The story of a voicless ghost

Chapter ten

I open my eyes but I don't recognize a thing, where am I? Abel is nowhere to be seen. I look around the place, it was horrible, an abandoned place but it was literally falling apart. The wooden floors looked so unstable that I didn't even dare to move, broken glass and dirt was all that I could recognize. There was no furniture or any trace of someone that could've lived here, I recognize that my camera is in my hand. How did I get here?

I look at my hands, their full of dirt. I was about to move when something unexplainable happened, I looked at the floor and I don't want to sound crazy but it looked like it was glitching. It became white clean marble for a second and the next it came back to the rotten wood, I was starting to get scared. I looked up to the walls and the same thing started happening only faster, the horrible broken wall started glitching into huge windows. I stared at this one closely, wait wasn't that the fourth floor? 

I started turning around looking at the glitches, it was the Dawson manor. I didn't understand what was going on, my feet wouldn't stay still as my eyes darted through the place looking at the glitches while my ears started hearing someone call my name. But I couldn't stop turning, the voice became louder and I started breathing faster every second.

"ODETTE!"

I opened my eyes, panting and sweating. My eyes darted around the room until I saw Abel who was kneeling beside me, we where still in the gatekeeper's office.

"What...happened?" I said trying to calm myself.

"You fainted I think but you where having like some sort of bad dream"

I got up and looked around fearing that the glitches would come back, but everything was back to normal, it had only been a dream...but a very vivid one. I sat on a chair and didn't say anything in a long while, Abel was kneeling still beside me looking worried.

After a while I finally got my thoughts straight and remembered the portrait. It had much more blood than that book we had found in Lula's room but thinking again, why the hell a book of a small girl would have blood? 

"Abel...why would someone kill in your mother's office?"

"You mean why would someone kill me in my mother's office?"

I looked to face him with surprise.

"I mean that's why I'm here right? Someone murdered me"

"It could've been an accident" I said trying to act calm.

"An accident? Please, give me an example of an accident that gives you a cut in the throat so deep you become mute"

I look at him not believing what he said. He got up in front of me and showed me a pretty bad scar in his throat. How did I not notice it?

"But...why would someone have intentions to kill you?"

He started pacing around the room thinking hard but nothing came up.

"You say that you are sure that Raymond is responsible for this right?" I say pointing at the painting.

"I just know it, he's the one to blame"

"But if you say that someone murdered you...if you say that Raymond murdered you, why would he do it? As far as we know the only ones that tried to warn Walter about him where Charles and Melodie, you got along with one of his children, why would he do it?"

He didn't answer, he left the place holding my hand towards the first floor walking every single corner of it. We did this for the second building too like if we were trying to find an invisible clue but for a while we didn’t find anything, not until we had reached the blue room Abel stopped walking like if he had remembered something.

He bolted through the room until he reached the bed where underneath he found a box. With the face blushed he faced me and said to me:

"Listen carefully. Go to my room and bring with you the box we found underneath the bed"

I didn't say anything and hurried to his room, I grabbed the box and headed towards the blue room but suddenly stopped again realizing something. Who was the person that everyone talked about? Of course it was Raymond but there was someone else, Julien. Charles, Melodie and even Abel's mother mentioned him in a worrying tone...what if Julien was doing the same thing Raymond was, only to Abel?

But what if he got too close to him? Abel blushes every single time he is mentioned in something and that just can't be pure coincidence. What if Abel found out what Julien's father intention was and tried to warn him? Julien would've done anything to keep him quiet and not ruin Raymond's plan...

I started walking around the hallway trying to organize my thoughts...would Julien do such thing? But I didn't have time to answer the question because when I looked up to the wall it started glitching like it had happened in my dream.

"No" I said getting scared, this wasn't a dream. I was awake. I was in the Dawson manor. Why was this happening? The glitches started showing parts of that horrible place that I had been in my dream, it couldn't be real. They started to multiply and get bigger every second.

"Abel?" I started calling hoping that he would come but there was no response 

"ABEL!" I started screaming but still all I heard was silence.

I ran. That was all I could think of doing. I ran hoping the glitches would go away but they followed me wherever I went. What was going on? I tried to pinch myself to wake me up but nothing happened, I was still there. My breath started going faster and I started hearing voices. They got louder and louder until the only thing I could do was cover my ears. Suddenly all my muscles at the same time started getting weaker and weaker until I collapsed to the floor, my eyes closing...