His hand retreated and I gasped. "Who are you?" I shrieked. "Get outta here!" I threw my pillow at him and he was gone. My heart beat went ballistic. I have to get out of this house. I ran into James and Nathan's room.

"What do you want." He mumbled, not taking his eyes off of his game of Halo.

"James there's something wrong with this house!" I ran over and pulled the plug of the Xbox he managed to sneak out of the game room.

"WHAT THE FUCK ELLEN." He screamed

"JAMES JUST PLEASE-" A hand flew over my mouth

"Shhhhhhh." A voice whispered in my ear. The smell of smoke filled my nose again. My body went numb and the hand flew off.

"What the heck is your problem. Crazy psycho bitch." James flicked me off.

Note to self: NEVER go to James for help. Or trust him…..some big brother he is.

"What is going on here." Mom's voice was stern.

Me and James started yelling at the same time. Louder and louder. I turned to him and flicked him of and he came over to shove me.

"THAT'S ENOUGH." Mom screamed. "I don't know what's going on here. But both of you. Grounded." She gave us that angry mom glare and left.

"Thanks Ellie. Thanks." James glared at me.

"Yeah. Great to know I can come to you when something's seriously wrong." I rolled my eyes and tears started flowing out. I turned to see the burnt boy. I stood there glaring at him. ".Alone." I mouthed to him. His eyes began to water as he turned and walked down the hall.

James's POV

"James!" Mom called from downstairs.

"WHAT?" I yelled back.

"I'm taking Ellie to her doctor's appointment. Emily is coming with me and Nate's at the library studying for mid terms. You ok to stay here alone?" I heard he walking up the stairs.

"Yeah." I mumbled.

She walked in and placed a kiss on my forehead. "Honey. Take it easy on Ellie." She sniffed, fighting back tears.

"Y-yes ma'am." Thoughts of Ellie getting sick again passed through my mind. When she was born, she was diagnosed with a rare heart condition. She was only expected to live 8 years. She's 15 now. We almost lost her last year. He heart started to give out, but….she kept fighting. I love Ellie. I really do. I never want to lose her.

Mom nodded and whipped a tear that trailed down her cheek. I heard footsteps move down the stairs. The door slammed. There were car doors opening and closing. The engine started and roared out of the drive way. Then silence. I was finally alone for the first time this week.

I made my way down to the game room when I heard a loud thud from the attic. "What the-" I looked towards the door that lead to the attic. Another thud. I slowly walked to the door and placed my hand on the knob. The floor boards in the attic above me creaked, like someone was up there. I slowly opened the door and looked up the stairs. I quickly accended up the stairs and looked around. Nothing. I walked around a pile of old bags when the floor broke from under me. "AHH." I squeezed my eyes together. My leg was stuck and let me tell ya. It hurt like FUCK.

I placed my hands flat on the floor boards and pulled myself up. Once my leg was free I looked at the big hole I left.

"Damn." I whispered. Maybe no one will come up here and see it. Oh who give a shit, the rest of the house'll look like that eventually. I was about to walk away when a piece of paper in the hole caught my eye

. "Hm." I reached down to get it. It was a photograph, what looked like from the 1920's. A bunch of people were around a table, hands holding hands. And a young boy in the middle. He looked in pain. I flipped it over, nothing on the back, no writing, no clues to what it may be.

I stuck my hand in the hole. I grabbed a big box and pulled it out. I opened it. More pictures. All had the same boy with the pained look. One specific picture caught my eye. The boy's head was thrown back and this….goo….was floating out of his mouth. It hit me. They were doing Séances. I placed the pictures in a neat stack and pulled out a small box. I opened it. I picked up one of the objects in the box. It was crinkled and had little hairs on the end of them. "What the fuck."

Clack clack clack.

I slowly turned my head to the noise.

"HOLY SHIT!" I screamed and crawled back.

Standing there was a…person? Pale. White eyes. No eyelids. Writing all over.

My stomach churned and Ellie's voice popped into my head .

"James there's something wrong with this house!"

HELL YES THERE WAS