"Thomas!" Mrs. Dominique shouted into the room, placing the fried eggs on a plate.
Ham, beans, eggs and bread, Monday's breakfast is the best of the week.
Two plates of breakfast were placed on the table, but Thomas hadn't come over yet.
Mrs. Dominic shouted into the room again with some confusion: "Thomas!"
Still no response.
She's going to be late for work.
Her late husband had left the house, so the meager salary she earned from her job looking after the warehouse could still feed the two of them and cover Thomas's tuition.
However, the bad-tempered supervisor never liked employees being late, so Mrs. Dominic didn't like Thomas's procrastination at the moment.
Taking off her apron and throwing it into a ball on the chair, Mrs. Dominic strode towards Thomas' room...
"Is it really that fun there?"
She heard Thomas' voice coming from inside the room.
However, she and Thomas were the only ones at home at the moment.
"But, my mother won't allow me to go." Thomas's voice seemed disappointed.
Thomas had always been a mentally stable child, and Mrs. Dominic felt a little nervous about him talking to himself like this.
She frowned and walked over: "Thomas, who are you talking to?"
He saw Thomas sitting at his desk, his eyes following something out the window, and then looking at his mother: "It's okay, Mom..." Thomas had light blond hair and a sensible face with freckles. smile, "I'm talking to myself."
Mrs. Dominic took a few steps closer: "Read less horror stories in the future - I think you have become a little weird.
"Let's go have breakfast."
With a resigned smile on his face, Thomas followed his mother towards the restaurant.
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After a day's work, my wife returned home dragging her somewhat tired body.
Usually, Thomas gets out of school earlier and gets home first and starts doing his homework before his mother gets home.
After entering the house, the wife did not see Thomas, but heard heavy footsteps.
"Someone broke into our house?"
The wife felt a little scared. She ran a few steps and hid.
For some reason Mrs. Dominique was frightened by the heavy footsteps approaching.
She hid behind the kitchen door, not daring to come out. She just stared at the direction of the sound of footsteps from behind the crack of the door...
When the person who made those footsteps appeared in her field of vision, she almost screamed.
She saw three tall men with Thomas.
The faces of the three men were in chaos, with no faces at all.
The voices they spoke were also very weird, as if they were underwater, and it was impossible to hear what they said.
Mrs. Dominic didn't know what those things were, but Thomas stood among them, listening to them, nodding from time to time.
Just when the mother wanted to muster up the courage to save her child, the three strange men suddenly left.
Thomas was left standing there alone.
Mrs. Dominique, who was in shock, hurried to Thomas' side: "Thomas...
"Then, who are those people?" she asked, nervously checking Thomas' body to see if he was injured.
Thomas just smiled sensibly and comforted his mother: "It's okay, Mom...
"'They' are all good people..."
"Good guy?"
Those people are obviously not human beings.
How can something that is not human be a good person?
The wife couldn't understand Thomas' words and just looked at Thomas in confusion.
Thomas Dominic was a little scared when he saw his mother's eyes, and took a few steps back with a fearful expression.
Realizing that her appearance might have frightened the child, the wife quickly put on a gentle expression.
"Perhaps, in Thomas' eyes, the world is indeed not that dangerous..."
She cannot use threats or intimidation to control her children. This is not in line with her educational philosophy.
So, although she was frightened in her heart, she still taught patiently: "Thomas...those people are different from mom, right?"
As if he knew he had done something wrong, Thomas nodded and said nothing while looking at his slightly bulging belly.
"Mom loves you and will not harm you..." The wife felt a little scared and a little sad...
Her eyes turned red and she said: "But those things are different...
"You have to watch out for them!"
After listening to what his mother said, Thomas raised his head, stared into his mother's eyes, and nodded obediently.
After coaxing Thomas into doing his homework in his room, the wife noticed some strange changes in the home.
She discovered that her belongings had been tampered with.
Inexplicably, there is some extra food in the refrigerator that I would never buy...
"It seems that those things brought it..."
"They" have not harmed Thomas yet.
This allowed Mrs. Dominique to step away from pure fear and think.
Thinking of Thomas talking to invisible friends, and the men with blurred faces and blurred voices...
"They should be in a group." The wife's eyes became colder: "I have heard of this kind of thing - some unclean things will take advantage of children..."
"If they think they can take Thomas away from me, they are totally wrong."
Mrs. Dominique is willing to try anything to keep her children safe.
She was already thinking about the "mysterious relief plan" she had seen recently.
She had never dared to get involved with the explorers, but she actually wanted to invoke the power of those people...
For no other reason than to protect Thomas' safety.
…
As he submitted the application and waited for approval, Thomas's sleep became worse and worse day by day.
He would wake up in the night crying and fussing.
Hearing his cry, the mother could only get up and rush to Thomas' room to comfort him...
When she walked into Thomas' room and turned on the lamp, she saw her son's face covered with tears.
There was still a little fear in his eyes.
The wife sighed.
You have to work during the day, so sleep is very important.
However, Thomas's condition made her feel even more worried.
She took out a storybook, hugged Thomas, and started reading the stories to him...
Although they were all fairy tales from childhood, Thomas gradually relaxed.
"Mom, I just had a nightmare."
"I know." The wife looked at Thomas patiently, the little child, who actually looked a little haggard, "Mom heard your cry."
"I saw that child in my dream."
The wife frowned slightly: "Child? Which child?"
"That's the kid who talked to me this morning when you asked me to have breakfast." Thomas whispered as if he was dreaming.
The wife pressed the book down and asked nervously: "Did you dream about him? What did he do in the dream?"
Thomas sighed softly: "He, he is inviting me...
What the son said at this moment may become a clue for future explorers. The mother did not interrupt him, but began to tentatively ask Thomas to tell him about the nightmare he had just had.
"How old is he and what does he look like?"
“Well… he’s older than me, I seem to have just reached his shoulders.
“He is very beautiful, with features like that of a girl.
"The skin is extremely white, as white as milk..."
For some reason, Mrs. Dominic felt a creepy feeling when she heard Thomas describe it.
However, in order to know more, she suppressed her fear and continued to ask: "Then what was he doing when you saw him?"
Thomas opened his eyes, and his big pupils seemed to pierce the darkness, looking straight at the playmate that adults could not see...
"I saw...I saw him wearing a black suit and shiny black leather shoes...
"He was standing in front of a big, big playground.
"There seemed to be a lot of people in the playground. I heard laughter and screams..."
"He reached out to me and wanted to invite me in to play."
Hearing this, Mrs. Dominic hugged her child tightly with some fear, as if she was afraid that someone would snatch Thomas away.
Feeling his mother's increased strength, Thomas opened his eyes: "What's wrong, Mom?"
"Thomas..." The wife opened her eyes wide, looked directly into Thomas' eyes, and said seriously: "If he still invites you...
"Never, never accept his invitation."
If you accept, God knows what will happen...
My wife didn’t dare to think about it.
"have you understood?"
"Well..." Thomas, who was already a little sleepy, rubbed his eyes.
"Mother."
"Um?"
"Will you leave me?"
"Silly boy, how could this happen?" The child would always have some strange thoughts at night, and the wife quickly comforted him.
"Mom, they said they were taking you away." Thomas raised his eyes and looked at his mother's face. "They asked if you were at home..."
The wife looked at Thomas with some surprise——
"them"?
Those faceless things?
"But, I lied." Thomas had not slept well in the past few days. He closed his eyes tiredly and leaned on his mother's arms, "I said you were not at home...
"Then they left."
Mrs. Dominic stroked Thomas's head lovingly: Silly boy... he was harassed by things that did not belong to this world, but he did not worry about his own safety, but thought about his mother first.
The wife's nose became sore and her eyes were a little red.
She kissed Thomas's head and whispered: "My child, don't be afraid, mother will not leave you..."
Finally, Thomas fell asleep...
