Ash

No, I did too.

so they were used to that but this time something was different it felt like there was somebody else in the house with her but like it was a presence that she couldn't see but she could for sure feel she said the air felt heavy thick and dark so she closed her eyes and she tried to push the heavy feeling away and within a few minutes it passed later that afternoon after the girls got home from school carolyn gave them some milk and cookies and she was like go play like over here so you don't wake april up because she's still sleeping

So doing as they were told, they went into the living room to play a game and eat their snack, but they were interrupted a few minutes later by an unhappy and obviously still sleepy April.

And she wanted to know, who the fuck shook me in my goddamn sleep like that?

Thinking that their sister was overtired or just being silly, the other girls laughed, but they were immediately admonished by Carolyn, who was, like, not very happy that April was up from her nap that early.

No.

So she had been in the kitchen next to the living room.

She could see and hear the girls very clearly.

Like she knew all four of them were down there playing.

So she also knew that none of them had gone upstairs to wake up April.

So she pulled April onto her lap and she's trying to soothe her.

She's like, nobody touched you while you were asleep.

Like none of the girls went into your room.

It was probably just a bad dream.

That technique was usually successful, but on that afternoon, April could not be soothed.

She was very upset.

She insisted that one of her sisters had slapped her and pushed her while she was sleeping and then ran out of the room.

And she said she could even hear their footsteps as they fled into the hallway.

That's terrifying.

Yeah.