Holly gets off his bed quickly. Time’s now 8.00 a.m! Holly gets to the bathroom quickly. She is late now. At 8.20 a.m., she runs to the train station and waits for the next train.
“How can I be late today? Why my alarm clock didn’t ringing? Did I forget to set the clock? But I think I had set the clock last night before I sleep”, mumble Holly while she walks inside the train.
She arrives at the hospital after ten minutes. When she enters the hospital, all of other staff look at her and ask her that if she is sick? Holly doesn’t know why they asking her like that. Then, she met Lewis and he also asks her the same question.
“Hey, Holly! Are you sick?”
“Ha? Why everybody asking me the same question? I’m okay.”
“Then, why you come here? Today is Sunday and you’re supposed to be resting at home now.”
“O-ho… Now I know why you all ask me the question. But, how about you? You’re also supposed to be resting at home today.” , said Holly sarcastically.
“I came just to send this file to the office”. Lewis shows the file to Holly. “Do you have any plan today?”
“Urm.. I don’t think so. Why?”
“Do you want to follow me to meet my grandma? I had never seen her for three months. I miss her so much.
“Okay, but I have to change my uniform.” They laughed.
After Lewis sent his file, they go to Holly’s house by Lewis’ car. Lewis waits for Holly and drinks a cup of coffee. Then, Lewis drives his car to his grandma’s house. Holly bought some fruits for Lewis’ grandma.
When they arrived, Holly is very happy because she hadn’t back to her hometown since eight years ago.
* * *
Eight years ago, Holly was fifteen years old. Holly and her family wanted to go to summer vacation by her father’s car. On their way there, they met in an accident and her family was passed away. Only Holly was saved from the tragedy but she had a trauma and mental problem since that. After she got a therapy for three years, she is normal now.
In the incident, her mum, dad, sister, younger brother and her grandparents also died. Until now, she stays at her home alone. She had had a maid to accompany her but she didn’t like any stranger staying in her house. Now, she is alone without family around her.
* * *
Now, she is happy because Lewis’ grandma is very nice to her. They spent all of the day with his grandma. After dinner, Lewis sends Holly home.
“Thanks for everything Lewis”
“Anything for you”.
“Okay, drives carefully. Good night. Bye”.
“Take care. Bye”.
Holly gets ready to sleep and she hopes that she will has a nice dream as nice as her day today.
* * *
A guy suddenly comes to Holly with anxious face.
“Holly, please help me! I can’t stand here anymore. I can’t see the light. Please Holly, I need your help. Fulfill my wish before I go forever, then I will help you. I know your problems”, said a young man with his fear face and he has a bleeding big hole in his chest. It is so appalling.
“Who are you? Why do you come to me? Go to other person. I can’t help you and I don’t know you. Go away!” Holly feels so scared to see the appall body in front of her.
“No, Holly. Only you can help me and you have to do it for your own safety.”
“Why should I help you and what’s wrong with me? I’m fine.”
“Do you know who’s calling you in the midnight everyday?”
“Who? Do you know who he is? But, how do you know all this?”
“I know everything about you and your novel. I know about the ghost who always haunting you and the old lady that you always see in the garden at the back of your house.”
“Ha? Who are you and how do you know about all this?”
“I will tell you later, okay?”
“Okay, but at least tell me your name?”
“Oh ya, I’m Derrick Garemi. I have to go now because the sun will rise. I’ll see you again Holly.”
He just walks away after that. Holly still confuse about what had happened just now. When she turned back to see Joe, the guy had disappeared from the street. Holly’s confusion becomes doubled with the situation.
* * *
“I can’t get out of bed today to get you off my mind…” the song by Stacie Oricco that had been set as an alarm in Holly’s phone is ringing. Holly gets up of her bed and prepares for work. She takes a train as usual.
Holly arrives early and she goes to the cafe to take her breakfast. She is thinking about the conversation last night. She didn’t know either the guy is only in her dream or reality. She is more confuses nowadays because everyday she has more oddity in her life. Sometimes, she can’t differ either she is dreaming or not. Her boyfriend suggests her to see a psychologist to solve her problem, but Holly ignores it and asks him not to be worried about her and she tells him that it is not serious. Maybe she only need some rest.
She takes a sandwich and a cup of hot chocolate for her breakfast. Then, she gets back to her work. Today, she has to manage the mortuary. She works with Sharon. But, she didn’t see Sharon since this morning.
“Where did she go? Has she come to work?”, Holly asks Sara at the counter.
But, no one knows where she is.
“Maybe she’s not well today.”, says Holly’s intuition. She enters the mortuary. She has to know about her partner because she has to close the door. It is because the room is confidential and not everyone can enter the room. So, she must lock the door after she gets inside it. She has to check the number of the dead body in the mortuary. Then, she must check about their profile and make a record of the new body that arrives just now.
First thing that she wants to do is counting the number of the body. The first counting shows that there are 57 bodies in the mortuary. She counts for the second time to avoid the carelessness of recording. But, now she gets the numbers is increasing! Now the number is 58, not 57.
Holly feels uncomfortable but she tries to calm herself down and count again. For this time, she gets the old number. There are 57 bodies. Now, she feels a little relief. Then, she has to check the profile of all of the dead bodies.
When she does her work, one hand holds her left hand.
“Arghhhh!”, she is very surprised. Then, she runs out of the mortuary quickly. Unfortunately, the door was locked. She goes to the table to take the key. But, there are so many keys.
“Oh, shit! What’s the hell of all this?”, Holly is mumbling.
The lights in the room suddenly turned off. She’s now lonely in the darkness of the mortuary.
“Oh no! Someone please help me!”, Holly tries to get some help but no one can hear her voice because the room is a voice proof. Although she is so scares and crying now, she is still trying to open the door by trying with all the keys.
Suddenly, she feels something hold her legs and finally, she can open the door. She runs out of the room but, she feels like someone is following her. She suddenly collides to Dr. James Dobson and she hugs him, crying and tries to get some help. But, when they look back, there’s nothing there. All of it looks clear as usual.
Holly is still crying. Dr. James tries to calm her down. Suddenly, Lewis walks near them and sees his girlfriend is in other guy’s hug. He feels so angry and jealous. But, he is still in his lucid. He has to maintain his image and he doesn’t want to fight in the hospital because of a lady. Then, he goes to his room to get his temper lower.
Dr. James is a psychologist in the hospital. So, Holly tells what happened to her just now. He wants to help her. Holly tells him everything includes her dreams, the calls and so on. Then, Dr. James wants Holly to get her psychology session to solve her problem. Holly accepts the offer because she feels more comfortable after telling everything to Dr. James.
Since that, Holly always meets Dr. James. It makes Lewis get angrier. It is because they haven’t got their time together even for lunch. Holly is getting closer with Dr. James and Lewis sees that they’re always being together. When Lewis tries to call her, she is always rejecting the calls. She is also avoids from meeting him. Then, Lewis makes his decision to let them go because he believes that Holly will be back to her soon.
In fact, Holly stills love Lewis. But, she is quite busy with her session and she didn’t tell Lewis about it to avoid him from being worried. From all of the stories, Dr. James asks her to take some medicines and he thinks that Holly is in the first stage from three stages of the mental disorder.
* * *
“Ding, dong, ding, dong…” The clock showing that is 12 a.m. now. Holly is still watching television in the hall. Suddenly, she heard someone knocks the door. She goes to the door to see who’s there but no one is there. She feels uncomfortable with it. When she turns back, she is very surprise because the little girl who came in her dreams a month ago stands in front of her.
“Ahhh! Who are you? Where’re you come from? Why you always come in my life? I never disturb you, why you disturb me? What do you want?” Holly says it loud. The girl didn’t say anything. She is only chuckles to Holly and she is gone few seconds after that. Holly locks the door and runs to her bedroom to takes her medicines. She tries to think positively like Dr. James said.
She’s ready to sleep but every time she tries to close her eyes, she will see the girl in her eyes. After she feels a little bit calmer, she goes to the kitchen to get some drink. Suddenly, she sees an old woman is digging a hole and plant something in the small garden at the back of her house. But, she couldn’t see what kind of thing that the old woman is planting. She tries to find out who the old woman is and what she does at her garden. Holly goes out of her kitchen to meet the old woman and she wants to ask her what she is trying to do there at this time. As she goes out, the old woman is gone. Holly feels so cold and runs inside her house.
Holly can’t sleep that night because she is thinking about the old woman. When the sun comes out, Holly go out of her house and she goes to the garden and tries to find anything that she can use to dig the hole. She wants to see what the thing that was planted by the old woman last night.
Then, she found a hoe under a big tree. She digs the hole by the hoe and she believes that the hoe was used by the old woman last night. Suddenly, she smells something bad and then she found a dead body in the hole!
She runs inside her house and lock all the doors and windows. Then, she sits in her bedroom. She doesn’t go to work. She is very shock. All of the calls were ignored by Holly. Lastly, Holly sleeps after she takes her overdose medicines.
At 9.00 p.m. Holly wakes up from her sleep. She feels like very dizzy. She takes her bath and goes to the kitchen to get some food. She feels so hungry because she hasn’t taken any kind of food for the whole day. She cooks spaghetti for her dinner.
After she eats, she wants to clean the dishes. But, suddenly she sees the little girl and a teenager as her age walking around the garden, holding hands. Then, they come to get closer to Holly. They look at Holly with a fierce face and Holly can see their mouths are bleeding.
She really scares with them. She runs to her bedroom but, she falls in front of the kitchen’s door and faint.
At the morning, she awakes and she found a bleeding knife in her hand. She’s panic and gets up to the sink to clean all of the blood at the knife and on her hand. Then, she walks to her bedroom and changes her clothes. She thinks that she is getting crazy. She calls Catherine and asks her to take her and bring her to the hospital because she doesn’t think that she can go to the hospital by her own as usual.
Catherine fetches her by her new car. They go to the hospital and as they arrived there, Holly runs to the Dr. James’ room. At that time, Dr. James has a meeting with his patient but when they look Holly is crying with her pale face, his patient gives a space for Holly first.
Then, Dr. James asks Holly to sit in front of him and he wants Holly to tell what had happened to her. Holly tells everything to him and he tries to calm her down. Then, as usual he gives some advices to her.
“Holly, after I did my research about your problem, I found that you have a psychological problem and you are in the critical stage right now. So, my suggestion for you now, you have to enter the mental hospital or you have to find someone to stay with you but, she must be a professional psychologist to take care of you.”
“No, James. I’m fine, I’m not crazy. I was just being disturbed by someone.”
“But, who disturbs you? No one is disturbing you Holly. It’s only your imagination. Okay? I believe that all this will be alright. Don’t worry about that, I will find someone to stay with you.”
“No, James. I don’t want any stranger stay in my house.”
“How about your boyfriend, Lewis?. Although he is not good in psychology, I believe he can help you.”
“No, thanks.” Then, she runs out of the room and takes a taxi home. Since a week ago, she didn’t open her laptop to write her novel. She turns on her laptop but, suddenly she sees the little girl and the teenager’s face.
* * *
James goes to see Lewis to ask some questions about Holly.
“Lewis, can I ask you something?”
“What?”
“It’s Holly.”
“Oh, I think you’re already knew everything about her.”
“Why are you saying like this?”
“I saw that Holly and you are so close than me nowadays.”
“Oh, come on Lewis, she’s only my patient. I treat her same as my other patients. How about your relationship? Everything’s okay right?”
“No, she had changed. She didn’t want to see me anymore, not even answering my calls, James.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you’re happy together. She has a serious problem Lewis. If you don’t mind, I want you to take care of her and give more attention to her.”
“Okay, thanks man.”
After work, Lewis goes to Holly’s house. He calls Holly’s name for many times but she doesn’t open the door. He remembers that Holly always keeps her spare key above her main electric box. After he found the key, he opens the door. He calls Holly again, but there’s no response from her.
He goes upstairs to Holly’s bedroom. Once he enters the room, he’s shock! Holly was fainted in front of her laptop. He quickly gets Holly into his car and drives back to the hospital. Holly was fainted because of the stress that she had faces and her blood pressure is very low. After a few minutes, she regain from her unconsciousness.
Lewis says sorry to Holly if he did anything wrong to her before. Then, Holly hugs him and cry. She also says sorry to Lewis because she makes Lewis worried about her. Then, she explains to Lewis about everything that had happened to her for the past few weeks and why she didn’t answer his calls and why she didn’t want to meet him. Actually, she was stressed by her problems and didn’t want Lewis to be worried about her.
