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!