The move

After the plane arrived in France, I had to call my older brother, Ashi.

Ashi is my brothers nickname my whole family calls him that. But his real name is Akashi. When I took my phone out of my pocket, it wouldn’t turn on so I figured it was dead. I asked Jonah if I could use her phone to call him instead, when Ashi arrived we got into his car and he drove us to my apartment first. When we got inside, the nice lady at the front desk showed us where my apartment was. It was a big and comfortable looking apartment, next was Jonah’s apartment. Hers was a really big and fancy looking apartment across the street from mine, she had a big chandelier in her living room, and in her guest bedroom and her room was a pretty, big blue flower light made of glass. Her family was rich so before we had left to come to France she asked for a lot of money. When me and Jonah settled in to our apartments I asked Jonah if she wanted to come over for a couple of hours next week. She agreed, we set up a time and date to meet at a near by restaurant. Time went by fast and in a blink of an eye it was already time to meet up. When I arrived at the restaurant, Jonah was already there waiting for me. “Did I make you wait long?” I asked, Jonah shook her head no and got up out of the chair she was sitting in. We ordered some drinks and then went to this old park that nobody goes to anymore. We went to sit down at a bench near the rusted swing set, but when we did I swear I saw a shadowy figure walk past us in the corner of my eye. I didn’t think much of it at first since France has a lot of people and it could have been anyone. But this ‘person’ looked a little too tall to be a human. After we finished our drinks we threw the cups away and headed home. Jonah insisted I should come to her place so I agreed. After we got to her apartment, Jonah went to grab some blankets while I made some hot chocolate since it was cold outside. Jonah put soft blankets on the long couch she had and pillows all over along with stuffed animals. She put on a movie once I got done making the hot chocolate. I handed Jonah her hot chocolate and sat down beside her. When the movie was over I glanced over at Jonah and I saw that she was asleep. She must have fallen asleep half way through the movie. I carried her to bed and covered her up. I made sure to shut the door behind me when i exited her room. I put up all the blankets and stuffed animals, I wanted to leave the pillows for decoration. After I was done I heard something fall in the kitchen. I went to go check it out and I saw something in the shadows, I couldn’t tell what it was since it was dark in the room and I couldn’t find the light switch. But when I did it was gone. It was probably just my eyes playing tricks on me. Well, that’s what I thought anyway. Later that night I thought I heard someone go into Jonah’s room. Was it a robber? I jumped out of bed and I walked over to my door to peek out to see who it was, but it was just Jonah going to use the restroom. She looked into my room, I thought she had spotted me so I gave away my hiding spot and walked over to her. But something was off. She wasn’t looking at me, she was looking behind me. I turned around as fast as I could but there was nothing, I asked her if she was ok but she didn’t say anything. I asked her if she wanted to talk about what she had seen just now but all she said was “I’ll tell you what I saw in the morning. For now just sleep in my room.” When she got back from the restroom she took out a pink sleeping bag from out of her closet and handed it to me, along with some pillows. I laid it on the floor then went to sleep. In the morning I woke up to Jonah cooking breakfast, I went downstairs to ask her when we could talk about what happened last night and she said “after breakfast.” Once we finished eating I wiped my hands on the napkin she had handed me before, she turned to me and said “do you remember that tall black figure with dark red eyes?” After she had said that, it confused me a little since it was almost 3 months ago. “Yeah, why?” I said. She looked around and then looked back at me. She said “that’s what I saw behind you last night.” It felt like my heart had stopped. I asked her if she wanted to stay at my house for a night or two but she declined my offer. I looked at the time and it was 7:00 am, I told Jonah that I had to leave early since I had an appointment. When I got to the door she hugged me and said goodbye. When I got to my car I waved at her and left. After the appointment was over I headed straight home. I called Ashi and told him what had happened last night, and about the shadowy figure from 3 months ago. He offered me to stay at his house, but I told him it was fine. When I was cleaning my apartment I heard a loud crash coming from upstairs, I went to go check it out and I saw a picture of my family had fallen off my dresser. “How did this fall off? It wasn’t near the edge.” I said to myself. Since it had spooked me I took a break and made me something to eat. When I got done I felt something standing behind me, but there wasn’t anyone there. A couple hours flew by and I decided to watch a movie since I had nothing else to do. When I was 50 minutes into the movie I heard cop cars and ambulances. My brother Akashi had called me right when they arrived across the street. I realized it was at Jonah’s apartment. I hurried and picked up the phone, “Ava, I went to go check up on Jonah to see if she was ok. Something happened you should come and take a look.” Akashi said. I ran over to where Ashi was, and questioned him. He told me that when he got to Jonah’s apartment all he could hear was glass being broken and screaming. He had called the cops but they didn’t show up until 40 minutes later. The cops went inside to check on her, they had to break down the door since no one was answering. They let me and Ashi follow behind them since I was close to Jonah. When the door fell on the ground there was glass everywhere and there was blood trails leading upstairs. The cops made us wait outside while they go and investigate. Thankfully they found Jonah alive, but she was unconscious with tears running down her face and blood all over her. They put her in the ambulance and rushed her to the hospital, later the hospital called. They said that Jonah had finally woken up and told us when to come visit her. When they hung up, me and Akashi went over to see how she was doing.

After we visited we went home to rest. 4 months has passed since that incident, Jonah is seeing a therapist Along with me and Akashi. But none of us would talk, because if we did they wouldn’t believe us.

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