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Chapter 5 - The Haunted Trip pt.5

Ghost: I will never let her live not you all . You all have to die.

Liya: Why? She didn't did anything. Why anyone else is going to take responsibility for her father? Her father and some people did that with you. We didn't and she didn't.

Ghost: But she is her daughter and revenge should be harder.

Zyan: As a mother we know the pain loosing your child. How could you do that to someone's else child.

Ghost: But she took my child too.

Zyan: So go kills those .

Suddenly Ghost lady let Diana's body go and throw her on the floor.

But luckily Leon catched her.

And then they saw her.

At first, it was just a shape in the mist.

A pale outline near the far wall.

Then it became clearer.

A woman.

Dressed in white, her clothes stained with something darker, something that never seemed to fade. Her hair hung loose, partially covering her face. One hand rested protectively over her stomach.

Her eyes…

They weren't empty.

They were full.

Of pain.

Of rage.

Of something that had waited far too long.

No one ran.

No one screamed.

Ghost: How could I? How could I kill them? Tell me.

A voice.

Broken.

Diana wake up after a few minutes later said.

Diana: Why? Why did you killed Julian for then? If you have problem with my father and me then why are you taking away someone else life. Let them all go and kill me. And give me my Julian back.( She brusted in tears)

Liya suddenly hugged Diana and said,

Liya: No we are not going leave you. You are our friends. We also a type of family. How could we leave you. Looked we could bring Julian back. It's not our fault it's just impossible to bring him back.

Ghost: That boy is not death.I didn't kill him . He fainted up there .

The ghost pointed a room . They all went to together in a room.

Dark and Hollowed.

Dust and blood mixed together.

They saw a body or should I say skeleton on a top of a bed, hanging on the fan.

Liya screamed.

Zyan: Relax relax babe, that's a skeleton. Don't worry.

Leon: Hey bro look there is Julian.

They all saw Julian's body.

Diana hold Julian's face and said,

Diana: Hey wake up, look. We all are here for you. Plz wake up.

Leon sprinkled some water on Julian's face.

Finally he wake up.

And hugged Diana and said,

Julian: Diana! I_ I _ I thought that I lost you forever and ever. I missed you so much.

Diana: I missed you too.

Before they could go finish, the ghost said

Ghost: Get out of my house. Move away.

Diana: Thanks .

Leon clenched his fists.

Leon:We can't just leave this."

Diana: We won't.

Her voice was no longer trembling.

Diana: I promise that I will sent my father and all those people who did this to you to jail. But plz plz plz don't kill any innocent lives for that.

Elena: Yeah she is right, we will give you justice.

Diana:We'll find out everything. Every person involved. Every truth they tried to bury.

Zyan looked at her carefully.

Zyan: And then what?

Liya: We make them pay.

The ghost did not smile.

But something in her expression shifted.

Not peace.

Not yet.

But recognition.

As if, for the first time in years…

Someone had heard her.

They returned home before nightfall, but the silence followed them.

Not the empty kind.

The heavy kind.

The kind that comes with knowing something you can't ignore.

They gathered in Elema's house that evening. The air felt tense, every shadow stretching longer than usual. A single bulb lit the room, casting faint light over their faces.

No one spoke at first.

Until Elena broke the silence.

Elena: We need proof. We can't just accuse people based on what we saw.

Julian nodded.

Julian:And we need to know who else was involved.

Diana leaned forward.

Diana: There were more than just my father. I saw at least four others."

Liya: Are they still alive?

Diana: Maybe yes. I exactly don't know about all but I know that Mr. James Anderson is died. Cuz he mostly known to me. And also always comes to my father and had serious conversation but the day he died we all went to his house for fairwell.

Leon: So do he have a child.

Diana: Yeah, A girl. But she is so young. How could she know.

Zyan: How old is she?

Diana: Maybe 13 or 14.

Elena: And what about his wife by the way? We have to talk to her.

Diana: Nah that's not possible. He had divorced when there child was like 10 or something.

Liya: We should find her at first.

Leon: I don't think that she gonna tell anything.

Diana: Why?

Leon: I search about the man and his background as you can see.

Liya: So he is famous.

Diana: Yeah, He was known for his high quality works.

Zyan pulled out his phone.

Zyan: We should make a list. Anyone who lived there back then.

Elena: Yeap. Let's make group, so it could be easy.

Julian: Yeah, ok.

Elena: Me and Leon wil do research about the people who were there , lived in that hills. Diana and Julian will work on those culprits. Cuz you[1]have a big background and your father is also know them and Julian help you with his father's source.

Julian: Yeah. That's right.

Elena: Zyan and Liya will help us.

Liya: Me? Why? I don't have source or anything to use.

Zyan: Don't worry. You have me.

She blushed.

Julian get confused.

Julian: Is you to?

Diana: Oh, we forgot to tell you that when you were not with us, Zyan proposed Liya.

Julian: What a good news! I am really happy about that. And bro that about Kristina?

POV

So in the college, there was a girl named Kristina who liked him. I don't know if it's for power or not but her father is also rich. Julian and Diana's father is a CEO. Diana's father has few hotels, hospital abd work with some industry too and Julian's father is also a business man in food industry. Zyan's father has there own fashion brand and her mother has a beauty brand. So yeah Zyan is super rich in his college. And Elena's father is a professor in the college they study. And Leon's father is a professional artist. Everyone has a good background except Liya. She is an Orphan. She works on bookshop to make money . The girl always roaming around Zyan but he loved Liya without looking at her background. So don't worry she couldn't become the 3rd person between them.

POV ENDED

Zyan: Ahh that bitch. I hate her. If I even have anybody still I will never ever choose her .

Julian: I know I'm just joking.

Liya: Tell me how can I help! ( She became sad)

They stopped for while.

Time was running.

Zyan: Ok , it's 8 PM. I think we should go back to our house. Everyone be alert. And Diana don't share about this to your mom or brother or dad. I think you understand.

Diana: OK. But we didn't went to our hotel what should I tell them.

They throught for a while.

Elena: Told them we went to the beach not there

Diana: ok.

They all went out.

Zyan hold Liya's hand.

Zyan: What happened?

[1] Diana

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