Authors Note
I noticed my last chapter was a lot shorter than it had looked in my notebook so hopefully this one will be a little longer.
Disclaimer-No Anima in this one so for this chapter I really own nothing oh wait there's James I own him.
Sam wasn't a morning person; normally she would never be up before her parents especially on a weekend. Today was different, the alarm she had set to go off the night before went off at 6. In response to the noise she groaned temporarily forgetting why she had set the damned thing for that time in the first place. Moments later she was scrambling out of bed and getting ready hoping to leave the house before her parents realised she was going out and tried to get her to wear something pink or floral or even both.
She left the house in her normal Goth attire at about 7 having successfully avoided her parents. She walked slowly to the other side of town where her favourite bookstore the Skulk and Lurk was located. She reached the store to find the shutters still down over the front not that she was expecting them not to be after all it was half 7 and the store didn't open till a lot later in the day. Sam headed round the corner into an alley beside the store where there were lots cardboard boxes piled precariously against the wall which looked like they had already been knocked over avalanche style. Sam sighed that was probably going to attract the Box Ghost.
She knocked on the door beside the boxes and waited for the door to open. After a few minutes the door was opened by a man in his twenties. He had dusty blond hair and light brown eyes. He wore a suit that kind of reminded Sam of the clothes vampires tended to wear in old movies. He smiled when he saw her.
"You're early." He said moving aside so she could come in.
"You know what my parents are like James. I wanted to get out before they ambushed me." Sam replied.
James was the owner of the Skulk and Lurk and he was a really good friend of Sam's. He had just yesterday got a large shipment of new books for the store which was the reason for the boxes outside. The store itself wasn't very big, it might have been bigger if James made use of the upstairs for more shelves but he liked to keep that as a poetry room. The reason Sam was here so early was that shipment of books that was piled up on the counter and the floor around it. She had volunteered to help James sort them so that they wouldn't be in the way once the store opened.
After about an hour and a half they were almost finished when Sam's phone rang. She dug the thing out of her skirt pocket and accepted the call without even looking at the name on the display.
"Hello." She said.
"Hey Sam, have you seen Danny?" Tucker asked.
"No why?" Sam said a little worried but still calmly after all Danny often missed meet up and other things due to ghost fights.
"Jazz says she hasn't seen him since last night and he's not answering his phone." He explained.
"Right, look I'll meet you and Jazz at the park in a few minute and we can split up to look from there." Sam said trying at the same time to mentally convince herself that Danny was fine.
Sam hung up after saying goodbye.
James looked over. "Sam if you need to go I can handle the rest." He said.
"Sorry about this." Sam apologised to James as she left.
"No need to say sorry Sam." He said.
Sam smiled to him as she closed the door behind her. Once again she was in the alley with the boxes and was actually really surprised the Box Ghost hadn't shown up. She was just about to head off in the direction of the park when something in the pile of boxes caught her eye. It was a small black kitten.
Do you guys mind the chapters not being very long because I think they might be this way for most of the story? Also I have a string of deadlines coming up so the next update might take longer than this one.