Usually my parents return by 7.30 in the evening and my sis will by 5.30 from her college as she was studying engineering.Im studying in an arts colle...e so I usually return by 2.30 in the afternoon.That day I bunked my classes and went out with my friends and returned home soon as I also planned to have my cousin on bed. I reached home at 1pm and my cousin opened the door and I was dumbstruck she was wearing a sleeveless low neck nighty and her cleavage is finely visible. She told me to have. The muscles are weak. Now please calm down and take a few minutes. Take a deep breath and open your mouth, just a little.”Erins lower jaw move a small amount.“Good, now close and relax. Now open again. Good. Close and relax. Open again.”Each time the doctor asked Erin to open her mouth the opening was larger. That is the good news. The bad news, at best Erin could fit a finger in her mouth. She was still a little freaked when the doctor asked her to relax the last time.“Very good, Mrs. O’Dell.. .? She stared at theblue screen for a moment, mind running at a mile a minute, beforehitting the eject key, staring at the VHS sticking out of the box likea tongue out of a mouth. Was this real? Was this really real? The worldfelt like it was crumbling beneath the girl, nothing in her lifepreparing her from the shattered world view. Monsters and aliens andcrystals and magic? So much of the stuff she had written off suddenlyfelt very real, very present, and very, very scary. She could feel. Mommy says there's a busy street out there. We could get hurt. When wemove to the house it won't be busy. But you need to hold my hand when wecross, kay?"I blinked slowly, the horror of the situation slowly dawning on me.I took the girl by the shoulders. "You have to fight it, Ashley! Whatthey did to you! I need you! I can't do it by myself. Y-You can't belike this!" Tears escaped from my eyes.The girl wasn't laughing any longer. I could barely see her expressionin the darkness, but I could see.