When Ricky put his car on his driveway, he immediately ran through the front door along with Tombstone, who was concerned for the sanity of his owner. As soon was Tombstone gone through the door, Ricky slammed it behind him. Little do they both know a little spirit was hiding in the trunk of the car, waiting for them to get inside so he could finally emerge? The ghost floated out of the car as sneakily as he could, not trying to get attention.
Inside the house, Ricky was pacing back and forth in his room upstairs trying to make sense on what happened. "…OK…OK…that…that didn't happen…that couldn't be real…ghosts aren't real…they AREN'T REAL…it was all just in my imagination…PLEASE let it me just in my imagination!" Ricky looked at Tombstone and picked him up. "Tombstone, tell me it's just in my imagination, please, please, PLEASE!" Tombstone just looked at him with a grumpy look on his face, as if he was trying to say "…Really, bro…Really?"
Ricky put him down and took a deep breath, trying to calm down. "…Alright…It's OK…I'll just…quit my job…find another job…and forget this EVER happened." He immediately went to his laptop, meaning to send a message to Edric that he was quitting his job. Then, suddenly, the laptop screen began to glitch out. Ricky stepped back and saw his laptop get the terrible blue screen.
"What?" Ricky thought, "I just got this a couple days ago!" While he was reaching for the laptop again, the power suddenly went out. Ricky's room was now completely dark and the only light there was the blue screen on the laptop, which eventually shut off, leaving Ricky and Tombstone in the darkness. After a while Ricky heard something behind him; he looked and saw nothing. Then, he turned around to see a strange blue aura appearing in front of him. It merged and went taller while Ricky immediately went for his lantern and matches. The aura eventually formed arms and legs and then it formed bones as its skin. Eventually it became the tall 'hitchhiking ghost' that he saw before imitating Ricky.
Ricky held up his lit lantern while screaming at the top of his lungs, only to have the ghost, who was really close to the light, scream as well. The screams made Ricky stop screaming and slowly gaze at the ghost, who was panicking and floating all around the room. Eventually, the ghost was in the darkest corner of the room, finally noticing that Ricky was looking at him.
"Umm…boo?"
Noticing that the ghost was scared and…being weird…Ricky tried to step closer, but the ghost only went farther away. "No! No! NO!" Ricky (actually showing concern for the ghost) gazed at him and asked "…Hey…Mr. Ghost…are you OK?" The ghost looked at Ricky and said "If you keep that light away from me, I will be." The confused human didn't know if he should or not, I mean…he's a ghost. He was just about to attack him a second ago, why would he help him? But…since he's already here…he's not going to leave until he does what he wants to do. Ricky, curious on what the ghost was doing in his house, asked him "Well…I'm not going to put the light away…until you tell me what you're doing here."
"Oh, come on!" The ghost got up from the corner, but Ricky lifted his lantern to make him stay. "Tell me…and you can haunt that creepy mansion of yours all you want." The ghost stepped back to the corner, staying away from the light. He sighed angrily and answered.
"…I'm not going to hurt you, I jut scared you to make sure that you were still afraid of me. You were but…well, you know the rest. I can't explain right now, but all I can say is that you need to come back to the mansion." Ricky replied "Why would I do that?! One of your ghosts almost killed me!" The ghost opened his mouth to say something, but then he stepped back and pondered for a moment.
"…Did the ghost have a wedding dress on…with an axe?" Ricky nodded and replied "Well…yea." The ghost rolled his eyes and said to himself "Well…I'm sure Hattie will take care of it." Ricky asked "Who's Hattie?" The ghost replied "Another ghost, and if you come with me, you'll get to meet him." The ghost checked the clock again to see it just turn into 12:55. "Look, I don't have time for this, just come back, we won't hurt you this time, I…almost promise." Ricky said "I don't trust an almost promise, and I'm NOT going back to that mansion! I'm quitting my job tomorrow and there's nothing you can do to stop me! I've made my decision…Now LEAVE!"
The ghost frowned, crossed his arms and said "OK…fine! I guess…no one will ever see my point." The ghost then turned to the wall and left, leaving Ricky and Tombstone in the room by themselves…giving time for Ricky to ponder for a moment.
"Hmm…that ghost thing seemed really upset when I refused to return to the mansion…Why? It looked like it must've been really important to him with the way he left…maybe I should've been to mean to him…" Then another voice in Ricky head appeared on the other shoulder. "NO! What are you thinking?! Don't feel sorry for him! He tried to kill you! Ricky, stay at home…where it's safe…where no one can hurt you at all…no one to bother you…at all…EVER!" Ricky…made his decision.
As the ghost got out of the house and was floating home, he stopped and looked back…not believing that his one chance to change things for the better is slipping away. He then sighed and continued his journey home…only to hear a car rushing behind him. The ghost turned around and saw that it was Ricky's car, he then smiled and said "Heh…I knew he couldn't resist." The ghost followed the car all the way back to the mansion, just like the ghost wanted.