HAPE SPIRITS EXCLUSIVE | Stories To Tell in the Dark

This is not a story of my own, but one told to me by a
friend.
You know how sometimes you can’t be 100% sure whether you’re
dreaming or awake when something happens to you in the middle
of the night? Something like that happened to me once. Only,
as the years go by, and I experience more of life, I cannot
persuade myself that it was all a strange and coincidental
dream.
It was years ago when this happened, when I was 13 or 14.
One night, I was having a fitful sleep when all of a sudden
I awoke (or at that time thought that I had dreamt I had
awakened), and standing there at the foot of the bed was my
favourite aunty!
She was saying something to me, I couldn’t quite make out at
once what it was she was saying, but I recognised an urgency
in her voice.
I can’t remember for sure, but I think I said something like,
“What is it, Auntie?”
Her voice came clearer this time as she responded, “Come,
come quickly! Please come!”
I wanted to rise, but instead I seemed to sink deeper into my
bed every time I tried. Her voice became fainter too and soon
her figure became indistinct. It was all very dreamy, I must
say. I fell into a deep drowsy state and sank into a stupor,
sleeping again fitfully through the night, but not awakening
again.
The next day, my parents informed me that Aunty had been
returning home from work late in the night when her car
overturned.
When they found her, she was dead.
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