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| - From StoryStar 2014 It was my 20th birthday and my parents threw out a small party for me at home. I am turning 20 today and it has been 20years, I still have the weird feeling within myself where I have the feeling that someone is always beside me. I felt again the weird presence of someone beside me when I was cutting cake but I did not take it as a big issue. I thought it’s all my imagination and just continued enjoying the party with my parents, my elder brother and friends. That night was the day everything started to go wrong in my life. We received a phone call from our motherland and my grandmother had a serious attack. We had to rush to our motherland, Canada. The moment we reached there, my grandma chased us away before we would enter the house. She told us not to enter the house and we will be filled with lots of problem after that. I saw a scary and nervous feeling on her face that day. However, we didn’t listen to her and we entered the house. That was the first nightmare I have ever seen in my life, the moment I stepped into the house I felt a cold air passed through me, the lights started to dance for the air, and all of a sudden the lights went off. I was very scared and hugged my brother. The first problem began that night. I was having my shower and I heard someone knocking the room door. I went and opened the door and there was no one but again I felt the cold air passing me. I continued my shower and I was terrified to see a black image standing right beside me. I screamed and ran out of the bathroom. Everyone came to my room and I told them what I saw in the bathroom. My brother teased me and laughed at me. No one believed what I saw, at that moment I saw my grandma’s face turned pale. I was wondering what was wrong with her. I felt so scared to sleep in that big room and I went to my brother’s room and slept with him. Suddenly, I felt someone is calling me from downstairs. I woke up and saw my brother is still with his laptop, chatting with his friend. He asked me why I am awake all of a sudden. I told him that I heard someone calling my name. He said he never hear anyone calling me and he asked me to sleep. I knew something is wrong but could not discover what it is all about. The next morning, I went for walking around the house with my grandma’s dog, Julie. Julie was normal until we reached the backdoor of the house and she ran away from my hand. Instead of chasing Julie, I went near the door and wondered what could be inside this locked door. I felt the cold air again and I had goose bumps in scare, I ran inside the house and sat in the living room. I saw my grandma walking very fast outside the house and she seems to be worried about something. Therefore, I decided to follow her. I was shocked to see her tying a holy string on the backdoor and kept a lime under the door. I ran back inside the home before she could see me following her. I was confused and told my brother about this. He said its older people’s believe, let’s not bother about this. I was not convinced, and I went to my parents’ room and thought of asking them what is wrong with grandma. I overheard my mother crying and she told my father, “It has been 20years she left us and we never done any rituals for her until now”. I left the place with so many questions. That night I couldn’t sleep well, I kept on thinking who is she who left us 20years ago, what rituals was not completed until my mother is crying. I decided to find out about this myself. The next morning, I went behind without anyone’s knowledge and tried to open to backdoor. Suddenly Julie came towards me and started barking loudly, my grandma came as soon as she heard Julie barking. Grandma warned me not to go near the door and never ever try to touch or open the door. However, I did not listen to her and tried to open the door again after lunch with my brother together with me. After a long struggle, we finally managed to break the lock. Once we broke the lock, a coconut from the tree fall on my leg and my leg was injured. We still went in the house through the backdoor. We thought we can go inside the house via the backdoor. We were wrong because this backdoor is another small house behind grandma’s house and we saw a light deep inside the house. Therefore, we entered the dark house to see what is inside the house. I was shocked to see so my baby photos with my twin sister. I never knew that I had a twin born together with me. When I asked my brother, he was also shocked to know about this. We heard my mother calling us for lunch, so we left the place as quick as we can. Before that, I managed to grab a photo with me. We locked the door again so that no one will ever know that we entered the backdoor. That night, while we were having our dinner I showed the picture to everyone and asked what is all this. My grandma scolded me because we entered the room. She told us that now nothing could help us from the danger. Then, my parents told me about my twin sister’s death after one week she was born. They could never do her last rituals due to some inconvenience. My grandma told us that she could always see a baby crawling around the house since we left to Australia. She did some prayers, threw all the memories of the baby behind the house, and locked it. On my 20th birthday, she heard someone crying from the behind house. She had an attack when she saw the baby crying to her. That is why she asked us not to enter the house and now we cannot leave the house without finishing the rituals. Therefore, we decided to do her last rituals at home. We prepared for everything. The priest went in the back house and did some prayers and he told that someone killed the baby. We were shocked to hear that, and wondered who did that. The priest told only the baby could show us the killer. Prayers began and I couldn’t believe my eyes where I saw a baby crawling into the house and the baby went near my grandma and cried. My grandma was chasing away the baby. The priest asked the baby to show who killed her, and the baby kept on going nearer to my grandma. We got to know that my grandma killed my twin sister but we don’t know why she did it. My mother fainted because she could not take it. I asked my grandma why she did this cruel thing to a baby. She cried and told she did this for goodness and she said she could not answer anything than that. The priest said we must do the prayers as fast as we can. Once the prayers finished, the priest went back home. We decided to go back home. We packed our things and kept it in the car. Again, I felt the cold air passing through me going inside the house. We heard a noise from upstairs and my grandma was hanging under the fan. Until today, I can feel the presence beside me and I feel nothing can separate me from my twin sister.
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