The spirit next door episode 10

??The Spirit Next Door??
Part Ten

From the moment the spirit released my neck and grabbed Junior's neck, Junior wasn't aware that I nor the spirit was in the parlour. Junior stopped immediately the spirit grabbed his neck.

The Spirit weakened my body and made it impossible for me to move. I was seeing the way he was murdering Junior, but I couldn't do anything. The Spirit wanted to make me pass through what he has passed through. He wanted to make me feel the feelings of losing a loved ones.

Junior raised his head like someone possessed, and he was breathing as if he is under water. The way he was shaking and looking really shows that he wasn't seeing the Spirit. He was just responding to the spirit touch.

I saw how the spirit was extracting something like a white smoke out of my brother's mouth. When I saw the way my brother was losing his grip from the world, the word the spirit said started sounding in my head "I'm going to kill all your family first and reserve you for last".

Tears started streaming down my face. I haven't cried in years. Not until the Spirit started troubling my family. I have cried, cried and cried severally like a baby.

I don't know where the power came from. It really seems as if God gave my Samson a little power to do wonder. I started screaming intensely like an alto singer. "Junior, Junior, Junior, I continue screaming my brother's name until I saw the door of the room where my dad slept opened.

Then I saw my dad running towards us with bible in his hand. The way he even ran out made it seems as if he had been waiting for the spirit to come. He ran over to where the spirit was standing and attempted to knock his head with the bible he was holding.

The banshee disappeared before my dad could reach him. My body was released immediately the spirit disappeared and I felt like a burden just got off my head.

Dad ran over to me and started checking me out. "Are you Okay?, hope the spirit didn't hurt you?, when did it appeared into this house?, he started asking different questions simultaneously.

"Yes dad, I'm quite fine", I said as I struggled to get up. I dusted off my body as if I just ended a race on dessert and wiped the tears off my face.

Then my dad dropped the bombshell. The word which I and my creator won't want to hear.

"Where is Junior, I heard you screaming his name earlier. Where is him, he is not here"

"What, Junior is not here" I replied in shock. "I thought you saved him when you came out earlier. I saw the way you wanted to hit the spirit, noo no, this is not possible" I lamented in fear.

We quickly ran to his room to check him, but he wasn't there. We went back to the toilet, he wasn't there. We checked all the rooms in the building, Junior was no where to be found.

Then it dawned on us that the Spirit has disappeared with Junior, if not Junior's dead body.

Everywhere became silent. My mum couldn't cry anymore. She has been crying over Esther's death, now Junior is no where to be found.

Everyone went to parlour and stayed together till morning.

Throughout the night, my mind couldn't erase the imagery of how the spirit was killing my brother. Junior's case saddened my heart most because he was the closest member to me in our family.

The next day, I decided to go and check the spot where I saw the tree yesternight. I wanted to check if there's a dark spot there like it is in our compound.

When I went outside, what I saw was more than a dark spot. I saw Junior lifeless body on the spot. I couldn't shout nor scream. Hot tears started streaming down my face again.

The spirit said he will kill all my family, now he has taken Junior, I don't know who is next?.

? Elijah Taiwo Fagbemi