Full Summary:
Athina has shown up at Sally's house not knowing why she has come. What happens when Aiden and Josh come home to her staring at Sally? Will they find out why she is attracted to Sally? And does this have anything to do with Danny?
Death:
The House:
Athina was on the bus heading home from the school library. She was sixteen. Her parents would be waiting for her to get home. But she had a stop to make. She was seeing someone older and didn't want her parents to know that she was seeing him. His name was Danny. He was eighteen and she knew that her parents would disagree over her seeing him. But he was cute and charming and everything ended up like it always did.
They would always meet at an abandoned house where nobody would know that they were meeting up. It always seemed that she was always doing something wrong. This time was no different. She got there late, which is normally what happened when she studied at the library. She saw him waiting for her. At first, once she was inside the house, once the door was closed, they started making out. It seemed to go like that for a few more minutes before he pulled out of the kiss. He walked into what was supposed to be a living room, but at the moment was nothing.
She followed him, expecting to find some kind of food waiting like normally. But today was different. It seemed Danny had some other kind of plans going through his mind and he meant to enact them there that night. Athina watched as Danny pulled a long stick from his bag. She did not see what was on the end of the stick, but she knew that she needed to get out. She turned to run and noticed that the door had been blocked and that there was no way out. She found herself fleeing to the basement stairs. She ran down the stairs and Danny followed yelling at her as he came.
She tripped on the last step and fell the rest of the way down. She lay at the bottom of the stairs as Danny thundered down them, unable to move due to her busted ankle. She pulled herself towards one of the walls but was stopped when Danny grabbed her broken ankle and pulled her back towards him. The stick she now saw was not a stick after all. In fact it was more like a small axe, mostly used for chopping wood when someone went camping. She screamed but knew her scream was never going to be heard.
He slammed the small axe into her chest over and over again until there was no life left in her. She saw him stand over her and then felt her body being picked up. She was no longer alive, but that didn't meant her spirit wasn't floating around somewhere. Danny couldn't very well carry her bloody body from the house, so he buried her in the basement floor, then made sure there was no evidence that said she was there. He poured lye over her body then put the cement block he had removed earlier back over the hole she was now laying in.
Danny left the house then, never expecting to return to it because he really didn't seem to care that he had just killed a sixteen year old girl who was head over heels in love with him. He never thought about her after that, walking away and burning the clothes he had been wearing that day. The axe he had buried with her so that he didn't have to explain to his parents why he had a bloody axe with him when he walked back into his family's house.
Athina's body was never found and even though the Boston Police looked for her for more than a year, her case ended up turning cold and then everyone stopped looking for her all together.
And All It's Friends:
Sally's House:
Athina was still wandering the basement of the house that she had been killed in. Danny had gotten away with her murder, as well as the murder of his fiancé. Danny and Sally had bought the same house that Danny had killed Athina in without him even remembering what he had done in the house. Athina was still unable to leave the basement where she had been killed so it wasn't like she could tell anyone that she was there. She had been unable to haunt anyone because no one really went into the basement except to look at the breaker, which rarely shorted.
Athina was aware that she could do things with her ghostly powers but didn't seem to have them under control yet. So she was surprised at what Danny did to Sally. But then again, she probably shouldn't have been surprised, Danny was a violent man, that much she knew. She knew how she died, but she had been unable to move on because her door had never appeared. So she was stuck in the house for the rest of her undead life and she didn't know how to tell anyone that she was even there.
When the two boys moved into the house and started seeing Sally everywhere, Athina realized that they could only see Sally because they themselves were monsters, just like Sally and just like herself. It was like she was stuck in the basement because that was where she had been killed. She wondered what her family was doing right now, if they even thought about her anymore. Sally was twenty-three, which meant Danny would be twenty-four now. He had grown in the past six years, but not by that much because he still had his anger.
When Danny came back to the house for a final time to try and burn Sally out, he was arrested for the arson attempt and for turning himself in for killing Sally. But he did not confess to the murder of Athina because nobody had even seen her ghost, let alone had been told that she had died in that house because nobody knew. The boys and Sally had finally gotten Danny to confess to the one thing he had been hiding from everyone for so long. But could they get him to confess about murdering Athina even though he is already in jail?