Chapter 1 : The arrival

"Someone's following me." Alina told. A girl, maybe around 24-25 yrs old, looking terrified and scared as hell. She was fully drenched with rain water as it was pouring heavily outside. Maybe a huge thunderstorm broke out. "Please let me stay here for the night or else he'll kill me if he finds me." She said it with a sour throat and a trembling voice. "Who's following you? Let me have a look!" Rohan's father looked here and there with suspicion. "No one is here. I think he must be gone." He said after ensuring with a nod. "You can stay up here for the night. Go get freshen up. I will make the best dinner for you." Rohan's mother told while comforting her. Rohan, a 14-year-old kid and his little sister Navya, around 8-9 years old, were mysteriously staring at the blue gift box she was holding in her hands. Alina placed that gift box onto the table, and she went to the washroom to take a bath. "Can we open it?" Little Navya excitedly, and curiously asked. " No, it does not belong to us. We cannot open it." Her father scolded. They quietly went to the dinner table and suddenly Alina came out of the washroom and she was holding a huge bunch of hair strands that she had cut from her long beautiful hair. She looked into the hall and then placed it into the gift box. "Where are you Alina? Come, have dinner" Her mother asked loudly. "Coming!" She replied. She then came to the dinner table and after dinner they went to their rooms. Rohan and Alina were sharing a single room. She placed the blue gift box onto the cupboard and then they went to sleep.

At 2:53 A.M., Rohan woke up dripping with sweat. He looked at one corner of his room and suddenly he saw some tentacles were coming out of the gift box and it was grabbing the neck of Alina. The grip of tentacles were so hard that her eyes popped out and blood was coming like water coming out of the hose. Rohan got so scared that he tightly covered his face with a blanket. After an interval of time, he falls asleep. "Get up Rohan! You're gonna be late for school." Rohan suddenly got up and he started looking for Alina. "What are you looking for?" His mother asked. "Where is she?" Suddenly Alina came out of the washroom drying her hair with a towel. Rohan was in shock. He got frozen and he was continuously staring at her. Her mother asked several times the reason for staring at her but he didn't respond. His sister then playfully pushed him and he came back into senses. Alina then interrupted, "I should get ready and leave. Thank you for everything." She then got ready, greeted them and left. His mother intervened, "Oh! She forgot her gift box."

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