s beating like crazy and cold sweat fumed over me. I remember being follow

... a

t it was

oom. Confusion laced over me as I

, but my feet clamored

eam, why are m

ike I just r

ly, the house w

or opened, cuttin

ghed in relief, "Thank goodness your awake, Itzy." He

o stand up." I said, and I couldn't help but

grabbing a glass of water. I chugged it in, fe

about why you were there, sleeping, I thought you had gone out drinking but I could not smell any

ne..."

have worked hard these past few days that you passed out li

No Br

ain, but he shush

mother gone out? Oh, my aunt!" I ju

. He held my hand as he averted his ey

o say this but... s

as he bit his lip, taking th

st tell m

our aunt... she

I try to process them. "Are you pranki

oft expression tells me t

nd you last night and I saw her lying lifeless in her room. I asked m

my head swung like a bat. I was trembling, I knew it. And my visio

must no

see it f

nything until I s

." I said to Bryce

y room. He drove me to the funeral h

a room where a body was wait

took her here.

and saw an almost u

r features, her decaying

is

d shut, as I s

s my

ally

y aunt's dead body and tu

brows, "That's it?

ne. Let

ide to his car. He drove me back to

to my room and

e. I know it must

said to h

ead to the side, "

m, my voice louder now. "I need

breaking at this

seemed to get what I meant, and I didn't have to repeat what I just

myself in

h

d this

r yesterday. I snapped my eyes shut, letti

e for lunch and dinner, b

n the moo

to

o human

tinue living. I mean, the only thing left that I've

d raging with thoughts, bu

t be h

n h

and, with gritted teeth, I gla

aunt," she said, but her tone do

ill her?"

ot! Why woul

ed to not even hear my mind as they went straight to her neck and I choked her. I gripped it tightly, watching

Itzy! You'

d to see my father as he went to

alright

is getting out

aughter crazy? Wow. It did

do not have any e

quietly taking this situation? My aunt just died, dad. Your

ed, "I'm sad, of course,

, dad, I can'

ened, "What's going o

aid, "Quiet. Itzy, you

e now that my aunt died?" My

me soon. He'll take you."

minutes to unders

sell me? "Yo

punched him, "How could you do that

aid father, but I could not b

f the car engine was o

d a tall man with a bulked body appeare

yet he was rugged, which

rnandez here?" the man asked. "The