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"Miss Takigawa (Should she take over Monk's last name or not? You decided!) Can you please read the definition to the term Astral Projection?" My professor asked.

"Certainly," I said as I picked up my book. I didn't need to really look directly at the book since I've worked in S.P.R for like a year and I've been working with my "family" for a total of five years. But I decided to just read from the book. "Astral projection, also known as an out-of-the-body-experience, which separates the soul from one's body in order to travel in astral planes." As soon as I finished the sentence the school bell rang throughout the classroom. I could hear a couple of my classmates let out a sigh of relief. Well they should have that about their interest in this subject before picking this class.

"Alright, thank you. Class is dismissed. Have a safe and wonderful summer vacation!" Everyone quickly hurried to get out from their last class and into freedom. Usually I would be taking my time but I have to meet up with my friends Megumi and Sasuke so we could go home and get ready to go to the café to meet up with Madoka. I ran from the classroom to the courtyard. Damn, it's crowded already. I quickly climbed up to the tallest tree in the courtyard and quickly climbed onto the branches. Hmm…I can't see them.

"Do you see her Sasuke?"

"Nope, not yet." I peaked around the tree and saw Megumi and Sasuke on the branches as well looking for me in the opposite direction. Oh this is prefect! I smirked as I grabbed a loose branch and I quickly lifted Megumi's skirt up.

"Ahhh!" she yelped as she quickly rushed to pull her skirt back down. I started laughing as I saw her face flush from embarrassment. "Mai! Don't ever do that again!" she yelled at me.

"I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help myself!" I laughed as I wiped a tear from my eye.

"Now, now girls, we have to get going if we want to make it on time." Sasuke laughed as he held back Megumi back before she could strangle me to death.

"Alright, let's go you guys." I said happily as we quickly jumped down from the branches and landed on the ground with ease. We ignored the stares that the other students gave us as we entered my car. I quickly drove to their apartment that they shared together.

"Alright, so I'll see you guys at their right?"

"Yeah we'll be there. You sure you won't be late?" Sasuke snickered.

"Oh come on! I haven't been late to anything in a very long time." I whined.

"Yeah, yeah, we're just kidding around silly" Megumi laughed as Sasuke ruffled my hair.

"Hey cut that out, you're messing up my hair!" I said as I swatted his hand away. "Alright I'll see you later!" I waved good-bye to them and drove off.

As soon as I arrived home I opened the garage door to park my car. Hmm... Neither Monk nor Ayako are home yet. I noticed that two of the cars that belong to them were not there. I walked towards the main house. I may have been happy that Monk and Ayako adopted me but I am a girl…wait, scratch that, I am a 21 year old woman, I need my space. Thankfully Ayako, (who understood me completely) and Monk, (after a few days of talking to him and Ayako making him sleep on the couch), let me move into my own place. I walked through the main house and out into the backyard. If ya hadn't figured it out yet but I live in the guest house, 'Monk's condition of me moving out.' I didn't mind at all.

"I'm home!" I said as I opened the door to my house. I was soon quickly pounced on by six paws. Four of them belonging to my adorable female feline GiGi. She was all black but the bottoms of her paws were white. The other two paws belonged to my precious dog, Kenji. I would have said four paws but his bottom feet were on the floor. He was a white husky with a long black stripe going from his nose down to the tip of his tail.

"Hey you guys! Did ya miss me?" GiGi rubbed her head under my chin as she purred and Kenji let out a small yelp and then licked my face. "Well I missed you more!" I said as I hugged them both. I shut the door and walked into the kitchen and I served them their food.

"Alright well I still have some time left. I go take a nap and then I get ready to go to the little reunion. I walked over to my room and literally collapsed into bed.

Dream sequence:

"Wait…what the…? But I'm not on a case right now. Why am I here again?"

"Because I wanted to talk to you again." I quickly turned around.

"Gene?"

"Hiya Mai! How are…"

"What do you want?" I growled. Gene's smile turned into a frown.

"Look, I know that you aren't happy to see me and I haven't been able to tell you the truth."

"Yeah, maybe you should have said something before, like, maybe when we first met. But no, you decided to keep quiet. You made me think that you were Oliver. And just like him you left and never came back."

"Yes I'm sorry. I truly am Mai. But I have a very good reason as to why I did all that stuff."

"Please, do explain." I said sarcastically.

"The reason why I didn't say anything was because I wanted Noll to be himself again. Ever since he saw my death he has never been the same. These cases were slowly bringing back to normal…or as normal as he could be. And you were changing him Mai. I'm not lying, you seriously were. Everyone in S.P. R was changing him. And as for while I didn't explain later was because I was with my family when they shipped my body back in England. I tried as bet as I could to come back and explain things to you but I just couldn't. I'm sorry Mai."

I stared at him as I tried to absorb everything that he had told me. "So, how come you can now, after five years?"

"Well it's probably because now you decided to let me back into that little brain of yours." He laughed.

"I do not have a little brain!" I said as I crossed my arms across my chest. "Besides, do you not know how many times you, my ghost friend; you could have helped me with my cases that we were taking."

"You guys still kept on going?" Gene asked surprised.

"Well yeah, just because Oliver left and closed down S.P.R didn't mean that me and my family were going to stop. We kept in touch because of it. And if you haven't noticed, Monk and Ayako have already gotten married and so have Lin and Madoka. Sadly I wasn't there for their wedding."

"They had it in England?"

"Yes, but Madoka was nice enough to send us pictures through e-mail! She looked beautiful!"

"Well that's wonderful!" Gene's usual smile returned. He doesn't look like Gene without it.

"Yes it was. But I'm sorry Gene. As much as I'd like to stay here and chat with you I can't. It's almost time for me to wake up and get ready to meet up with Madoka and everyone."

"Ah, yes of course. Have fun Mai!"

I slowly opened my eyes. Well I guess I can't stay mad at him forever. It wasn't his fault after all. I quickly flipped opened my cell phone to check the time.

"Oh my gosh I'm running late!" I screamed as I quickly rolled out of bed and quickly got dressed. I put on my favorite ruffled skirt and favorite top along with leggings and my long boots and jacket. I quickly pulled hair into a ponytail. "I'll be back soon!" I said to my pets and I quickly locked the door as ran towards the main house. I ran super fast that I didn't have time to stop myself I ran into Monk.

"Oww!"

"Oh my, I'm sorry Monk!"

"No worries are you okay?" he asked as he offered me a hand. I took it and he helped me up.

"Yeah I'm okay. When did you guys get here?" I asked.

"We arrived like 10 minutes ago." I looked towards the stairs to see Ayako coming down. "Monk was just on his way to go get you so we could all go together.

"Oh yeah sure!" I said as walked up to Ayako.

"Alright ladies, are we all set to go?" Monk asked as he grabbed the keys.

"Yup!" I said as we walked out to the car.

"Madoka! It's so nice to see you again!" I said as I hugged her when I entered the cafe. When she saw me she came rushing towards me.

"Same here Mai! Wow, your hair is longer than I last saw it!"

"Yeah how do you like it?" I said I turned around so she could see it.

"It's lovely! Hiya Monk and Ayako, it's been too long."

"Yes it has." Ayako replied as she hugged her best friend. "So Madoka, it's been killing me for almost a month already, what the surprise that you wanted to tell us?"

"Well I kinda wanted to wait until everyone arrived."

"Oh that's okay, we can wait, and they should be here soon!" And as soon as I said that the door to the café opened and in walked in the rest of my family. First Yasu and his newly girlfriend and my assistant Karin, who would have ever thought that I would have an assistant? I laughed to myself. She was as tall as I was. She had blond hair and green eyes. She is a third American and French and half Japanese. Next came in my friends Megumi and Sasuke and last but not least John and Masako. John let go of being a priest for Masako but the church still gave him permission to do exorcisms. Masako still looked the same but she ditched the kimonos. Madoka quickly greeted everyone as they sat down.

"So now can you tell us?" Ayako pleaded. Madoka laughed and then took out her phone. After a few seconds she said, "It's time." The door open again and we all turned around.

"Lin!" I said as I ran up to him and gave him a hug. I'm sure he was surprised about my sudden action.

"Hi there Mai, it's good to see you again." Lin said as he walked us back to the table. "Hi everyone." He greeted everyone softly.

"Is Lin the surprise? John asked.

"Nope, he's just here to see your guy's faces when we tell you the surprise." We all sat quietly. "Lin and I are expecting our first child!"

"Oh my gosh! Congratulations!" we all yelled out! All of us girls hugged Madoka while the guys gave Lin a handshake.

"How far are you into the pregnancy?" I asked

"I'm already two months!"

"Uh-oh!" Monk whispered to the guys.

"And what do you mean by that?" Ayako asked. I saw her getting her bag ready to hit him.

"Nothing, you guys are just gonna start talking about baby stuff and clothes and names. We guys will just head over to another table to talk."

"Why you?" Ayako said as she raised her purse.

"Oh let them be, Ayako. Actually I think it's better if I talked to you girls instead." She said as the guys walked to a different table. Lin kissed Madoka on the lips before following the guys. I felt a small pain in my chest but I made sure my face didn't show it.

"So…I have a favor to ask of you Ayako." Madoka spoke as soon as the boys were away.

"Sure thing, what do you need?"

"Well I was really sad that neither of you could come to my wedding in England but from a yes of Lin we will be renewing our vows here in Japan! That way you guys can be there and I want you to be my maid of honor Ayako."

"Really? Me? Why Madoka I would love to be your maid of honor!" Ayako said as she rushed over to her and hugged her tight.

"Thank you so much Ayako! And Masako, Mai, Karin and Megumi?"

"Yeah?" we said in unison.

"Would you guys be the bridesmaids?"

"I would most certainly would!" I said happily.

"I would too!" Masako said along with Megumi

"Oh and one more thing, Mai, would you be the god mother to my child?" Everyone went silent and looked at me waiting for my answer.

"Of course! I'd love to be the god mother!"

"Yay! You better not back out on me now?" Why would I back out?

"Don't worry I won't! I'll be there for the child every second of the day!"

"Thank you Mai, this really means a lot to me and to Lin as well." She said with a soft smile.

"Hey Madoka?" Megumi spoke up.

"Yeah?"

"What is the real reason as o why you are here?" Megumi had a very special talent. She could tell if someone was keeping a secret about anything. It really helped during our cases when there was a stubborn client. Sasuke was learning everything after Monk and John. Karin was really good at finding out information. That's why she usually helped out Yasu. I gotta have the best on my team!

Madoka smiled again. "It's seems like you are getting better with your special talent." Megumi nodded her head. "Well Megumi is right. There is something that I have to tell you guys."

"What is it?" I asked.

"Well I was wondering if you could help me with a case Mai." She said as her sad eyes looked towards me.

"Well sure, I would be glad to help. School just finished for me and Megumi so we are free."

"Yup! No classes for us anymore!" Megumi stated.

"Oh that's wonderful! Well you see this case is located in the U.S.A. This family that moved in a few months ago has an angry spirit. There is scratching sounds at night from 12AM to 2AM. Rooms suddenly get cold and the family's daughter is scared. She doesn't even want to sleep in her own room. She used to be a cheerful little girl but now she keeps quiet and doesn't talk or go near anyone. And their maids are being pushed around. But just recently some of the maids have gone missing. A week before they go missing the maid suddenly loses their voice. That's when you hear the maids' voice speak from within the walls. Will you please take the case? I will deal with all the plane tickets."

I sat there taking in everything that she said. I felt sorry for all the maids that have gone missing and for the family that lived there. "I'll take the case."

Madoka sighed in relief. "Thank you so much Mai. I know this was a lot for me to ask but there isn't anyone better than your group." Suddenly Madoka's phone rang. "I'll be right back." We watched her go outside. We stayed silent and waited for her to return. Lin stood up and walked outside as well.

"Hey did Madoka let you guys know about the case in America?" Monk asked as the boys came back to our table.

"Yes she did, and I told her that we'll be taking the case." I said as I turned to look at him. He nodded his head in agreement. The door opened and Lin and Madoka walked back inside.

"Is there anything wrong Madoka." Karin asked as Madoka sat down.

"Well it's about the case." We all waited for her to continue. Madoka turned her eyes to me. "Someone else is going to help out on the case."

"Who?" I asked.

"Naru."

Ahhh! Well there you guys have it! The 2nd chapter, I hoped you guys enjoyed it! And also I would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas Eve and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please review as my Christmas present! X3