Once finding out about who exactly Peter was, I wanted to know what was so dangerous about him. Specifically, what caused the family that moved in before me to have so many problems and to have experienced so much death?

I decided that the only person who would know was the store clerk I kept running into at the corner store, the one who told me to move out before it was too late. I decided to pay him a visit and have him tell me what really went on that day in my house.

“You do not want to live in that house. It holds a dark history,” he told me again and again.     “I know about the little Jones boy who was locked in the attic,” I said, trying to get him to spill more.     “They were a demonic family, especially their son Peter. He was different, and their family could not handle different, so they took care of the problem.”

“What do you mean by ‘took care of’?”

“They left him up there day and night, the only thing he could do was watch the town below him from the little window in the attic. People started noticing the face in the window and started asking the Joneses who lived up there. Only the Joneses and the midwife, who delivered Peter knew about him, but even the cash they were receiving did not keep their mouths shut. The midwife told the town about the mysterious third child and, shortly after, his parents murdered him and left.”

“But what about the family that lived here before me? You said only one came out alive.”

“The crippled one? She was the only one to live; the rest had mysterious accidents.”

“Accidents?”

“Yeah one was pushed out a window, but everyone insisted it was suicide. One got thrown down the steps, but everyone said he tripped. One drowned in a bathtub, but that was said to be suicide too. The only one who survived was the lifelong cripple, who lived to tell the tales. Eventually, everyone began to believe that she killed off her family, and she was forced into hiding.”

“So who exactly did kill that family?”

“Peter did. Let me ask you a question: is your child perfectly healthy?”

“Yes, she is.”

“Then get out of that house!”

To be continued….