So, how are you? I, ElwynClark, own Ellen and the girls, their friends, and their gym teacher. He does the whole tube socks with shorts thing. Hmm. I don't own the guys,


June 22, 2010

4:24 PM

"We're gonna get killed I tell ya. Killed!" Delilah yelled. "I have no idea why I agreed to do this anyways." Crunch.

"I'm gonna get killed if you keep yelling!" Sydney yelled. Crunch, crunch.

"Why are you yelling? You always try to be little miss good and it hasn't worked out the past couple days has it?" Jo and I watched silently as Delilah and Sydney exploded on each other. Well, I watched silently as Jo crunched on some cheez-it's and drank pink lemonade. We were at detention again. But today we found out that room 800 is also known as the roof. I guess they let delinquents have a nice time their last detention. Mr. Carlson, the gym teacher, is proctoring. He's letting us do whatever, except leave. So we're just sitting there watching them get more into a deeper, and louder, conversation.

"Hey Ellen," Jo said to me and I nodded. "What did you do for your paper for Martin?"

"I actually pulled one of your moves, I did it this morning." I said. Jo smiled.

"But yeah, what did you do it on?"

"Well, I think Sydney did like some scientific theory, Delilah did something random like southern architecture, following her heritage." Jo rolled her eyes and nudged me. "Ok, ok, mine was a short history of parapsychology."

"You can't be serious."

"I am Jo, I so am." Jo rolled her eyes and stayed silent. We watched Delilah and Syndey have at each other again.

"Hey Jo?" I asked her quietly.

"Yeah Ellen?" Jo answered.

"My dad found out that we started Ghostbusters again without them knowing. He called me right after school today. He said took away my key for Ecto 1."

"I guess bad news travels fast among them, assuming that the cross rip was a bad thing."

"It usually is. Sydney told me that this morning Egon was looking at the readings she took yesterday. She said that he had them on a sheet. He didn't say anything about it too her apparently and just called Ray about it."

"Ellen, are we really going to do this? Ghostbusting I mean?"

"Well, we have to now, we ripped a dimension. Something will get out, like that man Sydney told us about. Well he actually already got out."

"I'm ready for it, as long as these two can be civil again." Jo looked at Sydney then back at me. "Jeez, I make up with Sydney and now she hates Zedd, it's like she's bipolar or something."

"I am not bipolar Venkman," Sydney started. "Bipolar is-"

"Hey, I get it." Jo said.

"Are you guys good now or what?" I asked.

"Yeah, we're fine." Delilah said. "We were both about to explode with anger anyways at any point so we just exploded on each other."

"When did you like stop talking?" Jo asked.

"Oh, a long time ago. Like right when you started telling about how my dad found my readings." Sydney said as she pointed to me.

"Thanks," I said.

"When are we going to open the place up again, officially?" Delilah asked.

"How 'bout Friday?" I asked. "We don't need that much time to get into it. We'll get Thursday off, well before grad, and then we start. We'll all have a high school degree by then which is a start."

"Ellen, where do you expect us to live?" Jo asked.

"Um, in the firehouse I guess."

"But what about Egon? And all of our parents?" Delilah asked. I stayed silent.

"I talked with my dad about this awhile ago. He said that he would want to stay. As like a mentor and if the others wanted to move in they could. So that means that the actual employees on one level and then like the guys upstairs. Well, Delilah, your mom and dad would probably get a nearby apartment so they could stay together right?"

"I guess so." Delilah said.

"I remember him telling me that as long as they were needed to help they would stay and then they would let us run the place ourselves."

"Would he still be up to that?" I said.

"I guess," Sadie said. "But maybe we should wait until next week to open up so we can get you all settled."

"That sounds like a plan." Jo said. Mr. Carlson blew his whistle.

"Seniors," He said. "You can leave early today." I checked my watch, yeah five minutes early. "Have a good rest of your life; I might see you all around somewhere." Everyone laughed and some people left. We all got up from where we were sitting and went down the stairs. We had a semi normal conversation for once as we walked to the subway.

"Hey Sydney I'll see ya later ok?" I said as we pulled into the Franklin street station. She only lived a block up from there.

"Yeah, bye everyone." Sydney said as she got up and went through the door.

"Bye." Jo and Delilah said in unison. I looked out the window at the platform.

"What the hell is that?" I said quietly. I got up from my seat and walked to the door and looked out. Sadie was running up the stairs to the street and a few seconds later a man in a gray suit appeared behind her. "I hope not."

"What?" Jo asked and she bumped into me.

"Come on!" I said and I got off the train. Jo just stood there and Delilah got up and stood next to her. "Come on, I have to investigate something." I looked up the stairs and Sydney was just reaching the top. Jo and Delilah got off the train and the doors closed behind them.

"Now we can't ditch her." Jo whispered to Delilah.

"I heard that," I said. "Come on." I walked over to the stairs and started to go up. "I saw someone wearing a gray suit following Sadie."

"What?" Jo asked. "You think it's the guy from the rip don't you?"

"I'm pretty sure." I reached the top of the stairs and I could just see Sydney go around the corner with the man still trailing her. "See, look!"

"Wow, Ellen. You should be a private eye." Delilah said sarcastically.

"But then I have to carry a gun." I said.

"And you want to be a person who carries an unlicensed nuclear accelerator around to save the world?" Jo asked.

"Ok ok." I agreed. "Come on, we're losing her." I started to run around the corner and down the sidewalk and I could hear Jo and Delilah close behind me.

"Oh, I see him now." Delilah said. "Holy crap that guy looks really important to."

"I think that's an Armani." Jo said. "What's he doing in such a nice set of clothes?"

"Focus please!" I said as we continued to run after them they went around the corner of the firehouse. "Firehouse, come on!" We rounded the corner and once we got to the doors they were closed just like any other day average day.

"What do we do now?" Jo asked.

"Well, someone's gotta go in there." I said.

"Someone's gotta go in there." Delilah reinforced. Jo looked at me.

"I guess I'll go in." I said and I knocked on the smaller door. A minute later Sydney yelled from inside.

"It's open." She yelled and I looked at Jo and Delilah. Jo nodded silently and Delilah just smiled.

"Follow me in please." I said as I pushed the door open. I stepped into the firehouse and Jo and Delilah ran into each other then they bumped into me. "Cool it." I walked past Ecto-1, my new favorite vehicle even though my key was taken away, and over towards the office area. Sydney was sitting at the receptionist desk and the guy in the suit was sitting in a nearby chair.

"Oh, hey guys." Sadie said. "Sit down if you want. I'm interviewing this speci," She caught herself. "Person, sorry."

"It's fine." I said. "Is this for research?"

"He applied for a job." Sydney said. She handed me a sheet of paper, it was an application.

"But, we're not technically hiring." I said and Sydney shrugged. The man turned and looked at us. Jo dropped her lemonade on the ground where it landed with a splash and then gasped herself.

"Oh my god." Jo said.

"What's going on?" Delilah asked.

"No idea." I said.

"I don't know." Sydney said. Jo walked over to the man and he stood up.

"It's you. It's really you." Jo said. He nodded.

"Jo, who is this?" I asked with an attitude.

"He's my halfbrother, Oscar."


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