The Girl in Room Thirteen by Lynette Ferreira

Author:Lynette Ferreira [Ferreira, Lynette]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Floodlight
Published: 2017-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

8

In the middle of the night, my eyes opened and at the side of my bedroom window, I saw a shadow move but then I turned over to my other side and went back to sleep.

I was walking up a set of stairs, moving down a dark upstairs hallway and into a room. Standing in the centre of the room, I looked at a photo of my dad and Lily on the bedside table, the same photo from the year book, only this time my dad had not been cropped out. My eyes looked toward the bed and there was someone sitting right there in the dark.

I backed away until my back was pressed against the cold wall behind me and the shadow on the bed stood, stepping closer to me.

“What are you doing?” I heard my mum’s voice.

My dad answered, “I sneaked in. The door was unlocked, so...”

“Fine, but why are you in Lily’s room?”

“Guess I wanted to just be here for a minute. I still can’t believe she would do that… Walk into the lake like that.”

“That’s hers?” My mum asked pointing at the Ouija board lying on the bed. “Did you ever play with her?”

“No. I thought maybe I could use it to say sorry...”

My mum sounded shocked. “That’s why you’re here? You were going to try to talk to Lily?”

“I keep hearing this voice in my head,” my dad said. “One and one makes three. What does it mean?”

My mum’s eyes stayed focused on the board. “Do you think she’s still here?”

“When I came in I thought I felt something.”

“Felt what?”

“I can’t explain it. Something.”

My mum traded a worried look with my dad. “Do you think she’s trying to tell you something?”

“I don’t know, Dianne,” my dad said with a sigh. “I feel really guilty, though.”

There was a creaking noise in the room and they fell silent, listening.

Suddenly the photo frame of Lily and my dad on the bedside table fell to the floor with a loud shattering noise.

My dad leapt closer to my mum and wrapped her in his arms protectively.

“What was that?” My mum asked with a tremor of fear in her voice.

My dad held his hand up to silence her, he was trying to hear something. He said, “I am sorry, Lily. I never meant for any of this to happen.”

My mum pushed him away from her and hissed, “Are you serious, Roger? You never meant to fall in love with me, never meant to have this baby growing in my belly?”

There was no answer.

It was as if even the room was waiting for his reply.

My dad said, “Lily, I know you’re here. Tell me what you want me to do.”

“She can’t be here, she’s dead,” my mum insisted.

“Then how do you explain this feeling, the photo on the floor?” He pointed to a corner. “There’s someone there.”

“Where?” My mum squinted in the darkened room trying to see what my dad was pointing at.

“There.” My dad kept his finger pointed at the corner as my mum reached for the light switch beside her.

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