Chapter 2: Bonnie Bee's Help

Parappa had spent most of the school day annoyed by the voices that faded in and out of volume and kept ringing in his ear, and also kept seeing odd people during lunch. He young canine was in the library on a computer, searching up ghost whisperers or psychics online. He saw a site that read, 'Bonnie B's Ghost Assistance.' Parappa was confused, but on the site was nothing more than description on what to do. He didn't have any better ideas, so he began to type out an email to this Bonnie B person. He couldn't care what happened, because if it helped make the voices stop, then he will do anything for it. He sent the complete email with his cellphone number enclosed within it, and after that, Parappa went to continue his day as normal as he could make it to be.

During the end of the school day, Parappa exited the school. It was now raining pretty hard, and for the past hour. He questioned how long this would last, but he had his train of thought suddenly cut off by a familiar girl's voice. "Hey, Parappa!" Parappa turned around to see a familiar female flower in a purple and white striped dress. "S-sunny! Hey," he greeted her. She was his girlfriend, Sunny Funny. He had been dating her for a few months. It was hard for him not to be happy around her.

"I was wondering if you wanted to go somewhere tomorrow," Sunny offered to him with her usual kind-hearted smile, and an almost unbreakable happy attitude. "Oh, uh… sure. How about that new restaurant?" Parappa suggested the first thing that came to mind. His cellphone began ringing. "Great! I'll meet you there tomorrow after school," she hummed before walking away to get on the bus.

Parappa sighed, putting his cellphone up to his ear. "Hello?" he answered. "Hi, I'm Bonnie B. I got your email to call. You said you were having odd problems?" it was Bonnie, the very person he had emailed, but he wondered what the B part meant. "Uh, yeah. I see strange things like they were real, and I keep hearing voices..." Parappa explained the main problems with what was going on. He heard her mumble something. "Uh huh. Well, I suggest you come over to 107 Pinebrook Road, ASAP. This may be nothing, but better safe than sorry." Bonnie gave him directions for where to go before hanging up. Parappa just groaned. "Pinebrook Road? That's on the other side of town," he complained to himself. He hopped on his skateboard and skated off to make his way to Bonnie's home.

After spending two hours riding his skateboard, Parappa found himself at the right address. He looked at the house in front of him. It was a quiet suburban neighborhood where every house felt like it had to meet a certain level of quality for care and treatment. "Well, here goes nothing," he said to himself after taking in a deep breath. He walked towards the door, knocking it and waiting patiently.

After a few minutes, Parappa saw the door open up and a girl was standing there. She had yellow and black striped skin with long brown hair, and she was wearing a black shirt and pants. He raised an eyebrow. He felt skeptical since she barely looked older than him, but he at least understood why she went by her name. She was an anthropomorphic bee. "Um, hey. You said that it was important I come over as soon as possible?" Parappa greeted her. "Oh, yeah, nice to meet you. Come in," Bonnie held the door open for him, letting him walk straight in. Her house was decorated in an older style. The furniture looked like they had seen better days, but they looked nice nonetheless, with a shelf of odd photos of a man in different ages in mining equipment.

Bonnie led Parappa to the kitchen. It was small with a granite counter and a table in the center of it. Bonnie brought over a cup of tea for him while taking the seat opposite of him. He had seen her stinger, something that already made him fearful of what will happen to him if he flipped her lid. "Your name's Parappa, right?" Bonnie asked. "Yeah," a few moments of silence passed in between a sip of the tea. "So, tell me what you've been experiencing," she instructed him. "I've been seeing weird things, like people avoiding and looking for me at the same time. I can barely catch glimpses of them, and I keep hearing voices whispering to me different things. They mostly keep repeating 'help me'," Parappa explained what had been going on so far since this morning. He had not gotten a break from it at all.

Bonnie thought this over a bit while resting one leg on the other. "It sounds like the ghosts want your help," she stated the obvious. "Oh, really," Parappa said sarcastically, not liking everything getting repeated like listening to a tape replay one word. "No, no. I mean, help getting peace so they can move onto the afterlife. If ghosts are haunting you, then you are lucky. That's a gift that only comes once in a while," Bonnie explained. She rested her cup on the table. "And that is also the only way to get them to leave you alone. Come with me," she said, pointing down to the hall. Parappa had no choices. If she could help him, he welcomed it. He followed her down the hall.

"What's with the photos of the old man and lady?" Parappa asked, seeing a few other photos in the hall of the old miner and an old woman with a cigarette in her mouth. The photo was black and white, so it was clearly as old as they were. "Oh, that was my parents. My mom was a demolition worker and my dad was a miner. Dad retired only a year before dying after some weird thing blew the mine to pieces," Bonnie explained the old people residing within the photo were closely related to her. "Our family has always had weird jobs," she quickly added. "I see..." Parappa muttered. He barely knew her family and already it was very odd to him.

Parappa followed Bonnie to a dark room that was only illuminated by candle lights. There were quite a few candles lit up around the room, but it still was very dark. He could see a table with a strange symbol on it that he couldn't identify, but he just listened to what she told him and took a seat. He saw the door get closed as she took the seat across from him. "Alright… I need you to take this," Bonnie said, sliding a cup of strange liquid over to him. It had various mixes in it and had multiple colors as well. "Okay..." Parappa didn't argue or question. He just drank the weird stuff and he could instantly feel his muscles relaxing. That alone felt weird, and the drink tasted terrible, like mud mixed with dirty water.

"W-what was that?" Parappa asked what he just drank. "Just a special drink. We need to relax all your body to do this," Bonnie said while taking his hands in hers across the table. "Now, say it with me," she ordered. He nodded, doing anything she said. "Those who watch... those who died before their time... those who stalk the planet for peace... please don't be scared. If you believe someone near can help you to rest, please show yourselves," they chanted in unison. To Parappa's relief, he suddenly couldn't hear the voices anymore.

"Alright, Parappa. Here is my phone number," Bonnie said while giving him a small slip of paper and leading him out of her house. It was late since they had been working together for a while. It was now at night. "Thanks for getting rid of them," Parappa thanked her but before he could leave, he suddenly heard her cough, drawing his attention back to her.

"Um... I didn't get rid of them. The ones that were haunting you are still going to haunt you, but now, they are going to come for help. The last time this happened, my brother died, so please be careful, and call me if there is any developments or changes," Bonnie explained before closing the door in his face before he could interrogate her further on the matter. Parappa didn't know whether to take the words as reassuring or forewarning, but he was at least glad to know who to turn to if he needed any more assistance. He just sighed, beginning to walk away from the house, not in the mood to ride his skateboard home.

While arriving at home, Parappa was glad to have at least some peace. "Hey, bro. There you are. Where were you?" Pinto asked while watching television since he normally came home after school. "Nowhere important. Just had to help PJ with something," Parappa lied while resting his skateboard by the door. "I'm gonna go to bed early…" he mumbled before heading upstairs with a sigh, not sure what to think of his current situation that was getting more worrisome by the second, the more he thought of it.

End of Chapter 2