It Worsens

Its late at night when Travis get home and he's soaked head to toe. It's raining outside. "I'm home!" Travis calls through the quite house. He takes a few steps when all of a sudden he hears pounding on the floor. He then sees Ezra running towards him with open harms yelling, "Welcome home uncle Travis!" Ezra embraces Travis in the biggest hug possible. Travis picks Ezra up and walks to the living room to see Marry watching TV while sitting in the chair. "Hi Travis." Marry smiled. "Hi Marry." Travis outs Ezra down and sits on the couch. "What was that call about?" "You were right. Ezra can see Svetlana's ghost!" Marry said looking over at Ezra in the kitchen. "I got that much but I thought you didn't want Ezra exposed to that kind of stuff." "I didn't until he told me himself and..." Marry pauses, "she touched my hand Travis and my knee. Svetlana touched me and I could feel it. Her touch was cold and tingly but also sorta comforting at the same time. I think thats because deep down I knew that Svetlana was actually there." Travis takes a a deep breath, smiled, and said, "I told you!" "Yea yea. I already said you were right." Marry laughed. They talk to Ezra and he said that he was fine with talking to Svetlana for them. Plus this meant that he could hang out with his deceased friend. Travis, Marry, and Ezra stayed up late to celebrate being one step closer to figuring out why Travis has this curse. They made cookies, played games, and watched movies. While half way through a movie Travis started to cough uncontrollably. His nose ended up bleeding and he felt light headed. Marry rushed to grab tissues and water while Ezra started to panic at the sight of blood. Travis tried to calm Ezra down but he was scared too. These were signs that the curse was getting worse and worse by every day. "This isn't supposed to happen. These symptoms aren't supposed to show up for atleast two months." "Marry, I think we interfered somehow." Travis looked up as Marry put a tissue to his nose. "Wanting to find out how this is happening is interfering?!" "Maybe Marry. Plus didn't you say that you wanted to get rid of this curse?" "Thats what I hoped." Marry looked down. "Hoping can count as interference." "What how?! That's not fair!" Ezra yelled. "I know it's not fair Ezra but that's how this curse works." Travis stated. Svetlana appeared next to the couch infront of Ezra. "I thought we had more time!" Svetlana cried. "I thought so too. Maybe we can still help?" Ezra questioned. Marry and Travis looked at each other. They both knew who Ezra was talking to. Well, they had a feeling atleast. Marry told Ezra to play with Svetlana while she helps Travis. Ezra was reluctant at first but agreed. Ezra and Svetlana played in Ezra's room while giggling. Like there was no worries in the world. Travis tried to calm Marry down. She was freaking out and was pack pack around the living room. "Marry! Pacing isn't really helping your nerves or mine! So can we please-! Can we please just relax and act like this curse thing never happened?" Travis asked. Marry was about to make a comment bit realized that Travis was right. Maybe pretending everything was fine would help their nerves for at least a night. And it did but just for one night. Why only one night? Why can't this pretending become reality and make life simpler forever?

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