Ghost the cat is my character. So is Miranda. The rest belong to Archie and saga...

Megan Acorn pov

I needed to think fast. We couldn't just leave Ghost here without any trust. And if we couldn't get her trust soon, she'd probably give up on us. For tonight, she had promised to be good. I had offered her the guest room, but she had said she'd sleep on the couch.

It had taken a while to explain to my dad what was going on. Well, explaining it had been easy; getting him to agree had taken a while.

Tonight I kept Alexis in our room, in her old baby crib we had used before she could be in her own room. Elias was already in bed, still sore from the prickle bushes, and from chasing Ghost around. I slowly walked in. "Elias, are you okay?" he was in our bed, but he wasn't asleep. He didn't respond. I walked over to the baby crib and put Alexis inside. "Eli?" I asked, turning back to him.

He rolled over and faced me. He looked tired, and worn out. "I'm fine Meg." He said, "I just want to know what went wrong." I walked over to the closet and pulled out my pajamas. I chose out a pink night gown and put it on. It was short, above my knees, but it was good enough. "With what Elias?" I asked, slipping it on. He sighed. "With my family." A raised an eyebrow at him. "Your family? What, our family or yours?" he rolled on to his back.

"Mine, Megan. There's defiantly nothing wrong with ours." I walked over and slid under the covers. "Okay, but what does your family have to do with today? There's nothing wrong with them either." He closed his eyes. "There's nothing wrong as far as I know." He rolled on to his stomach. He could not stay still tonight. Which meant sleeping wasn't going to be easy.

"What could the Acorn family have possibly done to make a girl so afraid of us?" he asked. I sat up in bed. I rubbed his back gently. Wanting to let him know I was with him on this."Don't worry about it Eli. I'll see if I can get her to trust me, then maybe she'll say."

He didn't say anything. "Eli?"

He then rolled over and sat up, surprising me. "I need her to trust me too." He said. "I need her to trust my family again."

I looked at him for a while. I wanted to ask him why, but it was hopeless. This was just another 'Elias thing.' Just something he needed to do. I think it had something to do with him being king. For a while at least. "Alright then." I said, "We'll take it step by step." He finally lay back down. "So how are you going to do it?" he asked me. I smiled and lay back down as well.

"Well, I've come up with bit of a theory." I said. He gave me a smirk "and what might that be?" he asked. I smiled and leaned in closer. "Well, if I can show her that I trust her, maybe she'll start to trust me." He leaned in as well. "Fascinating professor Megan." He said. "But do you actually trust her?" I averted my eyes, not wanting to meet his. Or else he'd see how scared I was. "That part is not important." I said, "as long as she believes I trust her, then that's good enough."

He put his hand under my chin and turned my head, making me meet his gaze. "Don't worry, Megan." He said. He kissed me. I kissed back. When we both pulled away he said, "I won't let anything happen to you."

Ghost the cat pov

"Ghost?" they were following me, the voices, I was now sure of it, "Ghost..." they were getting louder too. They must be getting closer.

Before I knew what was happening, I was running. Then something grabbed me. I screamed. More hands grabbed on to me. I looked around. I didn't see anyone there, but I felt them. And they were pulling me back. I pushed forward. They pulled me back. I finally pushed out through the darkness and into a grassy field.

I looked around. "Ghost?" this time it was a voice I recognized. I turned around to where I had broken free of the invisible hands. Standing there was a female mongoose with long brown hair and blue eyes. "Miranda?" I asked.

Then everything started to go dark. She was the last thing I saw.

I woke up. I looked around, still lying down. I was on a couch...

Then I remembered what had happened. I sighed and closed my eyes. I hadn't been asleep long. According to the clock it was only 11:30 at night. I sat up. The house was silent. What had just happened?

I put my head in my hands. It was just a dream... but dreams had meaning... I sighed and pulled my hands away. Why did I always get the creepy dreams?

Megan acorn pov

I yawned and made my way downstairs. I was almost at the bottom when Ghost came into view. I jumped a bit. She has literally appeared out of nowhere. "Where did you come from?" she smirked a bit, but didn't answer. I couldn't help but feel she had been expecting me.

"What are you doing up so early?" she asked. I looked at her for a bit. She looked tired, and her hair was still all in place. Had she even slept?

"This is the time I normally get up..." I said. She didn't respond right away. She closed her eyes. "But it's only five in the morning." She said. I nodded, "yes... well, I suppose this's a little earlier than I usually..." She was looking at the floor. "Ghost?"

I walked down towards her. She then looked up. She was now smiling. It was so sudden it surprised me. "sorry." She said. "I was just starting to feel a little home sick." I nodded, trying to act like I understood. What had happened in the last few minutes that had suddenly made her home sick?

She had been fine yesterday, although, all we had really done yesterday is chase her around and be afraid of each other.

Either I wasn't a very good actor or she could read minds, because her next words where, "My sister used to get up really early, too. Sometimes I'd hear her and wake up. I always asked her why she was up so early."

That was a funny way to get home sick!

"Well, what did she say?" I asked. Ghost gave a weak shrug, "she said that it was the time she normally got up." I then understood.

She was still going on with her usually morning routine, but it wasn't with her sister. "Oh... well, I guess I have something in common with her." I slid my hand into the pocket on my night gown. I could feel the cold smooth texture of my brilliant idea. It was so simple it was frightening, but I was almost positive it would work.

"Ghost, I want to give you something." She eyed my pocket. "This's a good something right?" she asked, "You know... not the gifts people seem to get on TV shows. Like when that one guys all like, 'hey, I gotta gift for you!' and the other guys all like, 'oh, really what is it?' and the first guy pulls out a gun... you know, one of those things."

I tried not to laugh. "Ghost, I'm not going to shoot you." She gave me sad smile, "really? Well, I wasn't literally thinking you would. It's just I haven't been the easiest person in the last... few hours and the fact that I'm also..." she held up her robotic arm, "one of Eggman's."

I didn't know what to say. "Um... here." I pulled the neclas out. A little gold heart on a thin gold chain. She looked surprised. "What is... why..." she slowly reached out to it. "It used to be my mothers." I said, "it's all 100% gold." Her jaw dropped. She looked up at me. "But... why are you giving this to me? Out of all people?" here it came. The moment that would either work, or be a total waste. "Because I trust you ghost."

Trust. That had gotten her. She looked at the neclas in her hand. "You trust me?"

Ghost the cat pov

She trusted me? This had to be some sort of trick. No one has ever trusted me with something like this before. Mostly because I was hopelessly forgetful and lost things more easily than I should. But 100% gold? Her mother's? What was I supposed to do?

What could I do?

I gave her a smile. "Thank you." I said. The two of us walked back downstairs together. Trust, what a strange thing.

So, did Meg's plan really work? How is Elias going to get Ghost's trust now? And why is it so important to him? Guess you'll have to wait for chapter 4! Thanks for reading and please review.