Chap.9

I heard laughing.....I woke up and my door was open. Huh. I don't remember opening it? I looked down the stairs to see that Carol women with my dad laughing. Ew she's here again. I walked back to my room and slammed the door. I heard tapping and turned to my window to see Nick again. Finally someone to talk to. I opened my window and looked at Nick who kept looking at me, searching for something. I asked,"What is it? Is my hair messed up?" He laughed and said,"No, you looked frustrated and I was just-" He stopped mid-sentence and kept staring at me. I stared back at him then felt something prance into my arms seeing a black cat in my arms. Nick laughed and said,"Sorry it's my moms. She wants me to take it for a walk. Want to come with?" I nodded and said,"Sure well what's it's name?" I patted the cats head and it rumbled. He said,"Her name is Victoria." He made a whistle sound and Victoria leaped out of my arms into Nick's. I heard a knock then I said,"You better get down before my dad grabs his gun." Nick nodded then jumped down and cursed. I looked down to see him on his butt, I laughed then closed the window. I turned and said,"Come in!" Carol walked in, oh great. She smiled and said,"Hey, my father said to check on you. He heard some slamming and wanted me to check on you." I said almost icily,"I am okay thanks for checking." She looked at me as if I didn't sound mean and said,"Well breakfast is downstairs if you want some." She walked out of my room and slammed the door. Ugh I hate this.





I walked downstairs still wearing my pajamas to see Carol talking with my dad in the living room again. They were watching the news, great some crappy news and Carol. What next? Barney? I turned on my ipod putting it on loud, Timbaland just came on. I walked over to the kitchen and grabbed breakfast then looked over to see my dad still talking to Carol. I sighed in frustration then just went outside the backyard to eat, I sat down on the backyard's porch swing swinging while eating. I felt something push and I turned to see Marie pushing it sadly. I asked,"What's wrong?" She looked at me then smiled half-heartedly and sat down next to me. She said,"I really miss my daughter. You don't know how it feels to lose something you loved dearly to never see them again." I sighed and said,"Actually I do. My mom died a few years ago and I still miss her." She said,"Oh is that why you despise that Carol lady?" I nodded in a way that made Marie laugh. She said,"Well, you should at least give her a try." I shrugged and said,"Maybe I guess. I don't know I just...don't like how dad is betraying mom so much." Marie put her hand on my shoulder and said,"Your mom wants best for you and your dad. To be happy, she doesn't want you guys to be sad. She wants you to move on. I know it's hard to make an adult decision but you have to let her go." Marie faded and I sat there thinking while feeling tears coming on. When all the tears were gone, I walked into the house to still see them talking. I sighed and kept thinking, mom only wants whats best, mom only wants whats best. Oh who am I kidding? I can't do this! I just looked straight without looking and walked up the stairs. I heard my dad yelling and took off my headphones to see they were still on. Suprisingly, they were playing Tonight Alive - Wasting Away which I enjoyed a lot. My dad sighed and asked,"You researching again?" I nodded and he said,"Oh okay. Me and Carol are gonna take a stroll around the town and don't wait up." I said,"Oh okay bye." I ran upstairs and changed then came back down hearing the sound of a car beeping. I looked up to see Nick's car waiting in the front, I ran out and went to his car.



He said,"Hey what's up?" I said,"Nothing much but Ms. Barbie at my house again. Anyways, did you pick up any new information?" Nick said,"No and the library is closed so...where do we go?" I said,"Maybe we'll sneak into my basement since theres boxes everywhere probably filled with information we might need." He said,"Good idea so how do we sneak into your basement?" I said,"Follow me." I climb out and Nick follows, we go into the forest and I trip on something. I look up from the ground to see a dead body and scream. Nick ran to me and gasped. I said,"Call the police now!" He started dialing on his phone and I search the body to find something in his hand...paper. The paper said,"Thanks for doing the favor now here's the price. -RP" Oh.My.God. RP killed this man who had a grocery store name tag that said,"Harry" This is Harry the one that hid Annabelle's and Marie's bodies! We lost our only witness! Nick said,"Okay the police are coming - Lea what's wrong?" I turned to him and said,"We lost our only witness." He asked,"What do you mean?" I yelled,"This guy! Harry was our only damn witness to where Annabelle's and Marie's bodies were!" Nick looked at me scared and also frustrated then police sirens rang in the air. They found us and wrapped up Harry's body.

A few hours later....

"Harry died from stabbing. As you can see there is stabs on his back and chest.", the forensic officer said. I said,"Thanks officer." I walked towards Nick and said,"It's over we lost our only witness." Nick said,"Don't worry we'll figure something out." I yelled,"It's over! I don't even know why we started! We can't solve this with Harry dead! Let's face it Nick! We can't solve this!" I started to walk away then Nick said,"Maybe you think that but really we can search forever and still crack an answer sooner or later Lea." I stopped and rethought. Maybe he's right. I walked towards him and said,"I'm sorry maybe you're right. Here's the plan, we are gonna search downstairs for more information and go to the library to search up Harry's history." Nick smiled and said,"That's the Lea I remember." We both laughed and said our goodbyes. We can do this. I know so and hope so.

Lea and Nick Pic!

I was bored and decided to switch actors that I pictured that should portray Lea and Nick through out the story. So here is a pic.

Actors:

Lea: Briana Evigan (Step Up 2)

Nick: Steven Striat (10,000 BC or Sky High)

Lea's Dad: Billy Burke

Enjoy!

Chap.8

Tap, tap, tap. I kept hearing the same taping. I put my pillow over my head then decided to look up after a few taps to see Nick at my window. He put a paper against my door that said,"Let Me In!" I got up sleepily and opened my window. He said,"Okay, so I looked up Marie's files at the hospital and found out her boyfriend, his initials were RP I think? I couldn't get a good look because I just snuck into the file closet and a doctor was coming in so I had to rush out fast." I asked,"How did you even get into the file closet?" He laughed,"It wasn't easy and it's a very long story so if you could just hurry up so we can figure out what RP stands for?" I said,"Wait, let me eat just come casually to the front, my dad was ready to grab his shotgun when he found out we were downstairs." Nick laughed then noticed something on my forehead and touched it. I flinched, oh yeah, the fall. Great now I have a bruise on my forehead. Nick asked,"What happened?" I said,"Well....Annabelle screamed so loud that I flew off my legs and bonked my head." He laughed then kept touching my forehead but we heard my door start to open and I pushed him down. I turned to see my dad still kind of tired and he asked,"What are you doing up early? Thinking about early studying with that boy again?" I said,"Yes sorry I just want to get good grades." He laughed and said,"Now you care about grades. All you do is dance." I blushed and said,"Dad I'll meet you downstairs kay?" He nodded and walked out. I instantly ran to the window to see Nick on the ground moaning in pain. I yelled,"Are you okay? That was a pretty high fall!" He nodded and said,"I'm okay just recovering that's all." I laughed and said,"Meet you downstairs." He waved and I ran downstairs then grabbed a bite of cereal. I never have been this excited and when Nick touched me...it felt good. I still felt the burning from his touch on my face. My dad asked,"Excited for studying I can see." After chewing all of my cereal down and almost throwing it into the sink, I said,"The new school has got me so excited ya know." He laughed and asked,"Is it just to see that boy?" I frowned and said,"Dad, everything is just not about boys. Now I have to hurry up, the library is gonna get busy with college students if I don't hurry up." My dad just laughed and gestured me to run off. I sighed and ran up to hastily, put on some clothes then run down the stairs again to find Nick waiting in the living room again. I was gonna get used to this. Nick said,"Hey Lea, ready?" I nodded and said,"Yeah, okay bye dad!" My dad yelled from the kitchen,"Bye!" Both of us got out and headed to Nick's car. Once we were inside there was a book that said,"How to Deal with Ghosts in Your House." I snorted and Nick got into the car then said,"Oh yeah I got that for you, for ya know. Help." I smiled at him and said,"Thanks, I like it." He smiled at me then started the car and we were off to the library.

Once we got there, we started looking around for ghost books and paranomal stuff. There was tons from Spirits with Unfinished Business to How to do Paranomal Research in your House. It was amazing of how dumb and helpful some of these books were. Communicating ideas, oujia board ideas, everything you might need. At the end of all the book searching, we began searching for information that might help Marie and Annabelle then put sticky notes and tabs near the tips that might help. Soon everything was covered in sticky notes and stuff that it looked like a college book or a study book from school.

Nick dropped me off at my house, it was 6 PM, the sun was still out, just setting. When the car stopped at the driveway of my house I said,"Thanks for the help today." Nick nodded and said,"No problem. I'm glad I was help." I smiled and he smiled back. It felt nice being with him, I always felt this warmness whenever he smiled at me the way he does. Soon I felt as if the distance between us was closing then I heard a woman laughing and turned to see a woman in the living room. Dad. Great. I said,"I better go. Seems that we have a visitor." I unbuckled and got out of the car. Nick said,"See ya tommorow?" I nodded and said,"Sure." I closed the door and began stomping up to the porch into the house. I saw my dad talking with a blonde woman and they seemed happy. How could he do this to mom? To me? Dad noticed me and said,"Hey Lea, this is one of our neighbors down the street, her name is Carol. Carol, this is my daughter Lea." I looked at Carol, she was wearing a jean cardigan with a white dress that had pink flower prints on it. She was wearing pink heels and was wearing red lipstick. Typical. She's like any average blonde around here. Carol said,"Hi, it's so nice to finally see the amazing Lea." I said flatly,"Well I'm here. (to Dad or the betrayer) What's for dinner?" My dad said,"Well Carol made spaghetti if you want some." Ew no way am I having food from that thing. I said,"Never mind, I was pretty full anyway. Me and Nick ate burger king and stuff." My dad said,"Oh okay kiddo, why don't you head upstairs, you've had a pretty long day." I smiled fakely and went upstairs. God! I can't stand this! Watching my dad with her! Okay just calm down, calm down.

I went upstairs and kept researching until I fell asleep on my laptop. In this dream, it was like my other dream. It looked so real. I was digging then found a case that said,"Annabelle." I said,"It's Annabelle's coffin!" I heard someone's darky laughter then turned to see a man with a brown dark beard holding a knife in his hand. He looked like....our strange neighbor? It couldn't be. But the man got closer then he said,"I knew you were up to something. Now...you just sit there, this won't hurt a bit." He kept inching closer then I ducked under his arm and started running up the stairs. He got my leg and dragged me down the stairs like my other dream except this time I got a better grip on the last stair and kicked him in the face. He yelped and fell back. I ran up the stairs then locked the door, I put my back against the door, gasping. Suddenly, I woke up everything in place but I felt sweat running down my forehead to the side of cheek. I was gasping, soon I realized what time it was, 1 in the morning god. Man this whole dream thing is getting on my nerves. I closed my laptop then grabbed my ipod and went to sleep. I hope this dream is much more peaceful.

***Hey guys, sorry for the long wait for an update! I will try to update soon! Peace!

Chap.7

Me and Nick headed back to my house. I told him about the basement and he thinks we could find more evidence in the basement. I really hope so too. While we were looking, I found some pretty interesting stuff. I said,"Nick come here, these are some pretty old documents. Look at this. Marie was a half time working nurse at a hospital." He said,"Huh. Do you think we could head to the hospital where she worked to see if there is files of her that she worked there?" I nodded and said,"No because then we might get busted, my dad doesn't like me snooping around. If he finds out he might get suspicious and stuff then I will have to tell him what's been going on." Nick nodded and said,"Yeah tell him, he can actually help us." I sighed and said,"Nick, there are two things you don't know about my dad: One, he doesn't listen to me when I talk nosense about stuff and two, he doesn't listen to me. There is no way is gonna listen when he finds out I have been talking to ghosts and helping them. He will get into his....ghosts are just spirits with unfinished business. Ugh trust me it gets worse when you keep listening to it." Nick laughed and said,"Okay then whatever." We went on back to looking around, finding information or as he calls it "evidence." I looked in a box fulled with old dusty pictures and documents. I noticed a folded up paper fell out and when I looked at it, a picture fell out and there was a old pictures of the house. It was just snapshots of the house and how it looks like inside then I saw a picture. There was Marie with the unknown suspect, her boyfriend and Annabelle cradled in her arms. They looked so happy....I looked at the paper and picked it up. There was a seal with the initials RP. RP? Who or what did that stand for? Anyways, I opened it and it was pretty old, wrinkled from the folds and was a tanish kind of color. It said,"Dear Harry, I hope you are good at hiding the evidence. Bury their bodies and keep them hiden. The less evidence the better. Sincerely, RP." Was RP the one that killed Marie and Annabelle? While I was trying to decode this, I heard a knock and my dad yelled,"Back so soon? What are you both doing down there? You better not be doing what I think you're doing." I yelled,"Dad! It's just me, Nick headed to the bathroom!" He yelled,"Okay! Just making sure. I ordered some pizza if you want some!" I replied,"Thanks dad! We'll think about it!" We heard footsteps and heard the TV go off. Nick asked,"Should I head home? I can probably come back tommorow or something? If that's cool with you." I smiled and said,"Sure. You better go before my dad thinks we're doing something." He laughed and left. When he was gone, I stuck the note in my pocket, I am gonna find out who RP is, no matter how long it takes.

I headed upstairs to see my dad and the strange man who is our neighbor watching the game. They both yelled,"No!" Man, this is so wierd, I expected my neighbor to...I don't know, shoot some ducks outta the sky or something. But this? This is just too wierd. My dad noticed me and said,"Oh hi Lea. You remember our neighbor, Robert." I nodded toward him and he nodded back, he looked at me kind of mean and scary. I kind of felt myself cringe. My dad asked in time,"Where's that boy of yours?" I sighed in relief thank god he said something, I thought he would get into a whole staring contest. I said,"He went home his mom called him." He nodded and said,"Oh okay, well there's some pizza if you want any." I said,"No thanks, I am gonna head upstairs and read." He nodded then I began walking up the stairs. While I was walking up the stairs, I felt a rumbling and I yelled,"Dad? Did you feel that?" He yelled,"Feel what? I felt nothing." I yelled,"Never mind, it was just me." He said,"Okay then just tell me if you need anything." I kept walking up the stairs and heard crying. It was a small cry then it got louder and louder until everything started falling. The lamps, lights, vases, everything was just crashing. I yelled,"Annabelle! Please calm down just calm down!" She didn't she kept crying and the floor rumbled to the point, I fell to the floor and bonked my head which made me faint.....

"Lea, Lea, please stay with me. Stay with me sweety.", I heard my father's voice say. My eyes swept the room but all I saw was bluriness. I kept blinking to make everything look normal again, but soon I fell back asleep... Beep....Beep...Beep....

This dream, felt so real and even looked so real.....I was running upstairs then someone grabbed me by my legs and began dragging me by my legs down it. My chin, bumping them each time I went down one. I struggled to get free but couldn't get free, my hands clinching the last step, my nails trying to dig into the wood but just failed to hold on. I screamed and got dragged into darkness....

I woke up, gasping, sweat covering my forehead and I woke up in my room. My dad said,"Woah woah Lea, calm down. It was just a bad dream. Calm down." I calmed down my breathing and slowly layed back in my bed. He asked,"Who's RP?" I asked confused,"What?" He said,"RP. You kept saying it over and over and over again. Is RP a band or is it a initial for someone's name?" Oh yeah! RP! I said,"Oh, I don't know sometimes I ramble randomly when I dream." My dad laughed and said,"Well you should go to bed. Get some shut eye." I laughed and said,"Okay dad goodnight." He kissed my forehead then walked out of my room. I closed my eyes and heard someone say,"Your dream...why did it look so real? Are they all that real?" I nodded and opened my eyes to see Marie standing near my bed, leaning against my window. I said,"No they are usually like cartoons or something. I never expected anything like this. I thought it was real, it felt real." Marie asked,"Do you have any special gifts?" I looked at her suspiciously and asked,"gifts? What kind of gifts are you talking about?" She said,"Gifts, ya know like seeing ghosts or seeing them in your mind or future kind of stuff..." I said,"I don't re-call having any special gifts." She nodded and said,"Well keep that in mind okay. See you tommorow." She faded and I layed back in my bed. Special gifts? What is she talking about?

Chap.6

I woke up to the sound of a knock at my door. I groaned and said into my pillow,"Go away!" My dad yelled over my door,"You have a visitor!" I sat up on my bed and asked,"Who?" He said,"A boy!" I opened the door then ran downstairs and saw Nick sitting on the couch in the living room. He stood up and said,"Sorry to wake you." I asked,"What are you doing here? I thought I had work?" He nodded and said,"Someone took my shift." I nodded and said,"You wait here I am gonna go get ready. Just stay here." I ran upstairs and my dad asked,"Is this a boyfriend of yours I don't know about?" I nodded and said,"No! He's somebody that goes to my school. He's gonna show me around the school." He said,"Okay I trust you and remember, you have your mace." I groaned and said,"Dad!" He said,"Sorry sorry go ahead and change." I ran to my room and changed. Marie was sitting on my bed and she looked kind of mad. I asked,"What is it?" She asked,"Are you going on a date?" I looked at her kind of annoyed and said,"No! We're gonna try and get you and Annabelle reunited! I am trying to help you Marie. I don't take people for granted." She nodded and said,"I trust you Lea." She disappeared and I sighed. Boy this is not my day.



I got downstairs and I saw Nick roaming around my house. I laughed and asked,"Done look at artifacts at my house?" He turned to me and said,"I was just looking around." I nodded and said,"Let's just go." He nodded and began walking to the door, my dad suddenly said,"Hold up there you two!" We turned to see my dad with his hands on his hips looking at us suspiciously. He said,"I trust you kids. You guys can come back around 9, but don't come back too late." I smiled and said,"Thanks dad." We left and my dad waved on the porch. Me and Nick got to his old looking truck and once we were in, I said,"Just keep waving as we are leaving." Nick laughed and said,"Okay." We left and kept waving as we drove away. Once the house was out of veiw, I asked,"Where are we going first?" Nick said,"A resturant so you can get breakfast, then a professional medium to get info how to reunite ghosts and stop by the library to get info about more ghost stuff for you." I said,"This is a long list." He shrugged and asked,"Have you heard from Marie or Annabelle?" I laughed lightly and said,"Yeah I heard Annabelle's wail, it scared me to death. Everything began breaking and falling then when my dad came up everything was back in order and everything was fine." Nick looked at me confused when we were at a stop light and asked,"Do you think she reacted like that because of Marie's boyfriend? Do you think she is cautious about father figures?" I looked at him and said,"I never thought about it that way. She just started screaming because Marie was looking for her I didn't really think about why she stopped. Thanks Nick."He smiled and said,"Nah, it's my duty. I am very smart." We laughed then we realized it was a green light because people started blinking. Nick stepped on the petal and said,"Shoot!" I laughed and said,"You are out of it today aren't you?" He laughed and said,"Kind of, I am usually aware and pre-" Before he could finish I yelled,"Nick!" It was on a red light and Nick hit the breaks before he hit someone. We sighed in relief and he said,"Man, you are very distracting." I laughed and asked,"Me?" he laughed and said,"Yes you." I sighed and said,"Well you're an ass." We just laughed then I talked about how I have been finding information about Annabelle and Marie but never really found information about Marie's boyfriend. Nick said,"Sometimes it's hard to find really good information sometimes you have look through their background." I mumbled to myself,"Look through their background..." I looked through the basement...maybe I wasn't looking hard enough....


We got to the medium's office, it wasn't really that busy today. But when we first got in, a women came out with tears, being held by an older woman probably her grandmother. I hope this won't turn bad. Me and Nick got inside her office and the medium was holding a tissue probably from what happened with that lady. She looked up and said,"Hi, I am Ms. Franklin please sit down." We sat down and she asked,"What can I do for you young folks?" I said,"Umm...we were wondering if you could help us bring two dead people back together." She looked at me suspicious and asked,"Why on earth would you want that?" I said,"There are these two ghosts that haunt me and they put their lives on my hands. They ask me to bring them back together but...I don't know how to do that. Please you have to help me-us!" She looked at us, then said,"Come with me to the round table." We followed her to a round table which had a cross in the middle. She said,"Both of you join hands." All three of us joined hands then she began saying,"Try to contact both of them at the same time and bring them together." I closed my eyes, calling both Marie and Annabelle together. They both saw each other, they began running towards each other then they ran into a wall. I tried breaking it, thinking really hard but when I tried....they couldn't reach each other. Suddenly all three of our chairs flew back as if strong wind blew us. I opened my eyes and began gasping for air, and then the medium said,"Something is wrong, there is this wall not bringing them together. You have to somehow break that wall." I said,"How? I have no clue what I am doing and I can't do this!" She said,"Yes you can you just have to believe you can." I sighed and said,"Thanks, we better go." She said,"Come back anytime deary." Me and Nick left and while we were walking to the car, Nick said,"That was...wierd. But...how can you break that wall?" I nodded and said,"I don't know this is like a puzzle game that you can't solve. So many missing pieces that go places you just can't find them anywhere." He said,"Well maybe we should find those pieces." But where would those pieces be....

Chap.5

I sat on bed reading on and on about Marie and Annabelle, they all tell the same thing. How Marie was murdered, who killed her, who hid Annabelle. They all tell the same thing, they all keep yelling at me it coulda been the boyfriend. But who is he? I went on my laptop to find out more, but found nothing about him just the description Nick gave me, western, long brown beard, etc etc. Since I couldn't find information about Marie's mysterious western boyfriend, I decided to look up articles about Marie and Annabelle. They all said stuff like,"Baby Gone Missing a Few days Later Mom is Found Dead. or The Unsolved Case of Marie Hatching." I kept searching and searching until I heard a knock at my door and nearly jumped off my chair. My dad said,"Time to eat pumpkin." I yelled,"Coming!" He yelled,"Okay! We're gonna be downstairs." I heard him leave then I sighed in relief and I turned off my computer for the night.


When I opened the door, I heard someone whisper,"Annabelle." I turned and saw nothing, I crept slowly towards the stairs and instantly heard a loud wail. Everything around started smashing and doors opening and closing, it felt as if the floor was gonna fall from right under me. I fell to the ground and covered my ears then yelled,"Dad!" I heard my dad run up the stairs and everything was okay, they looked clean and not broken. My dad came over to me and asked,"Are you all right?" I kept looking around me then said,"Everything was breaking and shattering! The floor was rumbling, and the wail was so loud!" My dad said,"Lea..." I looked at him and said,"No! No! You have to believe me dad! You aren't the only one who experiences ghost stuff!" He said,"Lea, stop it. I heard nothing, we just heard you screaming and came up and saw you on the floor!" I yelled,"How could you not hear that?!" My dad stood up and said,"Lea, enough. No more of this monkey business. Go to your room and go to sleep!" I stood up and stomped to my room.



How could he not believe me?! I heard this loud wail loud and clear! I grabbed a pillow and threw it against the wall. Something crashed along with my pillow, I looked up to see a picture on the floor. I picked it up and saw a baby girl smiling in the picture playing with a dog. I said,"That must've been you Annabelle, you were screaming. What were you telling me?" I heard laughter and saw a little baby girl sitting on my floor. She was smiling at me and said,"Mama, want mama." I kneeled down next to her and said,"I know you do, we'll find her." She looked at me with hopefulness then hugged me. I hugged her back then she disappeared, suddenly I heard the sound of shoes across the floor. There was Marie, sitting on my bed, she said,"You saw Annabelle didn't you?" I stood up and said,"Yeah, she really misses you." She sighed and said,"This is so hard ya know being a mom and never getting to see your kid." I said,"I know it must be hard, you have to give it time, we'll find some way to get you two into a family again." She smiled and said,"I believe in you Lea." I smiled and she said,"I really count on you." She put her hand on mine then began fading away.


Once she faded away, I heard a knock at my door and I knew it was my dad. I knew him to well, I yelled,"Go away!" My dad yelled,"Please let me in Lea please!" I yelled,"No! You never believe a damn word I say so why should I bother?!" He sighed and yelled,"I'm sorry okay! I'm sorry now will you please let me in!" I sighed and opened the door, he sighed in relief then said,"I thought you ran away or something." I rolled my eyes and said,"You worry too much dad, you are gonna go gray someday." He laughed and asked,"Am I forgiven?" I smiled and nodded, he hugged me then said,"I am glad, who were you talking to?" Oh man, the lying train again, all aboard for your next ticket to guilty-ville. I said,"Umm.... just chatting with some friends online." He said,"Oh cool. Jamie and Jess?" I said,"Yeah them! Hey dad can I go to bed now? I am tired." He said,"Oh sorry go ahead. Goodnight pumpkin." I said,"Goodnight." He left and I sighed in relief. Boy, will I need more excuses. I closed my door and grabbed my phone. I need help.

I jept repeating,"Come on, pick up pick up." Suddenly I heard someone pick up and I heard a tired Nick say,"Hello." I sighed and said,"Hey Nick." He groaned and asked,"What the heck are you doing awake at 12 in the morning?" I said,"Hey Nick, are you free tommorow? I need help." He asked,"Help with what?" I said,"Help with communicating with ghosts." He said,"Sure I am free tommorow. Meet me at the library whenever, I have a morning shift so I'll be there." I said,"Okay bye and thanks for helping me." He said,"Bye, can't wait." I laughed and said,"Okay bye." He hung up and I smiled after the call. Okay Lea, this is supposed to help Marie and Annabella this is not a date. Just calm down.

**Sorry for making this short! I couldn't think of anything else!

Chap.4

"Okay, so..authors that have heard about this unsolved mystery, decided to write books about it. Like...'The What Ifs...of Marie Hatching.' or 'Missing Baby, Dead Mom.' They all revolve around this case.", Nick said while picking out the books he was talking about. I asked,"How many books are there?" He shrugged and said,"About 10, but who's counting? You can read right?" I said,"Ummm...yeah this is like my first time ever reading. So yeah." Nick just laughed and said,"Well I'm suprised, everyobdy reads." I retorted,"I don't." Someone came over and said,"That's a shame, books can teach you a lot of things." Me and Nick looked up to see a woman around her 20s or 30s smiling a friendly smile. She said,"I see you are researching the Marie case, what for?" I looked at Nick seeing if I should say what is going on or lie, he nodded his head not to and I was kind of thankful. I don't need anymore people knowing what's happening. I said,"Umm....I heard about it when I first moved here and decided to take a look at it." The woman said,"You must be the new girl that just came in town! My son talked about you!" I laughed and Nick groaned,"Mom, stop." She said,"Alright well I better get back to work. Well, I am Ms. Jackson, you can call me Ellie and you are always welcome to my library." I smiled at her and said,"Thank you so much." She nodded and said,"Have a good day and Nick make sure to do your laundry." Nick groaned,"Mom!" She laughed and left back to her office. I laughed and said,"She's a nice mom." Nick retorted,"More like a pain in the a-" Ms. Jackson stepped out and looked at Nick who mouthed,"Sorry." She nodded and went back in. He sighed and said,"Well we better check out these books."

We checked the books out and Nick said,"If you need more help here's my card." He took a card out of a pile of other cards and placed it on the pile of my books. I smiled and said,"Thanks. Tell your mom I said thanks again." He nodded and said,"Will do, bye." I nodded and left. When I got home my dad was outside wearing earmuffs while cutting the grass. He saw me and turned it off. I walked up to him and said,"Dad, I know the lawnmower is loud but it's not that loud." He yelled,"What?!" I sighed and yelled,"The lawnmower isn't that loud!" He yelled again,"What?!" I sighed and took off the earmuffs and his ears were red as ever. I gasped and he said,"I know I know but I did nothing this time." I asked,"What happened?!" He said,"I was upstairs putting my laundry in my room then suddenly in the hallway I heard this wail that was so loud you could probably hear it a few miles away! The whole house started rumbling like an earthquake then suddenly it stopped. I asked if others felt what I felt but they heard nothing and felt nothing. Just me.." Now I knew what Nick ment by wail right through the rooftop. I sighed and said,"It's nothing I hope your ears will get better." If I told him...he wouldn't believe me.

We got inside and my dad noticed the pile of books I was carrying. He asked,"What did you get over there?" I said,"Umm...history books like presidents and stuff." He said,"Oh why." Oh man, I can't lie to my dad, I am so bad at lying to him but I felt kind of confident and said,"Just to remember some facts before school ya' know." He nodded and said,"Oh wow. This is a change. First, you never read books now you are. Second, you never were prepared for school, now you are! What next?! You thinking about going to harvard!" I sighed and said,"Yeah I know, big change but it's still the same me." I walked backwards and ran into something hard and tall. I turned to see that mysterious man who saved my dad from crows. My dad said,"Oh yeah, I called Bert to see if he could check out the problem. He said we're fine completely cool." Bert glared at me then said to my dad,"Yeah everything checks out fine, maybe it's that ghost everyone talks about." My dad asked,"What story?" Bert said,"The story of the ghost of the baby Annabelle, people say you can hear her wail in this house upstairs. Investigators would come at night and be terrified to hear it and feel the rumbling of the house that they ran out with all their equipment still there.

"They picked it up the next day and found a tape of a silhouette of a skirt walk across the floor to the right then a faded baby crawling to the left. People say that's Annabelle and Maria trying to find each other to be a family again." My dad laughed and said,"Maybe so, well anyways, thanks for your help." Bert nodded and said,"No problem, well I better get going got to get more deer for dinner." Bert started walking then my dad said,"Why don't you stay for dinner?" I yelled,"No!" My dad looked at me and asked,"What?" I stammered,"I mean...umm....you...you are welcome for dinner." My dad nodded and said,"Yeah everyone is always welcome." Bert said,"Sure! I think the game is supposed to be on right now. Lakers against the Titans." My dad said,"Right! Lea you can go upstairs and do your little research." I nodded and ran upstairs with my books before anyone could say anything else.

Man what was I going to do?! My life is already stressful I don't need some smelly, mysterious man around my house! Oh well, I can't think about that, I have to think about Maria and her baby.