Jessie climbed over Leeann on the bed and lay down beside her; she draped her arm over her waist and held her close against her as she drifted off to sleep. Once Jessie was sure Leeann was asleep she set off for her house to get some things she may need whilst she stayed with her.
As she drove to Leeann’s house her mind raced back and forth about what it could be that was attacking Leeann at night as she slept and now during the day. As arrived at her house she could see Leeann’s mum pacing back and forth in front of the living room window, as soon as her mum spotted Leeann’s car pull up and Jessie getting out she disappeared. She was waiting at the front door before Jessie had even gotten to the gate.
”Is my baby alright, Jessie?” Leeann’s mum Vera probed.
”She’s really shaken and upset Vera. Something has her really shit scared and I think she’s telling the truth about it being ‘something’ not someone.” Jessie said to Vera with a deadpan face.
”I just think she needs time away from ‘this’ house to get her head straight. I’m just here to get some things for her and I’ll be out of your hair.” she said as she pushed passed Vera.
”What do you mean, away from ‘this’ house?” Vera asked with anger in her voice as she grabbed Jessie’s wrist.
”You know exactly what I mean! Leeann hasn’t been the same since you moved to this house. And I think it is something IN this house that is doing all this stuff to her! Now let go of me!” Jessie pulled her arm out of Vera’s grip.
As she headed up the imposing mahogany staircase towards the arched stain glass windows on the landing, she felt a breeze whoosh passed her making her stop dead in her tracks. She turned to Vera with wide eyes before carrying on up to Leeann’s bedroom to pack a duffel bag of stuff she might need. Just as she zipped up the bag, she heard creaking come from behind her, she turned around thinking it was Vera as something threw her onto the unmade bed and held her down. She clawed at the air and sheets to find freedom but her efforts were useless against an invisible perpetrator.
Jessie cried out for help and screamed but no one came, not even Vera who was stood at the top of the staircase just outside the bedroom door listening to everything.
”Let me go!!! Let me go, you bastard! Leave me alone!!!” Jessie screeched at the top of her lungs, suddenly she found herself released.
She grabbed the duffel bag as ran out of the room knocking Vera onto her ass; she vaulted down the stairs taking no prisoners as she went. It seemed like the longest drive back to her place ever to get back to Leeann and tell her she most defiantly believed her 150%.
Jess arrived home parking the car atrociously before running into her house crying out Leeann’s name, forgetting she had previously given her two strong sleeping pills. She sat on the bed next to Leeann and shook her bodily trying to wake her, but to no avail. Jessie stood pacing back and forth across the bedroom floor waiting patiently on the sleeping pills to wear off.
Six hours later…and a lot of wear on the carpet, Jessie was still pacing back and forth in front of the bed when Leeann was finally opening her eyes slowly and groggily.
”What’s wrong Jess? What happened?” she said quietly as she saw the terror still on Jessie’s face.
”I believe you! I believe you, completely and entirely! 2000% I believe you!” she fell to her knees beside the bed and started to cry into the duvet as Leeann put her arms around her.
”I thought you would be safe going into my room, that it was just me it wanted. I’m so sorry!” she tried to apologize.
Leeann lifted the duvet open as she helped Jessie up into bed, they lay together that night hugging and sobbing as they tried to soothe each other’s torments from the unknown presence in Leeann’s house.
The next day –
Leeann woke up to find Jessie gone but replaced with the smell of bacon and French toast filling the room. She slid out of bed in search of her; unsteadily she wandered towards the kitchen/diner where she saw Jess stood at the stove. The light shining directly on her through the window making her black hair seem almost blue and her slender body almost translucent.
”You want coffee, Honey?” Jessie called out without turning around.
”Mmmhmm” Leeann called out as she plopped herself down in a bar stool at the kitchen counter.
”Well, you know where the coffee is and the OJ! Get me some too.” Jessie smiled as she slid a cup along to her along with an empty glass.
Leeann chuckled as she pottered over to the coffee machine and refrigerator. She poured out two cups of strong Columbian coffee, adding in milk and sugar before getting two freshly squeezed glasses of OJ.
”See I can do things for myself, I haven’t always been waited on hand and foot.” Leeann smiled and stuck her tongue out as Jess.
”Here…eat up cos we got a lot to talk about…” Jessie placed a hot plate in front of her filled with bacon, pancakes, three types of eggs, French toast, sausages and hash browns.
”Mmm…It smells so good…I know we do, but can we take it slowly. It’s hard for me to talk about because my mum always told me NEVER to tell anyone.” Lee sighed as she cut into her pancakes.
Jessie nodded as she sat beside her to eat breakfast before they took their coffee into the living room to chat.
”Lee, you ARE going to have to tell me everything you know about this Thing. I’m involved now too…” Jessie told her matter of fact.
”Where do you want me to start, Jessie?”
”Well the beginning would be good, but the other night before it attacked you in the middle of day might shed some light on it.”
”I woke up from a nightmare, I swear something was in bed with me but when I reached for the light and turned it on there was nothing. I put it down to my imagination or the nightmare, maybe both.” Leeann told Jessie as she looked at the coffee in her hands.
”What about the nightmare?” Jess quizzed Leeann.
”What about it? It was just a nightmare.” Leeann dismissed Jessie.
”There’s something you ain’t telling me, L! Spill it now! We’re in this together, now tell me…” Jessie shouted.
Leeann sat there in silence as she tried to think of an excuse but all she did was make Jessie angrier.
”Leeann!”
”ALRIGHT! Alright…I’ll tell you. This is hard for me…”
”I know L, but I’m here for you and I ain’t going anywhere, you know that.”
”Okay… … I was dreaming that I was in my house but it was like way back in the 1900’s or something; I was dressed like they were back then with a long white, empire waisted cotton and chiffon dress with little cap sleeves. My hair was pinned up messy with my curls trailing down my neck and a light blue ribbon throughout it to match the dress. It was very surreal, Jessie.’’ Leeann paused
“It was like watching myself in a sort of out of body experience’’ she sipped her coffee before continuing.
“I was in a dark room with very heavy and lavish drapes all over the walls and doorways; with all the old dark mahogany furniture like in my bedroom and the staircase, there was a small round table with a vial on it and a small round brown jar. Beside the table was an old style day bed you see in old fashioned houses, you know with one side and half a back?” Lee asked Jessie.
”Yeah, yeah I know what you mean. Keep going… It’s interesting.” Jessie encouraged.
”Well the day bed was covered in a white muslin style material and I was laying on top of it; sort of, my arms and head where draped off the end of it like I was unconscious or dead…” Leeann stopped.
”O.M.G. Leeann! You’re dead?” Jessie interrupted.
”That’s not the strange part… There was a devil/incubus type creature sitting on my chest smiling evilly down at me as I am lying there, either unconscious or dead. Then a demented looking horse stuck its head through the drapes at the doorway. By that time I had freaked out and woke up clutching the sheet on my bed. That is when I could feel someone in bed with me and I reached for the light.” Leeann trailed off.
”Jesus Lee! No wonder you have marks on you. Demons and demented horses. That is fucked up!” Jessie gasped.
”Wait! I had bare feet and they didn’t walk about in bare feet back then. I must have been dressed for bed… It was a nightdress and I must have fallen asleep on the day bed.” Leeann exclaimed.
”But that doesn’t explain the demon thingy or horse…Does it?” Jess looked confused.
”It’s an incubus and no…You’re right it doesn’t… I think we need to research my house cos it all seems to center around that main thing.”
”Internet or library?” Jessie asked.
”How about we go to the library and kill two birds with one stone. They will have computers there and they might have info on my house or what was there previously.” Leeann smiled at her genius idea.
*****
”Hi, welcome to the library, my name is Michael. What can I do for you pretty girls today.” He said to them as they enter the library.
”Erm…we’re looking for information on a house, or what was on its location in the 1900’s or so.” Jessie answered as Leeann looked at the man strangely.
”Okay, I think we might have something that could help you. All the records are over here if you would like to follow me, girls.” he smiled at Leeann.
”What are you doing, flirting with the creepy librarian man?” Jess asked Leeann.
”No! I just smiled at him, nothing more.” she said defensively.
”Yeah, right, whatever you say.” Jessie smiled and nudged her as they followed behind Michael.
”Here you are girls’, do you want me to help you look or are you all good to do it yourselves?” he asked.
”No we’re good, thanks.” Jessie answered.
”Alrighty, I’ll be over there if you need me. Just give me a shout…well maybe not shout but you know what I mean…” he blushed as he walked away.
”Well, well, Leeann! I see you can even make grown men stumble over their words with one look. I haven’t seen you do that in a long time.” Jessie joked.
They spent the next two hours going through records and files on Leeann’s house and what used to be there. It turned out it has always been a house but it had a dark past, there were files in the records of an exorcism of a twenty year old girl back in 1908. Also further files about strange figures being seen in and around the house and strange things happening to the occupants from previous years dating all the way back to 1779.
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