Chapter Four : The Surprise

All of them walked like a turtle, slowly. This time Beverly opened the door.

"SURPR-- OH shit! What are you kids up to? Guess it us who got a surprise instead of you all!" Mrs.Turner said, looking at the knives in the kids' hands.

"MOM! DAD!" Beverly and Patrick said together in chorus. Surprised at seeing their parents. Beverly rushed towards her father. Hugging him, because after all, she was his princess and Patrick hugged Mrs. Turner.

Everyone dropped their knives on the floor. Thomas helped Beverly's father in unloading their luggage from the cab. All the kids, were close to each other and their families too. It was like as if they were a part of one big joint family.

"Okay kids, now tell us why were you all holding the knife as if you were going to murder someone?" Mrs. Turner asked because she was curious to know what the kids were actually up to since they were not in town.

"Mum, let us leave this out for now pleaseeee! Tell us about your trip! How was Indonesia?" Beverly said changing the topic, not wanting to tell her mother about what actually happened while they were gone.

"Alright, darling as you say! But we are going to have a chat about it later. And to answer your question, Indonesia was awesome! I wish you and Patty would've joined us. But never mind. We can plan a trip for four of us later. We still have all the time in the world." Mrs. Turner said.

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Beverly's POV

"Beverly honey can you please come down?" Mum shouted from downstairs.

I rushed down the stairs. Seeing my parents sitting on the couch laughing and talking to each other. I somewhere understood why mum called me but then again, I was not sure. I crossed the couch where my parents were sitting and stood in front of them and suddenly the atmosphere in the living room turned heavy.

"What is it, mum? If it is regarding the scene earlier today, I will just cut to chase and tell you that last night, we heard weird noises coming from the house across the road. And we all got really scared and today morning before you came the lady living there came to our doorstep and threatened all of us and we got nervous so then when you knocked we thought it was her again and we equipped ourselves. That is the story you were so keen on hearing. That is it." I told her everything due to two reasons, it was weighing heavy on me and she would never let go of the scene if I wouldn't have told her.

"That physic threatened my kids? My munchkins? That is it am gonna put her in her place. Who is she even? How dare SHE?" Mum said putting down her wine glass and getting ready to walk out that door to put that lady in her place, but dad held her down.

"Babe? Calm down why don't we go in the morning? She must be busy doing her voodoo magic right now." Dad said, cracking a joke even in a serious mood like this. This is the main reason why I love him so much, he can lighten your mood no matter what the situation is.

I rolled my eyes at them, kissed them both good night and rushed back to my room. I jumped on my bed, pulled my covers up to my eyes. And drifted to sleep.

That night, I dreamed my worst nightmare. I dreamed about that one god damn day. Out of every day that I've survived and lived I dream that one day.