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My name is Elijah Walker. I'm twenty-four years old and for all intents and purposes, I'm alone. Sure I have my friends, but ever since my father and mother passed I feel like I'm alone in this world.  This could mean nothing to you, reader, or it could mean everything. You could be twenty four and struggling with their past, or you like I could of lost your parents at a younger age, again one day and I don't want history to repeat itself.  Please understand, I'm not admitting to killing anyone. Well not recently.
               .  We were gathered around the glass case at the front marveling at some new Spawn figures that had come in.  I was holding the case out to my friend Ethan, out of all of us he was the one who enjoyed Spawn the most the first to comment was Airi and I almost had to stifle a laugh, "Spawn, I still don't get it."
                We all sat around chit-chatting about high school when all of the sudden, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, I almost ran out into the cold night air after the specter but decided that it would be foolish.  I sat there drinking my Smirnoff Ice and talking. Airi was the only one to notice anything off, like usual. When everyone departed for their houses
"God damn it Elijah, one of these days I'm going to use Sodium Pentothal on you. You know how I can't say no to you when you beg"
I smiled, "Thank you, sweetie."
                Once she was left I was left to my own devices and of course upon that I started to search inward, of my past.
                I stretched and started to walk toward the kitchen when it began; the lights flickered, my first thought was, Oh great another storm, but then I looked out the window and saw that there was not flashing of lightning or anything to signal a storm. Odd, I thought. I didn't have a second to think when something came flying at me next I barely moved out of the way to notice it was my den table "What the fuck?!" I screamed, the only thing I heard in response was a giggle.  I started to move when the lights went completely out; there was sound all around me I could barely make it out.
Fate
Too late!
"Fuck" I said, and the invisible voice giggled.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"
Tsk, tsk, Elly you've forgotten me?!
"Well, I can't see you!"
the being materialized in front of me.
"N-n-no, it can't be, you don't exist!"
"Oh but I do Elly!"
"I imagined you when I was younger!"
"Oh really?" her transparent arm turned into a skeletal arm, she grabbed me by the throat and I started to float back, to a night long forgotten
               I heard the thunder crack outside my window. I shook in my bed, I didn't like the rain much, and it sounded like claws on the roof to me.  I tossed and turned I couldn't get comfortable.  I heard something coming from the hall there standing in the door wasn't my dad, but my six year old little sister.
"Help me Elly, please" she begged and I wondered what was going on, I didn't need to wait for an answer bursting in I could see it in his eyes; I sighed and before I could react he grabbed my sister and slammed her against the wall I tried to scream, but nothing came out; he beat her, and did other terrible things to her.  When he was done, he did something he's never done before; he brought out a blade and plunged it into her letting the blade hit the floor he seemed to sober and say
"This is your fault Elijah! Your fault!" he grabbed me by the neck
"You were supposed to protect her from everything! You are your sister's keeper!"
He started to drag her out of the room "well help me you, ungrateful bastard!"
I couldn't move until he made a move for me I grabbed her legs and started to help, my body moving involuntarily or so it seemed, I was in shock
                He dropped her into the back of the truck, nobody woke up it wasn't uncommon; dad had the run of his followers.  We both got in, him of his own free will I was shoved into the seat and let out a yelp of pain; fuck it hurt. It hurt bad enough that I had to hold back tears.  We drove out past the compound into the forest he stopped and ordered me to pick her up, from the truck bed I got out and did as I was told I started to sputter and cough and I landed in the dirt in my nightclothes.  "Damn it", I muttered and the next thing I knew I felt a hand slap across my face.
"Now set her over there," he pointed to a clear patch in the dirt and help me dig" he got the shovels he kept in his truck out and tossed one to me.  I barely caught it and watched where he wanted me to dig before striking the dirt there myself.
It took what felt like hours I was soaked to the bone from my own sweat and the rain that was coming down. We finally finished and he tossed her into the grave, I felt like I wasn't even a part of this, and I didn't want to be; that's why I blocked it out, the whole event.
"If you tell a soul, son, and I mean any fucking soul' he said, the reek of alcohol coming from his mouth, "You'll join her."
I came to and the ghost sat in front of me, the first words out of my mouth were "I'm so sorry-I'm so sorry!"
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                I hadn't seen him for weeks, it seems months, when I got the call from Decadent Falls Asylum, I had wondered where he had been, Ethan and I both wondered.  I went to the front desk and said, "I'm here to speak to Dr. Avi."
The nurse looked up at me "Who may I ask is seeking him?" she asked over her horn rimmed glasses.
"Airi Solando", I said looking at her in the eyes, Bitch, I thought as she picked up the phone.
"Yes, Doctor" she spoke in to the receiver, "I have a Mrs-"
The nurse gave me a "go to hell" look and said "MISSUS Solando here to speak to you"
                It didn't the doctor long, he shot out of the backroom and said "Thank you, thank you Ms. Solando for coming on such short notice."
"Yes.  Now Doctor, you said that had information on my friend Li."
"Yes, well you haven't seen him in…"
"Two months. Last thing I knew he was getting carted out of his house by an ambulance because a neighbor noticed that he hadn't come out in three days."
"Well, it seems your friend suffered from a psychotic breakdown when we found him, he was holding this."
The doctor handed me a piece of paper with the word Astrid written on it.
"Doctor, I don't know what this means."
"Well we were hoping you did," he said as we finally started to move back, "because that's all he will say now."
We were now face to face with a plate glass window
"I wish I knew, doctor, I really do." I put my hand to the glass and thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye but wished it off to my mind playing tricks, there were my answers and now I wish I had none.

Description
My name is Elijah Walker. I'm twenty-four years old and for all intents and purposes, I'm alone. Sure I have my friends, but ever since my father and mother passed I feel like I'm alone in this world.  This could mean nothing to you, reader, or it could mean everything. You could be twenty four and struggling with their past, or you like I could of lost your parents at a younger age, again one day and I don't want history to repeat itself.  Please understand, I'm not admitting to killing anyone. Well not recently.
               .  We were gathered around the glass case at the front marveling at some new Spawn figures that had come in.  I was holding the case out to my friend Ethan, out of all of us he was the one who enjoyed Spawn the most the first to comment was Airi and I almost had to stifle a laugh, "Spawn, I still don't get it."
                We all sat around chit-chatting about high school when all of the sudden, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, I almost ran out into the cold night air after the specter but decided that it would be foolish.  I sat there drinking my Smirnoff Ice and talking. Airi was the only one to notice anything off, like usual. When everyone departed for their houses
"God damn it Elijah, one of these days I'm going to use Sodium Pentothal on you. You know how I can't say no to you when you beg"
I smiled, "Thank you, sweetie."
                Once she was left I was left to my own devices and of course upon that I started to search inward, of my past.
                I stretched and started to walk toward the kitchen when it began; the lights flickered, my first thought was, Oh great another storm, but then I looked out the window and saw that there was not flashing of lightning or anything to signal a storm. Odd, I thought. I didn't have a second to think when something came flying at me next I barely moved out of the way to notice it was my den table "What the fuck?!" I screamed, the only thing I heard in response was a giggle.  I started to move when the lights went completely out; there was sound all around me I could barely make it out.
Fate
Too late!
"Fuck" I said, and the invisible voice giggled.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"
Tsk, tsk, Elly you've forgotten me?!
"Well, I can't see you!"
the being materialized in front of me.
"N-n-no, it can't be, you don't exist!"
"Oh but I do Elly!"
"I imagined you when I was younger!"
"Oh really?" her transparent arm turned into a skeletal arm, she grabbed me by the throat and I started to float back, to a night long forgotten
               I heard the thunder crack outside my window. I shook in my bed, I didn't like the rain much, and it sounded like claws on the roof to me.  I tossed and turned I couldn't get comfortable.  I heard something coming from the hall there standing in the door wasn't my dad, but my six year old little sister.
"Help me Elly, please" she begged and I wondered what was going on, I didn't need to wait for an answer bursting in I could see it in his eyes; I sighed and before I could react he grabbed my sister and slammed her against the wall I tried to scream, but nothing came out; he beat her, and did other terrible things to her.  When he was done, he did something he's never done before; he brought out a blade and plunged it into her letting the blade hit the floor he seemed to sober and say
"This is your fault Elijah! Your fault!" he grabbed me by the neck
"You were supposed to protect her from everything! You are your sister's keeper!"
He started to drag her out of the room "well help me you, ungrateful bastard!"
I couldn't move until he made a move for me I grabbed her legs and started to help, my body moving involuntarily or so it seemed, I was in shock
                He dropped her into the back of the truck, nobody woke up it wasn't uncommon; dad had the run of his followers.  We both got in, him of his own free will I was shoved into the seat and let out a yelp of pain; fuck it hurt. It hurt bad enough that I had to hold back tears.  We drove out past the compound into the forest he stopped and ordered me to pick her up, from the truck bed I got out and did as I was told I started to sputter and cough and I landed in the dirt in my nightclothes.  "Damn it", I muttered and the next thing I knew I felt a hand slap across my face.
"Now set her over there," he pointed to a clear patch in the dirt and help me dig" he got the shovels he kept in his truck out and tossed one to me.  I barely caught it and watched where he wanted me to dig before striking the dirt there myself.
It took what felt like hours I was soaked to the bone from my own sweat and the rain that was coming down. We finally finished and he tossed her into the grave, I felt like I wasn't even a part of this, and I didn't want to be; that's why I blocked it out, the whole event.
"If you tell a soul, son, and I mean any fucking soul' he said, the reek of alcohol coming from his mouth, "You'll join her."
I came to and the ghost sat in front of me, the first words out of my mouth were "I'm so sorry-I'm so sorry!"
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                I hadn't seen him for weeks, it seems months, when I got the call from Decadent Falls Asylum, I had wondered where he had been, Ethan and I both wondered.  I went to the front desk and said, "I'm here to speak to Dr. Avi."
The nurse looked up at me "Who may I ask is seeking him?" she asked over her horn rimmed glasses.
"Airi Solando", I said looking at her in the eyes, Bitch, I thought as she picked up the phone.
"Yes, Doctor" she spoke in to the receiver, "I have a Mrs-"
The nurse gave me a "go to hell" look and said "MISSUS Solando here to speak to you"
                It didn't the doctor long, he shot out of the backroom and said "Thank you, thank you Ms. Solando for coming on such short notice."
"Yes.  Now Doctor, you said that had information on my friend Li."
"Yes, well you haven't seen him in…"
"Two months. Last thing I knew he was getting carted out of his house by an ambulance because a neighbor noticed that he hadn't come out in three days."
"Well, it seems your friend suffered from a psychotic breakdown when we found him, he was holding this."
The doctor handed me a piece of paper with the word Astrid written on it.
"Doctor, I don't know what this means."
"Well we were hoping you did," he said as we finally started to move back, "because that's all he will say now."
We were now face to face with a plate glass window
"I wish I knew, doctor, I really do." I put my hand to the glass and thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye but wished it off to my mind playing tricks, there were my answers and now I wish I had none.