Just a reminder that italics means—for the ghost—that she's talking cheerfully and her face is normal except for her bloodshot eyes. Bold means that her face is distorted (like, her eyebrows are scrunched together and her eyes are crazed. Her mouth is too wide her face. Basically a nightmare) but she's not necessarily angry. Bold italics is the same as bold but she's angry.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt.

"Mai," Naru called Mai's attention since she was looking around cautiously, "I need you to tell me more about this girl."

"I've seen her face," Mari started reluctantly, "It's normal, actually. Her eyes are bloodshot though. Her voice and face change too."

"Go on."

"When she's angry with me, her face distorts. When she's acting nice, her face is normal. Sometimes her face is distorted but she doesn't seem angry."

"Why is she haunting you?"

"She's… mad at me… I think."

"Why?"

"I d…" Mai trailed off. That's what you get for being a tattle tale… The voice echoed in her mind.

'What you get…' it echoed over and over. 'Tattle tale.'

Mai heard a giggle. She whipped her head around, searching for it frantically.

"Mai," Naru called Mai's attention again, "Mai, what are you looking at?"

"Oh… Nothing…" Mai reluctantly turned back.

"Tell me more about this girl."

"The girl…? I… I don't think I can tell you…"

Naru glared at her. "What are you talking about?"

Mai averted her eyes. "I mean… I don't… I don't know anymore…"

"Why are you lying?"

"I'm not! I swear."

Naru sighed. "Fine. Leave."

Mai left 'the base' and went over to the kitchen. Everyone was lounging around in her living room talking about Mai.

"Hi, Mai-chan," the girl popped up right beside Mai.

Mai dropped her tea and slipped onto the floor.

"Why, you look like you've seen a ghost," the girl sneered at Mai.

"Mai! What's wrong?" Ayako raced over to the kitchen with the others.

Mai looked back and forth to the girl whose face stayed distorted and the others.

"Mai?" Ayako nudged Mai. She got to her feet and started picking up the pieces to her broken teacup.

"Nothing," she lied.

"Good girl," the girl patted her back, "Glad to know we're keeping promises."

"Mai," Masako spoke up, "There's a shadow on your back."

The girl immediately snapped her hand back.

"… It's gone," Masako stated.

"Maybe you were mistaken," Ayako suggested.

"Unlike you, I don't make mistakes," Masako said before going back to the living room.

Ayako got angry and followed her. Everyone also left. Mai looked back to the girl.

"Why are you doing this?" Mai whispered on the brink of crying.

The girl's face distorted. "Why indeed."

All week, Mai wouldn't tell anyone about the girl. Though she acted normally and assured everyone that the girl was gone and probably her imagination, everyone could see that she was unnerved. Masako noticed that every once in a while, a handprint shadow appeared on Mai's arm and Mai would flinch then run off somewhere.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry…" Naru heard Mai whisper to herself one day.

Going off to investigate, he saw Mai kneeling in front of a broken porcelain doll.

"Mai?"

Mai looked up startled. "Naru?"

"Who are you apologizing to?"

"Oh, you heard that?" Mai glanced to her left for a moment. "I was just… saying sorry to the doll for breaking it."

Naru rolled his eyes. "I'm sure it will be ok. It's just a doll."

"Yeah… It's just a doll."

Naru eyed Mai suspiciously. Mai glanced to her left again and got up.

"Well, I have to go file some more stuff," she said leaving.

As soon as Mai left, she glanced to her left nervously again.

"What is it?" the girl asked.

"Nothing…" Mai muttered.

"That was of course, your fault!" the girl went on cheerfully, "If you had been obedient, I wouldn't have had to throw it at you. If you had been obedient, I think we could have been great friends!"

Flashback

Mai went into the storage room. There were a lot of stuff in it from previous cases and who knows where.

"Mai," the girl appeared, "Let's go somewhere else!"

She grabbed Mai's arm again and started pulling towards somewhere else.

"I can't," Mai said, "I have to work."

The girl turned around. "It isn't you that makes the decisions," her face distorted halfway the sentence, "It's me! AND WHEN I SAY WE GO, IT ISN'T A REQUEST!"

"I've been nice to you all this time," she went on, "You ungrateful brat."

The girl took the first thing she saw and threw it at Mai so hard; the porcelain doll that she threw broke. Mai yelped in pain.

"You don't know the first thing about pain," she glared at Mai, "So stop crying, you brat."

Mai knelt over the doll. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry…" she chanted over and over.

End Flashback.

I slowed it down a bit because I need to get over my nerves.

Sorry I haven't updated but I watched 3 scary movies in a row and it all got to me right before I went to bed. Seriously, I was so terrified I froze for over an hour which is not a very comfortable position but I wouldn't move. I even forced myself to recite everything in my room and I didn't get any sleep that night. It stuck to me for a few days and now it's 2 pm so I need to write it before I remember everything again.