Chapter 11 - Do You Believe In Magic? (2/2)
That made them focus on Jeremy's fingers except one, Charlotte, who was trying to act clever.
She believed that Jeremy's fingers were just a decoy to divert their attention from the real tricks. So, she rapidly scrutinized Jeremy's entire body to see through his tricks.
But unfortunately, there was none...
*Snap*
Once and for all, Jeremy snapped his fingers.
Then...
There was no then, again, because nothing notable had happened at all.
That caused the trio to feel confused, so they tried to size Jeremy up and down, left and right. They still found nothing out of the ordinary. Then they looked at one another to see that they received the same results or not.
Until Charlotte couldn't endure anymore, she wanted to reprimand Jeremy for pulling a prank on them instead of showing them some lame magic tricks.
She opened her mouth incessantly to rebuke Jeremy, word by word, sentence by sentence.
But soon, she realized that her other 2 friends were looking at her weirdly.
”...”
Right then, she finally figured out that when she talked... there was no sound coming out from her mouth at all.
She was terrified yet again...
She realized that breath and wind were coming out of her mouth, but the sounds just didn't generate themselves. She tried yelling and screaming so hard that her throat felt hurt, but nothing came out of her mouth at all except for some hot air.
Right about now, the other two people also realized that there was something wrong with Charlotte. Why she didn't let out even a single sound as she yelled and screamed like that.
Thus, Sam opened his mouth to talk too...
But shockingly, he couldn't hear his own voice.
And the feeling of terrors hit him once again for the second time after coming into this haunted house. But this time, he was really pissing himself.
Meanwhile, Owen also opened his mouth to speak but found no sounds coming out from his mouth. He felt like God was trying to punish him.
So, he prayed to God for forgiveness while his body was shaking nonstop.
Furthermore, the three of them finally realized that the TV, which was still playing as usual... didn't produce any sound at all...
How was that even possible?
As for Jeremy, he was currently shaking his head from side to side and started talking mockingly to the trio.
”See? I've shown you some magic tricks. Where is my payment for the show?”
”...”
”...”
”...”
The 3 guys' eyes went wide open after noticing that Jeremy could still talk like usual.
”Why aren't you guys talking? Are you guys deaf?”
The three of them shook their head incessantly, trying to deny Jeremy. They could clearly hear his voice, but they could not create a single sound at all.
*Snap*
Suddenly, Jeremy snapped his fingers again.
”Momma, help me. I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, *sob sob*” Charlotte was calling for her mother and crying loudly.
”No no no no, my voice, my voice, noooo... *Huuk Huuk*” Sam was whining like a chicken being chased by a scary predator.
”Pa... Plea... Please, god. Forgive my sins. I will quit going to the brothel, I promise. Please...”
As for Owen, he was trying to confess his sins.
It was only after several seconds before they figured out that their voices had already come back to them.
That made them felt very relieved, then they started to thank everything. Thank God, thank mom, thank goodness, thank this, thank that.
But they never thanked Jeremy...
So, Jeremy lifted his right hand again, going to snap his fingers.
When the trio saw this scene, they started to stick and cling onto every limb of Jeremy's. They tried so hard to beg him not to snap the goddamn fingers of his.
”Please... Don't...”
”No No No No!!”
”Don't do it again, Jerem. I'm scared. You can do anything to me however you want but not this...”
After the constant begging from them, Jeremy decided that this was enough for now.
”Alright, alright, go away from me. Or else, I'd snap my fingers again for real, and this time I won't lift the mute mode ever again.” Said amusingly, Jeremy.
The trio then hurriedly went away from him. Charlotte even ran as fast as possible to the living room corner, followed swiftly by the other two people.
”How is it? Now, I will ask you again.”
Jeremy grinned widely while asking the same question to the 3 scaredy cats, but this time he was exuding an inexplicable aura enclosing the entire room.
”Do you believe in magic?”
His grins were evil...