My cousin Samantha

Growing up me and my cousin Samantha were close. We would spend countless summer nights staying up late and talking about the newest gossip and the guys we thought were cute. And when my mother passed away she was there for me through it all. But a few years ago Samantha went missing for weeks, no one knew where she was. At first the police thought it was a runaway case but after a few days of no signs of her, they marked her as a missing person. After a few more months we gave up hope of ever finding her,until my aunt and uncle got a call from the police saying they found her walking along the side of an abandoned road. So my aunt,uncle and I all rushed down to the police station and saw her sitting there,her eyes looked unfocused like she wasn’t fully there. My aunt rushed towards her crying and holding her to her chest and gently rubbing Samantha’s tangled hair. While my aunt was holding Samantha, my uncle was talking to the cops about how she was found and where she was found and if anyone was with her. While I just stood there staring at her. Something didn’t feel right. I’m not sure if it was the fact that her clothes were a size too big for her or the fact that her mouth was covered in some dried up crust, but what really made me uneasy was her eyes…The soft chocolate brown eyes that I was so used to Seeing have now become an almost Auburn color. Her eyes were sunken in and had dark bags under them. It almost looked like her eyes had been pushed in and the skin under her eyes have been pulled down. While I was stuck there staring at my cousin my uncle came up from behind me and tapped my shoulder and said “Audrey? Are you alright? Why aren’t you sitting with your cousin?” I didn’t know what to say, have I really been standing there staring for that long? “Sorry uncle terry,I-I just can’t believe she’s home” my uncle smiled at me and nudged me foward “I know Sweetie but I think she needs you right now, I’ll be over there in a minute I have to talk with the officer a little more” I nod my head and walk forward and sit next to my cousin and Shakily grab her hand “Hey…Samantha, are you ok?” Samantha says nothing but keeps looking forward with unfocused eyes and nods her head. My aunt has calmed down a little more and is talking with the officers while I continue to sit with my cousin. After we stayed in the police station for a little while longer for questioning, the police station took down the missing posters and called off the search party, we were finally able to head home. After we get out of the car my aunt takes my cousin upstairs and helps her take a bath,do her hair and gets her some fresh clothe, my aunt puts my cousin to bed in her room. As I’m sitting downstairs in the dinning room my aunt comes downstairs and says “She’s asleep, We are going to have to be gentle with her for the next few months, we don’t know what happened to her while she was gone and she doesn’t remember much from when she was missing and I don’t want to trigger something so let’s not bring it up alright?” “Yes aunt Grace” I say. After we talk for a little while longer I go upstairs to go to bed. After a few months I started to notice strange things about Samantha. Through the day she would stare into space. Now that would be normal enough if her eyes didn’t dilate nonstop. And when I would ask her if she was ok, her eyes would go back to normal and she would look at me and smile the walk away. Next thing I noticed is that at least once a week she will disappear for hours and come back with her hands completely dirty and covered in blood and her excuse is always “Don’t worry,I just fell”. At first I believed her…Until I saw a smudge of dry blood near her mouth. But the most disturbing thing I noticed is the whispering. Every night around 2 in the morning I hear whispering. But not just one voice, it’s multiple. One night it was so loud that I couldn’t sleep,but yet I still couldn’t understand what they were saying. So I got up and walked into her room but she was laying down asleep. So the next morning I asked her what was she whispering about and who was she talking too she looks at me with those unfocused eyes and says “What are you talking about? I wasn’t talking to anyone last night”. So then I ask my aunt and uncle about it and they tell me I’m just imagining things.But I know I’m not. Finally one night while I was hearing the whispering, I get out of my bed and quietly head down the hall towards Samantha’s room. I stop in front of her door and put my ear to it and I hear the whispering louder than ever. I hear voices I never heard before but hear Samantha’s voice the loudest. I slowly push open the door and look through the crack. What I saw made my hair stand on end. A sliver of moonlight peaks through Samantha’s room and hits her mirror so her reflection was very clear. Samantha’s back was facing the door. I look into her mirror and had to quickly cover my mouth so I wouldn’t scream. Samantha’s mouth was so wide open that it was humanly impossible but yet it was still moving. Her teeth were jagged and yellow,it almost look like someone broke her teeth with a hammer. Her eyes were completely sunken in and pitch black and yet they still flowed in the moonlight. There were bulging vains on her neck and they were completely black.whoever this was or whatever that THING is…It’s not my cousin.