*Cough*cough*...shit..*cough*Whats with all this dust? They only sold it to us a few weeks ago, and they used this house themselves. Thought Daniel as he shifted some stuff in the attic. *cough*. F*****g bas***ds couldn't keep the house clean themselves. Said Daniel to himself, but loud enough for his sister, Driana to hear.
It's not so bad, just shift around a bit. Find something interesting maybe.
A rotten piece of rat is what these shit worth for. Probably left to get rid of this irreversible stench for all I know. Said Daniel. Both were exhausted to their height from constant moving but everyone have already unpacked their last box all that left was the attic. Take what you want and throw the rest. Meanwhile their uncle was having some medical problems because of which they were about to leave for an hour or so to visit him. A great way to put this chore on those sibling, probably knew that stuff is worthless.
They had just shifted from their home to this new one a few weeks ago. All was going smoothly, though the school remained the same, their house was now not in apartment but a plot they bought from some old people who went to retirement village. That along with dad's big promotion allowed him to now afford this house of 5BHK with an attic. 2 bedroom on ground floor along with kitchen lobby and 3 bedroom at top floor and there is no need to explain toilets. the flooring was wooden and the walls were mostly yellow but they were some rooms which were floored differently as well as the walls were painted differently in those rooms. The house had a smell of musk and crushed pine. Siblings have decided to sleep at first floor in separate rooms but parents thought there must be someone on the ground floor and decided for them selves to be there, being only a family of four, rooms was never an issue. The house looked much empty and with a lack of neighbours made this whole area deserted as compared to their previous home.
"Driana! Daniel!" Yelled their mom.
They both came running down the stairs. Turned left at the bottom of the stairs and saw their parents at the door grooming their dress.
"Ok Driana, we are going, food is in the oven, we will be back by an hour or so but we might be late. And Driana, make sure Daniels is asleep by ten."
"Comeon mom today is Friday and she has to go for practices not me!"
"That doesn't matter and you will do well by listening to her. You have been in a mad mood as it is. Makes my day.." Said mom, sarcastically in the end.
Daniel drummed his feet while Driana just said ok brimming brightly. Being an older sister, she feels content in knowing she is in control.
"And clean the attic before we come back." Said mom while dad was now waiting just outside"
"Mom let me come." Asked Daniel.
Looking surprised she asked. "How come?"
"Poor uncle is sick and all vegetable like. It's children's duty to look after their fathers."
Dad said with a smile " You did not even look at his face." At which Daniel just made a confirming jester, almost realising that now, mom hid her smile with her gloved hand. "And beside, what will you do there." Said dad more like a statement.
"I don't know, maybe chat with my friends little longer than 10?." Knowing he had already lost. Dad scoffed at that and turned to leave, mom following him.
Even though the uncle was nearby he had rarely come to any occasion and absolutely did not make his own celebrations. Epitome of introverts.
When mom closed the door, sister turned to brother and said "Won't you have some fun with your cute sexy sister"
"Didn't know you were funny, besides your name doesn't match you."
"Well I don't need your judgement Daniel 0 mighty" they talked as they climbed their way to the attic.
Driana was actually in third year high school, her birthday was just a month away before she turn's 19 years older. She is a cheer girl, and has a cute face, her lips are kind of bowed shape and face a bit angular but not like a slice of pizza, nearing toward's a square more but you can still see her elegant cuts, there was no fat, fair complexion, straight black hair which flowed till her back and strand of hair were always on her eyes and shoulders, she has a straight figure but still, nobody could deny she had curves and a height of around 5'8''.
Many had confessed to her... all rejected cause they were either for boasting or just sporting, otherwise downright boring with strange pick up lines. She wanted someone like her father, trusting, honest and mostly dependable. Not like she had any fatherly complex, but respect.
As for Daniel he is a second year high school student, member of track team and turned 18 years old a month ago. He is good 6 feet with v shape muscular but toned body. They were not bulging but one can feel the lines through his garments. Black with a tinge of brown in hair and a bit darker complexion than her sister but still considered fair and out of brown. He himself had a history of confessions, he went out sometimes but all of them were too clingy for him. He needs an independent and loveable women. He would not say, but he liked intelligent girls, preferring common sense much more though. He remains mostly quite in classes, but his attractive voice will comfort any girl. But he really is stubborn. He normally remains at peace and is good natured but this shifting had him worked up, specially being at a rebellious phase.
Safe to say, if they were not sibling they could have become a good couple.
Once again at the top they begin their shifting of things.
"What is all this.." Said Daniel irritatingly." A stuffed toy... a broken hair dryer, candle sticks, rusted bars of iron... even unused broken tiles.." Meanwhile his sis just ignored him and looked into a box of jewel she end up opening. He was continuing his discoveries while she just took out all those jewel one by one staring at it like a thing of beauty and hoped that they are wearable enough after some cleaning. At the end, underneath some more jewels that were left in the box she touched a hard surface, first she thought it must be the box but she could feel the edges of that thing near the sides of box.
Curious she lifted the wood which turned out to be a big enough board, a foot and a half square. "Hey Daniel, what's this?" she asked as she wiped the dust off. Daniel came to her side and examined it along her. He wiped the middle of board and saw alphabets.
"Probably child's material." he said as he wiped the upper part to prove it.
A sense of doom and fate with a tinge of curiousness and fear came when incidents concerning it came into mind, when he read the top saying 'Ouija'.
"Where is that triangle thing?" He said right then excitedly as he scuffed in the boxes around where she found it.
"...Over there" she said pointing towards a small pile of artificial jewel, underneath somewhere lies the triangle. Probably took it out thinking of it as just a piece if wood. Now realising what it was.
He reached it, put his hand straight into the middle and instantly found it and pulled it out. The ouija board was of ivory colour with letter ingrained in black colour but triangle seemed to be of dark wood.
"What do you think?" Asked Daniel. Now realising what they are capable for and feeling a bit responsible of what he may do.
"I don't know"
"...Want to try"
"...I don't know Daniel, it's dangerous."
"...Let's try, it will be fun... maybe." Said Daniel as a bit of fear swelled inside. Both of them were confused whether they should try or not, knowing that consequence may be severe.
" Let's throw this stuff first." Said Driana, while pointing at all the garbage around, this gave them time to think.
"Ok." Said Daniel.
It did not take as much time as they thought, they in fact might be thinking that parents will come home before they finish but some how they quickly threw out all the stuff they deemed unimportant excluding some spare parts, loose tools, the box of jewels and of course ouija. Still unable to decide they thought of taking turns in bathing while the other cleaned the ouija. The dust on the ingrains was hard to get rid off.
By now Daniel was in black t-shirt and black boxers, it seemed to be a size bigger than what Daniel should wear, while Driana was wearing a black dress with white skirt covering till half of her thigh.
After cleaning the ouija Daniel brought it to her sis sitting on the couch in front of tv though it was not on. Her hair was still a bit wet and looked like she just left the bath, though he knew that is probably not the case and she must have swiped the extra wetness. Just that she did not use her hairdryer. It was winter but the house was warm enough to comfortably sit in loose clothes.
She saw him coming with the ouija. "Daniel maybe we shouldn't..." She stopped, expressing her concerns in the way she did.
Daniel said with a bit of false conviction " it's gonna be ok, we will try just this once, and besides, they say children should have as many experiences as they can."
With a sigh she said "I don't think it includes people of the other realm." But she was already starting to get up and come to him. "Ok, I am curious as well, we will try this only once, whether or not they come."
"Ok."
"And we will use the first floor room in front of stairs so that we can notice parents come."
"K k" said Daniel already climbing the stairs, Driana followed the suit after taking a candle out of the nearby drawer.
The room was mostly empty though, the door opened in a corner, in the front wall, top part was all windows lower part were walls painted light blue. The left walls were cupboards and the wall adjacent to the door was a drawer Daniel knew were full of make up and a mirror at its left and then a few other cabinets that end up before reaching the door however the right wall was empty to give space for the door to open and the rest of right side were only opened and empty boxes. This room is a dressing room but unusable since the curtains were not put up by now
No chairs were there so they brought two rested them away from the window and positioned it opposite to each other.
They sat opposite to each other, with Daniel having windows to his left. They Sat their ouija on their laps and put two finger of each hand on the triangle, called planchette.
"*Sigh* who gets to talk?" Asked Driana.
"I will do" said Daniel as a candle light flickered on the floor at his right, from the windows only came the light of lamps from some distance down the hill and the moon was half covered by clouds. All the silence was unnerving.
Daniel began with the first question.
"Are there any spirit who wants to talk with us?" He yelled.
"They are not deaf, Daniel." She said softly.
"Sorry." Though with that conversation, he felt a little at ease.
"Are there any spirits who want to talk with us? He asked again, normally but nothing happened.
"Spirits, talk to us through the Ouija board." He said in a commanding voice. Again nothing.
"Spirits come and talk to us. Are you even there?" Asked Daniel, again nothing happened and Daniel sighed. Starting to try again.
Instantly, planchette shifted and both of them yelped as the it moved towards yes. Their yelps sounded genuine and so did not question each other. Daniel looked at Driana and her face was of shock and wondered, she did a small nod, telling him to go on. The spirit came easily to them it seems.
"Wha..what's your name?" Asked Daniel, but nothing happened.
