PORTRAIT

              One day, me and my brother shared our money to buy a bungalow for my family. My mother and sisters were so happy to have a new house that we can share together, while me and my brother were also happy because we got it cheaper than it normally was for a bungalow with a nice view, a swimming pool and a garden for my mother who personally likes planting flowers. The bungalow has a little cabinet or item that was given by the old owner. The owner say we can do whatever we want with it, weather to use it or throw it out. There were many old items like grandfather's clock,
an old sewing machine and many more, so we thought we just keep it in the basement. But the thing that get my attention was an old portrait of someone that just left covered with blanket in the basement. It was so beautiful like a work from a really good artist, but what's on my mind is whose picture was this, so i contacted the previous owner to ask about the portrait whether he forgot to take it with him or was it a gift.

                After our call ended, the question that was in my head about the person in the portrait was still unanswered, the previous owner also have no clue about the portrait as it was in the basement way before he lives there. He also say he tried to contact the owner that sell the house to him, but there was never once he got to talk to him as he suddenly disappear when i bought the house. I said okay thank you for your information on the portrait. As i ended the conversation with the previous owner, i ask my family about the portrait whether they like to hang it up or just keep it in the basement, the decision was to hang it up in the living room because it was beautiful to just left it in the dust at the basement. At first, we thought nothing would happen, it turn out that was our biggest mistake.

                First week living in the house, it's was so much fun living in the bungalow, it's like we living in paradise. But the moment din't last long.. Starting from the 2nd week living in the house, we started to hear big knocking sound at midnight. Me and my brother tried searching for where the sound was coming from but the question was also unanswered because we din't manage to track it down. As that wasn't bad enough already, as time goes by we started to get many more weird accidents happen in the house. Even in daylight, a picture we hang fall on the ground right beside us while we were watching television, our backdoor was broken like somebody was trying to rob our house and my car have a scratch on it. The worst part of all, me and my brother heard people voices at 3 in the morning although there was nobody accept my family in the house! It happenned when we were sitting in the living room trying to figure things out, but the voice scared us both so much that we ran so fast to check on our family members. But none of my family members were awake that time.

                Nine weeks since we bought the house, i started having hallucinations about something, my headache is getting worse as the time goes by and i was sick most of the time. I tried to contact the previous owner on whether something like this happens to him before or not. The owner tells me it did happen to him before, and he hears the same thing like i did, but the only different between me and the previous owner was he never once hear a voice living in that house. The owner asked me to let him stay for a night because we might find the answer for it together. So i said okay about the sleep over thing, but on the condition just to get the answer only and nothing else. So we both agreed on the term and he said he will be coming next week. After our call ended, at midnight i woke up because of dehydration and wanting to get some water...as I go down the stairs and started making my way to the kitchen, i walked pass the portrait that was hanging on our living room...as i was walking, suddenly i saw the portrait was not like before, the picture become more darker, and the eyes seems like it is following your movement! I started to get uneasy about it and decided to just ignore it and get to the kitchen faster...as i was drinking my water, there was a scream that was so loud it hurt my ears. I started running to check on my mother, brother and sisters...as i walk towards the room, i bumped into my brother who was awaken by the scream and we start running together to our other family members... Gratefully nothing happens to them and we start having a meeting about the scream, i started to ask everyone whether they scream or not, and none of them screamed. Yet, my question still unanswered again.

                   I start to ask them whether they have ever feeling something wrong about the portrait, and they said yes but they think maybe that they were imagining it, my sister told me the portrait was moving, and same with my brother. The only difference was my mother told me the portrait seems like getting darker each day...my mother spent many time in the living area and she said, every time a day passed, the portrait turns black and started to look nothing like before...that was the same thing like i think before...as we were talking there was a scream again but this time it was louder and seems to be coming from downstairs. So i grabbed my baseball bat and my brother grab he's stick and we decide to check the house whether there was someone broke in...as we walk down the stairs, we look towards the portrait to see it but, the portrait was not there and we were shocked so we try to see if the portrait fell on the ground but there was no trace of the portrait. I checked every side of the house, there was nothing... Now the only place, we din't check yet was the basement....we started to call our mother and sisters to come down and stay at the living room, so we are closer to each other...as we go down step by step towards the basement...we started to smell something so bad that makes us covered our nose. As we arrive at the basement, we tried to see where the smells is coming from and we saw a girl that looks the same as in the portrait...Our eyes were so wide open, we were so scared and start running up towards the living room, Me and my brother just cannot believe what we see in the basement as our family asking questions about what happen.

                  We then decide to leave the house for the rest of the night, and sleep at one of my mother's friend's house, The next morning i call the previous owner and tells him what happen last night, when he heard it he immediately say don't go in the house yet and asked that we wait for him. He said he will bring somebody to help us that are good with paranormal things. As soon as he arrived, we decided to leave our mother and sisters at our mother's friend's house, Only me and my brother goes back to the house to check on things. As soon as we arrived at the house and take one step in, we were welcome by a loud knocking sound that startle all of us. We step into the house and it was a mess, all the things was completely broken and shattered everywhere, but one thing was in place and that was the portrait hanging near the living room. So the guy that know about the paranormal things name Eric (not the real name) say we need to burn the portrait. Me and my brother take the portrait down and take it outside to burn it, but the problem was the portrait cannot be burn...we tried everything, put gasoline and light a fire on it...but the fire was out not even last a minute and the portrait was completely fine....i decided to take the portrait far-far away from here and try to burn it because i thought probably we need to bring the picture far away from the place it was made...as soon as we bring the picture in the car, the sky started to rain heavily but that it won't stop us going forward...but we need to be careful because the road is very slippery. We manage to go to a place where the rain won't be a problem for us...and we tried to burn it the portrait one more time...and we did it, after the portrait was burnt, the rain fades away and the sun was shining bright in the sky....After several month passed, we live happily in the bungalow...all the things that bothered us has gone, my hallucination is also gone and we are living happily after the incident.