Nana: Hello boy!
William: Hey nana! How are you?
Nana: I am fine, how are you?
William: Have been busy, sorry I did not get a chance to visit you last week, I will make sure I come this weekend.
Nana: I am sure you don’t want to come see me. I am nothing like your exciting friends.
William: Come on, Nana! Why are you being so grumpy.
Nana: It is just that no one listens to me anymore.
William: What? Who didn’t listen to you? Was it Sally the nurse?
Nana: It’s not just her. Everyone thinks I am losing my mind!
William: And are you?
Nana: That is not funny! You know what? Goodbye.
William: Aww nana! Don’t be like that! I will listen to you, no matter what happens.
Nana: So, you wouldn’t consider me crazy if I told you this place was haunted?
William: Your old home is not haunted, Nana. If you want to come back home, I will come to get you.
Nana: I am not joking, boy. I can tell you exactly what I see.
William: See? As in more than once?
Nana: Yes, that is what I have been trying to tell these people.
William: Are you taking your medication on time?
Nana: There it is! That skepticism again.
William: Okay fine! Tell me what you see.
Nana: It starts at three am at night. My body begins to shiver involuntarily.
William: Have you told the nurse?
Nana: Yes, I have. I thought I was having a seizure at first but then, the nurse shook me awake.
William: What happens after that?
Nana: I see this girl of about seventeen years old. She is hanging by the ceiling fan in my room.
William: Did you watch a horror movie, Nana?
Nana: I told you, no one takes me seriously.
William: Okay, if you are not really pulling my leg, then what happens?
Nana: Her neck breaks and she falls to the ground.
William: Isn’t the bed directly under the fan?
Nana: It is. That is what I am trying to tell you.
William: But you don’t feel anything? You don’t feel her weight falling or the sound of her crashing on your bed.
Nana: God, you make it worse than it actually is.
William: Sorry.
Nana: No, I do not hear or feel the crash, but I can see her severed head lying right on my chest.
William: These are not healthy nightmares.
Nana: Who told you these are nightmares?
William: Nana, either they are nightmares or they are hallucinations. If you are taking your meds on time, there is no reason for you to hallucinate.
Nana: So, you think all this happens in my head? How do you explain the temporary paralysis my body undergoes?
William: It’s called sleep paralysis and it is quite common. In fact, most people get scary visions while they experience it.
Nana: How long does this sleep paralysis goes? Because mine never stops before two hours once it starts.
William: That is a serious problem.
Nana: Exactly! Now, do you want to hear what happens next?
William: Sure. Tell me all the details.
Nana: Once the lady falls on my chest, her face changes to that of a rotting corpse.
William: What was the last novel you read?
Nana: See, there it is again.
William: I am just trying to figure out where all these negative ideas are coming from.
Nana: The ideas are coming from the spirits who died in this room before me.
William: Or a graphic novel, or a movie?
Nana: I don’t even have cable in here.
William: Oh!
Nana: Then there are the kids.
William: What kids? No, children are not allowed to come to come inside that institution unless with a guardian.
Nana: These children are no visitors; they had their faces mauled by some kind of acid attack.
William: Did you ask the doctors to help them?
Nana: Have you not been listening to me? They were dead Will, no one can help them now.
William: How do you know they are dead?
Nana: Same way I know that the man who keeps trying to suffocate me is dead too.
William: Okay, that is it. If the haunting is in the old home, I am coming to get you.
Nana: Your mother would never approve of it.
William: I will take you to my apartment then. Mom is not in the country anyway.
Nana: I just don’t want it to follow me around.
William: It won’t!
Nana: What won’t?
William: Huh?
Nana: What were we talking about?
William: Your nightmares.
Nana: What nightmares?
William: You just told me that the old home is haunted.
Nana: No, it isn't haunted. Are you crazy?
William: But you just said it! Scroll the messages up and see for yourself.
Nana: Some orderly must be having fun with an old man’s phone.
William: So, there is no haunting?
Nana: Nope.
William: But you just told me that the place was haunted.
Nana: Honestly, with the medications I take, I don’t know what I said.
William: You don’t have to be embarrassed; I won't tell anyone why I picked you up from that place.
Nana: Who said anything about picking me up? I am just fine!
William: Okay, send me your username and password, I will log in and check what medication you are taking.
Nana: I don’t remember.
William: But you had it written somewhere. Check and get back to me.
Nana: I think I am tired. I will go to sleep now.
William: Let me check with my visiting documents, maybe I will find something there.
Nana: Good luck with that!
William: This is so weird, Nana. They updated the server twenty-seven minutes ago and it shows here that you are taking no meds at all.
Nana: How is that possible. Maybe they made a clerical error.
William: It says here that thirty minutes ago, you were found dead in your own room, suffocated with your own pillow.
Nana: I am fine! Let me show you a selfie. See, I am just fine.
William: Except your eyes are bleeding and your skin is grey.
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