Be very Quiet

The apparitions

Everything went silent after she got locked inside by an unknown spirit.

“Who are you?” she tried to ask as calmly as she could. “And what are you doing in this girl's room?”

A hair-raising laugh then surfaced in the air. The room became dark after. As the light suddenly turned off by itself.

“Why wouldn’t I be here?” the apparition appeared on her right side vision. But when she looked, no one was there.

“This is my room.” the voice then switched to her left ear. And there she was. A terrifying sight of what seemed to be a corpse already. With flesh peeking out from its skin. Maggots start to pester her wounds as well.

“I saw what you did to that girl. Why are you doing this?”

“Why not?” the spirit smiled in a devious manner. “ She deserved it. And so will the other ones that will follow her. I’ll let them have the taste of the guilt neither of them felt even after I died.” after saying that, the spirit vanished into thin air. And the room lightened up again. There’s no sign of the dark spirit anymore.

“What’s happening here?” Anton came asking as it arrived home. It’s Mrs. Benz's eldest son, a cop who works for missing person cases. Both its mother and aunt are struggling to open his sister's room after hearing a loud banging from down the stairs. He hurried up to look at what it is.

“A student of mine got locked up inside. Hurry and help us get her out of there.”

Though confused about what both women were too afraid of at that moment. He didn’t ask a lot and did as what’s asked of him. But before he could even lay a hand on the knob, the door creaked open itself.

A face of a girl peaked from inside.

“Karma, are you alright?” asked his Aunt. This is probably the student the latter was talking about. But what exactly was it doing inside his sister's room. And got herself locked up inside.

“Can anyone tell me what exactly is happening in here?”

Both his Mom and Aunt looked guilty as they both turned their glances away from him.

***

“Do you two seriously believe this voodoo thing?” After saying that, Anton threw her an apologetic look. Probably saying that it didn’t mean to say that she’s a fake.

Still, Karma can’t help but feel offended by it.

“How can I not believe such a thing. Ever since your sister went missing, there’s never been a day that I haven’t felt like something is roaming in her room. And even the whole house at night. You too have experienced that first hand,” said Mrs. Benz.

It’s not only about fear of the unknown anymore. But they worry that the entity might actually be its daughter. Could only mean that it is already dead.

“Do you have any pictures of your daughter that I could see?” she was reminded to ask.

Mrs. Benz went to a shelf near the TV. And caught a picture frame to give to her.

The woman in the picture was indeed very beautiful. Much of what she could say to the one that she saw earlier. Which is hardly recognizable.

“Is there a problem?” asked her teacher Mrs. Torres.

“I saw the spirit earlier, but I can’t really tell if it’s your nephew. And that one is already at the stage of decomposition.”

Mrs. Benz can’t help but stutter and cry.

“I-I’m sorry, I didn’t to-”

“It’s okay,” said Anton. “As you said, it’s hardly recognizable. So there’s still a chance that it wasn’t my sister.”

“You’re right.” though she only said that to calm the nerves of its mother. Who was on the verge of fainting at any moment?

“I should take you home now, It’s getting dark. And parents are probably worried about you by now.”

***

With his teacher’s blessing, Anton was the one to take her home. Mrs. Torres stayed with her sister before Anton gets to come back to look after his Mother.

Though Mrs. Torres insisted many times that both should stay with her in the meantime. Mrs. Benz insisted that leaving the house would mean leaving her daughter too.

“What if she comes back one day? Who would greet her?” Karma can still remember Mrs. Benz’s words to its sister before she left with Anton.

“He is quite cute,” she is not easily surprised by anything. But Cissy just popped out of nowhere. That she basically jumped off her seat. She was thinking hard about who could the spirits next target be when it decided to suddenly show up.

Anton who was just as surprised with him stepped on the gas in an instant.

“What is it?”

She secretly glared at Cissy who was badly holding its laugh beside her.

“A- A cockroach suddenly appeared,” she lied. But was happy to see Cissy’s reaction after.

“I swear, I just had this cleaned,” Anton said shaking his head and continuing driving instead

That’s when they passed the same abandoned building. And saw the same apparition of a woman standing at the entrance of it.

“It’s her again,” Cissy said whispering into her ear. It's not like Anton could hear whatever it says anyway.

Instead of replying, she focused on scanning the woman from afar. It did look like the one in her dreams. And the place looked like it's the same place as well. 

But the identity of the girl from the one that was missing is hard to compare. It could and could not be the same person after all. And Mrs. Benz's daughter might still be alive somewhere.