Summery: On a dare, a girl walks into a haunted house to prove that she's not a child and that she can handle it. But, when she goes in and gets scared out of her wits she runs into a room to get away from the odd noises that she's hearing. She backed into the wall in fright, but instead of hitting the solid wall...she fell through it!

Rumor has it that everybody who had ever lived there disappeared, is it possible that they too fell through the wall and into another dimension? And just where does she end up? .. Why on Jack's ship of course!

A Hearty Life

By: MoonLight Star

The wind blew gently across her face, causing her long mid-back chocolate hair to caress her face. Instead of making her smile, like she usually would, a frown remained on her face as she looked to her friend and her sister.

"You wouldn't last a day in there!" Her friend, Toni, had told her. She was a very plump woman with shoulder length blonde hair that was parted on the left side of her head. Her short blonde hair was teased all over, this was the style that she had everyday; in fact Lynn had never seen her with another hairstyle.

The other girl, who looked quite the opposite of Toni, was smiling broadly at Lynn with a small twinkle in her eye. "Why don't you go in there, Lynn? See if the rumors are true."

Lynn's eyes widened a bit as she thought of actually going into the house. It was said to have been haunted, there were ghosts who hated everybody who ever set foot in their house. They would literally chase the occupants out. Nobody dared move in because of them. The owner of the house, who was to afraid to live there, would give anyone who stayed a whole night there $50.00 if they didn't run out scared. But, they had to stay the whole day and whole night there. Needless to say, nobody has gotten their $50.00, as they had all ran out.

"Why me? Why don't you go, Toni? You've always said that nothing could scare you." Lynn said, trying to get out of going into the house. She got scared very easily and she really didn't want to go into that house.

"Awww...your to afraid, huh?" Toni had said while pouting her pink lips and talking in a baby voice. Blushing, Lynn crossed her arms over her chest in a defense position. "I'm not scared!"

"Then how come you won't go in?"

"Cause...I don't feel like it! I'm hungry, I want to go get something to eat." Lynn said blushing even more. She knew it was a lame excuse but she hoped it would work anyway. Sighing, Toni once again started talking in her baby voice. "Ok, whatever you say, munchkin."

Lynn's eyes narrowed immediately and Toni smiled at the reaction. She knew how much Lynn hated that name. "If you go in there and stay there for an hour, I will never call you a munchkin again, deal?"

Lynn blinked a bit as her gaze dropped to the ground, thinking it over. She knew if she didn't do this then she would be called the dreaded..oh she didn't even want to think of the 'm' word! It was the name she despised above all else, except for maybe 'kido'. It meant that she was thought of as a little girl, and even though she may be young and a bit innocent, and was probley true in almost everybody's eyes, she hated to be reminded of it. If she just sucked it up and did this then maybe nobody would call her that cursed name again. Maybe she would finally be thought of as an adult, or at least somebody who wasn't a child.

"Alright, I'll do it." She mumbled. She didn't want to but she had to do something to stop people from seeing her as a little girl.

Grinning, Toni and her sister stepped a side, leaving a clear path to the haunted house. Deciding to go ahead and get this over with, she walked down the path, though a bit slow. She placed her pale hand onto the cold hard doorknob and twisted it. It wasn't locked, the owner of the house thought the ghosts were the best security in the world, there for, didn't need an alarm or to even lock the door.

She pushed the door open and walked into the dusty two-story house. It had beautiful wooden floors and antique furnisher that looked rather expensive. Lynn turned back to the door to close it, but she saw a glance of Toni and her sister. They were talking to the owner of the house, who kept staring at her, which she really didn't like because she saw the amusement on his face.

Determined to last the night, she slammed the door shut.