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  D. K. KNIGHT

  GEMINI CURSE

  First published by D. K. KNIGHT 2022

  Copyright © 2022 by D. K. KNIGHT

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  GEMINI CURSE

  GEMINI CURSE

  Emily and her friends tend to be typical young college aged adults who work, love to party on the weekends, enjoy volunteering for events, hang at the bars, and love being with her boyfriend Sean. It seems she has the perfect life, even though she is adopted.

  Sean’s car pulled up to the curb and he hopped out. He strolled up to the door and knocked on it. Emily, his girlfriend, answered the door with a look of having a heavy heart. Sean placed his hand to her chin and raised her face to meet his, until they were eye to eye.

  “Babe, what’s the matter? You look like something bad happened,” he asked as she stared at him.

  “Do you remember when I told you my parents confessed that I was adopted?” she responded.

  “Yeah, you said that you were trying to get the money together to hire an investigator to locate your parents,” he replied.

  Emily handed him a letter and as he unfolded it, he glanced at her.

  “Read the letter,” she told him.

  Sean began reading the letter out loud,”Dear Ms. Danes, I am an attorney handling your family’s estate. I am contacting you as records show that you are the last surviving member of your family. Your presence is requested at the property in the town of Rosewater to sign papers and to take possession of the family estate in two days time, sincerely Mr. Graves.”

  He looked up at Jessica, then back to the letter and then back to her. She grabbed his hand and led him inside the house, where they sat on the couch in silence as he continued to glance between them.

  “Um, well that is terrible news. I am sorry baby, I know how much you wanted to find them,” he said.

  “I know, I really wished I did before, well this,” she replied.

  “Well, let’s make it a road trip then, let’s get the gang together and go check this place out while you sign papers,” he told her.

  She finally nodded with approval and he jumped up, pulled his phone out and began calling his friends.

  * * *

  Two days later, Emily was relaxing in the passenger seat of the SUV while Sean was driving. Their friends were all playing on their phones, tablets and conversing on the four hour journey to see where Emily comes from. A while later, they finally passed a sign.

  “Welcome to Rosewater, huh, I heard of this town,” their friend said.

  “Yeah, Michael, we know most of us have heard the rumors surrounding this place,” Sean told him.

  They finally crossed into town and drove through as they glanced around for a sign to the hotel. Finally, a short drive later, Sean noticed a silver car in front of the abandoned building. He pulled up and everyone climbed out of the truck. The man climbed out of his car and approached the group with a folder in his hands.

  “Hello, I am Mr. Graves and you must be Emily,” he introduced himself.

  “Yes, sir, and these are my friends and boyfriend, Michael, Dina, Sean, Jason, Mina, Tina, and Jared Tina’s boyfriend,” she said as she introduced herself and her friends.

  Mr. Graves and Emily stepped over to his car, he pulled papers out of the briefcase and began to go over it with her.

  “Okay, so it is easy. The paperwork states that you are legally the sole surviving heir to this estate and that under penalty of law you are legally Emily Sanders aka Emily Danes. Please sign the line and date below, then initial the next four pages. After that, I will give you the key and it is officially your property,” he told her.

  Emily signed and initialed all the paperwork and received the keys, but in the meantime Sean, Dina, and Tina wandered off and were walking around the grounds. While Mina and Jason hung out on the porch waiting. Michael and Jared wandered off before the rest of them explored the place. She turned around after and found everyone except Jason and Mina gone.

  “Seriously, what the heck, where did everyone go?” she asked.

  “Well, they wandered, they were excited and went exploring,” she replied.

  “Okay then, let’s explore,” she said.

  Mina and Jason smiled and Emily thanked Mr. Graves as he climbed into his car and drove off. She ascended the stairs, placed the key and unlocked the door, then opened it. They all turned away as the foul air hit their noses.

  “Wow, that is rank, let’s let it air for a few minutes,” he told them.

  They all agreed and after a few minutes they entered the hotel to explore it. Mina headed to the stairs and Jason stayed on the floor level. Emily had wandered her own way as well and ended up in the kitchen where she found blood stains, rotting food, and flies buzzing everywhere. Jason looked around as he wandered the floor and discovered a door down the hall from the dining room. He checked it and it wouldn’t budge, so he kicked the door and busted it open. A foul smell flooded out of the room, he retreated from the doorway and back down the hall where he threw up in the vase close by. After a moment, he covered his nose and mouth with his shirt and returned to the room. He entered and found a severed, decomposing goat’s head with a knife through its skull on an altar. He also discovered a mirror with a burnt black frame, that had carvings in the frame.

  “What the hell, what kind of place is this? I am out of here, hell no, I am done with this room,” he blurted out.

  Jason rushed out of the room and bumped Emily, and he glanced at her with apologetic eyes.

  “I’m sorry Emily,” he told her.

  “It’s okay Jason, but why were you running out of that room?” she asked as she glanced over his shoulder.

  “It’s disgusting, there is a goat’s head in the room decomposing on an altar and a weird looking mirror. I am not going back there,” he told her.

  “It’s okay, I will check it out, go find the basement and maybe you can find the power box, please,” she said.

  Jason wandered through the dining room door and disappeared into another section of the house. Emily stood at the opening to the room, she stared
into it almost like she was drawn to it. Ensnared by the sight.

  “Emily,” a voice called out from the room.

  Emily stood there still in a trance and then entered the room almost like she couldn’t help it. She wandered to the mirror where she saw her reflection, the carvings lit up in flames. Her reflection changed and now standing before her was Mr. Graves.

  “Emily, you are the twin I have been waiting for. Ever since Jessica died, I needed you to be here. I brought you here to understand, place your hand to the mirror and be shown who they were,” he told her.

  She raised her hand and while in her trance, she placed her hand on the mirror, it rippled and the carvings grew brighter.

  * * *

  Upstairs Mina was wondering down the hall, checking the doors to see if she could get into them, but no such luck. She continued on and rounded the corner and just as she passed the third suite, she stopped. As she heard a noise. She turned to see what it was and the door was cracked, so she slowly walked up to it and opened it. The room was empty, except for the furniture and a blood-covered chair. She entered to search around to see what she could find. As he crossed into the center of the room, the door slammed shut. She ran to it and furiously tried to open it, but it wouldn’t budge. She yelled for help, but no one could hear her. She spun around to a strange noise and saw a headless body sitting in the chair. The body twitched and jumped to its feet and started rushing toward her. She screamed and fled to the bathroom and locked herself in. It banged on the door trying to get in and she began to panic and search for a way out.

  “Stop it, please, stop,” she screamed out.

  The banging stopped and she walked up to the door and cracked it. There was no one there, so she made a break for it. This time, as she reached the door and jerked on it, it opened. She turned and found Omar, headless holding it in one hand.

  “You will never make it out alive,” he said.

  She screamed and ran for her life out of the room, and didn’t look back.

  * * *

  Downstairs Jason was searching for the power box when suddenly the lights turned on. As he found himself toward the back of the room, a cage appeared with his little brother inside, his upper torso chained to the top of the cage and his guts all over the floor, dripping blood. Scared and confused, he stepped closer to the cage, his brother suddenly thrashed about in the cage, then suddenly stopped staring at him.

  “You’re next, big brother,” he said.

  Jason turned and ran, he reached the stairs and stopped as he heard his brother’s voice calling out to him.

  “Brother, don’t leave me, you were supposed to save me, Brother,” he yelled out.

  Jason ran as he suddenly saw his brother dragging his torso over the floor, yelling. He turned and fled the basement. He headed straight through the kitchen and dining into the foyer where he ran into Mina. They both glanced at each other and ran out of the hotel and jumped into the SUV as both their hearts raced in fear.

  * * *

  Outside in the back of the property, Sean, Tina, and Dina managed to wander into the rose garden and as they looked around, a nearby dried and blackened rose bush burst into flames and set the garden on fire. They tried to run, but the entrance was blocked with a wall of fire. Out began to panic as they searched through the flames to find another exit, but couldn’t. They tried to call out for help and as they screamed for help, a woman on fire came bursting out of the greenhouse, screaming and running toward them. Sean stood in front of the girls to shield them from what they were witnessing. The lady got very close and just before reaching them burst into flames and vanished. The fire wall burned out and the gate opened. They ran for it and on the way, they ran into Michael and Jared, who tore out of the shed. They all quickly ran off and jumped into the SUV.

  “Sean go, let’s get the hell out of here now, come on,” they all screamed.

  “Shut up, where is Emily, we can’t leave without her.” he blurted out.

  Emily came running out of the house and jumped into the SUV and glanced around as they hit the gas and drove off like a bat out of hell through the town and out of it.

  “Stop the car, look everyone,” she yelled.

  Sean slammed on the brakes and just past the town limits line, they stopped. Emily and Sean jumped out and stared, while the rest watched from the vehicles back seats. The town suddenly vanished. They jumped back into the vehicle and sped off with haste, and during the trip back home they didn’t say a word, Michael however didn’t remain quiet.

  “What the hell was that? Me and Jared were exploring the shed when we heard a noise. I opened the freezer to find body parts trying to climb out and Jared found glass jars with organs and eyes moving around while the bodies on the tables were twitching. I mean there was nothing in there at first, so what the hell,” he said loudly.

  “Michael, just stop, please, we are freaked out as is,” Jared snapped.

  He went to say something else and Jared cut him off and turned back around and complete silence fell over the car finally as they headed back home to Dawson. Maine.

  * * *

  Back at home, Emily and her friends have tried to place the incident behind them and move forward as if it never happened. It hasn’t been easy, since they have been having recurring nightmares for the last several days since the horrors they found in the hotel.

  Emily was laying in bed when her phone began to ring. She rolled over and answered her cell.

  “Hello,” she answered.

  “Hello ma’am, I am Dr. Kendo. I was told to place a call to you by Sean Jergens parents. They wanted you informed that he was struck by a car last night and is currently here at Dawson General,” the doctor told her over the phone.

  Emily dropped the phone, jumped out of bed, got dressed and ran down stairs searching for her car keys. Finally finding them, she rushed out the door.

  After arriving at the hospital, Emily found Jason waiting in the lobby with Sean’s parents.

  “Emily dear, thank you for coming. I don’t know what happened. We were out of town and got the call that Sean had been hit by a car, so we drove back as quick as we could,” she told her through tears.

  After Jason and Emily approached the front desk, security asked them the name of the patient they would like to see and asked them to sign in for security reasons. As the security officer was looking up the name, she asked them to wait in the waiting room for a moment and called for her supervisor and the doctor. The supervisor arrived at the desk and then the supervisor escorted them into a conference room along with Sean’s parents. In the room, a detective was waiting, along with doctor Kendo.

  “Hello everyone, I am Detective Shannon Adler. I have asked you here to answer a few questions about last night and the incident. Sean’s alcohol level was a bit high and it appeared as though he stepped out in front of the car, and with an impaired sense, got hit,” she told them.

  Jason sighed, he asked the detective to clear the room. She ordered Emily, Sean’s parents, the supervisor, and the doctor out of the room.

  “Okay, what do you have to tell me?” she asked as she turned on the recorder.

  “Jason had been drinking, he had a few beers and I refused to let him drive that night, so he walked home,” he explained as she took down his statement.

  “Is there anything else I need to know about before we proceed?”

  “No, I don’t know anything else about what happened. Wait, he said he had been having nightmares of his dead brother and that is why he came to my house to drink.”

  “Okay then, you can go, but if you remember anything else that could help, please call me.” she told him as she handed him her card.

  Doctor Kendo waited with Sean’s parents and Emily as the supervisor returned to his office. Jason exited the room and doctor Kendo explained to them all about Sean’s condition.

  “He is in the ICU and in a coma and has had severe trauma to the left side of his body. He has several broken ribs, a broke
n arm, and a fractured knee,” he told them as he turned and walked away.

  After the doctor explained the situation, Emily walked out of the hospital crying, and Jason finished talking with Sean’s parents. He explained what he told the detective and Sean’s father punched him in the mouth and left out the door angry with his wife in tow. Jason picked himself up and rushed out the door to find her sitting on the bench with her face buried in her palms.