8 PLUSHIE DOLL
Bell rang at Alizy's house, her father opened the door.
There was no one but a parcel. Her father took the parcel, it was written in red color.
"For Alizy."
Her father went to Alizy's room and asked her about the parcel.
"Parcel? For me? but from whom? Alizy asked.
"Come and see," her father replied.
Alizy took the parcel and searched for the one who send her this parcel, but she did not find any address or name of the sender.
She opened it.
"A doll? HA-HA!" She laughed
"It seemed like that sender is not aware of the fact that my girl never liked the doll," her father said soon after looking at that doll.
She was a stuffed big doll. The most beautiful thing about the doll was her long black hair.
Alizy looked at the door and left the doll on the table, and went upstairs.
"Take your doll with you, babe," her mother asked.
"No, I hate dolls mom!" she replied.
"What am I supposed to do with this doll then," her mother asked.
"In the bin," she said carelessly.
In the evening, her mom was placing the things in their place when she saw the doll. She held the doll, looked at her beautiful black hair, and instead of throwing the doll in the bin, she put it in the cupboard under the stairs, behind a pile of old books.
It was 11 am, Alizy was sleeping in her room, when she heard someone walking, it was not a human-like walk, rather someone was dragging his/her feet without lifting them from the ground. The sound kept on coming for around five minutes, Alizy woke up.
At this time, she heard, some light steps, as if a baby is walking very fast.
She stood up and opened the door, turned the lights on. There was no one.
She went to her bed to sleep again.
She woke up with a faint raspy voice as if someone was whispering from downstairs.
She noticed that the voice was saying something,
"Alizy, Ego sum in primo gradu" (Alizy, I am on the first step).
And then there was a sound as if someone was taking steps, it was confirmed that someone was coming upstairs, but these were not the steps of a human being, they were heavier, noisy with a shuffling sound.
"Who might be there?" Alizy asked herself.
She was paralyzed at her place and was looking at the door consistently.
She heard someone going downstairs, then from downstairs, she heard that someone opened the cupboard and then closed it.
The next morning, soon after waking up, she called Jack and told him whatever happened that night.
Jack also told him about the incidents he faced two to three days before.
"She will not harm you, Alizy, Calm down.," Jack said in a soothing voice.
"But it was scary, she said she is on the first step, a day will come when she will reach my room," Alizy said worriedly.
"No, no, no! it is not like this, see next time when you face such kind of paranormal activities, do one thing," Jack said naughtily.
"And what is that?" Alizy asked.
"Just stand up and say, "kill me or leave me, do not tease me," Jack said.
"HA-HA, in that case, she will definitely choose to kill me," Alizy said.
"Things will be fine, just cheered up, and yes I was deciding to visit Kevin, we all will get together and will again play those midnight games, that was fun," Jack said.
"Alright, we will decide, see you, I am leaving now" Alizy cut the call.
She went downstairs and told her parents about whatever happened that night.
"It might be a nightmare, honey," her father said with love.
"No, it was not, I heard each sound, as was as real as I am,"Alizy said.
"Stop taking a dream so seriously," her mother said.
"It is something very serious, I do not know why you guys are so relaxed, I just want to throw that doll in the bin," she said furiously.
"Do you have some manners? It is a present and instead of keeping the doll in your room you are asking about throwing that?" Her mom said.
"Fine," she left.
That night, she slept with open doors, and even she did not turn the lights off.
At around 1:00 am she woke up due to a nightmare, when she opened her eyes the lights of the room were on.
And she heard some deep ghostly voices.
It was saying, "Aliiiiizyyy, Ego octavus gradus sum" (Aliiiiizyyy I am on the eighth step).
She kept on laying; covered her head with the blanket and put a pillow on her head as well, she didn't want to hear such petrifying sounds.
But still, she heard the sound of dragging and clapping, then somebody laugh loudly but harshly. There was a sound as if someone is taking down steps very fast and that someone opened the door of the cupboard and shut it, but still, there was some noise as if someone is walking rather dragging her/his foot on the floor.
She remembered what Jack asked her to do if she faces any paranormal activity.
The point was that she did not remember what was the exact sentence that Jack asked her to say.
"Take me or go away from here, but do not tease me," she whispered.
"No, kill me or stay away from me, I should call Jack to ask the exact line," saying this she took her phone and dialed Jack's number.
"Jack! Are you there?" she asked.
"Hmm," Jack said with a sleepy voice and his eyes were still closed.
"Just listen to me carefully, what was that dialogue you asked me to say if I face any paranormal activity?" Alizy asked in a low tone.
"Yesss, I love brownies too, they are dense, cakey, chewy, fluffy, yum!" he said.
"Brownies?" she asked furiously.
"Tempting, gooey, sweet, moist, fudgy, yes I love them," he said with a full mouth.
"Jack! Are you eating something?" she asked irritably.
There was no response, he might be talking to himself while dreaming.
The point was that no sound reoccurred that night.
She closed her eyes and the only thing which was in her mind was that "whatever that thing is, she has reached the eighth step, so probably tomorrow will be the last night for that creature to reach my room.
