Episode 2

(Pheona's Diary entry: August 18)

I am worried for the first time in my life. My brother is

becoming obsessed with our people, always looking over his shoulder. He is

scaring me.  He is always talking about

watching our backs because someone was out to get us, I am so afraid. I just

want to go home.

(Connor’s Diary entry: August 18th)

I’ve seen the shadow walker now so many times, to many

times. He’s following us I just know it. I tried to warn Pheona but she just

keeps telling me that I need to loosen up. How can I loosen up when some Psycho

is stalking us? I’ve tried to get through to my parents but the shadow world

isn’t letting me.

(Present Day)

Who is this stalker and what does he want with the

Harman’s? The journal entries just keep getting weirder and weirder. I had a

conversation with my daughter the other day about the story and the journals. She’s

coming over to read them both.

(Connor’s Diary Entry: August 20th)

I followed the shadow walker today. We went deep into the

woods. When I got there I watched him open up a door. What I saw was shocking

for me to watch. The shadow walker was indeed one of our people. But he was

feeding on both humans and our kind. I was so disgusted that I ran back to my

house. I had to tell Pheona. Had to warn her to be careful with whom she hung

out with or she could end up like those other girls, vermin for some freak to

feed off of.

(Present Day)

Following the journal entry I saw a newspaper clipping. The

headline had said two girls found in the woods. The girls had gone off with a

guy from school and were found the next morning bled dry. When I showed my

daughter the clipping she was shocked. I had to ask her what was wrong. She

handed me the newspaper from yesterday. The main heading read, “Two girls found

bled dry in woods.” I read the rest of the article and sure enough it was the

same as the last article. My daughter started to laugh hysterically and said “do

you know what this means dad? It means that the guy from Connor’s journal is

real and alive today.” Later that night I realized what that meant exactly.

That this guy had to be over a hundred years old but still look young enough to

be in college. I knew without a doubt in my head that this guy wasn’t human. I

started to research all of the articles that had anything to do with students

being bled dry. There were so many and they were all from different years.

During my research of the murders I had received an anonymous call saying that

if I didn’t stop researching the murders that it would endanger my family. Of

course being so engrossed in what was going on in the news and in the Harman’s

journals I ignored the call. I figured it was just some teenagers pulling a

sick joke.

(Connor’s Diary Entry: September 16th)

The shadow walker found me when I followed him. He tried to

kill me but I got away. My only goal now is to get my sister and myself out of

here and into safety. But where is safety? All I know is that somewhere someone

lied to us about the humans. They’re not just vermin. But I still don’t think

very highly of them.

(Pheona’s Diary Entry: September 16th)

I’m really worried about our safety. Connor told me about

the shadow walker. I’m starting to wonder if coming here was such a good idea

after all. The humans still don’t know about what we are. Will they accept us

for who we are? Will they turn away from us when they find out? Will my friends

not want to be my friends anymore? What will happen to us if they turn away

from us?

(Present Day)

I couldn’t imagine what it must have felt like to go

through what those kids were going through, to wonder what people would say.

It’s been weeks now since I received the first threat. Many more have followed

in its place. More murders have occurred and the police don’t have any clues to

who a suspect could be. They just say that it’s a copycat murder from the

murders that have been happening in the town for over a hundred years. So how

can the sleepy little town of Scaremback have had these horrible murders for a

hundred years and didn’t have a single crime before the Harman’s' had come.

They were somehow connected I just knew it.  But how and why they were connected to this mass of murders? I couldn’t

be sure but I knew I had to find out. My daughter still hasn’t called me. She

was supposed to come over yesterday to look over the new articles I had gotten.

(Pheona’s Diary Entry: September 30)

Connor and I are becoming very hostile and we don’t leave

our rooms very often. I have seen the shadow walker; he scares me very much.

We’ve tried to get a hold of our parents but it’s very difficult because of the

difference in between our worlds. It’s like the portals closed or something.

All I know is that something strange is going on. There is something else

strange going on here in this world. College students, my peers are vanishing

and found the next morning in the woods bled dry. We had a problem that was

similar to that with one of the elders’ son. He would grab the teenage girls

from both worlds and drink their blood till there was no more. I remember

standing in my parents’ bedroom closet while the elders talked to them about

the neighbor girl. I remember exactly what they had said like it was yesterday.

They told my parents not to let me out of the house until the boy was found and

rightly punished. Of course being myself I went out that very night. A hand

grabbed me from behind and pulled me into the woods. I thought to scream but a

voice spoke and told me not to or trouble would come. I couldn’t think to do

anything but follow the person who had grabbed me.

(Present Day)

I awoke in a sweat this morning from a horrible nightmare.

My daughter was in my arms crying. The murderer that they are now calling the

drainer had drained her. How appropriate. I’m still shivering from the realness

of the dream. I could almost feel her in my arms. It was a strange feeling. I

called my daughter to make sure she was okay. I got her roommate who told me

she hasn’t been home for three days now. I told her thank you and called up an

old friend of mine that was in the PI business. We looked everywhere for her

but still couldn’t find her. I was so scared that she was dead, that I wouldn’t

ever see her again. Cliff the PI told me to just stay at home and relax. Relax

I’m supposed to relax while my daughter is missing are you crazy. I went home

against my wishes and read more of the journals.

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