Halloween Begins

Chapter 1.

Jessica's point of view.

Today was the day that almost every 6-year-old fear the most. A moving day. I don't know why we had to move here. I haven't even heard of Haddonfield before. I liked New Orleans more. Mom and dad were lifting moving boxes inside the new house, the new house was nice and I had my room upstairs but there was kitty wallpaper in my old room and I miss that, I also miss my old friends and Neighbors.

I was sitting on the porch when my older sister, Sarah, came to me. She is 17-years-old and she's continuing her studies here in high school. "Hey sis. You want to help me carry your boxes inside? You can have the shark toy from my room when we finish." Now that seemed like a good deal to me. I always wanted to have that plush toy and she always said I can have it when I do something nice.

"Sure but you can't have him back any more. He can live in my room with the other plushes." Sarah only laughed and walked back inside with the boxes. I go to the car and lift one of the lighter boxes. When I turn to go inside I seen a boy on the other side of the street and he was sitting on the lawn, he looked at me and I hurry inside so I can put the box down and go to him. I wanted to say hello and maybe get a new friend.

"Jessica? Where are you going in a hurry?" My dad Asked, and I ran to him and hugged his legs. "I saw a boy on the other side of the street. Can I go and say hi to him?" My dad smiles and ruffles my hair. "Sure princess. Just look out for cars before you cross the road. Sarah will get you soon." I smiled at him and ran outside of the door. When I reached the street I stopped, I looked both ways and when I saw no cars I crossed the road and approached him. I stopped at the edge of his lawn and looked at him. "Hi. What's your name?" He looked at me with his deep blue eyes but there was confusion written on his face. His blond locks were swaying in the gentle summer breeze. He got up and walked over to me.

"My name is Michael. Are you moving into that house?" He pointed his finger at my new house. "Yeah we moved here from New Orleans. My name is Jessica. I think your name is cute Michael!" He looked at me, his cheeks turning a little pink just for a minute. "Thanks, your name is nice too!" I smiled at him and stretched out my hand towards him. "Nice to meet you Michael!" He took my hand and gave my hand a firm shake. We hear the front door of his house open, a blond haired girl came out and looked at us. "Aww, Michael! You have a new friend?" She came to us and smiled widely at me. "Hello. My name is Judith. Who might you be?" I smiled at her but Michael seemed to be a little angry. "My name is Jessica. Nice to meet you!" I stretched out my hand to her and she shook it. "Aww, you two are so cute together. Where do you live Jessica?" I pointed to my house and she lifted her head. "I moved there today with my mom, dad and older sister! We moved from New Orleans." she nodded and then looked excited. "You have an older sister. Does she look after you? Maybe if you were friends with Michael she would watch over him as well? I'm super busy with umm... school so it would be good if he had one fried to hand out with." I smiled at Michael and he looked at his sister annoyed. "I have to ask Sarah but I would love to hang out with you Michael!" He shifted his eyes to look at me and smiled. "Sure, I can hang out with you." Judith clapped and tried to ruffle Michael's head but he dodged her hand. I took Michael's hand and started dragging him towards my house. When we reached my home, Sarah came out and looked at us. "Hey Jessica who's this." She watched as Michael and I entered the house. "This is Michael. He lives across the street and he's my new friend." Sarah nodded and looked at Michael. "Nice to meet you Michael. Jessica I put the rest of your boxes into your room. Mom will come soon and help you so Michael has to leave by then." She started to walk back out side. "Oh, and you can't have the shark toy because you didn't help me." I looked at her while Michael looked at me in confusion. "I'm sorry I forgot! I saw Michael and wanted to go and talk to him." Sarah huffed. "You have another chance later. Have fun now." She leaves and Michael poked my shoulder. I turned to him and he looked after Sarah. "Was that your sister?" I nodded and took his hand. "Let's go to my room and play! I have so many plushes that we can play with!" I lead him up to my new bedroom and there were boxes everywhere! Michael looked around and I started digging in one of the boxes. I dug out all my cutest toys that I had to show them to Michael. "Here! We can play with these!" I handed Michael a cat plus and he took it. He started looking at it and I take the one that was a mouse. "Do you like it? It's one of my favourites." Michael nodded and sat down. "Why do you like it?" He put it down and shifted his eyes to me. "Well I got that from my grandma last Christmas and I really miss her." I pet the cats head and Michael just looked at me awkwardly. "I'm uh... I'm sorry for your loss..." I looked at Michael, putting a smile on my face. "Thanks. But I really like cats. They are so cute and fluffy and friendly. I would love to have a cat but my parents say I can't have one." Michael looked a little angry at that but I didn't think much of it. Michael and I were playing and having fun until my bitch of a mom came to my room. She told me that Michael had to leave for the day because we needed to unpack my boxes. I lead Michael back to his house. His house looked nice and I would like to live in this house more than my own. I turned to look at Michael, giving him a big smile. "Can you play with me tomorrow? We can play outside too if you want." Michael looked at me but then he gave me a nod. "Sure. Can I play with the cat again?" I nodded excitedly. "Of course!" I tackled him in a hug and he looked confused. I looked up at his face and smiled at him brightly. "I like you Michael. See you tomorrow!" I release him and run back to my house. He looked at me with widened eyes and a slight blush on his cheeks. I waved back at him at the door until my bitchy mom yells at me to come upstairs to my room.

Michael's point of view

I walked inside my house and saw Judith with her boyfriend in the living room. Our parents weren't home yet but I didn't care. When I saw Judith, I heard faint whispers in my mind. First they were silent but they are getting louder and louder, I try to listen to then but right now I don't understand what they were saying. I went to my room, I didn't have as many toys as Jessica but I never wanted them. But I really liked that cat. I really like Jessica. She is so nice and friendly to me unlike the others. I'm usually alone because other children think I'm weird and I really don't care. However, I care about Jessica's opinions and interests. Everything she says I listen to so I can get a better picture about her. When I was with her the voices were silent though they did say something from time to time. I couldn't understand them but I think the voices like her too. I sit on my bed and look outside. From my window I can see Jessica's room. She was arranging her room with her bitch mother. I didn't like how her mom made her smile because that smile belonged to me. I can hear the voices whispering something with their soothing tone. I was angry because I couldn't be with her and she was with someone else. But tomorrow I can be with her again. I shift my eyes to the wall and I focus on listening to the voices. Sometimes I wish I couldn't hear them all the time and with Jessica, I almost didn't hear them. They were quiet. I hear someone behind my door and the voices talk a little louder but I still can't understand what they are saying. Judith opens the door and sends me a glare. "You're already back. Did you do something that made her angry?" She puts her hands on her hips angrily at me. "No, she had to arrange her room." Judith huffs and shakes her head. "You can go outside if you want or stay here but don't come in my room. I need to talk to Danny." I feel the anger boiling in me. She always leaves me to take care of myself or shifts her duties to someone else.

"Fine. I'm going outside." I jump off my bed and start walking back outside. She closes my door behind me and I start heading to the stairs but then I hear Danny, "Hi Mikey! Tell your sister yo hurry up." I say nothing to him and just go downstairs and out. The weather was colder than before but I wasn't shivering. I really wish that Judith would leave somewhere and never come back. She can be so annoying sometimes and with Danny she's even worse.

KILL HER.

I hear someone say in a quiet soothing manner. It was the first time that I had understood the voices but now they were whispering again in my mind. I was making progress with the voices. I feel a little less alone because of them and Jessica and I could feel the happiness somewhere inside my chest. I sit down and stare at Jessica's house. I start thinking what I could do with her tomorrow and I let the voices whisper in the back of my mind for now.

TIME SKIP TO THE NEXT DAY

Jessica's point of view

I wake up when the sun hits my eyes through a hole in my curtains. I sit up sleepily and yawn. I don't like getting up in the mornings. I slip off the bed and put on my bunny slippers. I go to the bathroom and start brushing my teeth and hair. I don't need mom's help any more because I was a big girl now. I walk downstairs and see my mom making breakfast. She turned to me with a bright smile on her lips. "Hey honey! Did you sleep well?" I nod and sit down on the couch in the living room. I look around and couldn't find my dad. "Mommy, where's daddy?" She looks out of the window and hums. "He's at work. Are you going to play with Michael today?" I nod excitedly while thinking of all the things we could do today. "Yeah. He can play with my cat plushy. He seemed to like it." I hear someone coming to the living room. Sarah sits next to me and crosses her hands. "That kid seems a little weird. Creepy." I look angrily at Sarah. "Michael is not creepy. I think he's nice." Sarah shakes her head and goes to the dinner table. I follow her and take a seat next to her. Mom puts pancakes on plates and puts them in front of us. "Thank you!" I say and start eating my pancakes. I finish fast and go back up to my room to change my clothes. I wanted to wear something cute, so I took a Blue sundress. After changing, I look outside the window. It was a nice day and I saw other kids playing outside. I also saw Michael sitting on his porch, but the other kids wouldn't even look at him or talk to him. Some people ate mean! His eyes were following the other kids but he shifts his gaze to my window and he sees me. I smile and wave at him. He gives me a small wave back with a little smile on his face. I run to my toy basket and take a couple of my plush toys with me. I put them into my bag and take the cat plush in my hands. I run downstairs and go to my mom. "Mommy. I'm going outside with Michael." she turns around and gives me a big smile. "Sure honey. If you two get hungry, come back here and I'll make some waffles for you both!" I mile and hug my mom. "Bye mommy!" After that I run out of the door. After crossing the road, I can see Michael coming closer to me. "Morning Michael! How are you?" I run up to him and give him a big hug. Michael hugs e back and laughs a little, "Hi Jessica. I'm good. How about you" I smile at him and let him out my arms. "I'm fine too. Sarah was mean today." Michael looks at me worriedly. "What did she do?" He asks me and I started taking the toys out of the bag. "She said that you were creepy. I told her that you weren't." Michael looks angrily towards my house. "Michael? Are you ok?" He turns to me and gives me a little smile. "Yeah. Can we play now?" I nod excitedly and we start playing. We played for almost three hours when I felt hunger bother me. "Michael, I'm hungry. Do you want to come to my house? My mom can make us waffles." Michael thinks for a moment and then nods. We go back to my house. As I open the door Sarah came outside, looking like she's in a hurry. "Hi Jessica and Michael." I smile and wave at her. Michael looks a little angrily at her but then turns to me with a smile. I run inside with him and my mom looks at us. "Hey you two. Would you like to have some waffles?" I nod excitedly and tug Michael to the dinner table. We sit down and my mom puts plates in front of us. "Thanks." Michael says and my mom smiles. "You are such a gentleman. Jessica, you found a good friend." Michael blushes a little and I smile at him.

TIME SKIP TWO MONTHS

Today was Halloween evening. Michael and I have been best friends for a while now. I'm so excited because I could finally put my cat costume on and Michael was going to be a clown. We would be so cute together! Sarah was going to hang out with her friends and my parents are going out somewhere. Michael's big sister is going to take us trick-or-treating today. I put my costume on and get ready to go outside to Michael. My parents are dressing up and getting ready to leave. Hey there Sugar ball! Behave when you are with Michael and Judith." My dad says to me and I groan. "I will be good." mom comes to me and looks at me. "Honey! You look so cute in that costume!" I smile widely at my mom. "Thanks mom. Can I go to Michael now?" mom nods and dad laughs a little. "Yeah you can go. Don't eat too much candy." I nod and start putting my shoes on. Dad side hugs mom and leans to her. "I think our little girl fancies Michael." Dad whispers to mom and she smiles widely. I ignore my parents and run outside. When I go out, I see Michael sitting on his porch. I run up to him and he looks at me, but he looks a little angry, I couldn't see Judith anywhere. "Michael, are you okay?" I say and sit next to him. He shakes his head and then looks at his hands a little sad. "Judith said that she wouldn't take us trick-or-treating. She is too busy with her boyfriend." He says angrily what makes me shiver a little. He can be a little scary when he's angry. "I'm sorry Jessica." He says as he looks at me sadly. I smile at him and hug him. "Michael. It isn't important we can go without her. I know what stranger danger means." Michael looks at me hopefully and then nods. "You're right. Let's go!" he starts tugging me behind him. I know how much he loves Halloween and I follow him excitedly. A couple of hours later we are back, sitting on his porch. We were talking and eating candy. Suddenly Michael stops and looks at me with his blue eyes. "Jessica, can I ask you something?" I look at Michael curiously and then nod slowly. "Are we going to be friends forever?" I tilt my head what kind of question is that? Michael looks at me in despair until I smile at him. I lean towards him and give him a kiss on his cheek. After that I look at him and he had cute red cheeks. "Michael. We're going to be friends forever, I will not leave you ever." Michael smiles and then gives me his candy bag. I look at him in confusion and then look at the bag. "Michael? What are you doing?" Michael shrugs and then gibes me a shy smile. "You can have them as a gift." I smile at him and then hug him again. Michael gives me a side hug while he has a small smile on his face. Suddenly Michael lifts his head and listens to something. I look at him and lift my eyebrow. "Michael, are you ok?" he looks at me then gets up. "Jessica, will you be my friend even if I do something bad?" I get up quickly and nod. "Of course, I will be!" I look at him and he gives me short nods. "Jessica, I really like you. Thank you for being my friend." I start to get worried and look at him worriedly. "Michael, you are starting to scare me." Michael takes my hands and looks at me with oddly empty eyes. "When we're older, can we be a family?" I look at him even more confused than before. Why would he ask me something like that? "Sure Michael! We can be a family." He gibes me a little smile and hugs me while I was unaware, how big impact my words were for his mind. I can see that my parents are coming home. I free myself from his hug and smile at him. "Michael, I have to go back home. My parents are back." Michael nods and I hug him one more time. "See you tomorrow!" I smile and him and run back home. My parents looked at me as I run back home. "Honey! Where did you get that candy bag?" My mom asks. "I got it from Michael. He gave me all his candies as a gift." My dad smiles widely while giving my mom a weird look. "That is so nice of him. He's such a lovely boy!" My mom says and ruffles my hair lovingly. "Now get inside and go wait in the bathroom. Mommy is going to help you get a bath." Dad says and I nod. I walk inside and put the candy bags on the couch and go to the bathroom. After the bath I brush my teeth and go to bed. I wake up when I hear police sirens outside. I look through the curtains and I see red and blue lights flashing in front of Michael's house. I panic and go down the stairs. My parents and Sarah were in the living room. "What's happening?" my parents are looking at me like I was a ghost. My mom comes to quickly to me, tears running down her face. "Oh honey! You need to go back to sleep. Come with me." My mom lifts me up and walks back up the stairs. Instead of going to my room, she walked me to my parents room. "Let's go to bed sugar ball." My mom says but I can tell she's a little scared but I didn't know why. "Mom, is Michael okay?" My mom looks at me with pain in her eyes. "Let's talk about it some other time. Now go to sleep." My mom says and I just lay down and close my eyes. I let sleep come to me. Tomorrow I can ask Michael himself, if he's okay.

Chapter 2.

Jessica's point of view.

After Halloween night, things became confusing. Next morning, I tried to ask if I could go out and play with Michael but mom said that wasn't possible since Michael was sick and he was taken to hospital. A couple of days later mom and dad sold the house and we needed to move again. I really liked to live here because of Michael and I couldn't understand why we were moving again. Mom and dad never talked about it. Whenever I asked if I could go and see Michael at the hospital, dad said that it wasn't possible because he was so terrible sick that they wouldn't let anyone go to see him. I was a little heartbroken because I couldn't go and see my best friend even after a long time. When we moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Mom said that it was a new beginning to us and that we needed to forget everything about Haddonfield. Whenever I asked about Michael from my parents, they said that they couldn't remember him. While I grew up with my parents, they started to tell me that Michael was an imaginary friend that I had when I was 5 years old. But he seemed to be so real to me and I could swear that he was! I always fought with them about that but I never saw him again. When I was a teenager, I truly believed that Michael was only my imagination and I tried to forget him. Sarah never wanted to talk about him, so maybe he was only a creepy imaginary friend?

TIME SKIP 15 YEARS

When I graduated high school, I started at business school. I moved back to Haddonfield because something dragged me back there and it always felt like home to me. I brought my own house when I had enough savings for it. I worked along wit my studies and after years of hard work, I could finally buy my own house. My parents tried to help me pay for it but I refused because I knew there would be a catch. My parents are wonderful but they're overprotective and control freaks. And I hated them for it. I also adopted a black cat named Timmy. He's my little baby but he's independent so usually he would only observe everyone. He comes to cuddle with me rarely but when he does, he cuddles for hours and wouldn't leave me alone. I unpacked the final box ad the I was ready. I looked around my new home. There were boxes everywhere and some furniture were already in their places. Finally! My own house. I can give myself a pat on the back from all the hard work to reach this achievement. This is the first time I lived on my own because of my parents. They wanted to move here too with me, but I had to talk with them to stay in their house and let me finally fly away from the nest. It was tough love, but they got the message. I was an adult now! I don't know why they became so overprotective, but when I was younger it started. My mom almost fainted when I told them I was moving here.

I look at Timmy, who was sitting by the window. He was looking outside but he never wanted to go out. I tried to show him the outside world when I still lived with my parents but he always ran back in or meowed at the door. I walked over to him and patted his head. I look outside to see what he was looking at. I saw a lot of different people, who were walking around and having a great time. Some kids were playing right in the middle of the street. "Come on Timmy. There's food in your bowl." He only sat there, ignoring me. He hadn't eaten yet so I walk over to the bowl and shake it. It makes a nice little sound and Timmy immediately turns around and runs for the bowl. He always wanted me to shake it before he eats it. I laugh a little. I get up and walk over to my wall calender. I start looking through it. Halloween was only two days away and I was a little excited because of it. I have always loved Halloween because of all the decorations and candy and horror movies on TV. I walk over to my Halloween decoration box and start putting them all around the house. Timmy was watching me all the time but sometimes he would push down some of the decorations onto the floor, almost breaking them. "Timmy, stop. You have your own toys over there. We can play later." Timmy only looks at me then pushes another decoration off the table. I shake my head with a huff and then I feel hunger strike me. I haven't had a chance to eat yet, so this was the perfect time to eat. I go to the kitchen and look in the fridge, looking through the food inside. Maybe I could make some chicken soup? That was a great idea. I start to make some food but as I was making the food, someone knocked at the door. I look at the front door with confusion. Who would come to visit me? I turn down the heat on the stove to let the food cook slowly. I head over to the front door, opening the door a little. There was an old woman ad when she saw me she gave me a sweet smile.

"Hello there I saw that you were moving here today so I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Ally Johnson, but you can just call me Ally!" She said joyfully. I smiled at her and reached out my hand to her. "Hi, my name is Jessica Hall! You can call me Jess." She shakes my hand happily. "It's so nice to have a new Neighbour here." I already start to like this old lady. She seemed to be sweet. "Would you like to come inside? I'm making chicken soup and I would like to get to know you better." I step back to give her some room and she walks inside. Timmy jumps on the couch and he looks at the old lady curiously, tilting his head to look at her. Ally looks around. "You must like Halloween. I really like the decorations." she says and I let out a little laugh. "Yeah, I love it. Can you tell me something about the neighbourhood?" I ask her as she turns around to look at me, thinking over my question. I smile and lead her to my couch, offer her to sit down. She sits while Timmy jumps off the couch and runs over to an armchair where I was going to sot. She smiles when I sit down and Timmy starts climbing all over me. "Well the neighbourhood is wonderful. But some people here, lets say they have some character in them." I look at her curiously with a smile. "How so?" she looks at her hands awkwardly but then she lifted her head to look at me. "Well the family on your other side can be a little difficult sometimes. There's a lot of children living here. There is also a haunted house down the road." She says with a smile on her face. I look at her, and I'm curious about the house down the road. "Haunted house? I haven't heard about that." She looks surprised. "Really. Everyone says that the boogie-man lives there. Horrible things happened there." when she says that I started to get a little excited. When I was driving here I saw an old abandoned house, so that must be the house. I have always wanted to go to a haunted house but I never got the chance to. "Really. What happened there?" Ally awkwardly looked around and the shook her head. "It was a long time ago and it's really nothing any more." She said quickly. "Oh okay." I say to her, not wanting to push her buttons on that subject. "What about the family next door?" I continue our conversation. She perks up happily again. "They can be a little entitled sometimes but if your nice and listen to them, then there won't be a problem!" She says with a wide smile on her face. Now I know that family could become a problem to me. I smile at Ally, but then remember I left the food alone. "Oh. Well then, I will try to get along with them. Now if you excuse me, I will go to look at the food." I say and quickly go to the kitchen. I look at the soup bit it didn't look that bad at all. I start putting some seasoning to the soup. When I am done, I take two bowl and pour some soup into them. I set the bowls on the dinner table. I go and take two glasses and spoons and I pour water in a jug. I put them on the table. I go to the living room and see Ally looking at my family photos. "The food is ready. You can come to the kitchen now." I say to her, making her turn around and give me a smile. She follows me to the kitchen and we sit down to eat. I get to know her and the neighbourhood better. After a couple of hours, she leaves and I was the dishes. I'm still thinking about that haunted house. What happened there? I can feel my childlike curiosity start to bother me and I wanted to know everything from that house.

After washing and cleaning the kitchen from the sea of dishes, I walk back to Timmy. When he sees me, he runs to me and climbs to my shoulders. Today he has been all clingy so tomorrow he probably wants to be left alone again. I pet his head, giving him a small smile. "You're so cute when you're like that. Tomorrow you can have the house all to yourself. I have o go to bath so you need to be here and watch over the house." I softly poke his nose and he meows. I put him on the floor and head over to the bathroom but he runs after me. After I'm done with my night routine while the cat was clinging to me all the time, I go to my bedroom and choose tomorrows outfit. I put it o an armchair which is on the corner of the room. Timmy comes to the bedroom and jumps on the end of my bed meowing loudly at me. I smile at him and get into the bed and under the covers. Finally, I could go to sleep! I yawn and turn off the lamp next to my bed on the bedside table. "Goodnight Timmy." I say to Timmy and he meows. He runs right next to me and lays down. I smile as I lay down and fall asleep

DREAM STARTS

I was walking down a street which had so many Halloween decorations all around it. I smiled when I saw all the lights, pumpkins and plastic decorations, loving every second of this! There were children walking everywhere, going trick-or-treating with cute costumes. I happily look around and then see a dark figure standing far from me. It was looking at me soundlessly. I look at the figure for a while, trying to find some details on it. It wasn't threatening but almost comforting. I turn away from the figure, not wanting to stare at it any more. When I turn I can see younger me playing with my old imaginary friend Michael. They were playing with my old plushes. I never realized how detailed Michael was compared to my other imaginary friends who usually were animals. I can't remember anything about them but I can remember everything about him. I chuckled a little amused remembering all those times I would hang out with him. I used to play with him almost everyday but one Halloween night I didn't see him again. Mom always said that I was becoming too old for imaginary friends when I cried about him and I cried almost everyday for three months. I was heartbroken but Sarah said that I would find real friends who wouldn't leave me like that. I found some friends but they stayed in Phoenix when I moved here. I walked closer to them and saw a house which looked awfully familiar. Michael and younger me were playing at the yard of the house. The house looked just like the abandoned house from down the street. It seemed to scream danger, so I decided to go away from the house. When I turn around, the figure was standing much closer than before and it was just watching me. I jump a little because of the sudden closeness of the figure. It was like a shadow, following me silently. "Umm... Hi" I say to it, a little nervous and it tilts its head. I couldn't see any details on the figure even when it was so close. It walked right up to me and reached its hand towards my cheek, its touch was warm and I leaned in its touch, feeling comforted. It was leaning its forehead against mine, calming me down even more. I see movement behind it and tilt my head to look behind him. I saw Sarah behind the figure. She looked at the figure with fear in her eyes. "Sarah is everything okay?" I ask and her expression turns into an angry one. "Jessica! Get away from it! It isn't good for you!" What was she talking about? The figure turned around and starts walking toward Sarah. When it reached her, it attacked Sarah, taking hold of her neck. Sarah tried to fight it but she easily got overpowered by the figure. "H-Hey stop!" I go closer to them, only to see the figure is choking Sarah. I ran up to them and take a hold of the figure's shoulders. The figure turns to look at me, but at the same time it snapped Sarah's neck. I let out a scream and quickly back away from them. Suddenly the whole setting in my dream turned cold and dark, making me feel anxious. I look at the figure, which was now coming back in front of me, just looking at me with no expression. I take a step back, but it takes two forward. Before it can reach me I feel something wet and rough against my cheek.

DREAM ENDS

I sit up, sweat running down my face. I look around my dark room, my blood pumping fast in my veins. My eyes stop to look at Timmy, who was sitting next to my pillow looking at me with his head tilted to a side. I sigh in relief when I see his fluffy face and pet his head. "You little rascal. You scared me!" I say to him, laughing a little when I realized the he woke me up. He meows at me and lays down next to me. I pet his fur a little longer, thinking about my weird dream. I don't get nightmares that often but I don't mind having them if they are not as disturbing as this one. I can't even think what would have happened if Timmy didn't wake me up. I decide to get a glass of water before going back to sleep. When I get to the kitchen and take some water, I look outside my window which was facing Ally's house. I could see that she was still watching TV in her house. I guess she didn't need to wake up early next morning? I smile a little to myself and put the glass down. When I reach the stairs, I look outside my living room window. There were some teens walking down the street towards the old abandoned house. I shake my head then I go back upstairs. That house must be their hang out place, so maybe it wouldn't be so smart to go there after all. I wouldn't want to get stabbed by some teen manic! When I got back to my bedroom, Timmy was sleeping on my pillows, making me smile. He looks so cute and I don't want to disturb his sleep. I lay down next to him and try not to disturb his sleep. As I'm laying here, I start to think about my dream again. I haven't seen dreams about Michael in a long time, so it was a little weird to see him after all this time but I conclude that I saw him and that figure just because of the stress from the moving. I just close my eyes again and try to have some sleep tonight.

Chapter 3.

Jessica's point of view.

I wake up from my wonderful sleep because of my alarm, I lift my hand and slam it on it and that hellish sound dies. I still don't like getting up in the mornings, but I had to get to work today at the coffee shop. I have to start working somewhere while studying. Lift myself up and look around. My hair is like a rats nest, but I don't care. Timmy is still sleeping next to me. I sigh and get up from the bed, I start doing my morning routine so I don't look like a zombie. After I put on my outfit and go downstairs, I start making some breakfast and eat quickly. I get my bag and check that I have everything inside. Timmy comes downstairs and looks at me. I smile at him, giving him a little wave. I put some food down for him and a change of water. "Have a nice day Timmy! Look after the house for me!" I say to him. He just looks at me and then leaves. I put on my shoes and go outside. I lock the door and walk to my car. It was a black 2019 Range Rover Autobiography with tinted windows. It was a birthday gift from my parents and I was so grateful for it. I unlock the car and get inside, I then start the car and drive off to work.

After a long day at work I get back home. As I step down out of the car, I hear some yelling from my side yard. I close the door and lock it. I walk over to the noise to check what was going on, I look round the corner and see three children at my living room window yelling. "Hey! What are you doing?" I yell at them. I startled them and they turn to look at me with a deer in headlights expression. I walk over and took at the window. Timmy sits there, sending them a bored look. When he sees me, he meows and paws the window. The children look at me and then run off to their yard. I look after them and shrug it off. I walk back to the front door but as I was opening it a couple was walking over to me. I turn to look at them and smile. "Hello! You must be our new neighbour. My name is Tammy Doyle and this is my husband Tommy." The woman says, offering me her hand. "Hi! I'm Jessica Hall. Nice to meet you." I shake her hand and then turn to Tommy and shake his hand too. He looks me up and down and then smiles widely at me. "Our kids really like your cat. Where did you get him?" Tammy asked me and I connect that they are those kids parents. "Well I adopted him from my friends who lives in Phoenix." I said, giving them a forced smile. Tammy nod while Tommy was still silently looking at me which creeps me out a little. "Oh, that's nice. Could our angels play with him sometimes? Does he like to be outside?" She asks and I look at her a little shocked. "Well he doesn't like to be outside and he doesn't like to play that much. I'm sorry." I answer her and shift my weight awkwardly to my other leg. Tammy looks a little annoyed. "So who do you live with? Husband or a boyfriend?" Tommy asks and I start to get even more uncomfortable. "W-well I live alone. Still waiting for my knight in shining armour." I say to him and force a bigger smile on my face. Tammy looks at me weirdly, then she turns to look at my car. "Then whose car is that?" She asked and I felt like I was going to die. "That's mine. I got it for my birthday. I need to get inside and unpack something's still. See you later." I quickly say and turn around. I get inside, slamming the door behind me. I felt bad for lying but I had to get away from them. I look through the window and see that they were finally gone. I sigh in relief and walk to Timmy to pet his head. "Did they scare you boy?" I ask him and he meows, sounding more bored than sad. I leave him be by himself and go to the kitchen. I start making some lasagna and Timmy comes to the kitchen. He seems to follow me everywhere right now which was a little weird of him. Maybe he was a little stressed because of the move? I put the lasagna in the oven then go over to Timmy's bowl and give him some fresh food. He only looks at the food and leaves it. I go to the couch and start look at the TV. There came some stupid TV shows to wait for the food to be ready.

MICHAEL'S POINT OF VIEW

Loneliness. It was the only feeling I felt right now. It has been fifteen years since I killed my big sister. Fifteen years since my Jessica was taken away from me. After that night I never saw her again. I only saw my mother and little sister once, but after that day they never came back. When they visited me, the voices told me to kill my little sister, but I didn't get a chance. They're still telling me to kill her but now they're louder than before. I know tonight was my time to leave this place and go after my sister and after that I must find my Jessica. I'm a patient man and even if finding her takes years, I wouldn't care. She will be mine again. Dr. Loomis has been taking care of me since I've been here. The voices never liked him, but they never told me to kill him. He tried to get me to speak with him, but I never saw a reason to speak to him. I didn't see a reason to speak with anyone any more. I was looking at the white wall on the opposite side of the room. I always looked at it, listening to the voices who told me different things and what I had to do and I always listened to them. But the empty walls never affected me because I had the voices. Suddenly they started to talk with me louder, almost screaming.

THE DOOR! SOMEONE IS COMING!

I started to listen more carefully at the door. I sensed that someone was coming but it was something familiar other than the old man. The door opens and Dr. Loomis came inside with someone but I kept my gaze on the wall. Now that stranger was in my room and it felt even more familiar. "Here he is. I don't understand why you wanted to meet him Miss. Hall. We usually don't let anyone here, but if you help me with his legal things then I can make an exception." Dr. Loomis started. Hall, Jessica had the same last name. Therefore, the voices were screaming in my head. "Please Dr. Loomis call me Sarah." The woman said. It was Jessica's sister.

KILL HER! SHE IS IN THE WAY!

The voices yelled in my head and I felt the rage start boiling in me. I needed to kill her but I couldn't do it right now. I needed to be free before I can kill her. "Michael was my sister's friend when they were younger, I needed to see him before going to her. I wanted to see the monster." Sarah said, venom dripping from her voice, making me even more angry. But she was going to Jessica, so I needed to listen carefully if she says anything about her whereabouts. Dr. Loomis looked at Sarah surprised. "Really, I wasn't aware of her? Then I would like to speak with her." Sarah looked at me with an angry expression. "My sister doesn't remember this thing any more. After what he did to his sister, my parents never wanted to talk about it again and convinced my sister that he was only an imaginary fried." What! Jessica thinks I'm only imagination! The voices are screaming at me, telling me different ways to make her remember me. I feel the rage flow through my veins. I was going to make her parents pay for what they have done to us! We needed to be a family! She needs me and I need her! I try to calm myself even when the voices were getting louder and louder. Sarah looked at me and then turned around. "Thank you, Dr. Loomis, but now I have to get going to meet my sister. I'm going to surprise her with my visit." She walks out of the room, Dr Loomis following her closely behind. "is your journey long?" Dr. Loomis asks and I eagerly wait for her answer. "It isn't that long. My sister lives in Haddonfield." I can feel joy in my heart. She was at home and finding her would be easier. I'm sure my sister was there too because the voices told me she was there, waiting to be slaughtered. But this was good news. I'll get two birds with one stone. Kill my sister and reunite with Jessica. "Have a nice time with your sister. And don't worry. We're going to make sure that Michael wont leave here ever. And with your help, maybe we can lock him behind these locks forever." Dr. Loomis said with a happy voice. These two were complete idiots, talking so loudly about that. After they leave the room, a nurse enters and she was holding syringes on a metal tray. "Hello Michael. It's time to take your medicine." She said with a loud whiny voice. I didn't do anything but then Dr. Loomis came back inside. He looked at us closely to make sure I didn't do anything but I just looked at the white wall. The nurse takes the syringes and lifts my other arm with her cold hands. Because I never swallowed my medicine, they injected them into my veins. The medicine never worked on me because I knew my body wasn't normal. After she has given me the medicine, she wipes the spot where the needle pierced my skin, but the spot was already healed. She takes the empty syringes and tray then she turns around and exits the room. Dr. Loomis just looks at me for a while but then closes the door and leaves. I know that I was going to be dark soon and then I could make my escape. I get up from the bed and walk over to the door, the guards outside were only talking to each other, not looking at other patients or me. This is perfect! The guards have always been idiots here. I walk back to the bed and sit down. I must wait a little more, then I could go home to find and kill my sister and find my Jessica after all, we were meant to be a family. I hear someone else coming. I start to get annoyed from all the people visiting me. I needed to finish thinking about my escape plan so I could finally go home. The door opened and one guard walked inside, keeping his hand on his baton. "Hello Mikey. It's feeding time so get your ass up." he stands there, waiting for me. I stay still because I don't feel like getting up. The guard huffs and calls for his friend to help him. Another one of them comes to the room and looks between us. "What's wrong?" He asks and the first guard takes his handcuffs from his belt. "This bastard doesn't want to get up. He didn't eat his lunch so we need to get him to the dining hall to eat dinner or else Dr. Loomis is going to kill us." he says and I feel a little amused. They're scared of that old man even when I'm a bigger threat than him? "Come on Mikey. You don't want to skip eating dinner tonight! There is sone delicious beef!" The other guard says and comes to me, taking my other arm. He lifts me up, making me walk beside him. The first guard huffs. "Fucking bastard, he can walk on his own." I walk forward, getting a solution to my problem. I just need to make sure that this other guard takes me back to my room. Then I can finally escape. The voices were screaming at me to kill the guard, but I need to wait just a little more before I can kill him and make my escape. After eating some of the dinner, I was waiting for the nicer guard to come and take me back to my room. Other patients were crying and screaming all around me and the room, making the staff be on edge all the time. The other patients always avoided me because they were afraid of me, but I was happy they didn't bother me so I could listen to the voices and I could think over my escape plan in peace. I was thinking over my escape plan one more time but then I sense someone coming closer to me. The voices started to scream again when I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Come on Mikey! It's time for bed." The nicer guard said to me and I got up from my seat. He started to lead me to my room and I felt the rage boil through my veins, making me ready to kill. When we arrived back to my room, I waited for him to go inside first. After I get in behind him, I take hold of his throat, squeezing it hard. He looks at me, fear filling his eyes and tears rolling down his cheeks. He tried to take his gun out of it holster on his belt but I take his hand, snapping his wrist, making a loud pop echo in the room. He tried to scream but couldn't, only making a little sound come from his throat. Finally I saw his life leave his body and his body becomes limp in my hands. I snap his neck, making a loud snap echo the room. The voices in my head were silent, leaving me in peace and making me feel powerful. I take the guards keys and I sit down on my bed. I needed to wait for a little while till the night comes then I could finally escape when the night staff comes. Then I could finally go home.