“Want me to Kill you?”



“What are you doing?”

Lev asked with his eyes full of curiosity and with this lip waving in excitement. He's Lev, a childhood friend. He's always like this, full of curiosity and always seeks for something new. He suddenly spoke and appeared out of thin air as I talk to a candle in front of our front door. The candlelight blends with the tangerine color of the sun beams coming from the holes of many leaves.

“I'm calling someone.” I said as response to his question.

“Calling who?” Why won’t he stop asking.

“Just watch.”

I said. There is a belief that spirits won’t enter your home unless you let them. They are just waiting for you to say they are welcome to enter. What I am doing is confirming if there is a spirit lingering around our entrance. I closed my eyes and took a deep breathe as is I am going to dive in a deep water.

“You can enter.”

I said. The sun is setting the tangerine-like atmosphere begun fading and the orange sky started turning into blinding black color. It was a starless night, the wind begun blowing cold breeze that makes out body shiver out of coldness. The candle's fire suddenly became wavy and became more fiery. It was about to burn the whole candle but I quickly splashed a cup of water to extinguish it.

“Lev, you can go home now. It's already dark.”

I said as I remove the candle and its remnants. I didn’t hear any response coming from him. I raised my head up to see if he's still in there but I saw no one. Maybe he’s left already. But this is quite strange, I can see spirits but I didn’t see any spirit entered our home. They said if the candle lost its fire, a spirit entered your home. Well, it’s not that I believe in that saying, I just did this out of curiosity. Mother and father is about to arrive soon.

…

“We're here, Atsui.” Mother is seems to be tired.

Have you cooked?” My father asked while removing his thick clothes.

“I already finished cooking.” I said while preparing the table. “Mother, about the candle that we talked about last night….” My Mother's tired face became serious.

“What about it Atsui?” Her voice is flat.

“What will happen if the fire has gone rampaging.” I asked.

“Rampage, you say? I don’t think its successful. It is not said in the belief.” Mother said as she eats her food.

“I see.”

We continued eating with silence echoing and bouncing against the wall of our cramped house. The wind is blowing with cold breeze and the sky is pith black. After eating, I decided to wash the dishes before sleeping. My parents sleep early because of their job and I always end up washing the dishes alone at the kitchen.

There as a loud silence lingering as I wash the dishes, the only sound you can hear is the sound of the plates clashing and the running water from the faucet. The sound of a singing mosquito is annoyingly clinging to me ear.

The air suddenly turned into cold breeze. My hands feel cold because. The loud silence hass been broken when I heard footsteps coming from above. Thud thud thud.

“Maybe it’s Mother.”

The faint footsteps isn’t stopping. What are they doing?

I finished the dishes and it waited for the water to get to reach its boiling point. I poured the water in a pail and mix with the water came from the faucet. I undressed myself and started bathing. The faint sound of footsteps won’t stop which makes me shiver with fear. Its like a horror moview where the main character is spending time in his bath while his family is dying.

I finished my half-bath and check the second floor and the faint footsteps that I am hearing. I climb the stairs as I wipe my head with a thick towel. The droplets of water coming from my hair feels cold. As I walk climbing the stairs, the footsteps vanished. Is that Mothr, or Father? I knocked at my Mother's door to check is she's asleep. ‘Tok tok tok'

“Maybe she's sleeping soundly—”

Wait, my Mother can wake up just because of a faint sound because she has keen of hear. Is this because she's tired of work? My heartbeat is running fast as I think of this thing. My body is trembling, I don’t know if it’s because of the coldness of the wind or something else. I slowly moved my right hand to open the door, it's open. My mother won’t let her door open while she's sleeping. Did she forget?

“Mother, I'm gonna come in.”

I said with my voice trembling.

“Mo—”

My body froze from what I just saw, I can’t move at all like an immobilized statue. I want to scream but I should stay quiet. I can’t move after seeing stepping on my Mother's head lying on the floor with blood. Her body is lying on her bed in sleeping position and her head.

“Mother!”

Tears won’t come out in my eyes because my mixed emotions. Who did this? Is someone else entered our entered without me noticing it? I quickly stood up and rushed over my Father's room.

“Father!” He's soundly sleeping in his bed wearing a thick jacket.

“What do you want, Atsui? Didn’t tell you not to bother me when I'm sleeping?” He said with his tired voice.

“Mo–“ I can’t say any words because of the tremble caused by the shock.

“What? Why are you trembling?”

“Mother is—”

“What happened to your Mother!?”

I can’t speak, I want to scream anything but my mouth won’t open. Tears suddenly begun dropping from my eyes. I pointed my index finger to the Mother's room. My Father understood what I am implying and rushed over my Mother’s room.

“Cecil!”

Father suddenly cried loud. His voice is almost getting broken. My bidy feels hot because of the emotions that I am feeling. It’s not cold by the way. As I cry with despair, I saw someone walking fast in my peripheral view. Who is that? I followed it with a unarmed and we end up in the kitchen. I saw a child at my age eating. His back looks like someone. I quickly get the knife at the table and pointed to him.

“Who are you!?”

I shouted. He titled his head like a possessed body in a movie. I was shocked from I am witnessing. It was Lev who is possessed by someone. His eyes are full why and his hands are full of blood.

“W-What are you doing here Lev!?” I tremble. He didn’t speak and continued eating the raw meat.

“Don’t tell me… are you the one who killed my mother!?”

My mind turned blank and everything went dark. Both of my hand is clenching, I can hear the sound of the forced bones and tissues. The grip of my right hand holding the knife became more tight. He suddenly spoke.

“You let me in.”

I let him in? Is it the candle? But mother said a rampaging fire isn’t in beliefs. Does it mean he's the one who killed my Mother? My mind is getting more dark. He was about to run again but my body and emotion moved on their own. I stabbed my friend. I penetrated the long knife that I am holding to his eyes. I stabbed him a lot of times in his chest without even thinking about the consequences. I heard him saying;

“I just want to eat with my new friend.”

His voice isn’t Lev's voice. Someone else's soul. Tears won’t stop coming out from my weary eyes. My body is soaked in blood. My mind is blank and my body move on its own to the 2nd floor. Slowly, tiredly. I walked into Mother’s room but before I enter, I saw my father removed his thick jacket. His body under cloth is full of blood. What the hell is happening.

“You're dead now Cecil. Now I can get all of our properties. It’s your fault for saying you won’t share a single coin to me.” His evil laugh is lingering in the room.

This is just a jokeright?

“I'm sorry for separating you head in your filthy body.”

He's a psycho. He killed my mother?! You’re kidding me right? I can hear him laughing out of happiness. He's crazy. I hid the knife in my back and approached my dad with a smile. His body can’t move after seeing my soaked in blood.

“What did you do, Atsui? You are full of blood.”

“What about you, Father?” He can’t answer and suddenly got jumpy.

I walk down to him.

“Let me tell you something, Father. Do you know what will happen now?”

“W-W-What are you talking about, Atsui?”

“You're dead.” I revealed the knife hiding in my back and stabbed my father a hundred times until his chest looked like a chopped meat.

Where are you looking at? Want me to kill you?