There is a house in a small village, lived by an
old couple with their two daughters. The other 6 children of the couple are
mostly married and left the house to live with their spouse. If not, they are
elsewhere out of the town studying or working. They only come home during the
weekend fortnightly, and sometimes once in a month. The younger sister
is too scared to sleep alone, therefore the two share a bedroom on the second floor of
the house while their parents use the one on the ground floor. Hence, other
rooms in the house are usually empty most of the time.
On one chilly night when everyone had fallen
asleep, the elder sister woke up to an unfamiliar sound from the next room. She
had no idea what it was so she tried to listen to it very carefully. It was a
scratching sound of furniture being pushed on tiled floor! The elder sister
was scared to death that she closed her eyes so tightly and read some ayah from
the Holy Quran until she unbeknownstly fell to her sleep again. The next
morning, she opened the next room's door only to see it was all in tidy and
neat condition. She decided not to make any slip of the tongue on what happened
that night, nevertheless. Not to the parents, neither to the younger sister.
Few nights later, when the two
sisters were getting ready for bed, the younger one in out of the blue told her elder sister that
she felt like sleeping downstairs with their parents and asked if she's okay
with that. The elder sister who has been acting brave and sound, suddenly lost
her guts imagining herself alone in the room throughout the whole night, to
where she replied that the younger sister was acting childish and asked her to
behave. And so they stayed in the room....
The room got darker and darker as the night
went-by while the blown-off bulb of the bedlamps from two days before had not
been replaced just yet. The elder sister was in her bed trying very hard to
fall asleep but her eyes just wouldn't allow. Suddenly, she heard someone
getting off the bed and jumped onto hers. Felt like losing her life in a flash,
she finally got back to her senses after she realized that it was her younger
sister wanting to sleep next to her. Seeing how icy cold her younger sister's
hands were, she asked her if anything happens. The younger sister said she was
too scared to talk about it. The elder sister then checked on her phone to look
at the time. It was only an hour past midnight. The night they were having was
still long way to go before the dawn, so she decided to take her younger sister
to the parents' room and sleep there until the sun rises.
The next day, the elder sister asked her younger
sister again to tell her on what actually happened that night. She said that
she had been having a hard time falling asleep recently and that she felt extra
uneasy last night which was why she asked the elder sister to sleep downstairs.
As true as her gut was telling her, that same night when she was still
struggling to sleep, she felt like a
hand with long nails was slowly running on her palm. That was when she got
insanely scared and before she knew it, she had already jumped off her
bed......
