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Here is chapter 4.
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"Taniyama-san." A familiar voice called out. Mai turned to see Lin-san. "Lin-san, how are you?" She said with a polite smile, wondering what he was doing here in a recording studio. "I'm good thank you. Is Madoka with you by any chance?" He couldn't help but ask.
"No, she is at a meeting with the press." Mai replied shaking her head. She could notice the disappointment in his face. "What brings you here?" Mai asked. "Come with me." Lin said. It will be better if he showed her.
He led her in to a recording room and in to a main room where there were monitors which had footage of different rooms. "Who is this Lin-san?" a voice asked. Mai turned and the boy gasped, "oh my god, it's-it's-it's" The boy was speechless. Mai, being use to this smiled and held out her hand and finished what he was going to say, "Mai Taniyama." "Hi." The boy said shyly, shaking Mai's hand. Lin sighed and shook his head, "This is Yasuhara Osamu." Lin introduced. "Nice to meet you." Mai said with a smile.
"Osamu-san, get back to-." A familiar voice said. Naru came in to the room. He stopped in mid sentence when he saw Mai. "What are you doing here?" He asked. "I could ask you the same thing." Mai said, raising her eyebrows. "I'm working." Naru said.
"Well so am I." Mai returned. "Noll, are you going to introduce us?" A warm but stern voice asked. Naru turned around to reveal a man who looking to be in his early fifties. "Father, this is Mai Taniyama, Taniyama-san, this is Martin Davis, a paranormal investigator."
Martin smiled and walked up to Mai with his hand out. "Pleasure to meet you." His voice was warm. "I've read about your mother, I'm so sorry." Mai smiled at him, "thank you." "I've so looked up your family name. You have ESP, like your mother… It doesn't say what father's abilities are."
Mai felt that she can trust these people for some reason. "Has ESP and PK and other abilities." She admitted. "And you inherited both your mother's and father's abilities." Lin said. Mai nodded. "Do you know how to control them?" Lin asked. Mai nodded her head again. "How?" Naru asked. "Madoka." Lin asked for Mai who nodded again. "And a few other people."
Martin liked this girl. "I would very much like to meet your father, if I may." He said and Mai nodded, "Why don't you come over for dinner tonight?" Mai suggested. "Thank you, that would be wonderful." Martin said.
Mai nodded. "Well I better get back to recording." She said and with a nod and a bow she left. Naru ran after her. "Taniyama-san, please don't tell anyone who I really am. I want my personal life away from the media and the public eye." He said as soon as he caught up with her.
"Why don't you just quit the music business?" Mai whispered as a woman came up to her and asked for an autograph. Mai signed her name on the book and smiled at the woman. "I love singing." Naru said simply as the woman left.
"I won't tell anyone. But please make sure that Osamu-san doesn't say anything about my families abilities." Mai said. "He won't, you can trust him."
Mai nodded. "So I'll see you tonight?" She asked opening the door to the recording room. Naru nodded. "Tonight." He said with a nod and went back to the base.
A few hours later.
"Okay, Taniyama-san, that was great as usual." The producer said as Mai came in to the room. "Let's play it back." Mai said and the producer pressed a button and Mai's voice came loud and clear.
"I'm goin' out to night. I'm feelin' alright. I've-Then another voice came even louder. It said, "Your next. I'm going to get you." Mai shivered and turned to the producer and asked, "did you say that?" The producer shook his head. Mai turned to face the glass that separated this room to the recording booth and screamed.
There was a man standing there in the booth. He looked well dead. His throat looked like it had been cut, blood was seeping out of it and also his mouth. His eyes said death. He was pointing to Mai. The producer ran from the room, grabbing his coat and keys and followed Mai.
She ran all the way to the room where Naru was. She pushed the door opened and it hit the wall with a bang, making everyone jump. "Taniyama-san, are you alright?" Martin asked as soon as he saw her face. "Ghost. In recording room C. A man, brown hair and grey eyes. His throat appeared to be cut." Mai gasped out.
"Show me." Naru said, standing up and walking towards her. Lin was right behind him. Mai nodded and turned to her producer. "I think we are done for the day." Mai said. The poor man was shaking. "Are you alright to drive home?" She asked when she noticed this. "I'll be fine. Same time tomorrow?" The producer asked. Mai nodded and with a last good bye and with concerned look over his shoulder he left. "Yasu, stay in the base." Naru said. Yasu sighed but obeyed.
Mai showed them where she saw the ghost. "When we played back the recording..." Mai played back the recording and the voice came back again. "Your next, I'm going to get you." Mai shivered at the coldness of the voice. "When we looked in to the booth we saw a man, standing there in front of the microphone. His throat was cut and his eyes said death. And he pointed at me." Mai said when she managed to find her voice. Before anyone could say anything Mai's phone rang. Madoka's ring tone. Mai has a different ring tone for every contact in her phone. "It's Madoka." She said. She left her phone in the recording booth. Mai had to answer it. She sighed and slowly walked in to the room. She picked up the phone and was about to walk out when she felt dizzy. She leaned in to the door frame and closed her eyes, waiting for the dizziness to stop.
But she ended up collapsing on to the floor. Everyone ran in to the room. "Taniyama-san, wake up." Naru said, gently shaking her but she didn't wake up. Lin gently picked her up and carried her back in to the base. "I'll call Mori-san." Lin said.
Mai opened her eyes and saw that everything was white. Then a black figure appeared. "You are you?"I asked then I gasped. He looked exactly like Naru. "I'm Eugene Davis, but everyone called me Gene. I'm Noll's brother." The man said. "Are you...?" "I'm not sure... But I'm not here to talk about that."
"Can't or don't want to?" Mai said, crossing her arms. "Can't, something is stopping me from telling you everything." Gene said rather sadly. "But it was your life." Mai said. "I know but there are some things that Noll has to figure out on his own. You can tell him that I am watching over him. I want to talk to him but I can't so your dreams will have to do until I figure out how to talk to him. For now I have to show you something."
Suddenly she was back in the recoding room C. "This building wasn't always a recording studio. It was a mental hospital." Gene said. Suddenly a man came to the building. It was the ghost who had his throat cut. He had a white coat on. "Doctor, come quick." A female voice screamed.
Mai followed the man in to a small room. There she saw the doctor bleeding on the floor his neck cut, and a nurse holding a knife. Then the scene faded. "You better wake up now. Your manager is getting worried." Gene said and everything went black.
"She's waking up." Mai heard Madoka speak in relief. "She also doesn't like close ups of your wrinkles." Mai said sitting up. Naru grinned at the comment. "Wrinkles? I don't have wrinkles do I?" Madoka said lifting a hand to her face. "No you don't Mori-san." Yasu said patting her shoulder.
"I had a dream." Mai said. "Tell us." Naru said as he got out his pen and paper. Mai explained what she saw. But she left out Gene. She will tell Naru in private. When she was done Naru gave everyone instructions. "Yasu, go to the library and see what you can find." Yasu nodded and headed towards the door. "Wait I'll come with you." Madoka said running after the teenager.
"Madoka, you better ring the others as well." Mai called out. "Got it." Madoka called back. "Naru, there is something else... Personal." She said when everyone was gone. Naru looked at her and nodded for her to continue.
"It's your twin brother..."
That's it for now. You'll just have to wait for chapter 5 to see what happens.
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