entry # 6

Entry # 6

Samuel led Sharon, Carol and her baby to the house. Carol parked the stroller outside on the porch and picked up her baby, holding her close, still scared of what she saw. She knew what she saw, and she couldn’t get the image out of her head. She didn’t understand why she couldn’t see her baby in the reflection. This was all she could think of. She had seen her own reflection, and it looked thinner than she was, but she thought it was just the glass. Why would her baby not show up?

Samuel led the ladies into the house again, and called Vanessa. He showed them into the living room and made sure they were comfortable, then went for the lemonade. Vanessa had been polishing the banister, but since Samuel said they had visitors, she set her work aside and went to greet her guests. Vanessa had been thinking more and more of what it was like before the house. This time, she looked forward to visiting with Sharon and Carol. As she entered the room, she saw that Carol had her baby with her. This made her heart stop. It had been so long since she had been so close to a baby, 8 years. Her own girls were the last babies she was around.

Vanessa smiled as she greeted her new friends. She extended her hand, but really wanted to give the ladies a brief hug. There was something about this neighborhood that was different from the other ones they lived in. This one was friendly. The people here really wanted to be friends. They didn’t just stare. They were good people, and Vanessa was able to feel the difference. Her own feelings were changing and she liked it.

Vanessa happily sat down with the ladies and started a conversation. She wanted to see the baby, know how old she was, her name, everything. She knew Carol was upset about what she saw, although she hadn’t mentioned it. This was part of the house, it was what she had grown used to. Vanessa wanted to make the ladies feel comfortable, it might be hard this time, but she was going to try. She really liked her new found friends.

Samuel brought in the lemonade and then excused himself to work on the yard. He didn’t have yard work to do, but needed to be alone to try and figure a way to fix this problem. He recalled back to when he was given this house. His great aunt gave him this house in her will. The only thing was, he and his family had to live in it, no one else could. And it couldn’t sit vacant, they had to agree to live in this house, always. It seemed simple enough. Then they moved in, and their lives changed shortly after that.

First it was small things. They would find their furniture moved to a different location in the house. Pictures would be hung on different walls, and small nick knacks would be moved around. If they put them back where they wanted them, they would return back to the new location. Samuel and Vanessa finally gave into this and left the items where they were moved to. They didn’t know how they were being moved, but no matter how many times they were put in a different spot, they would always be returned to where the house wanted them.

Shortly after that was settled, it was other little things. If there was a mess in the house, and not cleaned, someone would get hurt. It may have been a bump, or a small cut, but something always happened. This was more difficult to realize. After a party one time, they went to bed without cleaning everything, planning to take care of things in the morning. They both slept bad that night, and the mess they left turned into a disaster in the kitchen. There were broken dishes and glass all over the floor. Vanessa walked in the kitchen first, with bare feet and ended up with cuts on both feet. Neither of them heard the dishes break during the night. That was when they started to learn about the house. Everything had to be cleaned all the time. They couldn’t take any chances.

The next year they had their twins. They were very careful to make sure everything was always picked up. After they played with a toy, it was put away. If they needed a change or change of clothes, they were put in the correct place, all the time. Vanessa wouldn’t take any chances with her babies. Everything was always in its place.

Then the windows changed. This was the worst thing yet. Vanessa and Samuel were already stressed about what happened in the house. It was so hard to make sure everything was always right, but they had no choice. Now, people on the outside were being effected. Most didn’t know it was happening, they just thought it was an optical illusion in the glass. But it wasn’t, it was the house. Samuel had clear plate glass put in the house, but it turned to the mirrored type. He changed it s few times, and every time, it changed on its own. What happened then is what made them move so many times.

Just like what happened to Carol today, people started seeing things. The things they saw were sometimes small and insignificant, like Tom seeing his car look like new. It wasn’t new, but it was what he wanted, so he saw it. When Sharon saw her reflection smaller than she was, she wants that so bad, but it wasn’t real. These people don’t realize at the time what they are seeing. Most of the time, it is very small and has no lasting effect on the person. Then someone like Carol and her daughter will walk by. It is times likes this that make the family have to move so many times. Pretty soon, someone else will see something horrible, then another, ands possibly another. Then it gets dangerous.

Normally sane people started attacking Samuel, Vanessa and the girls. They think that the family has something to do with what they see in the windows. The fact is though, they don’t. They never have, but Samuel has tried to make it stop. Every time they move, he tries. He has put covers over the windows, only to have them ripped off and thrown across the yard. At one time, he put large sheets of plywood across the windows, only to have the city tell them they had to take them down. So far, everything he has tried has failed. He has to fix the problem this time. He has to find out how to make it stop.

Vanessa was starting to return to her old self. He missed the way they used to be, before the house was part of their lives. The house. They couldn’t even sell it. They had tried, a few times. It would sit, and not one person or family would even look at it. Samuel tried to set it on fire, but it wouldn’t burn. He was getting desperate. He wanted his wife and family back. He had to find a way to take control of the house and all it did. Samuel was tired of moving. Tired of moving the house. He couldn’t leave the house, and that is why they had to move the house when they moved. It was part of the rules of taking the house, and that rule couldn’t be broken. Samuel could give the house away, but it would just be the same thing for the next person.