The Mercer's House (Northern Gothic Book 1) by Antonia Frost

Author:Antonia Frost [Frost, Antonia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-16T18:30:00+00:00

29th May, 1989

WILL IS here again. Why couldn’t Janella have kept him this holiday? I don’t know if I can bear another week of this—the constant watching, waiting, expecting any minute that something awful will happen. Alex and Corbin are both at home, so I have to be on my guard. I can’t let them suspect what I’m thinking. I know what would happen. They’d take Will’s side and I’d end up in hospital again, and be back where I started. But I won’t have it. I’ve spent too much time battling to escape the past. If I can only figure out a way to defeat whatever it is that wants to kill me and Rowan, then we can all get back to normal and be happy again.

Because that’s what Will wants, you see. He wants us dead. I know it, because the voices are almost constant now, and that’s what they tell me. I don’t know how he’s doing it, but somehow he’s set things up so I can hear his voice even when he’s not here. I haven’t seen him in weeks, but all the time he was away he still managed to talk to me, telling me that Rowan and I were going to die very soon, that we weren’t wanted at the Mercer’s House, and that we’d better watch out. For a while I was complacent, thinking there wasn’t much he could do to us while he was in Edinburgh, but then it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps he’s set traps for us. It wouldn’t take much to tamper with the brakes of the car, for example, or add something to the milk. So I just have to be extra vigilant. There’s no point in telling anybody, since they’d just say there’s no way a child could do anything like that. But of course I know he’s not a child—not inside, at least.

If only there were someone else who could hear the voices, who could back me up. But it’s obvious there isn’t. It’s me the voices want, so why would they talk to anybody else? And now there’s another one. I don’t mind this one. This one is my friend. It appeared two days ago, and it’s sweet and honeyed and persuasive, and it soothes me even as it tells me that I need to run away and escape from all this—from Alex and Will and the Mercer’s House. It tells me to pack a bag and take Rowan far away, and start afresh, and then we’ll both be happy. I wonder who it is? Perhaps it’s Sarah Humble. I thought Jonas was the only ghost in the house, but there are obviously several. But why do I hear them differently from everybody else? Other people who’ve reported hearing the voices have only heard them on the beach, and can’t make out the words. That’s quite different from my experience. I like it when this new voice comes, though, as it calms me and makes me feel better—even though I refuse to take its advice.

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