Around an hour later, an angry Jessica, Marcus, Richard and Vanessa come home inside their front door into their apartment as Jessica turns to Marcus and Richard and shouts, “See what you boys are putting me through?! Now I have to pay Diane D’s family for what you two did!”
“We didn’t mean any harm Mom!” Richard cries. “I only did this for Marcus because I saw how bad he wanted Diane D to come to his school!”
“So you’re going to send out a lie to her family?! That lie is costing me! I can’t afford to pay Diane D’s family all that money, but I still have to pay them! Now I have to see if I can borrow money from some of our relatives! I might even have to do some overtime at work just so I can try to come up with most of the money!” Marcus slowly and painfully goes to the living room walking with the crutches as Jessica, Vanessa and Richard follow him.
Marcus goes to the side of the living room to a chair. He slowly and painfully sits down on the chair. He trembles as he nervously looks around the living room. Jessica, Vanessa and Richard approach Marcus and surround him. Marcus turns to them as Jessica gets down on her knees in front of Marcus and shouts, “Marcus, did you have to confess to Diane D that it was you and your brother who sent her family that letter?! Did you have to confess to her?! If you hadn‘t confess to Diane D about that letter, she wouldn‘t have to have known that it was you and your brother who sent her family that false letter! Why on earth did you have to confess to Diane D Marcus, why?!”
“Because I felt bad about lying to Diane D and her family!” Marcus cries.
“Marcus,” Vanessa says as she gets down on her knees next to Jessica, “we understand you felt bad about lying to Diane D and her family, but once you realize that Diane D was planning on coming to your school to see and meet this so called child who has leukemia, you should have sent her family a quick anonymous letter and tell her family, that there is no child in your school who has leukemia, that the other letter was false! That probably would have prevented Diane D from coming to your school once she realize that the other letter was false and that there is no child in your school who has leukemia! You could have sent Diane D’s family an anonymous letter! Why did you have to confess to Diane D personally?! Marcus, while we were riding back home several minutes ago, you said that when you confessed to Diane D that it was you and your brother who sent her family that false letter, you said she just stood there and stared right at you at the edge of that dark isolated school hallway like she wanted to kill you!”
“It did looked like she wanted to kill me Grandma! It looked liked she wanted to wring my neck!”
“She probably did get so angry that she felt like killing you Marcus!” Jessica shouts. “Marcus while we were riding in the car, you also said that Diane D kept blocking your path refusing to let you go by when you were trying to get back towards Principal Cole‘s office! Did she say that she was gonna harm or kill you?! Did she threaten you?!”
“No! Once the shock wore off her and she realized that the little boy who has leukemia doesn‘t exist and that she would never ever get to see or meet him, it looked like she turned sad, then it looked like she was crying, then it looked like she turned angry, because she just stood right at the edge of the hallway staring at me, not saying a single word! Once I confessed everything to Diane D about the letter and the kittle boy who has leukemia, she didn’t say anything else after that! She just stood there at the edge of the hallway staring at me!”
“My God Marcus!” Vanessa says. “God only knows what Diane D was thinking!”
“She was probably thinking she could kill him!” Jessica shouts, “but just never said it! She rather just think it! Marcus do you know why Diane D kept blocking your path in that school hallway, refusing to let you go by back towards Principal Cole‘s office?! Do you know why she refused to let you go by?!” Marcus frighteningly looks at Jessica. Jessica puzzled stares at Marcus as she shouts, “Marcus! Why did Diane D refuse to let you go by when you were trying to get back towards Principal Cole‘s office?! Why did she refuse to let you go by?!”
“So she can harm me!”
“What!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard say.
“So she can harm you?!” Vanessa asks. “What do you mean ‘so she can harm you‘?! How do you know Diane D wanted to harm you?! When we asked you did she threaten you, you said no!”
“That’s because she didn’t threaten me Grandma!” Marcus shouts. “I told you she never said another word once the shock wore off her!”
“Then how do you know that she wanted to harm you?!”
“Because she did harm me!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout as they shockingly look at Marcus.
“Marcus what do you mean ‘she did harm you’?” Jessica shockingly asks.
“Wasn’t I in the hospital that night?!” Marcus shouts. “Didn’t my arm and wrist get broken?! Didn’t two of my ribs get fractured, and didn‘t I get some internal bleeding?!”
“Marcus, you told us and everyone else that you fell down the stairs, that‘s how you got injured,” Vanessa shockingly says.
“I didn’t fall down the stairs Grandma!” Marcus cries.
“You didn’t fall down the stairs?!”
“No!”
“Were you pushed down the stairs?!”
“No! I wasn’t pushed down the stairs either!”
“Then for God’s sake Marcus, how did you get these injuries?!”
“Diane D assaulted me!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shockingly shout.
“Diane D assaulted me! She assaulted me on that third floor school hallway!”
“She assaulted you?!” Vanessa shockingly shouts.
“Yes! She’s the one who gave me these injuries!”
“Oh my God!” Jessica shouts. “I don’t believe what I’m hearing! Diane D assaulted you?!”
“Yes!”
“Are you telling the truth this time Marcus?!”
“Yes I’m telling the truth this time!”
“How do we know you‘re not lying about this?!”
“Why would I lie about this Mom?!”
“Because you and Richard already lied to Diane D and her family about the little boy who has leukemia!”
“But I’m not lying about this! Diane D assaulted me, that’s how my arm, wrist, ribs and everything else got broken!”
“Oh my goodness Marcus!” Vanessa shouts. “If Diane D assaulted you, how did she assault you?!”
“By kicking me!”
“By kicking you?! She kicked you?!”
“Yes! The first few times I tried to go by her to get back to where Principal Cole’s office is, she kept blocking my path! When I decided to try a fourth time, she spin her entire body around and kung fu kicked me, breaking my arm and wrist!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout.
“Diane D kung fu kicked you?!” Vanessa shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus shouts.
“Oh my goodness!”
“That’s how your arm and wrist got broken?!” Jessica shouts. “She broke your arm and wrist by giving you a kung-fu kick?!”
“Yes!” Marcus shouts. “When I felt the pain, I looked right at my arm and wrist! I saw my arm and wrist bent backwards, then I looked right at her! I saw the look on her face, especially the look in her eyes that told me she was not playing! I said to myself this woman is crazy! All I know is that I had to hurry and get away from her, so I slowly backed away from her! She just kept staring at me! Then I turned around and tried to make a quick dash for the back exit stairwell, then she chased right after me and dropped kicked me right across my back!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout.
“Diane D chased after you and dropped kicked you right across your back?!” Richard asks.
“Yes!” Marcus shouts. “When she did that, I fell and rolled down the hallway!”
“You fell an
d rolled down the hallway?!”
“Yes! It felt like the wind was knocked right out of me! I was on the floor in pain! I felt like I was about to pass out! After a while, I sat up leaning on the wall! I was so much in pain it felt like I was about to collapse! I started screaming for help! I asked Diane D to please let me go! I told her I was sorry for lying to her and her family about the little boy who has leukemia! I asked Diane D again to please let me go, but she just stood there in the dark staring at me, giving me a cold stare! I told her if she wants to meet the little boy who has leukemia, she can do it! I told her if it’s so important for her to grant the little boy his dying wish to meet her, she can do that because the little boy who has leukemia does exist!”
“What!” Jessica shouts. “You told Diane D that the little boy who has leukemia exists?!”
“Yeah! I told Diane D that I made a mistake when I told her that the little boy who has leukemia doesn’t exist! I told her that the little boy who has leukemia was right there in the building behind her with her family! I told Diane D to turn around and look behind herself, but she just kept staring right at me!”
“She didn’t turn around?!”
“No! So I hollered at her and asked her doesn’t she hear me! I told her again to turn around and look that her family found the little boy who has leukemia! I told her that the little boy is standing right behind her with her family waiting to meet her, but that didn‘t work! She did not turn around! She just stood there staring at me! I asked Diane D again does she hear me! I told her again to turn around! She just stood there and kept staring at me! Then I noticed this blank look in her eyes! Then I asked Diane D does she even see me!”
“What! You asked Diane D does she see you?”
“Yeah!”
“How can Diane D not see you Marcus, if she’s staring right at you?!”
“Because her eyes looked blank Mom! So I started to stand in the middle of the hallway several yards in front of her! Then I held my left hand and two fingers out to her! Then I moved my hand and fingers side to side back and forth to see if she sees me! She still had this blank look in her eyes like she didn‘t even see me! Then I asked Diane D, is she sleeping?!”
“What!” Vanessa shouts. “You asked Diane D is she sleeping?! What do you mean you asked Diane D is she sleeping? You think she was sleepwalking?!”
“It looked that way because it looked like her eyes were half closed looking right through me!”
“It looked like her eyes were half closed looking right through you?”
“Yes! It looked like her eyes were looking right through me as if I wasn‘t even there! It looked like her eyes were looking way in the distance behind me right towards the window at the end of the hallway or looking into space, so I moved my fingers side to side back and forth again to see if she sees me! It still looked like she didn’t see me! She treated me like I was invisible! She still had this blank look in her eyes like she was looking way in the distance into space, so I reached into my pocket and pulled out a pen! Then I threw the pen right at her!”
“What!” Jessica shouts. “You threw the pen at Diane D?!”
“Yes!”
“Then what happened?”
“It almost hit her in the face!”
“It did?!”
“Yeah! She didn’t even move or blink when the pen went right pass her face!”
“She didn‘t move or blink?”
“No! She just stood still like a mannequin, giving this eerie blank stare, not responding! Then I reached into my pocket again and pulled out my calculator! I threw the calculator right at her! She did not move or blink when the calculator hit her right in her face!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout.
“The calculator hit Diane D right in the face and she didn’t move or blink?!” Jessica shouts.
“No!” Marcus cries. “It was like she didn’t even see or feel it! She just stood there with that eerie blank stare, not responding! Since I saw that Diane D wasn‘t responding to anything, I figure I can turn to the side and secretly pull out my cell phone so I can call you! I started to press the numbers on the cell phone! When I putted the cell phone to my ear, she charged at me and kung-fu kicked the cell phone right out of my hand!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout.
“Diane D charged at you and kung-fu kicked the cell phone right out of your hand?!” Jessica shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus shouts. “The cell phone dropped and slid right across the floor! Every time I tried to go for my cell phone, Diane D started to charge at me, then I would quickly back away, then she would stop and just stand there staring at me! Even when I heard and saw my cell phone ringing, I tried to get it, then she would charge at me again! Then I would quickly back away, then she would stop and just stand there staring at me again! That’s why I wasn’t able to answer my cell phone when I heard it ringing, because Diane D refused to let me get to it! She would charge at me and attempt to assault or attack me whenever I tried to get my cell phone!”
“My goodness!” Vanessa says.
“Her cell phone kept ringing also!”
“Her cell phone kept ringing? What did she do?!”
“Nothing! She ignored her cell phone when it kept ringing!”
“She ignored her cell phone?!” Jessica shouts.
“Yes! So I eased towards her so I can try to get her cell phone and answer it!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout.
“You eased towards Diane D so you can get her cell phone?!” Jessica shouts.
“Yes because she wasn‘t answering it!” Marcus shouts. “When I got close to her, I reached for her cell phone! That’s when she spin her entire body around and kung-fu kicked me again, throwing me a couple of feet in the air!”
“What!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“Diane D kung-fu kicked you throwing you a couple of feet in the air!” Vanessa shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus cries.
“How was she able to get the strength to kung fu kick you a couple of feet into the air?!” Jessica asks.
“Because she appeared to have superhuman strength!”
“Superhuman strength?”
“Yes! The things that were happening with Diane D were not normal!”
“Not normal?!”
“No!”
“What do you mean not normal?!”
“Her superhuman strength was not normal! It was something out of this world, that‘s why she was able to kung fu kick me into the air slamming my entire body right into the walls and to the floor!”
“She slammed your body into the walls and to the floor?!”
“Yes!”
“So what are you saying Marcus?!” Vanessa shouts. “Are you saying that all that blood we saw on that third floor school hallway while we up there with the police, the principal and Diane D’s family that night was your blood! That was your blood on the walls and on the floor?!”
“Yes it was my blood on the walls and on the floor Grandma!”
“Oh my God! Marcus are you sure Diane D is the one who attacked you!”
“Yes I‘m sure, I‘m positive! Nobody else was up there in that third floor school hallway but me and her!”
“Marcus, it is three weeks later! If it’s true that Diane D is the one who attacked you, why didn’t you tell us about this before?! Why did you wait until now to tell us that she‘s the one who gave you these broken bones?!”
“Because I was afraid! I was afraid that Diane D will get upset and attack me again!”
“But Marcus you are a child, Diane D is an adult! We heard that when Diane D’s family got her home that night, they told her that she kicked the school lobby door wide open, then burst into the school lobby hollering at you and was about to attack you right there while you were laying in the stretcher! We heard she looked at her family like they we
re crazy and told her family that she would never in her life harm a child!”
“Diane D is right Grandma, she would never harm a child!”
“What do you mean she’s right, she would never harm a child?! You just said she’s the one who attacked you and gave you these broken bones!”
“She is the one who attacked me and gave me these broken bones Grandma! But that wasn’t Diane D I was up on that third floor school hallway with!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout.
“What do you mean ‘that wasn’t Diane D you were up on that third floor hallway with’ Marcus?!” Jessica shouts. “You just said she attacked you! You said she’s the one who kung-fu kicked you to the walls and wind up breaking your arm, wrist and ribs!”
“Yeah it was her that did it!” Marcus shouts. “I mean it was her body up there, but Diane D wasn’t up there!”
“What?” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard say.
“What do you mean it was her body up there, but Diane D wasn’t up there?” Vanessa asks.
“It was like her mind, soul and spirit weren’t there!” Marcus shouts. “It was like her mind, soul and spirit were gone and had left her body!”
“What!” Vanessa, Jessica and Richard shout.
“Mind, soul and spirit were gone and had left her body?!” Vanessa shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus shouts. “It was like her mind, soul and spirit had went someplace else and her physical body was left standing there on its own, with no mind, soul or spirit in it at all! She looked like she in a trance or something! That’s why the look on her face appeared blank! That’s why her eyes appeared blank as if she was looking right through me into space somewhere because I don‘t think her spirit was inside her body anymore!”
“You don’t think her spirit was inside her body?” Jessica asks.
“No!” Marcus cries. “You should have seen that blank look on her face! You should have seen that blank look in her eyes! She looked like a mannequin, having no expression at all!”
“No expression?”
“No expression! It didn‘t seem like I was up in that isolated hallway with Diane D anymore! I didn’t feel her presence anymore!”
“You didn’t feel her presence?! What do you mean you didn‘t feel her presence?!”
“She was gone! I didn’t feel her soul or spirit around anymore!”
“You didn’t!”
“No! I felt and sense the strange presence of someone else or something else!”
“What? You felt and sense the presence of someone or something else?”
“Yes!”
“Like what or whom?”
“The presence of some strange entity!”
“What! You felt the presence of a strange entity!”
“Yes! A strange entity that seemed to have taken over Diane D’s body!”
“What!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“You felt and sensed the presence of a strange entity that seemed to have taken over Diane D’s body?!” Vanessa shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus cries and shouts. “It was the presence of an evil entity!”
“An evil entity?!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“You felt and sensed the presence of an evil entity?!” Jessica shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus cries and shouts. “Whatever this thing, spirit or entity was that took over Diane D’s body was something so sinister, and something very powerful!”
“Very powerful?! What do you mean very powerful?!”
“Because of the superhuman strength it appeared to have, kicking me a couple of feet in the air, knocking me into the wall, knocking the wind out of me and everything! It was an evil vicious entity that WOULD attack and harm a child!”
“Oh no!”
“It was an evil vicious entity that would maybe even KILL a child!”
“Maybe even KILL a child?!”
“Yes!”
“Oh my God!”
“I think I even saw the evil vicious entity!”
“You what!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“You think you saw the evil vicious entity?!” Jessica shouts.
“What do you mean you think you saw the evil vicious entity Marcus?!” Vanessa shouts. “Why do you think you saw the evil vicious entity?!”
“Because Diane D’s facial appearance changed!” Marcus cries and shouts.
“Her facial appearance changed?!”
“Yes!”
“What do you mean her facial appearance changed?!”
“It didn’t look like her anymore!”
“It didn’t?!”
“No, her face looked kind of different! It almost looked like I was looking at someone else or something else!”
“It did?”
“Yes! I think I actually met and encountered the evil vicious entity!”
“What!” Jessica shouts. “You think you met and encountered the evil vicious entity!”
“Yes! I think I looked right into the eyes of the evil vicious entity!”
“Oh no.”
“An evil vicious entity that I know I better hurry and get away from! That’s why I had to back away from Diane D so I can try to make it out of there! When her cell phone rang again, she still was ignoring it and didn’t answer it! She just stood there staring right at me with this angry look in her eyes! I screamed at her to answer her phone, but she just kept ignoring her cell phone and staring at me! So I got angry and yelled at her again! Then I picked up some objects that were in the hallway and started throwing them at her!”
“You threw more objects at her?!”
“Yeah! This time I threw heavier objects at her!”
“You threw heavier objects at her?!”
“Yeah! I wanted to see if I can snap Diane D out of her trance and get her to respond! I figure if I throw heavier objects at her, she will definitely respond, so I threw one of the yellow pails at her!”
“You threw a yellow pail at her?!”
“Yes!”
“Then what happened?!”
“She didn’t even move or blink when the yellow pail almost hit her right in the face!”
“She didn’t move or blink when the pail almost hit her in the face?!“
“No! She just stood there like a zombie, giving me this eerie stare! So I threw another yellow pail at her!”
“You did?!”
“Yeah!”
“Then what happened?!”
“She didn’t even move or blink when that yellow pail hit her right smack in her neck and chest!”
“What! The pail hit Diane D smack in her neck and chest and she never once moved or blink?!”
“No! There was no response from her! She just kept standing there like a zombie, still in a state of trance just staring at me, then I slowly backed away from her again!”
“You did?!”
“Yeah! Then I threw a tin garbage pail right at her! She didn’t even move or blink when the garbage pail hit her right smack in her stomach!”
“What! The garbage pail hit Diane D right smack in the stomach and she just stood there?!”
“Yes! She still did not respond! She just stood there like a mannequin! It was like she didn’t even see or feel it! She just stood there in a trance, then I hollered at her and asked her what is wrong with her, why don’t she respond! I was still backing away from her real slow! Then I threw a tin garbage can lid at her! She still didn’t move or blink when the garbage can lid hit her right smack in her face!”
“What!” Vanessa shouts. “The garbage can lid hit Diane D right in the face and she still didn’t move or blink?!”
“No, she still did not respond! She just stood there in a trance, staring at me! It was like she didn’t see or feel that either! Then I yelled at Diane D to snap out of it and told her to wake up! Then I threw an empty paint can right at her! She still didn’t move or blink when the empty paint can hit her
right smack in her face!”
“What!” Jessica shouts. “An empty paint can hit Diane D right smack in her face and she still just stood there?!”
“Yes! She did not respond to the blow! She still kept staring right at me like she didn‘t see or feel it! I hollered at Diane D again to please wake up! Then I threw a full can of paint right at her!”
“What! You threw a full can of paint at Diane D?!”
“Yeah!”
“Marcus, you know how heavy a full can of paint can be?!” Vanessa shouts.
“Yes it was heavy, but I tossed it and threw it at her anyway!”
“You did?! Then what happened?!”
“She still did not move or blink when the full paint can hit her right smack in her stomach then dropped right on her feet!”
“What!” Jessica shouts. “A full can of paint is thrown right at Diane D’s stomach then drops right on her feet and she still doesn’t move or blink?!”
“No! It was like she didn’t even feel that either! She was still standing there in a trance, staring at me! Then I yelled at Diane D again and told her to please snap out of it and to please wake up! I was still backing away from her real slow! Then I threw a small can of paint at her and it hit her right smack in her face!”
“You threw a small can of paint at Diane D and it hit her right smack in her face?!”
“Yes!”
“Oh no, then what happened?!”
“The can of paint fell and dropped right on her feet!”
“The can of paint fell and dropped on her feet?!”
“Yes!”
“Oh my God! Then what did she do?!”
“Still nothing! She just kept standing there staring at me as her face started to bleed!”
“What!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“Diane D’s face started to bleed?!” Jessica shouts.
“Yes, and all she did was kept standing there staring at me! That‘s when I felt and sensed the presence of a different soul, spirit or entity inside of her body that wasn‘t hers! Then I shouted to this soul, spirit or entity and asked them who are they?!”
“You asked them who they are?”
“Yes, but the soul, spirit or entity didn’t answer! It just kept staring right at me! Then I turned my head around and looked towards the end of the hallway! Then I turned my head back forward and looked back at Diane D! She just kept standing there in a trance still staring at me while her face was bleeding!”
“She didn’t know her face was bleeding!”
“No, it was like she didn’t feel it! Then her cell phone stopped ringing!”
“Her cell phone was still ringing?!”
“Yeah! Then I heard my cell phone ring again! It was still laying on the floor almost near Diane D! She was still standing there in a trance staring at me! I tried to get my cell phone again then she started to charge at me again, so I had to stop and quickly back away! When I stopped, she stopped, still standing there staring at me! I tried to get my cell phone again and she started to charge at me again! I stopped again and quickly backed away again! When I stopped again, she stopped again and just kept staring at me! My cell phone was still ringing! I slowly started backing away from Diane D again while my cell phone was ringing! I thought to myself it is not worth it for me to try to get my cell phone, so I kept backing away! I turned my head around again and looked towards the end of the hallway again! When I turned my head back around towards Diane D, she was still standing there in a trance just staring at me! Then my cell phone stopped ringing! I was still backing away! Then I turned my head around again looking towards the end of the hallway again! When I turned my head back forward, I saw that Diane D was more closer to me!”
“What!” Jessica and Vanessa shout.
“You saw Diane D more closer to you when you turned your head back forward?!” Jessica shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus cries and shouts. “That means while I had my head turned the other way, she was creeping towards me without me knowing it!”
“Oh my God!”
“When I saw that she was closer to me, I stopped and froze with fear!”
“You stopped?!” Richard shouts.
“Yeah! When I stopped, she stopped and kept staring at me! Then I kept staring at her and she kept staring at me! Then I saw her started walking towards me!”
“What,” Jessica shouts. “You saw Diane D walking towards you?!”
“Yes! I remained frozen in fear as she was walking towards me! Then she started to run towards me!”
“What!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“Diane D started to run towards you?!” Richard shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus shouts. “I just stood there frozen in fear!”
“What!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“You just stood there frozen in fear while Diane D was running towards you?!” Richard shouts. “You couldn’t move?!”
“No I couldn’t move for several seconds!” Marcus shouts. “I felt sort of paralyzed!”
“You felt paralyzed?!” Jessica shouts.
“Yes! Then I finally managed to break loose and quickly turned around and ran to the back stairwell doors! I pushed the stairwell doors open and quickly ran into the back stairwell! When I ran down the stairwell and reached the second flight of stairs, I heard the third floor door bang wide open!”
“You heard the third floor door bang wide open?!”
“Yes! It sounded like it was banged wide open by a bulldozer!”
“It did?!”
“That’s the way it sounded! That’s the way it felt!”
“Felt?” Vanessa says. “You felt it?”
“Yeah, I could feel the door bang open so hard, I could feel the vibration of the stairwell!”
“You felt the stairwell vibrate?!” Jessica asks.
“Yeah I felt it! Then I heard Diane D’s heavy footsteps jumping and charging down the first flight of steps after me!”
“What?” Vanessa says. “You heard Diane D’s footsteps jumping and charging down the first flight of steps after you?”
“Yeah! Then I ran down the next two flight of stairs! I reached the first floor landing and quickly ran to the first floor stairwell doors! I opened the stairwell doors then ran to the double doors then ran into the first floor hallway! That’s when the two security guards saw me and rushed right to me! I asked them to help me! I was about to pass out right then and there, but the security guards grabbed and held me! That’s when I finally made my escape from Diane D!”
“My goodness Marcus!” Jessica shouts. “Why was Diane D coming after you in the stairwell?!”
“I think this thing or this entity that took over her body wanted to kill me!”
“What!” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard shout.
“You think this thing or this entity that took over her body wanted to kill you!?” Jessica shouts.
“Yes!” Marcus cries and shouts. “That’s why I think this entity was running towards me when I got close to the back stairwell!”
“Marcus, if this thing or entity that took over Diane D’s body really wanted to kill you, it could have already done so while you were laying helpless on that third floor school hallway!”
“I think this thing or entity that took over Diane D’s body saw that I was further away near the back stairwell and wanted to take its chance on killing me right in the back stairwell which is more further away from the principal’s office, where Diane D‘s family was! That’s why I think this thing or entity waited until I was more further away near the back stairwell to decide to rush to me and make its kill on me in the stairwell, so it can kill me far away from where Diane D‘s family was!”
“You keep referring to Diane D as an ‘it’ Marcus,” Richard says.
“That’s because this thing or entity that took over her body was an ‘it’! It wasn’t Diane D’s soul or spirit inside her body
anymore Richard! I don’t know what soul, spirit or entity it was inside her body, but I could feel it was not Diane D’s!”
“My goodness!” Jessica says. “This whole story is so scary!”
“It sure is,” Vanessa says.
“Marcus, are you sure that Diane D did all of those things you said she did?! Are you sure she was in a trance up in that school hallway?!”
“Yes Mom Diane D was in some sort of trance in the school hallway! I witnessed it first hand!”
“Are you sure you got these injuries by her attacking you and not by you falling down the stairs?!”
“Yes Mom she did attack me! I never fell down the stairs!”
“Are you sure Diane D kept staring at you while she was in this state of trance?!”
“Yes Mom she kept staring at me the whole time she was in this state of trance! She hardly took her eyes off me!”
“And are you sure you felt the presence of an evil entity up in that third floor school hallway?!” Vanessa asks.
“Yes Grandma, I did feel the presence of an evil entity or spirit up in that third floor school hallway! A soul, spirit or entity that was not Diane D’s!”
“How were you able to feel the presence of a certain soul or spirit Marcus?!”
“I don’t know how I was able to feel it Grandma! I just felt it!”
“How does the presence of a certain soul or spirit feels like?”
“It’s a feeling that I can’t explain, a feeling that cannot be described and I hope I never have that feeling ever again! All I know, is that Diane D went into some sort of trance in that third floor school hallway and her soul or spirit left her body, and whatever soul, spirit or entity it was that came into her body that night, took over her body and used her body to attack me! To try and snap Diane D out of her trance so her soul and spirit can come back, I really did throw those heavy objects at her! The mess you all found on that third floor school hallway that night proves it! The bruises that Diane D’s family discovered on her body that night proves it also! How else did she get those bruises on her body?! By me throwing those objects at her!”
“My goodness! And are you sure her facial appearance changed?!”
“Yes her facial appearance changed, the same way her behavior changed once I made that confession to her about the little boy who has leukemia, and once I made that confession to her about the little boy who has leukemia, I actually saw and witness Diane D turn from beauty….to beast!”
My God! This whole entire story sounds so creepy! It sounds like something right out of a horror movie!”
“It sure does!” Jessica says.
“Now we know why your arm, wrist and ribs are fractured, because of Diane D! No wonder why the doctor said it seems like you probably got kicked by a wild horse or something, because Diane D’s kung-fu kicks are just as bad and powerful as a horse’s kicks! Now we know why there was a big mess in that third floor hallway, from the objects you were throwing at Diane D! Now we know why her family discovered mysterious bruises on her body and why she has broken feet and toes, from the heavy objects you were throwing at her!”
“But Grandma, how can Diane D’s feet and toes be broken when I saw her up on that third floor school hallway walking towards me, then saw her running towards me and it was AFTER I threw all those heavy objects at her?! Her feet and toes didn’t appear to be broken when I saw her walking then running towards me! She wasn’t walking or running as if she had broken feet or broken toes, I didn’t see her limping! Her feet or toes didn’t sound to be broken when I heard her kung fu kick and bang that third floor stairwell door wide open causing me to feel the vibration of the stairwell! Her feet and toes didn’t sound to be broken when I heard her footsteps jumping and charging down the staircase after me! Her feet and toes didn’t sound to be broken when the security guard and I suddenly heard a loud bang coming from the back stairwell while him and I were at the security desk on the first floor! Her feet and toes didn’t seem to be broken when she kicked the school lobby door wide open and was about to charge at me in the school lobby while I was laying in the stretcher! Her feet and toes didn’t seem to be broken when she stormed out of the school lobby and stormed out of the school building! Now Diane D might have actually felt the pain in her feet and the rest of her body once her soul or spirit finally came back into her body, but whatever this soul, spirit or entity was that was inside her body, seemed to be immune to pain! It did a lot of running, jumping and kicking for someone with broken feet or toes! It didn’t seem to feel any pain at all! It didn’t seem to feel any pain from the objects I was throwing at it! It just stood there staring at me, not affected by the blows at all! Believe me, I didn’t want to throw those objects at Diane D, but I had no other choice! I was trying to wake her up so she can snap out of her trance, but obviously it didn‘t work!”
“My goodness! Now this whole mystery is solved! Oh Marcus,” Vanessa cries. “I can imagine how frightened you were!”
“I was very frightened Grandma!” Marcus cries. “It was a very scary experience for me! There was no one else around in that dark isolated third floor school hallway! It was just me and that evil vicious entity that took over Diane D‘s body! It never once took its eyes off me the whole entire time! All I know is that where ever Diane D’s mind, soul or spirit went off to, it needed to come back!”
“Marcus, why did you confess to Diane D in that dark isolated hallway anyway?! Why did you two go over there?!”
“Because I’m the one who asked Diane D can we go to a private spot where no one else can hear us, because I wanted to confess to her in private about the little boy who has leukemia! That isolated hallway seemed to be the only area in the whole school we could find where no one else was around!”
“Marcus, if you have to make a bad confession to somebody, you shouldn’t do that in an isolated area where no one else can see you! You should do that in an area where other people are around! You shouldn’t go off to an isolated area, because you don’t know how that other person might react! They might just go off on you like Diane D did!”
“I didn’t know that Diane D was gonna go off on me! I didn’t know that she was gonna react that way!”
“You didn’t know that Diane D was gonna react that way?!” Jessica shouts. “Marcus, how can you not know that Diane D was gonna react that way, Diane D has a reputation! That’s because her family works and entertains for charity doesn’t mean anything! She’s still a person who’s capable of going off whenever she gets angry or upset! I hear whenever she gets mad or angry, she has a temper that makes her become very violent and very vicious like she did to you! Then whenever she calms back down, she claims not to even remember her violent, vicious attacks, just like she doesn‘t remember her violent vicious attack with you!”
“She doesn’t remember attacking me?!”
“No she doesn’t remember it! She doesn’t even know or remember how she got those bruises on her body and you’re the one that did it to her!”
“She doesn’t know that I’m the one who injured her?!”
“No she has no idea! I hear she has a Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde split personality!”
“I think she does!” Vanessa says. “And you witnessed her Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde split personality first hand in that third floor school hallway Marcus! Marcus, what was Diane D’s state of mind when you and she first walked down that isolated school hallway? How was her behavior? Was her behavior normal?”
“Yeah her behavior was normal at first,” Marcus says. “She was behaving okay. She wasn’t upset about anything. She had just came up from the auditorium with her family. She seemed to be in a good mood. While I was waiting for her outside Principal Cole‘s office, she was coming from around the corner smiling and laughing with her family!”
“She was? She didn’t appear angry or upset at all when she first came up from the auditorium?”
“No, not
until I made that confession to her about the little boy who has leukemia. Once I made that confession to her that it was me and my brother who sent her family that false letter about the little boy who has leukemia, and she realized that she would never ever get to see or meet that little boy who has leukemia, that’s when her state of mind completely changed. That’s when the normal and okay side of her went right out the window and the violent and vicious side of her came right in!”
“Wow Marcus! I’m glad you’re still alive! You could have died from Diane D’s powerful kicks, her powerful kicks could have killed you! What if you hadn‘t escape into that back stairwell? In the state of mind she was in, I hear she does appear to have superhuman strength just like you witnessed! Lord knows what more she might have done to you if she had caught up with you in the back stairwell!”
“That’s why when I got away from her, I ran towards the security guards when I saw them at the desk downstairs!”
“That’s good that you were able to get away from Diane D and reached the security guards Marcus, but let me tell you something, Diane D is known for attacking security guards as well, putting a few of them in the hospital! In the state of mind she was in, I’m not so sure if you still would have been safe from her, even around them!”
“Marcus does Diane D’s family know about this incident that happened between you and her in that isolated hallway and in the stairwell?” Jessica asks. “Do they know about that part?”
“No, they don‘t know,” Marcus says. “All they know is that I made a confession to Diane D about the little boy who has leukemia!”
“So in other words, Diane D’s family don’t know that she attacked you?!”
“No, they don’t know, and they don’t know that I threw those objects in the hallway at her!”
“Do the police know?!” Vanessa asks.
“No they don’t.”
“Does Principal Cole know?”
“No, nobody knows! The only people in this entire world who knows that Diane D attacked me up in that third floor school hallway, is us!”
“Really!”
“Yes!”
“Well it’s not going to be just us anymore Marcus, because I’m going to call the police on Diane D!” Vanessa says as she gets up off the floor.
“What! You’re going to call the police on her Grandma?!”
“Of course I’m going to call the police on her!”
“Mom, Diane D doesn’t need to have the police come after her!” Jessica shouts. “What she really needs is to have a priest or a doctor come after her! From what Marcus just told us, it sounds like that woman might be possessed by some evil spirit or something or have a split personality and not even know it! That is not something the police can handle or deal with!”
“I know, but I still have to make a report about this!”
“But why Grandma?!” Marcus cries.
“What do you mean ‘why’ Marcus?! Don’t you understand?! Diane D held you against your will! She terrorized you and attacked you up in that isolated third floor school hallway once you confessed to her that the little boy who has leukemia doesn‘t exist! I have to let the police know about this! I also have to let Principal Cole know about this and I’m going to call the Diaz-Davidson Organization also and have a private talk with Miss Margarita about this!”
“You are?”
“Yes! I think Miss Margarita should know that her granddaughter Diane D terrorized you and harmed you up in that isolated school hallway!”
“But Mom what if Miss Margarita doesn’t believe you?!” Jessica shouts. “What if she thinks that we’re just trying to get back at her family, just so that they can drop the out-of-court settlement against us?! You have to realize, that it‘s Marcus word against Diane D‘s word! There were no witnesses up on that third floor school hallway, nobody is going to know which one to believe! If you ever tell Miss Margarita about this incident that happened between Diane D and Marcus, then she speaks to Diane D about it or questions Diane D about, Diane D is most likely going to deny it and say that she does not remember it, then say that Marcus is lying just so that he and us can get back at her family!”
“I know Jessica, but it‘s a chance we have to take! It’s a good thing Marcus told us about this incident, because Diane D’s family need to know what she did! They need to know that she DID harm a child, even though she claims to them that she would never in her life attack or harm a child and even though she might not remember it! They need to know that it’s a possibly that Diane D might have a split personality disorder which makes her unaware of her vicious assaults and violent behavior! Her family needs to know that, so they can get her professional help before she attacks and harms someone else, especially before she attacks and harms another child and not remember it, because the next time Diane D assaults or attacks someone like that again and not remember it, it might be fatal!”
“Yeah you’re right Mom, her family needs to know about this. Well if you have to have a private talk with Miss Margarita and tell her something bad, just don’t take her to an isolated area to tell her, like Marcus did with Diane D!”
“I wasn’t planning on doing that. I was only going to call their organization and speak to Miss Margarita over the telephone. Besides, I don’t think Miss Margarita would even pull a stunt like that even if we did go into a private isolated area!”
“Yeah that’s the same thing Marcus thought about Diane D! He didn’t know that Diane D would go off the deep end and turn on him and become violent and vicious towards him, but she did! Once Marcus made that confession to Diane D that the letter her family received was false and that the little boy who has leukemia doesn‘t exist, that was it, she became violent and vicious towards him!”
“I know, but Diane D has a reputation for becoming violent and vicious, Miss Margarita doesn‘t! Marcus I still wish you hadn’t confessed to Diane D or her family at all and let any of them know that it was you and your brother who had sent that false letter to their family because Diane D’s mom Mary doesn’t play! She didn’t settle for anything less at all! She made sure that she had Principal Cole and those two school security guards be at the lawyer’s office, just so they can be witnesses for her and her family to prove that Richard made that confession about sending the phony letter to her family! Sometimes I don‘t know who‘s temper is worst between Diane D’s and her mom‘s!”
“I don‘t know either.”
“Well what about Miss Margarita?” Richard asks. “Does she have a temper too?”
“I hear she’s a tough cookie also,” Vanessa says. “but I don’t think she has a bad temper like Diane D and Diane D’s mom! That’s why I want to see if I can talk Miss Margarita into lowering this out-of court settlement, because she seems like she might be the most reasonable one in their family. Diane D’s mom, dad and grandfather didn’t seem like they wanted to give us a break! I bet if I talk to Miss Margarita in private, maybe I can try to convince her into just having us pay the expenses of the toys, gifts, travel time and all the other stuff that they actually purchased for this so called boy who has leukemia and lower that big amount of money they’re making us pay for Diane D’s performance in the auditorium and Diane D’s emotional stress of learning that the child she grew to love and care about never existed!”
“I know! Man, for a child that doesn‘t even exist, this child is sure causing a lot of trouble.”
“It sure is. It‘s like fighting a ghost!”
“It sure is!”
“That was a very bad experience for me!” Marcus cries. “That whole experience I had with Diane D was very, very creepy! I don’t ever want to go back to that school again! If I ever go back to that third floor hallway, it’s going to bring back bad memories for me! Even if I see that school building again, it’s gonna bring back bad memories! If I ever see Diane D again, it’s gonna especially bring back bad memories! I don’t want to see or look at Diane D ever agai
n! If I ever see Diane D in the future again, I’m gonna always see that evil vicious entity that took over her body! I don’t even want to see any pictures or images of her! I still get nightmares about that frightening experience I had with her in that school hallway! That’s why I be waking up screaming! That’s why I be waking up in cold sweats! That’s why I’ve been afraid to sleep alone in my room and have been sleeping in Richard’s room because of the nightmares I’ve been getting! That creepy harmful experience I had with Diane D inside the school is going to haunt me for the rest of my life! That’s something I’m never going to get over or forget! It‘s going to stay with me forever!” Marcus continues to cry. Jessica, Vanessa and Richard frighteningly wrap their arms around Marcus.
“Oh Marcus, we’re sorry you had to go through this frightening experience, especially all alone!”
“Yeah,” Vanessa cries. “We’re here with you right now Marcus. We’re here with you.” Jessica, Vanessa and Richard continue to wrap their arms around Marcus.
The following day, Margarita is sitting in her office behind the big desk doing paper work. Stephanie comes to the doorway. She sees Margarita behind the desk and says, “Margarita?”
Margarita looks up from her desk and says, “Yes Stephanie.”
“You have a phone call on line three.”
“Thanks Stephanie.” Margarita picks up the telephone receiver as Stephanie walks away. Margarita speaks into the telephone receiver and says, “Hello?”
“Hello Miss Margarita?” Officer Martell says.
“Yes speaking.”
“Hi Miss Margarita, this is Officer Martell from the police department.”
“Officer Martell? Yes Officer Martell, what can I do for you?”
“Well that little boy Marcus, the one who wrote that false letter to your family’s organization about the little boy who has leukemia, the one your family is filing a lawsuit against?”
“Yes him. What about him?”
“Well he and his family are here at the police station.”
“He and his family are at the police station? Why? Is everything alright?”
“No everything is not alright Miss Margarita.”
“No? What’s the matter?”
“Miss Margarita, Marcus made a shocking confession to his family yesterday, that the injuries he got in the school that night was not from him falling down the stairs like he first claimed. He said those injuries he got that night were actually from your granddaughter Diane D!”
“What!”
“Marcus is saying, that your granddaughter Diane D is the one who attacked him in the school hallway that night, that’s how he got those injuries!”
“What! I don’t understand! What do you mean Marcus is saying that ‘Diane is the one who attacked him in the school hallway that night, that’s how he got those injuries‘?! He told everyone that he fell down the stairs! Now he’s changing his story and saying that Diane is the one who attacked him?!”
“Yes that’s what he’s saying!”
“This incident happened three weeks ago! He never mentioned anything at all about Diane attacking him!”
“He said he was afraid! Miss Margarita, we need your family to come down to the station so you all can hear Marcus’ strange story of what happened between himself and Diane D up in that third floor school hallway that night! You need to hear it directly from Marcus! Is there anyway your family can come down to the station?”
“Oh I’m definitely coming down to the station! I don’t believe this kid is changing his story now! Is he changing his story so my family and I can drop the lawsuit against his family?!”
“Marcus and his family claim they’re not doing this so your family can drop the lawsuit against them Miss Margarita. They said it’s something that you and your family really need to know about and it’s something that you and your family really need to hear and you all need to hear it directly from Marcus himself!”
“Okay, I will get my family down there!”
“Okay Miss Margarita. And Miss Margarita, please do me a favor?”
“A favor? What favor?”
“You don’t have to bring Diane D to the station with you.”
“I don’t have to bring Diane to the station? Why not? It’s about her isn‘t it?”
“I know it’s about her, but Marcus claims he’s afraid of Diane D!”
“What! What do you mean ‘Marcus is afraid of Diane‘?!”
“He claims after that terrifying ordeal he went through with Diane D up in that third floor school hallway that night, he says he doesn’t ever want to see Diane D or be near her again!”
“He doesn’t ever want to see Diane or be near her again?!”
“That’s what he’s saying!”
“Now he’s making her look bad by claiming that he’s afraid of her!”
“No Miss Margarita I don’t think Marcus is trying to make your granddaughter Diane D look bad! He has his reasons why he is afraid of her! That’s why you and your family need to come to the station so you and your family can hear it directly from Marcus himself why he’s afraid of Diane D!”
“Okay Officer Martell, I’ll bring my family to the station and leave Diane home. See you in a little while.” Margarita hangs up the telephone receiver. She quickly gets up from her chair and hurries towards the doorway.
A few hours later, Jessica, Vanessa, Principal Cole and Officer Martell are standing aside in the back room of the police station as Margarita, Mary, Barry, Tomas, Tonio, Marilyn, Nicolas and Michael shockingly surround Marcus in disbelief as Marcus sits nervously in a chair holding his crutches. Marcus had just finished telling Mary, Margarita, Barry, Tomas, Tonio, Marilyn, Nicolas and Michael his terrifying ordeal between himself and Diane D as Mary shouts to him, “My God I don’t believe this! You’re saying that Diane attacked you on that third floor school hallway that night?!”
“Yes Ma’am,” Marcus nervously says.
“And you’re saying that it was your blood that we all saw on the walls and on the floor in the school hallway?!” Margarita shouts.
“Yes that was my blood up on that third floor school hallway!”
“Oh my God.”
“And you’re saying that Diane refused to let you come back towards Principal Cole’s office and held you hostage in that third floor hallway!” Mary shouts, “that’s why she never came back to Principal Cole’s office?”
“Yes that’s why she never came back!” Marcus cries and shouts. “That‘s why she never answered her cell phone when it was ringing, because she was busy holding me hostage! That‘s why I never answered my cell phone when my mom and my grandma were calling it, because Diane D refused to let me retrieve my cell phone when she kung-fu kicked it right out of my hand!”
“And you threw those objects that we all saw laying on that third floor school hallway at Diane to snap her out of some trance you said she was in?!” Barry shouts. “That’s why she wind up with those bruises on her body, because of you?!”
“Yes sir.”
“And you said Diane refuse to let you go when you were trying to get away from her?” Tonio asks.
“Yes sir.”
“And you said when you finally got far away from Diane, she ran down the hallway after you then you ran into the back stairwell?” Michael asks.
“Yes sir.”
“Then when you got halfway down the second flight of steps, you heard Diane’s footsteps jumping and charging down the staircase after you?!”
“Yes, I heard her footsteps jumping and charging down the staircase right after me! Then I reached the first floor and ran right out the stairwell then ran into the first floor hallway! That’s when I ran into the security guards!”
“My God this is so unbelievable!”
“How do we know you’re not making this story up young man?!” Tomas shouts. “You already made up the story about the little boy who has leukemia! You might be telling
us this story so we can drop the lawsuit against you guys!”
“We’re not telling you this so you can drop the lawsuit sir,” Vanessa cries. “We figure you all would think that, but it’s not true! We’re telling you this because you all need to know what Diane D did! From what we heard, Diane D doesn’t even know or remember how she got those bruises on her body!”
“No she doesn’t!”
“Then it has to make you all wonder, if Diane D doesn’t know or remember how she got those bruises on her own body, and if she doesn’t remember kicking and banging the school lobby door wide open, bursting into the school lobby yelling at Marcus acting like she was about to attack Marcus right there while he was laying on the stretcher and she doesn‘t remember pounding her fist right into the dashboard of your van and wind up breaking it, then what else doesn’t she remember that night?! Maybe it’s a possibility that Diane D could have done something herself on that third floor school hallway that night and not know or remember it! And if it’s true that she attacked Marcus and not remember it, we think maybe she should get professional help before she hurts someone else and not remember it!”
“My God this is crazy, I don’t believe this!” Michael shouts. “So you’re saying that Diane has no idea, that the bruises on her body came from your grandson!”
“Yes that’s exactly what I’m saying!”
“Principal Cole, are there any video or surveillance cameras in that school’s hallways?” Tonio asks. “Were the video or surveillance cameras on in the school hallway that night?”
“No,” Principal Cole says. “The surveillance cameras weren‘t on that night.”
“So there’s no way for this kid to prove that Diane attacked him?” Marilyn asks.
“I’m afraid not. Right now, we can only go by Marcus’ word. Too bad we can’t go by Diane D’s word because she remembers nothing about attacking him.”
“Officer Martell?” Nicolas says. “Is there anyway this kid can take a lie detector test?”
“Take a lie detector test?” Officer Martell says. “You want this kid to take a lie detector test?”
“Yes I do!”
“Why? You don’t believe him?”
“It’s not the point whether or not I believe him. The point is, he’s accusing my sister of assault! That‘s a serious offense he‘s putting on my sister!”
“But your sister did assault me Mister,” Marcus tearfully says. “I’m not lying about it.”
“But my sister would never harm a child!”
“She did harm and attack me!”
“Then how come she doesn’t remember it?!”
“Because like I said, she was in some sort of trance! She seemed like she might have been asleep!”
“Asleep?” Barry shouts. “You mean sleepwalking?!”
“Yes sleepwalking! That’s why I don’t think she remembers attacking me!”
“Listen young man, my family and I have caught Diane sleepwalking several times in her life.”
“You have?”
“Yes we have. But whether Diane’s sleepwalking or not, she would never stoop to something like that, kung-fu kicking a child! Diane loves children. That’s why she wanted to and insisted on coming to your school in the first place when she read your false letter about this little boy who has leukemia!”
“That’s right!” Nicolas shouts. “But let me tell you something kid. If any of you are thinking about pressing charges against my sister, then we’re going to press charges against you, because you just admitted to all of us, that you threw those heavy objects at my sister, that’s how she got those bruises on herself!”
“We weren’t thinking about pressing charges against Diane D sir,” Jessica cries.
“I sure hope you weren‘t thinking about it Miss because this whole thing is both of your sons‘ fault! They‘re the ones who sent my family’s organization the phony letter about some little boy who has leukemia. We all saw the letter. We read the letter right along with Diane. Now it‘s going to be hard to believe anything your sons say! It‘s like the boy who cried wolf!”
“I understand that! But this horrible incident that happened between Marcus and your sister is something we feel is necessary for you all to know about!”
“Well now that we all know about it, we have to let Diane herself know about it!” Margarita says. “We have to let her know what this kid just told us and see if she can get any memory of what happened on that third floor school hallway that night and see if she remembers anything about attacking Marcus!”
“How is Diane D by the way?” Principal Cole asks. “Does she still have the bruises on her body?”
“Most of the bruises has faded away. She still has a little bit and some scars on her face.”
“She does?”
“Yes she does. She‘s still going through therapy to get some strength back into her feet.”
“She is?”
“Yes.”
“Sorry all that happened to her.”
“Thanks. And we’re sorry for what this kid has gone through too.”
“Thank you,” Jessica says.
Barry looks down at Marcus and says, “Young man, we’re going to try to get to the bottom of this and speak to Diane and see if she remembers anything about attacking you, okay?”
“Okay Mister,” Marcus says.
Barry turns to his family and says, “Come everybody, we have to go home and talk to Diane because this is crazy.”
“It sure is,” Mary says as she, Margarita, Tomas, Tonio, Marilyn, Nicolas and Michael turn towards the door.
Barry turns to Vanessa and Jessica and says, “We’ll be back in touch once we get some information from Diane.”
“Okay, thank you sir,” Vanessa says.
Margarita turns to Officer Martell and says, “We’ll call you Officer Martell and Principal Cole.”
“Okay Miss Margarita,” Officer Martell and Principal Cole says as they, Marcus, Vanessa and Jessica sadly watch Margarita, Mary, Barry, Tomas, Tonio, Marilyn, Nicolas and Michael head to the doorway and leave the backroom.
The next day, Margarita, Mary, Barry, Tomas, Tonio, Marilyn, Nicolas and Michael are in the back room of the police station again partially surrounding Jessica, Vanessa, Principal Cole, Officer Martell and Marcus, who is sitting on a chair holding his crutches again as Mary says, “Yesterday, we all spoke to Diane about what Marcus told us!”
“Y‘all spoke to Diane D about it?” Principal Cole says.
“Yes we did.”
“What did she say?”
“She was shocked and furious!”
“She was?”
“Of course she was! Diane said she don’t know what the hell Marcus is talking about! She said she never attacked Marcus on that third floor school hallway!”
“What!” Marcus, Vanessa and Jessica shout.
“She said she never attacked him?!” Officer Martell asks.
“Yes she said that!”
“Diane told us all the same thing she told us that night, that she would never in her life attack or harm a child and wants to know why the hell is Marcus lying about her attacking him!” Barry shouts.
“What!” Marcus, Vanessa and Jessica shout.
“She wants to know why I’m lying about her attacking me?” Marcus tearfully says. He turns to Officer Martell, Principal Cole, Vanessa and Jessica and cries, “See? She doesn’t remember!”
“No she doesn’t remember attacking you young man!” Tomas shouts. “Diane got very upset when she heard that you accused her of attacking you by giving you a kung-fu kick and thinks that you’re lying about it! She said how dare you accuse her of something so brutal like that!”
“That’s right!” Margarita shouts. “Diane said even though she was furious when she learned that you and your brother send us a phony letter about the little boy who has leukemia just to get her to come to your school, she said she would never go that far and wind up hurti
ng you or any kid!”
“Oh my Lord, she doesn’t remember!” Marcus cries.
“Listen young man!” Barry says. “Yesterday Diane told all of us that she remembers you confessing to her on the third floor school hallway that night, telling her, that there is no little boy in the school who has leukemia, that he was made up by you and your brother, then she remembers becoming shocked at the news that the little boy who has leukemia doesn’t exist, then she remembers backing away from you! Then she told us she remembers becoming sad while she was backing away from you, then remembers crying while she was backing away from you because she realized that she and all of us were played by you and your brother and realized that she would never see or meet the little boy who has leukemia, then she remembers standing at the edge of the hallway still crying, then she remembers becoming angry at you! She said she remembers angrily staring at you while you were still down the middle of the hallway, then the next thing she remembers is waking up riding in the van with us and having terrible pains all over her body and face! She claims she doesn’t even remember getting into the van with us and she’s still claiming that she doesn’t remember kicking the school lobby door, bursting into the school lobby yelling at you then trying to attack you while you were laying in the stretcher! She said she never saw you in a stretcher!”
“She never saw me in a stretcher?!”
“That’s what she said. When we told Diane how she got the bruises on her body because you confessed to all of us that you threw those buckets, pails, garbage cans and paint cans at her, she was shocked! She says she doesn’t even remember you throwing those objects at her!”
“She doesn’t remember me throwing those objects at her?”
“No! She said she doesn’t remember you throwing anything at her and wants to know why you threw those objects at her, if you did throw those objects at her!”
“If I did throw those objects at her? I did throw those objects at her! I had to throw those objects at her to snap her out of her trance and defend myself from her because she was attacking me and she refused to let me go when I tried to get away from her!”
“Diane said she doesn’t know what you’re talking about by saying she was in a trance and refuse to let you go,” Michael shouts. “She said she was never in any kind of trance up in that school hallway!
“Yes she was! I saw it first hand! She was in a trance! You all said it yourself yesterday that she sleepwalks! How come she didn‘t seem to see or feel the blows when I threw those heavy objects at her and they landed right on her feet?! She never once moved or blinked when I threw those objects at her! Anybody else would have ducked from the objects and screamed in pain if those objects would have hit them and fell on their feet, but not Diane D! She just stood there like she was a mannequin, not moving! Those objects did not affect her at all while she was standing there! It might have affected her later on when she woke up inside your van, but it sure didn‘t affect her while she was standing there on the third floor school hallway that night!” Marcus cries. Everyone sadly looks at Marcus.
“I don’t know what else to do about this whole thing,” Margarita says. “Right now young man, it’s your word against Diane’s word. The only way to get to the bottom of this whole thing is, we’re gonna have to bring Diane here and have you two talk about this face to face!”
“What!” Marcus shouts. “My God please don’t have Diane D come here! I’m afraid of her! That was a very frightened and scary experience I had with her on that third floor school hallway! I still get nightmares about it!”
That’s right!” Vanessa says. “Ever since that night, he be waking up in cold sweats screaming and shouting that Diane D is coming to get him, Diane D is coming to get him! It’s not easy to see him going through that!”
“Well who’s fault is that Mrs. Whitley?!” Nicolas shouts. “Your grandsons asked for this by sending that phony letter to our organization!”
“We know Marcus and his brother sent your organization that phony letter, but they’ve learned from it! And Marcus is also paying a terrible price for it too! Look at the physical pain he‘s still going through, from what Diane D did to him!”
“And look at the physical pain DIANE is still going through, from what your grandson did to HER!”
“We’re so sorry that this happened to Diane D!”
“And we’re sorry that this happened to your grandson Mrs. Whitley,” Margarita says. “We really are.”
Principal Cole then says, “Marcus, if you don’t want Diane D to come here so you and her can talk this whole thing out face to face, then how are we going to get to the bottom of this?”
“I don’t know!” Marcus cries and shouts. “All I know is that I don’t want to be near Diane D! I don’t want to be in the same room with her! I don’t even want to be in the same building with her, I’m afraid she might go into a state of trance again and attack me again!”
“Young man!” Barry shouts. “Diane is not going to attack you if we bring her here to talk with you!”
“She might! I’m afraid that entity might just come back and take over her body again and attack me again!”
“No entity is going to take over Diane young man!”
“Yes it is!”
“Listen kid, we must have you and Diane talk with each other!”
“No I don’t want to talk to her! I don’t want to see her! I don’t want her to attack me again!”
“I’m telling you kid, Diane is not going to attack you! Would you feel better seeing and talking to Diane if there was a thick window glass between you two?!”
“A thick window glass?! That’s not going to make a difference, I would still see her! She and I would still be in the same room! Please, I don’t ever want to see Diane D at all! If I ever lay eyes on Diane D again, it’s going to bring back bad memories for me! Please don’t make me see her, please don‘t!”
“You need to tell Diane face to face what you said she did!” Nicolas shouts, “since you’re the one making these assault accusations against her!”
“They’re not accusations sir, she did attack me! She just doesn’t remember any of it!”
“Okay, since you’re so afraid of Diane and don’t want to see her at all, why don’t we just call her up on the telephone right now and have you two talk with each other over the phone.”
“No! I don’t even want to hear her voice! If you call her up on the telephone right now, I swear I’m going to run right out of here!”
“Run out of here?! Listen, you can’t be afraid of Diane forever!”
“Oh yes I can! From the experience I had with her, I believe there was a monster or beast inside your sister!”
“A monster or beast inside my sister. You really think so.”
“I know so!”
“I see. So obviously, you still believe in monsters, don’t you kid!”
“Sir I am not making this up, I am telling you the truth! There was an entity inside your sister! I felt the presence of that entity!”
“You felt the presence of an entity?” Michael asks. “What entity?”
“I don’t know! All I know, is that I felt and sensed the presence of an evil soul or evil spirit up in that third floor school hallway! It’s hard to describe that feeling, because it‘s a feeling that cannot be explained, but I know what I felt and I felt and sensed that evil soul or evil spirit inside of Diane D‘s body and that evil soul or spirit was not from this world!”
“Okay young man, calm down,” Barry calmly says. “If you’re that afraid of Diane, you don’t have to see her or talk to her on the phone. We won’t bring her here or call her up.”
“Oh thank you sir, thank you so much.”
“But I’m going to ask you again. Are you sure and positive, that Diane attacked you on that third floor school hallway that night, that’s how you got these injuries?!”
“Yes sir she attacked me, that‘s how I got th
ese injuries! I‘m willing to take a lie detector test to prove it!”
Barry and the rest of Diane D’s family sadly look at Marcus.
“Listen everybody,” Officer Martell says. “There’s only one thing left to do about this whole thing!”
“And what’s that Officer Martell?” Barry sighs.
“We have to have an investigation about this case because Marcus is saying one thing, and Diane D is saying another. We have to investigate to find out what really happened on that third floor school hallway that night. We‘re going to get started on the investigation right away.”
“Okay Officer Martell.”
“Well since none of us really know the truth about what happened on that third floor school hallway that night,” Margarita says, “we might have to temporary ban Diane from performing at the next concert.”
“What!” Nicolas, Michael and Marcus shout.
“You’re going to ban Diane from performing at the next concert Grandma?!” Nicolas asks.
“For right now,” Margarita says, “pending the investigation.”
“But Grandma, Diane said she never attacked this kid!”
“And he says she did.”
“So you’re going to believe this kid over Diane?!”
“It’s not that I believe this kid over Diane, Nicolas. We don’t really know the truth right now! Most likely, Marcus and Diane could both be telling the truth!”
“Grandma, how can they both be telling the truth if they’re both saying different things?!”
“Well in Diane’s mind, she probably thinks she’s telling the truth. It can be a possibility that Diane did attack Marcus and not remember it! Remember, she didn’t even know or remember how she got those bruises on her body! And you know Diane has assaulted and attacked several people in the past and not remember it! She still doesn’t remember ever attacking those police officers and those security guards! So as far as her mind is concerned, she probably doesn’t remember attacking Marcus and thinks she’s telling the truth about not attacking him! Now until the police investigate this whole matter, we’re just going to temporary ban Diane from performing at the next concert, that‘s it.”
“But Ma’am!” Marcus cries. “If you ban Diane D from performing at your family‘s next concert, she’s not going to like it! She’s already bitter about me accusing her of assault and now she’s going to be even more bitter about me when she finds out that she’s ban from performing at your family‘s next concert, especially because of my accusations! Please ma‘am, don‘t ban Diane D from performing at your family‘s next concert, please don‘t!”
“There is no other choice right now young man. You said she attacked you! Until the police finish the investigation, Diane will have to be banned from performing at the next concert!”
“But what if she blames me for causing her to be ban and want to come after me?!”
“Young man Diane says she does not attack or harm children!”
“But she did attack me ma‘am! That’s why I’m so afraid of her!”
“So in order for you to be afraid of Diane like this, she probably did attack you! That’s why I have to ban her from performing at the next concert until the investigation is over! Until then, Diane is temporary banned from performing at the next concert, okay? And that’s the end of the discussion.”
“Now she’s really gonna want to kill me! I can see that evil vicious entity coming back into her right now, ready to come after me and attack me again!”
“Calm down young man,” Barry says. “No evil vicious entity is gonna take over Diane and come after you. She is not going to come near you! I’ll make sure of that!”
“So what will you have Diane do Grandma?!” Michael asks. “Run the hair salons again? Rosa, Carmen and the rest of them aren’t going to want to work under Diane again, especially when she gets into her moods! She’s gonna take her anger out on them like she did before!”
“I’m not going to have anybody work under Diane, Michael,” Margarita says. “I’ll have Diane work by herself for the time being.”
“Doing what?”
“While she’s doing therapy walking around trying to get strength back into her feet, I’ll have her clean the window in the banquet room and paint a piece of the broken wall in there and I’ll also have her work in the office with me, that way I’ll keep an eye on her, that‘s about it.”
“How long will Diane be banned Grandma?” Nicolas asks.
“Until the investigation is over.”
“So what’s going to happen when the investigation is over, and you find out that this kid was lying?”
“But I’m not lying sir,” Marcus says. “I’m willing to take a lie detector test.”
“We’re going to get started on the investigation,” Officer Martell says. “I’ll call you all tomorrow and let you know what’s going on.”
“Okay Officer Martell,” Margarita says. “Thanks.”
Barry turns to his family and says, “Let’s go everybody.” Diane D’s family sadly look at Marcus. They then look at Jessica and Vanessa as Barry says to them, “We‘ll keep in touch.”
“Okay,” Jessica and Vanessa says.
Barry and the rest of his family then turn and head towards the doorway as Marcus, Jessica, Vanessa, Principal Cole and Officer Martell worriedly look at them.
Chapter 41
Diane D Gets Banned From Performing