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.