I don't own Ghost hunt. This chapter continues with Gene and Peter.

Chapter 10

Camping was not as fun as Gene had imagined. He hadn't actually bathed for so long. His hair was shaggy and he was starting to get a beard. He hated camp fire cooking. Peter was constantly telling him rules to follow when camping. He was tired of sleeping in the SUV, but it was either that or the tent that had a hole in it that caused them to get wet when it rained.

Everyday they got up and ate. They gathered their equipment and head out to the house. There was a fence around part of the property that Gene and Peter had to climb over. They had found a tall tree that was higher than the house. Peter made a ladder to climb up and a platform to sit in. they were covered enough so that no one would be able to see them. They could see most of her activities from here.

Every morning she got up and went into her bathroom the wash up. She would go back to her room and change and go down for breakfast. She ate by herself. Then she went to the music room and did her singing lessons. Next was cello lessons and then violin and finally piano.

She would go back and change then head to the yard where her gymnastics equipment was being set up. She would run through her routines. The bars, the beam, and a few flips and twists. She was pretty good. It would be lunch time, but she wasn't allowed to eat. They heard part of a conversation once.

"Oh come on! I won't eat too much just a little snack. I'm starving." She whined.

"You have gotten fat and need to stick to your strict diet!" The crabby woman would yell. Gene would feel bad and throw an apple. He was kind of far away from her so when he threw it, he put a lot of power to it. He ended up hitting her in the head. She staggered forward and whipped around to see what hit her and noticed the apple. She stared it and then looked up in the sky. She then ran off to the side of the house and ate it in secret.

Next were dance lessons. She had to do several types and this lasted for hours. When she was finally done, she emerged in her riding gear and head to the stable where she rode off into the woods.

She would come back later that evening shower, then eat dinner alone again, and then go to bed. This was her daily schedule. She didn't get a break. They had been watching her for a month now and she had not shown any hint of physic powers. Peter was getting frustrated. They both felt like stalkers, but finally came the day that they met her face to face.

"I tired of this. I thought you said she had powers?" Peter asked.

"She has to. Why else would I be here." Gene sounded like he was trying to convince himself. "She needs me." Gene got up.

"Hey, where are you going?" Peter asked as Gene made his way down the ladder.

"I'm going to get a closer look." He told him. Peter decided to come along. They were now behind the stable in a tree watching as she brushed her horse getting ready to ride. Gene crawled out on the branch. It broke and he fell to the ground.

Gene's fall had spooked her horse. It kicked her in the shoulder. She fell to the ground. Peter jumped down from the tree and ran to her completely ignoring Gene.

"Oh my god! Are you alright?" Peter asked her as he helped her up.

"Yeah I'm fine… Wait who are you? Where did you come from?" She pulled away from him. Gene got up then and hobbled over to them.

"I'm Gene." He groaned and held out his hand. Peter introduced himself too pushing Gene back down.

"And I'm Peter. Would you like to go out on a date with me?" He gave a charismatic smile that usually made girls turn to mush. She blushed a little and then got angry.

"Where did you come from? Why are you here?" she yelled. Gene decided to stay sitting on the ground. She was glaring down at him.

"Ok I'll tell you everything. I want to be your brother and take you home with me." He smiled at her. She backed away with a look on her face that said this guy is crazy and I should back away slowly. Peter decided to step in.

"We've been documenting you and hoped to study your family and their psychic abilities. You see we're from England and we are a part of this company." He handed her his business card. "Gene here has been fascinated by your family for a while. He decided to write his thesis on you guys, but found out that you're the only one left now. So we tried to get in contact and get to know more about you, but we got zip. No one wanted to talk to us so then Gene kept calling and asked for someone and they said you guys were going away for the summer and he did some investigating and found this place." Peter motioned towards the house in the distance. "We didn't even know your name. Gene said he had to find you because you needed him or something. So then we got lost and got scorned by the towns people and have been camping out in the woods." Peter finished.

"I'm going to call the cops!" she went to run.

"Please wait!" Gene said he was on his knees now. "I'm sorry, but we couldn't get in touch with you so we had to do this the sneaky way. We already feel like stalkers. Please don't call the cops. My brother will never let me hear the end of it." Gene begged.

She looked at him and smiled. She held out her hand to help Gene up. "I'm Mai Taniyama. I'm guessing it was you who threw me the apple?" Gene got up and laughed.

"Yeah, I felt bad. You looked so hungry"

"So you look like you could two could use a bath I was just about to go to my secret spot. Do you want to come?" she asked. They agreed. Gene rode with Mai and Peter rode on his own. She took them to a hot spring where they were able to bathe.

That was the beginning of their friendship. Mai told them that they could stay in one of the cabins. They had running water and electricity. She came back with them and cut their hair. She was pretty good at giving hair cuts.

"Can't have you guys look like bears. The locals might try to eat you then." She teased.

She told them about her guardian and about her parents dying. She explained her situation and how she had to take all these lessons. Gene told her about him and his twin and how they were orphans too and how they were adopted and moved to England.

Mai told them about her powers. She explain to them how she got these gut feelings about things. Sometimes she could even have visions from touching something or have a dream. She showed them a book that had been passed down in her family with spells and recipes. It even had a section pertaining to dream seeing. What each thing represent and such. Mai did several demonstrations for them. Peter was happy to finally be able to document something.

She and Peter taught him how to ride and they would explore the woods together. They were always taking pictures.

"This is my book. I want to remember all of my adventures and my friends." She told them one day.

Gene began to realize that Mai would be perfect for Noll. He teased her about marrying his brother and making him an uncle. Mai laughed.

"I thought you wanted your parents to adopt me?" Mai asked.

"Well if you don't marry Noll then they can adopt you. Either way you get to be my sister. Noll needs a stubborn person like you to piss him off." He laughed

"If you don't marry him then you can always marry me. I'll make you a film star!" Peter joked.

They were the three Musketeers. Gene and Mai felt like siblings. Peter never got his date. Mai did offer to cook dinner for both of them most nights. Sometimes they went into the barn and played music and danced or sometimes Mai would show off some of her tricks. They even went swimming in the pool or in the lake. The staff was nice since Madame accidentally broke her leg (It was an accident, no one did anything to her). Mai didn't have to take her lessons which meant more time for fun. Everything was great until her guardian showed up with his brother.

The next chapter is more of Gene, Mai, and Peter. Sorry this was short. Please review!