the visit ...

He was just a little boy when they moved into that big old house. The way it was built made it look like a labyrinth, more than one room had to cross completely to get where they wanted to go, going to the bathroom was a complete odyssey, they crossed the patio, a corral built by the last owner, and there At the bottom, hidden among some thick bushes, was the bathroom. It goes without saying that it was a terrible thing to walk around alone, it was the darkest part of the house thanks to the leafy trees that were always in constant movement with no wind, sometimes you could even hear the leaves whispering your name and the lights choppy ones that slipped between its branches, played tricks on it. More than once he had to put up with the desire to not find someone to accompany him on that journey. Especially since as he stepped out of the house, the door behind it creaked incessantly, threatening to close and trap him there, since it could only be opened from the inside. His fear for that area of ​​the house was so great that his brothers soon realized it and played a cruel and terrible trick on him that to this day he has never been able to forget, the very rascals closed the door on purpose, leaving him outside, in that horrible yard. He cried and kicked so frantically until his strength was gone, but they just scoffed, lying there, making sure to always turn his back on the ugly landscape, wanting to think he wasn't really there, but it didn't work, the hiss of leaves calling his name would not allow him to concentrate on a happy moment to replace that nightmare, he turned to shout at the trees to be quiet, and discovered them performing a macabre dance that served as a background for the appearance of a pale and angry old woman, who meowed opening her mouth so much that for a moment it seemed that instead of a head he only had a deep and dark hole... The door still bears the marks of her fingernails, if he had only had a couple more minutes, he would have possibly gone through it with her bleeding hands, just out of desperation. He did not try to understand what he was seeing, he just wanted to escape, at that moment his screams were so intense that one of his older sisters heard and went to see what was happening... when he saw that terrible and frightening scene, it went through his body his brother at the exact moment he opened the door, he could only witness seeing how he gave off a vapor before he fell to the ground, and after that they never saw his brother again, his sister's body was still there, he breathed, he ate, but he didn't speak, he didn't see them, it was as if he wasn't there, just an empty container... as if his soul had been taken from him. Some time later they found out that there lived a sick old lady, who was only accompanied by dozens of cats. The neighbors all the time tried to throw her out because of the terrible pestilence and dirt that the animals caused and that she no longer had the strength to clean, however, she firmly repeated over and over again: —Not even dead would they take me away from here! When she died everyone was relieved, however she was a woman of her word, she kept her promise and that house at the end of the alley is still only hers but nothing was ever heard of her brother and to this day her parents desperate to save her sister They lost all hope of finding him alive. People say that now the child is the one who takes care of those cats.... but nobody knows for sure if it's true....