The face looked like it had been soaked in formaldehyde. It looked swollen, pale and wet.
It's eyes looked dull, like two black hollow balls stuffed into it's eye sockets.
Tremaine stopped breathing.
Even though he was prepared, he had never seen a face like this one before.
It looked like the face of a dead man from a horror movie.
If a regular person saw this face, they would have been scared out of their wits. The reason why Yesseca didn't was because it was her older brother's face.
Tremaine wasn't freaked out because he was mentally strong.
He held his breath for a few seconds.
He then walked towards the window.
He slowly moved closer.
The face was still at window, and was looking at Tremaine with it's black empty eyes.
Tremaine was now across the room.
He was very close to it.
He noticed that the man's face hadn't changed at all since it appeared, even its eyes hadn't moved.
Within a split second, Tremaine flung the window open.
A black shadow whooshed past, and the face disappeared without a trace.
Tremaine quickly looked out the window.
There was nothing outside.
Tremaine jumped down using the air conditioner compressor on the wall. The whole neighborhood was quiet and dark, but he spotted a shadowy figure in the distance.
Tremaine felt his heart beating heavily.
This didn't make sense.
He moved incredibly fast. There was no way anyone could have run away that quickly.
Never mind an average person, even elite soldiers couldn't do that.
Unless it wasn't human.
Tremaine frowned.
If he wasn't a human being, then he must have been a ghost.
But, how was that possible?
There was no such thing as a ghost.
Tremaine didn't believe in the supernatural either.
But what happened just now couldn't be explained with common sense.
Tremaine returned to Yesseca's bedroom.
He sat in the chair and stared at the window again.
The face didn't reappear.
Tremaine was confused.
Was he hallucinating?
It would be impossible to explain everything he had just seen, otherwise.
As he sat and considered the possibilities, it soon became dawn.
Yesseca woke up at six o'clock.
It was probably because she had Tremaine looking after her that night. Yesseca thought that she wouldn't get any sleep, but ended up falling into a very deep sleep. She had fallen into a deep sleep from the moment she closed her eyes until she woke up.
As soon as she woke up, she saw Tremaine sitting down nearby.
He was staring at the window in front of him and seemed to be thinking about something.
Yesseca coughed.
Tremaine looked at Yesseca.
"Did you really stay here the entire night?" Yesseca asked.
Tremaine didn't respond.
He looked at Yesseca inquisitively.
Yesseca felt strange at the way he looked at her.
She couldn't help touching her face. "Is it because I haven't washed my face? Stop staring. I'll go and wash my face."
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