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Chapter 3: I Know What You Are...Not!

Jackie tried to push aside her concerned expression as Sam suggested swapping cell phone numbers with Edie. K.C. handed over her cell and Riley shrugged as he removed his from his back pocket.

"I can't guarantee that I'm going to answer though," Zack warned as she punched in her digits into his phone, "I'm terrible about answering my phone."

"But you're always fussing with the other high tech equipment that we have back at headquarters!" K.C. argued with Zack, "That makes no sense that you don't answer your phone very often!" Zack ignored her as he took back his phone from Edie and handed hers back.

Jackie forced herself to look happy about swapping numbers with Edie but it was rather painful. She really didn't want to share her number with a stranger but since everyone else had swapped numbers, she certainly felt the pressure to follow suit. As Edie handed over her phone, Jackie noticed that Edie's looked dated. It was an early 2000's flip phone model from Motorola which had a faded color screen and no camera built-in. She hurriedly typed in her digits and handed the phone back to Edie. Edie took a little longer to type in her cell number into Jackie's phone book before she handed it back to her.

"Thanks for hanging with us today!" Riley thanked her, "It was really fun and you were very helpful to all of us. I swear that we got done so much more thanks to you." Edie modestly accepted his thanks and K.C. chimed in her approval too.

"It's too bad that you have to go right now," K.C. sighed unhappily, "I wish that you could stay longer." I don't want her to stay longer, thought Jackie irritably. Great, just great. Now K.C. thought that Edie was like her new best friend or something. The sooner she left the group, the better.

"Sorry guys," apologized Edie, "I really have to get going or else my parents will flip out and report me as MIA. It was nice meeting you all." She waved good-bye to the group and turned to leave through the entrance to Frontierland. Riley frowned as his stomach made a loud growling sound and he announced that they should go eat.

"I second that motion," Sam agreed as the group began heading toward New Orleans Square for dinner. Jackie whipped her head over shoulder to see that Edie was gone. They hadn't walked very far away from where they split and she was no where in sight. There was no way that she could have speed walked that far in such a short amount of time.

"Jackie!" called out K.C. to her friend, "Hurry up or else we won't get a table at the restaurant!" Jackie turned back around and ran to catch up with the group. Edie's quick disappearance seemed too strange to comprehend. She made a mental note to later check up on the history of mythical beings because obviously, Edie was completely far from human.

As soon as her alarm went off, Jackie sprang out of bed and began her in-depth research on the mythical beings. Munching on a breakfast bar, she clicked on numerous pages and ruled out several options. She couldn't be a banshee, witch, or a mummy for obvious reasons. She lingered on the thought of werewolf but then again, the general description of one was a figure who shifted against their will at the full moon into a half-man, half-wolf hybrid. Except for Stephanie Meyer's concept of Jacob Black's ability, no other pages claimed that werewolves had higher temperatures than the average human or possessed super strength. Edie was petite and there was no inch of muscle on her arms. That left her with two options, a vampire and a ghost/spirit. Since Edie was tan and emitted warm energy, that ruled out vampire. Even though vampires had no reflection, much of the reports confirmed that vampires had pale complexions due to lack of sun exposure. Edie had been wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt and capri pants so that killed the whole vampire theory.

A ghost/spirit? Jackie blinked at the pages she pulled up. Much of the accounts were accurate with what she knew about spirits and it seemed to match Edie's case. A spirit was a remain of a former person who had died and left part or all of themselves to haunt this world. Usually spirits were connected with certain time periods and other than seeing orbs or swirls of light, some accounts mentioned seeing physical appearances of a human body. Spirits thrived off of heat and often took it from energy sources around them. They had no reflection what-so-ever. Jackpot. This had to Edie- a spirit who had died fairly recently since she was familiar with popular dress and had a cell phone.

Jackie leaned back in her seat and frowned a little. This wasn't going to be easy convincing her friends about her findings. They were probably going to think that Edie was testing magic tricks and illusions on them as a means of impressing them. She needed to get hardcore, solid evidence like what Riley wanted them to gather for their investigations. She bit her lip and tried to think hard about how to approach this when her cell phone rang.

"Hey there!" chirped K.C. happily as Jackie picked up, "We're thinking of going to the beach today. How does that sound?" Jackie swallowed hard and tensed up. This could be a good opportunity to get her proof that she needed.

"Who's going to be there?" Jackie casually asked her best friend.

"Well, you, me, Sam, Riley, Zack, and uh Edie," K.C. ticked off the names, "Why ask silly?"

"Oh just wondering," Jackie lightly replied, "I'll see you there."