Hi everyone, I'd like to share something that happened to me and my friend. What started as a harmless joke may have turned into something else entirely. I honestly don't know anymore.
Have you ever seen Supernatural? Remember the episodes about the crossroads demon?The ones where people would make some kind of deal with him for ten years of a happy, successful life.
Well, here's our story.
Lucy and I were roommates in a cheap apartment, always hunting for side gigs. After we graduated, we bombed one job interview after another. And our love lives weren't much better.
So one night — after a party, a fight with my boyfriend, and a few too many cocktails — one of us jokingly suggested we try summoning the crossroads demon. Obviously, we weren't serious.
We drove out to a crossroads on the edge of town in the middle of the night, set up a few candles, and between fits of giggling, shouted something like, "Crossroads demon, we summon you!" Nothing happened. We didn't sign anything. We had a good laugh, got cold,and went home.
We forgot all about it for a while. We only remembered about a year later, at Lucy's birthday party. Everyone was telling her what an incredible year she'd had. She'd landed a great job, met a wondetful guy, she was about to get married, and her career was really taking off. Then she pulled me aside and whispered, "What if that night actually worked?"
I froze. Things had been going amazingly well for me too — I was in love and building my own business. But of course I brushed it off. "No one showed up that night," I told her. "We didn't sign anything."
That was a little over nine years ago. And a month ago, Lucy was hit by a car. She's still in the hospital. She has everything — a husband and a son she adores, money, success. But she's lying there in critical condition, and she still hasn't woken up.
We never signed any deal. We were just messing around. But our lives really did change after that night. We always told ourselves it was just a coincidence. But now… I'm terrified.