"It was just a random summer evening for the Valentine Family.Little did we know that night would be one of the worst nightmares of our life .....".
Leonid Valentine has always found his family history interesting .The whole family had decided that they would keep their past from overshadowing the future generations,but Leonid has used numerous ways to dig into the past.
He and his younger sister, Jessica Valentine
were ready to scoop out their one hundred year
old dark past from Mrs. Bella Valentine , current matriarch of the Valentine's.She started,
".....we were all sitting by the dinner table for the food to be served.... when suddenly we heard a loud scream from the corridor upstairs ,so we went to check we were horrified at the sight.Rubella was lying there…dead….a sharp dagger that seemed to have pierced her wrist was lying beside her covered in blood and there was a large piece of paper where with blood a note was quoted..
"SUMMER OF 1857 ROSE UPON
THE EYE OF THE WARMTH.
THE WINTERS WERE LESS BLEAK AND
BITTER THAN COLD THAT WAS ABOUT TO SHOWER THE VERY NEXT DAWN."
.... We finished all the funeral ceremonies the next day and after all the guests who came for the funeral left, I went to Rubella's room as i felt heartbroken at her sudden demise,but suddenly the gravedigger called for us and that's when everything became clear.The valentine family were in the verge of tears in terror. Rubella's Body was gone!and since that day nothing was the same in that house. I understood now why she always seemed unhappy when I talked with Ismerelda or your aunt Mary!She had both voodoo dolls and now she wanted to get rid of Esmeralda and Mary using those voodoo dolls!! We were all devastated by this discovery.Two days later,two police officers came to investigate Rubella's case.We had a prestige to keep,but the news of a Valentine's death seems to have spread like wildfire.After some discussion, we were finally able to persuade the officers to leave.As our house is pretty big,we all decided to move to the left wing of our house .Here we are now living in this big house and trying to forget Rubella and our past.Though we know there is nothing to be afraid of but deep inside we know she comes every summer night, chanting spells in our corridors and writes something in somewhere of this house.Alright now you two wanted to know the history of Valentine and i told you so go away don't disturb me anymore."
She finished the story and went off to some work. Next day, Leonid and Jessica decided to visit the right wing of the house the very next day.It was early morning and the weather was a bit chilly for a summer morning .A constant feel of cold nerve wrecking sensation ran down their spine, a fear of surviving every single minute became prevalent as they moved forward. Every second felt like a never-ending cycle of pure heart shattering
fear.Jessica was coming behind Leonid and suddenly a black shadow flew away leaving Jessica screaming in horror .After ten minutes,they finally felt the courage to move towards the right wing.The great dark corridor seemed to surround them and amidst the deafening silence only their thumping heartbeat and rattling of ancient wooden floor seemed to grow louder and louder as they walked.They finally reached the dining hall which connected the middle section and the left wing of the house to the right wing.‘Cree…eek’..The sound that the old door of the room that was supposedly Rubella’s room ,made was enough to give them second thoughts about coming to this area without telling anybody.Leonid was courageous among the two so he slowly directed his torch towards the room while holding Jessica's hand,who seemed very pale and would faint any moment.They started looking around,when they came across a dagger which seemed to be covered in some dry reddish brown fluid and a rotten yellow paper with something written on it.The words seemed to have faded away from the paper after all these years and only the words,
“.........THAT WAS ABOUT TO SHOWER THE VERY NEXT DAWN."
On reading this , Leonid and Jessica both confused and shocked could not move from their place .They haven't realized that it was already late evening and all the Valentine's have already gone to their respective rooms.They also noticed a family photo of the Valentine's only to realize Rubella Valentine having a weird and sinister smile on her face making her look gruesome and terrifying. The other pictures of her in the room also looked as terrifying as the former picture when suddenly a freaky, terrorizing laughter echoed inside the room and the door closed behind the duo with a loud thud. The valentine mansion vibrated with distant laughter ,screams and cries for help until a maddening silence in a totally engulfed place totally hiding the valentine's secret once again.
“Grandma, can you tell us about the one hundred and fifty years old history of Valentine's,please!”
“Well,if you want to hear it. Don't get frightened and blame me that I did not warn you,Agnes!”
Lady Veronica Valentine , the matriarch of the family said to her granddaughter after a quick glance at their only existing family photograph hanging in the dining room ...fifty years have gone by since Leonid and Jessica were never found again.
It is once again one of the summer afternoons having a windy and soothing weather .The sunlight through the window fell upon the family photo frame that was hung in the dining room of the Valentine's .The picture had Leonid and Jessica in it with a very sinister and gruesome smile in both of their faces . One had a dagger covered in reddish brown fluid and the other had her hand covered in blood and something as if a red dyed terrifying doll is seen held tightly in her hand.
