Chapter 2

The next morning Melinda was packing Aiden's lunch box for school and Jim was telling Aiden jokes over breakfast. Melinda and Jim never liked to talk about ghosts in front of Aiden unless needed but thankfully for Melinda Jim woke up at the same time she did and they discussed the nights events before Aiden woke up.

" So what time will you be home today daddy?" Aiden asked.

" Well not sure exactly but I'll tell u what when I get home how about you and me go to the park and play together just us guys?" Jim said not wanting to disappoint his son.

"Hey that sounds good" Melinda pointed out.

"Ok then" Aiden agreed

"Well that's settled then so why don't you go and get your stuff ready for school little man and I will take you before my shift starts," Jim said with a smile

"Cool" and with that Aiden was off up the stairs to get his stuff.

"So any ideas on who our visitor was last night Mel?" Jim asked turning round to face Melinda.

"No, I just have to weight until they decided to drop in again." she half heartily said.

It was 11:00am and the sun was shining bright. Melinda was in her shop when the bell rang on the door. Her best friend Delia had walked in with her son Ned. Delia used to be Melinda's business partner before she opened her house property office next door and her son Ned aged 15, tall and mousey brown hair was also a good friend of Melinda's and someone who she would fight to protect.

"Hey" Delia said breezing in to the store and placing a cardboard tray of coffee on the counter.

"Hi" retaliated Melinda. "How are you two?" she asked

"Fine just explaining to Ned here why study group is for studying not a chance to meet his latest love!" Delia said with a slight worry to her tone.

"Well I see you two have issues. Ned you know you have to listen to your mother" Melinda joked. Ned just smiled but said nothing.

"As much as I hate to do this I have to go now, I am showing the mansion on upper state bridge to a family today and I need it to go well." she explained

"That's ok, good luck and I will call you later," Melinda said sympathetically.

As Delia left the store a man in his late 30s came rushing in to the store.

"Can you help me please my girlfriend has collapsed and I need someone to help me," he gasped.

"O my god, show us NOW," Melinda shouted as she and Ned ran for the door.

A little while later Melinda and Ned were sat in the weighting room as the doctors worked on the mans girlfriend who they found to be named Rob and Chloe.

"What do you thinks' going on?" Ned quizzed Melinda like she had all the answers.

"I'm not sure. When Rob came in he looked panicked and confused witch is a normal reaction but when I called the ambulance he changed to a dark expression like he didn't care any more," Melinda replied

"I saw that to, like he changed who he was in a matter of seconds," Ned whispered so the other people milling around couldn't hear him. Ned liked talking to Melinda and getting involved with her ghost worries.

Just then Jim came out if one of the side rooms.

"Well what's going on?" Melinda asked.

"A pretty big rip in the wall of the stomach," Jim replied. "It was caused by a large amount of bruising on the inside," he continued.

"So what she was involved in an accident, fell, what?" Ned asked.

"Looks like she fell down the stairs when she was coming out of her flat then her partner came and found her and then found you to help," Jim answered.

"I just can't help thinking there's more to it than that. I mean why would he come to the store and why would he act like that when we were around?" Melinda wondered aloud. "What is the connection?"

"Maybe it's random, no meaning to it in the slightest. I could just be a random act of fate," Ned said trying to calm the situation before any ghost could be brought up.

"I used to think like that and I would never have thought something so random could be something bigger but since the book of changes has come in to our lives I have learned to always trust my instincts and they are screaming at me that there is something bigger at play here," Melinda whispered "I can just feel something bigger is going to happen, I just know it."