagining them and I don't like it to see. But then they do not stop touching me until it's slowly gone one by one. I'm so curious why it stops, but later I feel one heavy hand on my chest. I don't even move a bit, I can sense only one person, and he's standing near to my left shoulder and I feel like his face is near to my face waiting for me to open my eyes. Minutes are counting, and I am still not moving and even trying to open my eyes, my body is full of fear, my mind is praying to stop this feeling, and I am almost crying for help, but then I feel the hand on my chest is gone.when I feel that it's all gone I slowly opened my eyes, and it's really all gone. I also feel my body is draining my energy, but I'm glad to see that everything is fine now, and I can finally go back to sleep, so I cover half my body with my blanket and turn the side of my body in my closet. I don't turn off the light, but there is no light, but still I can see small images inside my room and my eyes are seeing something beside the closet. I am slowly figuring out what that thing is. I can clearly see someone sitting and his skin is shiny black, his eyes are colored red and worse, he has two horns that make me realize that he looks like a devil. And when I finally realized it, I screamed out so loud that my parents woke up and ran fast and went into my room. "What is going on?" my dad asked with curiosity. I was so scared a lot and I couldn't stop screaming and crying out loud and pointing out the side of the closet. My mom turns on the light and is confused about what I'm pointing out. " There is nothing in there, will you stop screaming, it's so annoying, it's the middle of the night, what is wrong with you? " Mom so annoyed me that she wanted to slap me. I stopped screaming and started to talk. " I saw the devil sitting beside my closet, he has two horns and his eyes are red like he is angry. " I explained what I saw, but I see they do not believe in me. "This is what happens if you watch horror movies a lot. That is why you're seeing things." My dad's voice is so pissed off. " You scared us. I thought somebody had broken into our house. Damn, it! " He is so pissed and walks out with disappointment. "But I'm sure of what I saw, and it's real, I know it's real, believe me mom." I was hoping to get my mom's sympathy and she would believe me. "Will you please stop your nonsense? It's just a bad dream, and you made yourself believe it was real, but it isn't real. Can't you act like a normal person? Do you want people to think that you are mentally ill?" Mom's voice is echoing inside my room, and she is way more pissed than my dad. "So you don't believe me, you think I'm crazy ? I thought you'd be the one who could understand me, but you never believed any words," I said. " I feel so upset. "My god for sake! You're not a child anymore, so please grow up!" my mom shouted in anger and left my room with angry looks. I was so angry and upset because no one believed me. There I realized that the world I am stepping into is a world where people don't believe in the paranormal or spirits. They live in a world where all things are made of science and technology, where everything has an explanation and believing something like I believe is just a crazy thing to do. So I made myself ignore and forget everything for the goods and start my new life and change it to dream of something that is more important than believing in a mystery. I promised myself to change my beliefs in life and forget about the supernatural or about spirits. I realized that not all are the same as mine, and, of course, I don't want everyone to think I am crazy. The morning comes and everyone has a good sleep except me. Our mom cooks breakfast and dad goes to his small farm, checking out his plants. My brother is preparing to go to work, and I am also preparing to take a bath and go to school. " Erica, call your dad and tell him our breakfast is ready. It's good to eat while it's hot, "Mom said while preparing the table. I called dad while he was busy planting, "OK, I go after this, tell her for just a moment," dad said in a louder voice. I walked back into our house and sat on the chair and started to eat breakfast. " Mom, I need money for my project, and I'm getting back home late after school. I'm going to my friend's house to finish our project because next tomorrow is the deadline for submitting the project. " I talk while my mouth is full. " Hey! Your mouth is full, where are your manners? And make sure you're telling the truth. I don't want to find out you're just hanging out with your friends and seeing your boyfriend, "my mom shouted with a mad voice. " ehh! I don't have a boyfriend, and I'm not lying. " I showed mom how serious I am. " I just warned you because I know teenagers are doing this at their age, and I'm old, so I know that, "the mom's voice explained as parents always tell their children. "Well, not all," I answered mom and rolled my eyes. After eating breakfast, I prepared to go to school. When I arrive at our classroom, I see Fina standing near the glass window looking at something outside. I stood near her and looked for what interesting she was, but I saw nothing, just walking students. "Fina, what are you looking at outside? I don't see anything interesting, "I ask her with curiosity. But I didn't hear any response from her. She's very quiet now compared to what she usually does. She's a very talkative person. She loves to tell stories about everything that happens to her every day and just laughs at her own stories. But now she's acting strangely." Did you have bad dreams last night? " I asked her again while walking back to my chair. But before I sat, the president of our classroom rushed to enter the room, and she looked like worrying about something that she wanted to tell us so badly. "What's with that hurry? You look like a failure," said Sara with a curious look. "Erica, your B—best friend Fina, everyone," she is trembling to deliver something that she's having a hard time saying to everyone. " What's with that fina? If you want to talk to her, she's right there at the back standing near the glass window. " I calmly point out my back. "w~what are you talking about? Do you mean Fina is here?" The school president looked so shocked while asking me. "Yeah! What's with that look?" My left eyebrows raised and pointed at her. " You look like you see a ghost, what is wrong with you? " I said calmly and sat on my chair while crossing my legs. "Ahm~ Erica, Fina is not here. I had come here earlier, and I hadn't seen Fina come, and there's no one standing near the glass window," Sara said while pointing the area of the window. "That's impossible," I quietly smiled and turned my head when I saw Fina. But I started to feel nervous when I saw nothing in that area. "w~well, maybe she went out?" My voice sounded like there was something wrong. " Erica, that's why I came here, because I want to inform you all that Fina was found dead on the side of the bridge near the Maharkila Highway district, " the president finally said. I was shocked after I heard it. Like how is that possible? I just saw her when I arrived. I feel I am now starting to cry but still I can't believe what I heard. "No!" I shook my head. " That's impossible. I had just seen her a while ago, and she was standing there. " I got mad while pointing out where I saw Fina. " I'm sorry, but while I was walking around early this morning, I ran into my friend who studies at the other school. He told me that he saw a dead woman last night with his police father because he was taken to the scene. And he secretly took a picture while the others were busy looking for evidence. And he showed me the photo he took and thought I might know the female student because we were wearing the same uniform,"the president explained to me. "See, it's just a picture, you're not so sure if that is Fina. " I shouted at her as like I still believed that she was just mistaking the picture. " I thought that at first, but because I wanted to know the truth or be sure that this wasn't Fina, I decided to go to her house to ask her family if it was true, but when I got to their house, I saw many police officers around and Fina's mother was crying and screaming for justice for her daughter." her voice sounded sad. I suddenly felt depressed by what I heard. I didn't realize the tears were streaming down my cheeks. I still couldn't believe the news the school president delivered, and now I cried so loudly that I couldn't catch my breath. I still don't believe it, my heart wanted to see her alive and believed they were just mistaken. It's just really hard to accept reality. She's the only friend of mine who believes in me and accepts me for who I am. I don't know how to start my life without her. Soon, our teacher Linda arrived, her face showing the deep sadness that everyone knew she knew what had happened to one of her students. She felt sorry for Fina and when she saw me crying so much, she also felt sorry for me because she knew that Fina and I were close friends. " Erica, I'm giving you permission to temporarily miss class to visit Fina's family. Please also let them know that our school sends its deepest condolences to Fina, and please also tell them that me and all of Fina's classmates will be coming to see her and catch a glimpse of her, even for a moment, "said Teacher Linda. I just nodded, got the bag and left the classroom. My eyes are slightly swollen from crying. I still can't believe that Fina is gone and i will never see her ever." You i***t fina, we still have more things to do later with our project. You left me hanging, you i***t!" I whispered with a voice of regretful moment. "Help me" " Please not now, I'm not in a mood. Go get some help from others," I answered, and ignore her. But then I stopped walking and turned back to where the voice came out. It was like I was being doused with cold water. Because I see I'm the only one walking around. I scroll my eyes everywhere, but I don't see anyone walking around. " Maybe I'm just paranoid," I told myself, and I stopped three times to wake myself up and keep walking. "Please help me, sis," a voice sounds like she was in a deep whale calling for help. I swallowed in fear when I heard the woman's voice asking for help. Instead of stopping walking, I walked so fast and did not turn my head back because I knew if I turned around I would see something that everyone wouldn't want to see. But then I realized her voice sounded familiar to me. " Fina, is that you? " I stopped walking, but I did not turn around. I'm still scared even though I know it was Fina's voice. The silence around me makes me more scared to death. I have a feeling that someone is near and following me. " Maybe I'm just hallucinating. " That's what I'm thinking, and I believe it's just a hallucination. I took a deep breath and kept walking. But then, " s~sis please help me, "she's calling now and crying out loud. I stopped walking again. And I took a deep breath, then turned around. "Please stop," I shouted to the person, but when I saw the person standing in front of me, I got blocked. My heart was beating fast, my tears were slowly falling, and my mouth was trembling, unable to utter a word. The person in front of me started walking towards me. I tried to look at her face, but I couldn't understand why her face was dark and blank. But I saw that her neck was full of blood and I could see that there was a s***h on her neck, and between her legs there was blood as if something had been done to her by force, and something came to my mind that made me cry, and I couldn't accept that this was what happened to her. The only thing I could do was cry a lot because I couldn't stand seeing her look like that. She was about to touch me, but I couldn't take it to see her look like that, so I was quick to run and left her. As I ran out of the compound. I couldn't quite figure out if what I was seeing was right. Why did I now feel certain that she was really dead, and yet I couldn't understand why she needed to show herself to me? "Wait, they told me she had been found dead, meaning someone had killed her and the reason she's asking me for help is that someone killed her. Why didn't I realize that right away?" I'm so annoyed with myself for not thinking of that sooner." I was a very useless friend to her. Instead of listening to her, I just left her. What stupid! " I hurt myself for what I did to her. "Erica," a voice sounds familiar to me. " Cassandra," I called her and hugged her, then I started to cry again. "I think you already know," Cassandra guessed that I had already found out what happened to her elder sister. "I just found out a while ago, that's why I left the school to go to your house," I said while I was wiping my tears. " It's true, and I couldn't imagine this happening to my sister. She was so kind and gentle to everyone and then this happened to her." She couldn't accept what had happened to her sister. "What happened to her was also very painful for me, because to me, I considered her like my real sister," I said in a painful feeling. "But" I grabbed both of her shoulders and brought her towards me. "I know what happened to her wasn't an accident, believe me." I said it with certainty in my hunches. "The investigators took my sister's body for an autopsy to find out how she died, because there is a belief that she was hit-and-run and thrown. But we all don't believe it. We know that there was some kind of foul play in her death." Cassandra sounded like she was sure of what she believed. "I know, and you won't believe it, but Fina appeared to me, and she's asking me for help." I am overwhelmed with the excitement of telling her this. Because I know that we both want to know what really happened to her sister. " Really?" She asked, as if she couldn't believe what I said. " Yes, and I saw the unfair look on her face. I saw that she had a cut on her neck and between her legs there was a lot of blood. I felt like he had been taken advantage of, and I knew that it wasn't just one or two people who did this to her. " I told her the story with determination and certainty about what her sister had told me. "Come on, let's tell our parents this, and I know they'll believe you because my sister often tells us stories about you." She confidently invited me to come with her. She held my hand and pulled me away from the school, and we made our way back to their house. " I will find the truth behind her death. I promised! " I am confident that we will get justice for Fina and I promise that whoever did this to her will be held accountable. " Don't worry sis, whoever did this to her. I'm sure his conscience will never let him sleep. " Cassandra believes that the evil of the guilty will not prevail and that the time and place will come when he will voluntarily surrender to the authorities. We both believe that we will get justice and that the guilty will be brought to justice. I was stunned for a moment while walking, thinking that the only way I could find out who was behind the crime was to talk to Fina's spirit myself. But somehow, I still don't have any knowledge about summoning souls and talking to them. " It's just stupid, I'm not a spiritualist to have the power to summon souls. " I was meditating to myself, and suddenly I felt a headache from thinking about things. " Are you OK?" Cassandra feels worried. " It was nothing." I suddenly came to my senses and smiled at her and just pretended that I was fine. We finally arrived at their house. As we entered, I could immediately feel the sadness their family was going through. I often visited her house every time we needed to spend a lot of time doing our projects. But this was the first time I felt the heavy feeling inside her house. When I entered the house, the first person I saw was her mother sitting at the dining table. Her eyes widened as she stared into nothingness. Next to her should be warm milk, but you can see that she hasn't even touched it, and it seems like she is floating in the nothingness. And you can also see how much she misses her daughter. "Mom, Erica is here," Cassandra knocked on her mom's silence. Her mother slowly turned her gaze to me. " Last night she told me she was going to see you, then she didn't come home." She said while staring into my eyes as if she was lost in herself. " Did she come to your house? Did you two meet? " She asked me with some doubt about me. "We didn't meet last night and I didn't know she was coming to see me." I explained with shock when I found out that Fina wanted to visit me that night, or maybe Fina lied to her. Because I know that fina is sometimes secretly seeing her boyfriend. " I think I need to tell Fina's secret to all of you." It's time for them to learn the secret that Fina has been keeping from them for a long time. " She has a boyfriend that she has been hiding from you for a long time because she is afraid of being scolded and breaking up the two of them. " I sighed at what I said. Their mother fell back in her chair when she heard this from me. " She has a boyfriend? Did I hear that right? " She asked while crying after hearing this and thinking that her daughter's boyfriend was the culprit for what happened to her daughter. " Please calm down, aunt. Let's be gentle with the accusations we are about to release because we might make a mistake and end up being sued for false accusations. " I was worried by the anxiety she showed, as if she was sure of what she was thinking. " How can I calm down? Who is her boyfriend? Bring him to me. " She screams and shakes with anger. " Mom, just calm down and don't be hasty. " Cassandra tried to calm her mom down, but she couldn't calm her down because of the revelation she had learned. " Auntie, listen to me." I grabbed her shoulders and faced her and said firmly. " I will help to find out what really happened to her, and I will make sure we find out who that bastard who did this to her. " I said seriously. Because I feel like I can bring justice for the death of my best friend. " I know it's hard to believe, but before I found out that Fina was dead, I saw with my own two eyes that she was very much alive and I even talked to her. But no matter what questions I ask, she doesn't talk or ignores my questions. And when I found out that she was dead, I didn't immediately believe it, because I could see that she was very much alive. But then I didn't see her everywhere. And I thought she wouldn't show up, but before I left school, she suddenly showed up, and she was crying while asking me for help." I took a deep breath before I continued speaking. " Auntie, I saw her, she had a cut on her neck and there was a lot of blood between her legs, it looked like she had been r***d. " After I spoke, I could see the worry in her face expression, and it seemed like she thought I was going crazy. She grabbed my hand and pushed me away from her. " You're going crazy, I was right in what I said and preached to my daughter that you're not a good influence on her. She often tells me stories about what you see. And I always remind her not to imitate you or believe everything you say, because she will also look crazy like you. " She shouted at me, almost making the veins in her neck pop out because she was so angry with me. " If you don't have anything nice to say to me, get out of my way. You're not helping, you're just making the situation worse." She shouted at me, judging my character. " Mom, stop it," Cassandra scolded her mother for her behavior towards me. I felt ashamed of what she told me. It felt like I was shrinking in the eyes of the people looking at where I was standing. I couldn't stop crying, because what she said to me hurt me so much. I stepped back and walked out of their house carrying a load of shame. I can't blame them if I look crazy in their eyes. " This is all I can say, I will solve Fina's case myself and I swear that all the pain I feel from your judgment of my character will be replaced with gratitude. " I whispered to the wind with anger in my heart. I heard a voice calling from my back. It's Cassandra. " Wait, "he chased me and begged. " Please be patient with my mom. She's just very stressed because we still don't have any news on the autopsy conducted by the authorities. She just has so much on her mind and to this day she still can't accept that my sister is gone." She gave a long explanation and apologized for what happened. " It's okay!" I answered calmly and briefly. And just as I was about to leave, she stopped me. " If they don't believe in you, I do. I believe in you like my sister believes in you, " she said, her face showing confidence in my abilities. " For my sister, I will trust you and promise me that even despite the judgment you receive, I hope you will not change your belief in yourself that you can bring justice to my sister's death. " She said confidently and held my hands tightly. She makes me feel like she has complete trust in me. I was suddenly encouraged by what she told me. My belief in my own abilities grew even stronger. " Thanks to you, I've regained my courage. " I put my hand on her shoulder and smiled. " I will never let you down, even though I know your family doesn't trust me, but I will do everything I can, to ensure your sister gets the justice." I said with proud to myself. " That's what I want from you, to have great self-confidence." She smiled despite her sadness. " I only draw courage from you, even though our situation is very difficult. " Suddenly there was sadness in her voice. After a while, she suddenly burst into tears. It was obvious that she was holding back the sadness in her heart. I suddenly felt sorry for her and hugged her to comfort her with what she was going through. " Let it out, don't hold it back. I am here to listen and sympathize with you in your grief. You're not alone." I express my deepest sympathy for her. I felt her embrace tighten, and suddenly she burst into tears as if there was no end. I patted her back and rubbed her head to comfort her. After a while, she stopped crying and wiped her tears. " Thank you, I hope you can get some clues about the people who did bad things to my sister. " I know that what happened to my sister was not an accident, and like you said, you saw my sister asking you for help. That means she was just implying that what happened to her was not an accident. " She was deep in thought. " Yes, and that's the first thing I'll find out. Besides that, I also want to know what the autopsy results are. Because if she was r***d, they would surely get evidence inside her private parts, and it would come out how many sperm had penetrated her consciousness." I said seriously, with a trace of positive suspicion. " Okay, I'll let you know as soon as we get the autopsy results and, just in case you think it is right, I'm ready to help catch the culprits." She promised me proudly. " Let's do this together. " There was a hint of encouragement in my voice as I promised her.