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Anubis POV
I wake up to knocking on the door. I get up from the couch and go over to the door. When I get to it I stop. I felt another cold chill on my back. I open the door to see Horus. He had a bag and some coffees.
"I brought breakfast," Horus says. "Bagels."
"Thanks," I say taking the bagels. We walk over to the couch and set the stuff on the coffee table. I start eating my bagel.
"How's staying the night in a haunted house?" Horus asks taking a sip of his coffee.
"It's not haunted," I say.
Horus looks around. "There's got to be something wrong with it if no one wanted to live here."
"Maybe they just didn't like it here," I say.
"Maybe," Horus says.
I finish my food then head upstairs. I change into jeans and a t-shirt. I head back downstairs and stop and look at the door to the girl's room again.
"Anubis!" Horus calls. "Someone's here!"
I head downstairs. Horus had the door open and there was a man at the door. "Hello," I say. I hold out my hand. "I'm Anubis."
"I'm Walt Stone," He says. "I wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood."
"Thanks," I say. "Did you know anyone who used to live here?"
"Yeah," he says. "The Kane family. There was Julius Kane and his two children."
"Julius Kane," Horus says. "The best lawyer this state ever had. Before he died."
"He only had one child," I say. "He had a son Carter."
"He had a daughter," Walt says. "She died."
"How?" Horus asks.
"No one knows," Walt says. "She went to sleep and when Carter went to wake her up she was dead."
"Who was with her the night she died?" Horus asks.
"Horus," I say. "Stop talking."
"It's fine," Walt says. "I was with her. We went on a date."
"You must be the boy in the pictures upstairs." Horus says.
"Yeah," Walt says. "I was her boyfriend."
"It must've been hard for you," I say.
"It was hard on Carter the most," Walt says. "Their father was always busy, there mother was dead since there were young. Carter took care of her most of the time."
Horus and I look at each other. I look back at Walt. "Is Carter still alive?"
"Yeah," Walt says. "After losing everyone in his family he moved back to California. He's happily married with his wife Zia and their two children."
"Do you still talk to him?" Horus asks.
"Sometimes," Walt says. "I guess I'd better get back. I am the mayor of this town lots of work to do."
''It was nice meeting you," I say.
Horus shuts the door. "Is it weird that the only name he refused to mention was the girls name."
"Maybe it's just too hard to talk about." I say.
"All we know is her name start with S and her last name is Kane. Maybe if we search her room." Horus says.
"You told me that this place is haunted and now you want to go look around the dead girl's room," I say.
"You're right," Horus says. "She probably won't like that."
Sadie's POV
I sat on the top of the staircase watching the boys talk to Walt. I couldn't hear what they were saying. I figured they were asking about the previous residents of this home. The one boy seems to be wanting to see a ghost believing the place is haunted. The other boy was interesting. He was cute. He had chocolate brown eyes with black hair. He wore black jeans, combat boots, and a black t-shirt that was tight on him. I could see the muscles from his arms and his stomach thorough the shirt. I watched him when he went to my room the other day and I put my hand on his. This morning he walked right through me to answer the door. I wonder if he'd freak out if he saw me. Once Walt left I moved closer to them. I heard them talking.
"Why don't you just drop it Horus?" The cute one says. "We're not going to go through that room just to figure out the girl's name."
They were talking about me. I looked at the boy.
"It's weird that Walt mentioned everyone's name except for her. It's like he didn't want to remember or like he couldn't forget and it would bring back something he didn't want people to know. He's really suspicious." Horus says.
"Can we just do what I actually brought you here for," The other boy says. "Helping me move in."
"Fine," Horus says. "But once were done I'm coming back to this topic."
I watch as the boy's head upstairs. I follow them. They set up the bedroom next to mine. I watch as they set up the black wood bed frame. The cute boy stops and sits down on the floor next to where I'm standing. I really like this boy. He seems different from the rest of the people who've been here. I put my hand on his arm and he shivers. He felt it. He looks at his arm and then in my direction. He eyes were looking directly at me. I smile. Then I realize he can't see me.
"Are you alright?" Horus says.
"Yeah," He says. He gets back up and starts helping again.
Once they have the frame set up. They finish moving furniture in. There were end tables for both sides of the bed. They hung up black curtains. They put black sheets and a black comforter. It's a couple hours before there done.
"One room down," The cute boy says before he sits down on the bed.
"I better get going," Horus says. "I have a date."
"Again," The other boy says. "Is it a different girl?"
"Yeah," Horus says. "Isn't it always.
Horus leaves. The other boy sits here for a while. He heads downstairs and lays on the couch. I watch as he falls asleep.
**Couple hours later**
Anubis's POV
I wake up and I see a girl sitting in the chair across from the couch. I sit up immediately. She looks at me. "Can you see me?" She asks.
"Yeah," I say. "Why are you in my house?"
"Actually," She says standing up. "You're in my house."
I look at her. She had caramel blonde hair with a red streak down the side. She was wearing a red tank top and a pair of skinny jeans. She had no shoes. "What?" I ask.
"Look at me more closely," She says.
I look at her I could see through her. "I can see through you," I say.
"That's because I'm a ghost. You may have heard that the place is haunted. It is. I'm the one that haunts it." She explains.
"You're not scary," I say. "Aren't ghost supposed to be scary."
"Not really," She says. "I'm not sure, I am the only ghost I know. I've been stuck in this house since I died here."
I look at her she seems very young. "How old are you?"
"I'm seventeen," She says.
"What's your name?" I ask.
"Sadie Kane," She says. "What's yours?"
"Anubis Black," I say.
"Anubis," she says. "Like the Egyptian god of death." She smiles. "That's funny. The first person who can see me and their name is Anubis."
I sit there. She walks over to the fire place. Not making a sound as she walks on the old floors. "Why do you scare people away from this house? You don't seem like someone who scares people away."
"I wanted to find someone who can see me. I knew you were different when you came up to my room the first day you moved in. I've been watching you for a couple days." She says.
"And you just now decided you wanted to show up?" I ask.
"I didn't want to scare you away." She says. "I've been alone for 20 years."
"You've been stuck in this house for twenty years," I say. "That's a long time."
"Yeah," She says. "I think there's something I have to do but I don't know what it is."
"How did you die?" I ask.
"I don't know," Sadie tells me.
"How do you not know how you died?" I ask.
"I fell asleep and never woke up. I thought I was alive until my brother went into my room and couldn't wake me up." She explains.
"You never tried to figure out how you died?" I ask.
"No," Sadie says. "I could never figure it out. All I know is I came back from my date with Walt and then I went to sleep."
"You must want to know a lot of things since you've been stuck in here." I say.
"Yeah," She says. "I really want to know about my father and brother. How are they? Do you know them?"
"Everyone in this state knows about your father," I say. "Julius Kane was the best lawyer."
"He is the best lawyer," She corrects me.
"Sadie," I say. "He died in a car accident. He was drunk and he crashed into another car. No one survived the crash." She looks off into the distance.
"Who else was in the crash?" She asks.
"It was you dad and it was some old lady." I say.
"What about my brother?" She asks. "Carter Kane."
"I don't know him that much," I say. "Walt told me that Carter is married to a girl named Zia and they have two children."
Sadie smiles. "Carter," She says. "I'm so glad he found someone. He's lost everyone."
"What if I got him to come here?" I ask. "I can tell him that I found something he might want from the house and that I'd like to give it to him. Then you can talk to him."
"No," Sadie says. "I can't. He suffered so much when I died. I can't bring back those memories."
"How about I help you figure out how you died?" I ask.
"Help me figure out how I died?" She says. "How?"
"My cousin Horus," I say. "He's great at solving mysteries. He can help us figure it out."
"Really?" She says. "You'd help me figure out how I died?"
"Yeah," I say. "You should know how you died."
"When do we start?" She asks.
"Tomorrow," I say. "When Horus gets here."
"Thank you," She says. She hugs me. I feel cold. She pulls away. "I'm sorry." She says. "Sometimes I forget that my touch is cold to people."
"It's fine," I say.
"So enough about me," She says. "Do you have any siblings?"
"No," I say. "It's just me and my cousin Horus."
"Are you and Horus close?" She asks.
"Yeah," I say. "We were outside of school. At school, he hung out with his sports buddies."
"Who did you hang out with?" She asks.
"I didn't really hang out with anyone. I kind of stayed by myself. I never dated anyone because they all liked me for my looks. I never really made friends because most of the guys at the school were idiots." I explain.
"I guess were both kind of lonely people." She says. "I've lived in this house for 20 years not knowing anyone and you moved into this house alone."
"It must be weird for you," I say. "Finally talking to someone."
"Yeah," She says. "I was starting to think I was never going to talk to anyone. I was just going to be stuck here without ever knowing how I died or why I'm here."
"I help you answer any questions that you need answer. Then maybe you won't be stuck here anymore." I say.
"Thank you, Anubis." She says. "It means a lot to me."
"You're welcome," I say. "It's the best I can do." We start talking for hours until I look at the time. It was midnight. "I better get to bed."
"Goodnight," She says.
"Goodnight Sadie," I say.
I head upstairs and then I sit on my bed. I look out the window. I see a black car start up and leave without turning the headlights on like it was trying to blend in to the darkness. I look away from the window and try to fall asleep.