Sarah took some steps backwards, but Nora had surprisingly moved closer to her in unexpected speed.
“Get the hell out of my friend!” Nora yelled, jamming her fist into her mother’s chest and sending her flying backwards.
Sarah managed to remain on her feet as she slowly transformed back into Naomi.
“Your friend is a part of me as I am part of her”, Naomi spoke, in what Nora could guess was her mother’s words. “You cannot kill or harm us!”
Nora stiffened her fist momentarily, as she felt her body continue to shudder with rage and immense power.
“Absorbing the tarot cards powers and having the elderlies with you after giving them your soul is all for naught, you silly child”, Naomi chuckled.
Nora watched her best friend slowly approach, smiling and wearing a rather innocent expression on her face.
“Nora… please save me”, Naomi pleaded with her eyes bearing tears, and her lips trembling as she approached her friend.
Taken back by the appearance of her best friend, Nora stiffened her nerves and accepted her friend into her embrace while they shared the warm feeling of having each other in their arms momentarily.
“It is inside you”, Nora whispered to her friend.
Naomi shook her head while she wept into Nora’s shoulder. “I can control her… I promise you”.
Nora slowly parted from her friend and locked her in a rather stern gaze.
“It is gone”, Nora sighed.
Naomi seemed lost as she asked, “What’s gone?”
Nora stepped closer with her eyes closed and tears rolling down her cheeks. She placed her right hand on Naomi’s chest, before tightening her other arm around the lady and leaning her head into her shoulder.
“Your brown eyes”, Nora whispered. “It is gone”.
Naomi gasped as she felt something tear through her chest, and her breath suddenly ceased. Nora held her friend closer to her body as she wept with Naomi’s heart in her hand, beating slowly until it grew dead and unresponsive.
“My mother will never let you live”, Nora whispered with tears. “It is the only way to get rid of her”.
She stepped backwards, and watched her best friend fall to her knee, while she held the girl’s heart in her hand. Naomi’s body fell to the ground in deafening manner, causing Nora to fall to her knees as well, with her right hand bearing a distinct marking in form of a phoenix.
“What have I done?” she asked herself, feeling too scared to drop her friend’s dead heart.
Something about the manner in which she had resolved to killing her best friend didn’t sit right with her, and Nora felt doomed at heart as she wondered if the tarot card now infused with her body and soul had not dictated her action.
She tossed the heart over and towards Naomi’s body, as she shrieked, “You made me do it!”
The tarot cards were neatly stacked by Naomi’s dead body, as the day outside the house slowly cleared, and everything seemed to return to normal.
“Well done Nora!” Nora heard Meralda’s voice echo around the room.
Nora looked around in frightened manner.
“You will be of use to us after all”, Merlada cackled, as her voice echoed and slowly faded away.
A loud thunder erupted from outside, and the ground began to hiss in disturbing noise as Nora hurried to her front door. Crevices began to appear in the earth, and through them, dead bodies began to crawl right out. In the midst of it all, Nora watched her father’s body make its escape from underneath the earth, while Daren’s corpse could be seen in the mix too.
She stepped backwards, feeling short on words, as she asked herself, ‘What on earth have I done?”
She looked back to the tarot card, and felt her eyes widen, as it leaked of blood and bled all over the floor. Something dangerous had been awakened and Nora could feel it in her soul. Something about killing her best friend had awakened something and she couldn’t help but wonder what hell she had unleashed upon the earth this time around.
About the Author
Safa Shaqsy is an author of the bestselling book, Alien Busters series. She graduated from a business college but participated in many writing activities including writing her own stories and poems as she expressed herself through words. Her love for novels started when she got a novel as a gift, that’s when she discovered the magic of the fiction world.
