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"Ugh..." Stella sighed, rolling over in her hotel bed, hearing the guys' mumuring on the opposite side of the wall. Running a hand along the back of her head, feeling a rather large bump, and some crusty substance, more than likely dried blood, she moaned, rolling over again. A small knock came on the wall, Stella knocked back. She counted down around 45 seconds until the phone besides her began to ring shrilly.

"Hm." Her voice was muffled from under a down pillow.

"Hey, Ell's, you up?" She could make out Aaron's voice.

"No, I'm not, I'm sleep talking." She spoke rather sarcastically.

"Whatever, hey, you should get dressed, maybe shower, or you-" Aaron was cut off by the guys talking over him, a jumbled cacophony of sound.

"Just come on over, okay? We reviewed your camera and evp stuff."

"Uhm, okay, gimme a sec." Hanging up the phone, she got up, pulling a her clothes, adjusting them properly, and redoing her messy bun before walking over next door. Slipping the card she'd recieved from the guys through the lock on the door, she walked in.

"Awe, there she is!" Nick smiled, shoving a camera in her face.

"Ugh.. niiickkk..." Stella whined, putting a hand over the lens.

"But c'mon.. you look so cute, all bright eyed and bushy tailed!" Zak joked, putting an arm around her shoulder and leading her to the computer.

"Now, just a warning, you might get a bit freaked out." Aaron chuckled as she took a seat between Zak and him.

"Mhm, sure, sure. I'm just wondering what pushed me last night, I still have blood in my hair." Stella motioned to the back of her head.

"Holy shit..." Zak sighed, putting his hand up to the dark mat on the back of her head.

"Yeah, tell me about it..."

"Well, anyways, here's the EVP first..."

And from there Stella was sent back to the night before. Listening to her ask all the questions, a few small, inaudible answers. Then just before she pictured herself falling, a clear "I don't like you... Go away... Now!" And then a faint shout erupted from Stella, and sitting in the bedroom, she felt herself short of breath, then she heard "It's alright.."

"I heard that..." Stella finally spoke up, "I heard that before I blacked out.." She shook her head, feeling extremely overwhelmed at the moment.

"You okay...?" Zak asked, putting a hand on her lower back.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.. just.. a bit weirded out. Just, keep going."

"Okay, now, the video? Well, something showed up behind you when you fell, like the way you fall, you're obviously pushed. See, watch." Aaron clicked a few times, and the video from the x-camera in the room popped up. He fast forwarded to her climbing on top of the bed. She watched herself hopping on top of the bed, then, out of nowhere a white figure, shadowlike almost, appeared behind her before her chest lurched forward, her head falling back, toppling over like a rag doll.

"Then..." Aaron rolled a bit forward, as Stella's head lolled back and forth a bit, a smaller white mist appears by her before her head stops its motion. What Stella didn't realize was that water had begun to build up in the rims of her eyes.

"Ella?" Zak asked gently, rubbing circles on her back.

"Huh?" She looked up to him, the movement stirring the tears enough to make them flow down her cheeks.

"Are you okay?" His blue eyes showing a look of care, and a look of something else she couldn't quite identify.

"What? Yeah, yeah, just shook up." She took a deep breath, rubbing her eyes, "Now, what else did we get?"

They reviewed other evidence, various EV's, "Get Out." "Why are you here?" "Did she come with you?"

"Wait, what was that?" Stella asked.

"Did she come with you..." Zak read over the name of the file.

"Do you think they recognized me? I mean, I've been there before." Stella looked up to Nick and the camera, and back to Zak and Aaron.

"Well, the next one says your name..." Aaron stated simply.

"What?"

"Here... listen..." He doubled clicked the file.

A small crackling, Zak asking his basic questions, then she heard it. "Stella's here... with... you..."

"Oh my-"

"Love." The finally crackling of the recording came through before the file stopped playing.

"What? Did it say love?" She asked, reading over the small subtitles Aaron had placed at the bottom.

"Yeah, it said, Stella's here with you, love. Maybe a british guy? Like a nickname?"

"Wait, wait, wait... play it again.." Stella ordered.

It came through again, but this time she caught something else.

"Here, lemme take a look." She slid the laptop over to her, taking the audio file and zooming in. She played the file louder, "I can make out... she... love... something... listen.." She leaned in closer to the speaker.

"She... love...wait.." Zak sighed.. "She... loves... you?"

"Yeah, that's what it sounds like." Aaron nodded, making Stella catch her breath, how could a ghost know her feelings? Her thoughts?

"So, Stella's here with you, she loves you." Zak smirked, looking back at her, a small blush coming across her cheeks.

"That's what it sounds like." Aaron nodded again, moving on to the next audio clip. They moved through the rest of the evidence fairly quickly, tryin to piece together what they'd show the owner of the place.

"Well, guys, I'm going to go take a shower, be back in a bit." She gave a quick wave before heading to her room, grabbing a quick change of clothing, she headed into the bathroom. Rejoicing in the sensation of warm water rinsing all the dirt and grime from the night before away down the drain. She closed her eyes as she tilted her head backwards, rinsing shampoo out of her hair, when she opened her eyes she saw a man standing in front of her, covered in dirt and grime. Stella let out a scream, reaching for anything but stumbling to the ground, slipping on the shower floor, when she looked back up, the man was gone.

She sat on the floor of the shower, curling up into a ball, feeling the tears mix in with the hot water.

"Stella?" She heard Zak shouting outside the door. "Stella!"

"Yeah! I'm fine!" She shouted back.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah..." She choked, "Absolutely." She sighed, pulling herself back up and finishing off her shower before getting out, pulling her clothes on, and hheading into her room.

"JESUS CHRIST!" She screamed, nearly falling down again.

"What? I'm sorry." Zak couldn't help but laugh.

"Couldn't you have told me you were sticking around?" She asked, looking at him on the bed, just laying nonchalantly.

"Well, I could've... but, I didn't.. the guys were wondering where you wanted to have breakfast."

"I don't know, couldn't you have called?" She shrugged him off, taking the towel off her head.

"Yeah, speaking of called. What was all the screaming about?"

"N-nothing.." She shook her head.

"Nothing? Oh really, then why'd you scream and fall?"

"I... I think something followed me back..." She rolled her eyes, trying to hold tears.

"Really? Tell me." He patted the area on the bed besides him.

"Well. I was in there, rinsing off my hair..." She started, "I leaned my head back, and when I popped my head back up... and... and there was this guy..."

"A guy?"

"Yeah, he had dark hair, but he was all dirty, he was in like PJ's, like the uniforms at the asylum..." She started to tremble.

"Shh.. c'mere." He wrapped his arms around her and just held her.

"It's okay." He whispered into her ear, making her look up at him, and he was caught up, he leaned himself forward, crashing his lips into hers.

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Heyy all, hope you enjoyed this chapter, I'd like to thank all my reviewers, you guys are so amazing! Sorry I haven't updated a whole lot, just school, and studying and such, but my schpeel here is over! Another update will come up soon! Peace, Love, Paranormal!

-Carlene