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For the next few days, the Livinggood family lived with fear, jumping at all sounds and being spooked because someone was constantly watching them. The feeling only intensified as night time approaches. 

The incidents all began in the right time frame when Lucy and Patrick showed the signs. At first, it was things missing from its place. Bulbs bursting out with no reasoning, sudden infestation of bugs and flying insects, things reappearing at odd places and all; but the bizarre one was, every single family member had to wake up at three in the night religiously with a loud thud coming from somewhere in the house.

One incident that scared their maids was the death of the kitchen cat. She was a dear old tabby cat with a protruding belly; that never walked away from the kitchen. All she loved to do was rub on her master's feet or anyone who crossed paths with her. She demanded attention and love being cuddled. On the day, after Lucy was found in the forest entrance clearing, the cat was found dead just outside the kitchen door.

It looked as if the cat had a fight with another one causing the death. It was a bloody mess. The maids said they couldn't take it much longer and be about to walk away when their price was raised highly; making it hard for them to refuse. It was a time of famine and only solid rich family could withstand the poverty. Thus, to decline for the love of their life will risk all of their families to death; and they were not a small family to feed. For the reason, they stayed back fearing for their life.

In midst of it all, Katy realized she was pregnant again after a long time and the matter was celebrated with fine wine and feast that day; a happy day after so many long hours of torture.

Emily was the one who was super excited for the news.

After the triplets were born, none of them conceived again which was also seen as a curse by the elderly in their church but now after all these years, they were about to break any stupid back work to their name of being cursed.

That night, Katy and Julian were sitting in their room cuddling; happy that they broke the news to their family.

"It's most unfortunate that we had to know about this in midst of all this," Katy said as Julian played with her beautiful curly hair.

"I know, what I don't understand is how and why the girls stumbled there. You heard their story and they are not foolish children. The horse seemed to take them and dump them there. I really wonder that part."

"I don't know, maybe fate has chosen them. Oh, Julian, I really hope nothing happens to our girls especially Em, I don't want anything to happen to her."

"Oh Katy, I am scared for Lucy. She has changed."

"I noticed. But Em is really quiet and strange you know that right, she wouldn't show or tell anything. Oh my poor baby," Katy snuggled close to Julian wiping away tears.

"She is tough, nothing can break her."

"You don't know that; besides supernatural forces are too strong for human beings."

"Come on; don't think about it much, it will harm the baby. Tell me you have thought a name for it."

"Hmm, I have..."

"Let's hear it."

"Emma for a girl and... Edmond for a boy; how is it?"

"Ah, matching with Emily, nice, I like them."

"You do?"

"Uh uh, I love it," he whispered as he kissed her neck and trailed the collarbone, "Now, would you love if I name you for a while."

"As long as you name it just the way I love."

They kissed into the night feeling embraced by oblivion. They forgot about everything and just felt each other, loving how the moment made them feel. Suddenly their bed started to vibrate. But they ignored it.

The vibrations gave way to shaking and that made them lift their head up and stop what they were doing since no way were they strong enough to shake a king size bed made of solid rosewood tree. They sat up covering their body to find the shaking stopped once they got up. After a while, they smiled and was about to kiss again when the bed angrily shook again.

Julian got down from the bed and realized it was the worst mistake since the bed started to jump up and down with Katy on the bed. She fell down with the force to her back and literally could feel something in between her legs. As she screamed, the bed shook violently like never before and the feeling of something wet and painful sliding in and out of her womanhood horrified her. She was pinned to the bed. Julian couldn't do anything about it. Suddenly a searing pain radiated through her body starting from the lower abdomen and she felt something wet and hot staining her in between. Somewhere in her body, she knew she was losing her baby.

She prayed for the nightmare to stop and suddenly it did with her being thrown away from the bed to the opposite wall. Julian was away running to gather help. When he came back, what he saw scared him. Katy was lying unconscious curled few feet away from the bed and she was bleeding profusely. In tears, Julian couldn't walk properly.

Lydia dressed Katy and then Peter picked her bridal style and walked away hastily to their family doctor.

With the amount of blood that soaked the pathway they traveled, it was sure the baby was no more.

Meanwhile, Lucy was so good in keeping everything a secret thus no one noticed what was happening to her. It was only Katie who didn't have to endure anything; even Em was sometimes terrorized and left afraid to sleep at night.

Lucy started to cut herself with any sharp objects she found. It oddly soothed her and she found solace in it. Moreover, she was forced to cut herself. Apparently, the voices demanded her to and she did.

Not only that, her nightmares have escalated to real life like making it hard for her to sleep or eat properly. Whenever she saw food it made her feel as if it was human waste. That lost her appetite and she was visibly growing thin. Though Em noticed and notified Katie; both couldn't persuade enough with Lucy to eat more.

Without sleep, food and cutting religiously making her bleed to death; Lucy looked pale and ashen. Fear ate her soul completely day by day rendering her lifeless. And now to hear what happened to Katy aunty got her severely in-depth with depression.

They were waiting for the fathers to walk back in saying nothing happened with Katy but they never came in and time was rolling away into long excruciating hours.

Lucy was alone in the room as others were all sitting in the family room discussing and wondering. Suddenly, her chest started to pressurize outward making it hard for her to breathe. As she was trying to understand what was happening, she fell to her back and gasped when her chest rose in height alarmingly. She fell back down and convulsed for a short while. Then she woke up feeling light headed and free. It was liberating; she smiled and stretched her body.

Lucy came down to the kitchen and hummed herself a tune as she prepared herself a sandwich. The maid ran in horror with laundry all over her as she saw Lucy preparing the meal.

"I will make it dear lady."

"Do you think I asked for your help?" Lucy snapped back snarling. It scared the maid and she walked away with the laundry. As she was preparing the second one, Em walked in and noticed her making sandwiches. Em picked one that Lucy made. The butter knife which she was using to spread the jam on her bread came stabbing the kitchen table barely missing Em's hands. Startled she looked at Lucy who was furious. "Keep my sandwich down."

"You're preparing it anyway, why can't I pick one?" Em mocked.

"I said keep my sandwich down. Make yourself if you want." Lucy snatched it from Em and walked down to the garden with her plate.

"She is strange today..." Em prepared herself a sandwich and walked out to where Lucy vanished.

Lucy was sitting in her hammock, humming to herself. She was picking the bread and putting it down on the ground.

"You sure are in a wonderful aura today, what's up?" Em asked as she adjusted in her hammock.

"Why don't you leave me alone?" Lucy snapped.

"When have I ever left you alone? It's either you or me or me on you, now what got in your panties?"

"It's better than you leave me to be." Lucy sounded furious and it felt like the place was silent without any birds of insects making a sound.

"It's our hangout place. I am staying."

"You better leave."

"I come here all the time; it's you who never stay here. So if you don't want me here, fine, walk away." Em said that and closed her eyes eating her sandwich.

Suddenly she felt her cheeks burn with sudden contact with something. She opened her eyes to see a very scary looking Lucy by her side. Her demeanor and face were really different but it was her eyes that stood out. It didn't look Lucy's pale ghost-like blue eyes. No, it seemed dark. With the sun and her eyes scrunched low, Em wasn't sure if she saw any white in Lucy's eyes.

"You will get for this one Lucy; you don't walk around scratching people like cats.

"Try me."

Em prepared herself and walked towards Lucy to slap her face but Lucy was suddenly strong enough to catch Em's hands and twist it. In pain, Em cried out. Then, Lucy snarled like an animal and slapped Em right on her face. Em fell few feet away from the slap's impact. By the time, their mothers had caught Lucy to a side, screaming at her why she was fighting like boys. Katie noticed the change in Lucy's behavior and appearance; she kept quiet and helped Em.

That night, the fathers and Katy walked back in. It seemed like Katy was five months pregnant but lost her baby. She had stopped crying and sported a tight lip smile as Lydia and Julie hugged her. As they hugged her, rubbing her back, Katy lost it and cried hysterically. They took her to their parlor.

"We had the baby after so long, so long and we lost it," Katy cried side hugging Julie.

"It's fine, you had a baby, chances are you will have again," Lydia assured Katy.

"But, I want this one. I was five months pregnant Ly, five months and I never realized. Oh, Julie..."

"Shh, there, there..." Julie consoled Katy.

"I was forcefully made love with a sharp blunt object. I felt it that night, I really did. I am wounded, and doctors said, I couldn't have contact until it heals. I am so... why did this happen to me?" Katy cried hard.

Lucy was standing outside the parlor door. Katie and Em heard all of it too. But, Lucy had this sinister smile on her face which oddly looked as if she was happy to hear the news.

"Are you alright?" Katie asked holding her right hand. Lucy shrugged it off and then walked away humming a tune to herself.

Meanwhile, in the living room, the fathers were talking about the church. The Father had agreed to come this Saturday and look into the matters.

"Today being Thursday, we don't have to wait for so long," Patrick said.

"I just want everything to end," Peter said.

"You know, the doctors said she was forced with a sharp object into her uh... and they don't understand how that is possible without anyone in the room," Julian said suddenly breaking the other's conversation looking distraught.

The conversation was dead after that.

Em was crying hysterically to have heard the news. Katie tried to help but she was pretty much distraught too. On top of the news that the baby is no more, they learned she was inappropriately handled by some unseen force. It ripped their heart apart.

In addition to it all, Lucy has started to show a really drastic change in her behavior. Aggression, maniac laughter and talking back were few of it.

Tina and Mina realizing how drastic the situation was, decided they will head back home and no one asked them not to. They had their bags all packed up to go the next day. They were too sitting with Em who was crying badly.

Lucy walked into their room and looked at them all and laughed. "What is it? You all look as if something is dead in here." Lucy said nonchalantly.

Em flipped. "Yes, my baby sister or brother, I don't know and I will never know now is dead, you happy?" she retorted raising her voice.

"Well, it wasn't my fault."

"Lucy please, I can't handle this right now. Quit this act." Em said rubbing her eyes.

"What act?"

"Forget it!"

"I said you will regret it, you never listened."

Lucy's voice was different, her eyes were different; she looked completely different.

Suddenly she smiled sinisterly. The smile broadened her eyes that showed it was completely black in color. The girls screamed and ran in search of their parents.  

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I can't believe where I took this story. You see, my eighth-grade version of this story is really different. I modified it and wow, this one is really different. I am in love and hate with this version but the first version is super funny too. So, yea, I will keep this for now.

How was this update? Was it confusing?

I want to wrap this without dragging it much longer, so yea, it might end at twentieth chapter but since it's me, no guarantee, no promises!

Hope you enjoy this, thank you. 


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