A/N: This is late, I know.

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Ugh. She held her book closer to her face, studying the writing imprinted on it. It was bad enough her parents were out on a 'parent' night, and now when she tries to read, her neighbors are loud, as if they had music on and couldn't hear each other, but no music could be heard.

"Mom? Dad? Are you home?" The voice had said over and over. If it went on for two more minutes, Laci would march over and see what the heck they wanted. But as for now, she wanted to enjoy the comfort reading about how wonderful she'd feel if her life went however she wanted to to go.

"AH!" The voice shouted. "You almost broke it!" That's it. Laci wasn't going to take the voice much longer. She went out of her house and knocked on her neighbor's door. Loudly.

"…Yes?' A girl with blond hair poked her head through the door. The top three quarters of her head were blond, but the lower quarter of her hair was completely white. Laci didn't get how she did that, but then again, she wouldn't care about fashion. But Laci could tell that this wasn't the girl who was screaming her head off a few moments ago.

"Yeah, I live next door…" Laci pointed her thumb to the right. "And my parents are out and I'm trying to read, but there's someone here who won't stop screaming and it's annoying me."

"Oh, I'm sorry." The girl said, and poked her head back in the house. "Uh, Elli? Our neighbor came and she wants you to shut up." Well, that's not exactly how Laci'd put it, but in a way, it was true.

"Huh? Tell her that I'm looking for my brother." 'Elli' scoffed and went back to screaming. She stopped for a moment to add something else: "And the rest of my family besides you." Laci heard two more people talk.

"Maybe Sam isn't home." A boy's voice said, but then a girl's voice, different from the one who answered the door spoke up.

"Probably not. How long have we been calling out to nothing? Ten minutes? I'm going to leave. I have better time than to stick around and shout to walls." The door opened fully and a girl wearing all black came out. Her hair was short, but it was tied into a small ponytail. The girl wore a black shirt and skirt. And not to mention combat boots. I'm not interested in style, but this girl has it nuts… Laci thought to herself.

"Sam, wait! Maybe we can check the pool again?" The boy asked again, but was still hidden from view.

"Danny, we were there ten minutes ago. I doubt it." The Goth said.

"Come on, can't we check?" 'Danny' came out to try and convince the leaving girl to stay. He had black raven hair, a white shirt with a red oval in the middle, blue pants, and red shoes. Not completely red. How many people were in there? Four or four hundred, none of them acted as if Laci was there anymore.

"Who are you looking for?' Laci asked. That was obvious. She heard someone shout that they were looking for a 'Sam', but didn't 'Danny' call the Goth girl Sam?

"My brother who has the same name as her." Elli came out and pointed to Sam. Her hair was also blond like the girl who had opened the door, but no white at the bottom. But her hair did fluff up at the top, and made her hairstyle look like a frenzy.

"Yeah, he's also my cousin. No one's seen him all day, and now it seems as if her parents went to go somewhere without telling her." The girl who answered the door came out again.

"Maybe I can help?" Laci asked. She would actually prefer reading, but it would seem rude to know someone was looking for someone and not help.

"Sure, if it's okay with Elli. I mean, it's her cousin." Danny said.

"I don't mind. We already looked in the possible places Sam could be. Home and the pool we invited him into." Elli sighed.

"By the way, when you said you last saw Sam last night, he told you to go to bed because we had school today, right?"

"Right."

"Well, one, it's Saturday. And two, we're on summer break. Why would he mention school? Summer break just started."

"Maybe he's all worked up." Sam suggested.

"About what?"

"That Danny's a ghost." She immediately covered her mouth with her hand. Laci didn't hear that…right?

"Nice, Sam." Danny sighed, having the urge to hit his head against the wall.

"…You're a ghost?"