chapter 4: sleepwalker

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I was woken up by shattering of glass. I gasped as I rose up from the sudden noise. I told myself it was a bad dream. But from the past events I don't know what to believe anymore. I laid back down and closed my eyes as footsteps made its way down the stairs.

I woke up from thumping on Andreas dresser. It's probably Cindy again.
I noticed Andrea moving her head a little, letting me know she's already up as well. Andrea rolled over and turned on the lamp so she could see.
"Cindy?" I whispered.
Andrea slowly got up and walked over to Cindy.
"Okay, now..." she sighed
"All right, come on. There you go. Okay you can, uh, just sleep with us tonight." She whispered
"There you go." Andrea said, putting her in the middle of us.
There was one more thump.
I jumped at the sound and looked at Andrea.
What the-
"Andrea be careful." I whispered.
She nodded and turned towards the sound, getting closer.
Cindy's head then rose up. I looked at Cindy and rose my head up with hers.
"Andrea?" I said
Andrea quickly opened the dresser up. There was nothing but clothes.
Cindy's breathing quickened as her eyes started to look glossy. Cindy gasped which made Andrea turn around.
I looked to where she was looking and there was this old witch on top of the dresser.
It made a squelch sound and jumped onto Andrea
"OH MY GOD! MOM!" I yelled
"AAH!" Andrea screamed
"MOM!" I yelled
Our screams were filling the house
"SOMEONE HELP!" I yelled
"NANCY! CHRISTINE! MOM! HELP!" I yelled as Cindy cried
I heard the front door open.
"HELP!" I yelled
"ANDREA? MAXINE?" My dad yelled
"DAD!" I yelled
"HELP!"
"HELP, DADDY! HELP, ITS ANDREA!" Cindy screamed
"DAD HELP!" I yelled as the witch looking thing attacked Andrea
He ran into the room with mom and ran to Andrea.
Everyone else ran into the room as well.
"somebody, goddamn it, tell me what's going on here?!" My dad yelled

3rd person pov:
Drew and Carolyn walked up to the famous Ed and Lorraine warren.
"Hey Ed, Lorraine?" Drew said
"There's someone here that would like to talk to you." He said
"Hi."
"Thanks drew." Ed said
"Sure I'll see you later." Drew said then walked off.
"How can we help you?" Lorraine asked
"There's something horrible happening in my house." The women said
"Could you come take a look?" She asked.
"You know, uh, it's gettin' kinda late. We really need to be headin' to our family." Ed said
"No, you don't understand." The women said
"But we do." Ed said cutting her off
"There's usually some sort of rational explanation." Ed added
"I have 6 daughters who are scared to death." The women cut him off
"I'm so afraid this thing wants to hurt us. You have a daughter. Wouldn't you do anything you could to protect her? Please? Can you come and take a look." The women asked with pleading eyes.
"Of course we will." Lorraine smiled.
The women sighed in relief and nodded. Tears slowly leaving her eyes.

Maxine's POV:
Me and my sisters waited for the people to come. I was wearing overalls with a blow pop shirt as me and my sisters sat in the floor watching a show.
"Come on, Jan! Open up!" The tv spoke
"Jan, what happened?" The little girl on tv said.
There was a knock on the door.
"Hey. You guys straighten up? Thanks." My mom said.
We started folding blankets and putting some pillows on the couch.
"Hi I'm Roger." My dad said
"Lorraine." The women said
"Hey, nice to meet you, Roger. Ed warren."
"Thanks for comin'." My dad said
"Please, come in." My mom said
"Thank you."
"Oh, my god. Look at you all." Lorraine smiled
"Who are these beautiful young women?" Lorraine asked
"This is Andrea, the oldest, Nancy, Maxine, Cindy, Christine, and April." My
Mom said.
"It's Mr .And Mrs Warren." My mom said
April got up and went to go hug our dad.
"We, um, we're all sleeping down here now. The girls feel safer and it's warmer." My mom said
I nodded and looked down.
"I'm constantly turning up the heat, but the house is always freezing." My mom said picking up some more things off the floor.
"It's not a problem with the furnace, though." My dad said "I mean not that I can find."
"It's gotten a lot worse the last few nights." My mom said
"There's this awful smell, like rotting meat. It moves around the house."
Ed and Lorraine looked at eachother.
"Uh..." Ed hesitated
"What? What is it?" My mom asked eagerly
"Well, rancid smells could indicate some type of demonic activity." Ed sighed
"Oh, my god." My mom said
My dad looked at all of us then at Ed and Lorraine.
Ed pulled on a door then looked down to see rubber bands tied around the nobs.
"Well that's to keep those doors from banging at night. Otherwise, it's like bang bang bang" my dad said
"All night long. Just like that."
"Does it come in threes?" Ed asked
"Yeah." My dad responded
"It stops at dawn?"
"Uh-huh."
"Well, sometimes it's meant as an insult to the trinity. The father, the son and the holy spirt."

"You know it's the damnest thing. But we also get all Kind of birds that will just fly against the side of the house and break their necks."
"Mm. Really?"
"And the clocks stop at 3:07 AM."
"All of them?"
"Everyone"

3rd person POV:
"Oh, we were hanging those along the stairs. Something just kept knocking them down, so we stopped handing em up." Carolyn said
"That's what I was talking about. It was here when we moved in." The mom said walking into Maxine and Andreas room.
"There's also alot of stuff in the cellar."
"...show me the cellar." Lorraine said

Roger opened the cellar, allowing everyone to walk in.
Lorraine stood in the middle of the cellar.
LOOK WHAT SHE MADE ME DO
"You picking up anything in here, hon?" Ed asked Lorraine
"Something awful happened here, Ed." Lorraine said

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