A Second Chance
This was for Paranormal's Prompt Challenge - which featured a picture of a Ouija board. And I came up with this story.
It was one of three winners of the challenge!
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Something stirs within the great void. Grey, all around, and then... voices... as muted and indistinct as the shapes forming around me. A great pull wakes me, forcing me out. Was I sleeping?
A living space materialises through the grey mist, and I find myself in a house. Four young people are sat around a table. The area is lit by candles and moonlight from the windows. Beyond the light is an empty black world.
Where am I? Why am I so high up?
The people are teenagers with nervous looks, all focused on a Ouija board. Something is so familiar about all this.
The boy with his hands on the Ouija board looks familiar. That's because it's me, I realise.
Suddenly this moment comes back to me. I played with a Ouija once with my friends. I remember thinking I felt fear from whatever was in the air. And it was... me? I'm the spirit I felt?
I died.
It hits me hard. That's right, its coming back to me now. How long had I been in that grey void?
This moment when we played with the Ouija board, that was... a year before my accident.
I get drawn closer but I pull back.
Wait. I can go with it.
At the time, the spirit we had summoned soon went away, but it doesn't have to be like that this time.
I focus on myself, willing strength into my actions. There's resistance at first, and then suddenly I'm shooting forward. My view slams into the face of my other self.
I blink, my perspective suddenly shifted. The scared and uncomfortable faces of my friends are around me.
I'm back!
I tell them everything that's happened. Except, I don't say the words. Nothing comes out.
"What happened?" I say.
No, I didn't say that.
Then I realise I don't have control.
I'm back in my body, but my other self is still driving.
Can I affect myself still? I force myself to blink twice quickly. It's hard. But I do! I blinked twice.
Ok so I've managed to possess my own body. But that means I can change the future. I don't have to die in that accident a year from now.
I know I can do it. I can save myself.
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