Chapter 3

An hour and a half later, I hear the horn of Alberto's car sound outside my house, and when I look out of my bedroom window, I can see that it was like that, Alberto and Adele had arrived home, he was finally gone alone, and I wouldn't have to worry about being all alone all night after what happened to me in the laundry room. I didn't want to tell them anything about what happened because I was sure that if I did, they would immediately ask me to do two things, the first was to pack my things again to leave there, and the second was to sell my aunt's house that had been conceived by inheritance. However, I did not want to do it, the idea of just thinking that things were happening in this house that were completely out of reality did not enter my head. "Hey guys" I say to Adele and Albert when they've gotten out of my cousin's car. “Hey you, we've got the pizza, and enough to last us all night and stay up all night if we want to” Adele says with a smile on her face as she speaks. I returned her smile. "That sounds great, I haven't stayed up for a long time" I tell them. “If you do, when you're in a game with me” Alberto says as he approaches the back of the car to get his and Adele's backpacks out of the trunk. "Staying up until 1:00 in the morning playing is not my concept of staying up, I mean staying up until dawn, tell me did you have a drink to drink and get drunk?" I tell them while I receive from Adele the 3 pizza boxes that she was carrying with her in her hands. “Yes, Alberto bought a bottle of vodka, and I bought a bottle of Bourbon” says Adele. "Perfect, go ahead, come in, you're at home" I tell them. I let Adele go in first because when I left the door of the house open, Alberto follows her step, but before I can continue with them and enjoy our family evening, something outside interrupted me and made me turn to look at what was in the woods in front of my house. The bushes were moving, shaking just as they did when there was an animal inside them wanting to come out of hiding, however, before I could decide to ignore what was happening outside and go inside the house, that's when I saw what I had to see. To my misfortune, from inside the bush, what Adele had described to us in her horror story had come out that time the three of us had met again, because I could see a humanoid figure, with pale skin that I could almost say was greyish, with black eyes, a thin mouth, and teeth protruding from it, it had emerged from the interior of the bush, it walked on all fours, but it did not do it as if it were a dog, no, rather, as if its body were was twisting, disfiguring. Well, her hands had opened more than normal, like her legs, but the worst thing was her look, and the strange sound that she emitted as if she were complaining of the pain with roars that a hurt animal could do. I was paralyzed, frozen, I was in shock, I was afraid, very afraid, that creature, or rather, that demon, was getting too close to me, we were not very far from each other, we were only 50 meters from each other. distance. But then, Adele's voice calling me to let me know that dinner was served saved me because when the creature heard it, it immediately reversed, and hid again under the green leaves of the bush. By then, I was able to feel my body again, and I took advantage of that moment to turn around and go into the house. When I went home, I left the door securely closed, and I was grateful that it was only made of wood and did not have a single window in the middle where I could peek out and that people peeked into the interior of the house from outside, well, if that thing appeared before me again, I was not going to be able to see it and I would be calmer than I am now, I feel my heart pounding, I wanted to scream in fear, but I had to steel myself if I didn't want to sleep tonight alone in my home for scaring my cousins by telling them what just happened. "Are you OK? Why are you so pale and agitated when a moment ago you were just like that?" Alberto asks as soon as he sees me enter the dining room where he and Adele were sitting and waiting for me to have dinner together. "I'm fine, don't worry" I lied to them. I had always been very good at lying, my parents had never noticed it, nor in my school days my teachers had been very good at catching one of my lies, my lies saved me many times, and now they were doing it, because being Honestly, since I saw what I saw, I didn't want to sleep alone in my new house, or at least for tonight because I think that this is just something temporary that won't happen every day. I go over to the dining room, but the only thing I can see that Adele has served is the liquor, and I remember then that I had been the one who had received the pizza boxes, and I put them on the table. But when Alberto opens the first box of pizza, and Adele begins to distribute the plates to serve us; the three of us realized that the terror was just beginning for that night. Well, when I put my slice of pepperoni pizza on my plate, the three of us were silent, the house was also silent, and then, it was only a couple of seconds before we could hear, the same noise that I heard when I saw that creature come out of the bush.