The three female members of the Hathaways' family are sitting on the couch of their new houses spooky, red living room, watching a fat, black woman

dancing around, chanting incomprehensible words and wielding a weird stick. She's wearing a turban and a multicolored dress. She's the ghost

exterminator that Michelle Hathway, the mother of Taylor (nicknamed as Tay) and Franceska (nicknamed as Frankie), hired, to Tay's relief and Frankie's

disapproval.

Tay is anxious. This woman looks a total weirdo and totally untrustworthy. Will she really manage to rid the house of Prestons, the black ghosts that

reside it? And, most importantly, will she pull it off in time? Lily, the girl Tay met a few hours ago, will be here at any time. Lily seemed really sweet to

Taylor and, most importantly, she goes to the same school Tay will start attending and shares common interests with her. She promised to introduce

Tay to the other members of the school's gymnastics team. If that exterminator doesn't make it fast, Taylor's chances at getting social life at her new

school will be ruined.

-''The girls will be here in ten minutes'' she declares to her mom. ''I'll just not open the door''.

-''No'' Michelle strictly answers. ''I said you won't cancel it and you won't. Trust me, i've got this''.

Taylor gets up and starts walking away when the exterminator freaks her out:

-''This is bad. Very bad. I'm feeling strange vibrations''.

Right after that, she calms down, takes a cell phone out of her bra and continues:

-''No, wait, i've just got a text message''.

Taylor rolls her eyes and goes downstairs. The exterminator reads the phone's message. It's from her annoying husband. He can't find his socks.

Again!

-''Dang him'' the annoyed exterminator cries. ''How many times do i have to tell him? I always put his socks at the third drawer. What's so hard for him

to remember?''

She looks at Michelle.

-''Men! They're totally worthless'' she comments.

-''You're telling me...'' Michelle agrees in an understanding expression, remembering her ex husband.

-''That's why i'll never get married'' Frankie adds, in a bored and sad expression, being still displeased at the idea of the ghosts leaving.

Michelle looks at her younger daughter, in a mocking expression:

-''Oh, really? We've all said that stuff, long before you, Frankie. Trust me, you will get married someday. And, since nobody marries for life anymore, you

will also divorce someday''.

-''Whatever'' Frankie sighs, not being in the mood to argue with her mother right now.

Michelle turns back to the ghost exterminator:

-''Come on, continue the ghost banishing ritual''.

In our universe, that phone call delayed the ghost banishing ritual for a few moments. And these few moments made all the difference between the

''happily ever after'' and the nightmare. But, in another universe, when the exterminator's husband was about to text her, he remembered what

she had told him about the third drawer, so he looked there and found his socks. And he did not text his wife. And the ghost banishing ritual was

not delayed. And the Hathaways were doomed to a fate worse than Hell itself. Starting from next time, we'll see the bleak story of that other

universe, the story of the Non Haunted Hathaways.