*BEFORE 21 AND A HALF!*

So. You shouldn't step on frogs.. They don't like it that much. I, ElwynCLark, Own Ellen and the girls, and their friends. I do not own the guys or our friend OScar.

June 24, 2010

2:49 AM

"Where to Sydney?" I asked as we all jumped into Ecto-1 wearing the sweaty clothes that we worked on the car in. By all of us I meant myself, Sydney, Jo, Delilah, Manny, Buster and Kelle; even though Jo and Buster weren't there before. In the firehouse I could see Dad and the guys standing there looking rather depressed.

"Times Square, as fast as you can." Sydney said. I looked at her and the engine seemed to roar to life all by itself. We were at Times Square in a matter of seconds.

"What the hell is that?" Delilah said from between Sydney and me. She was staring out of the window straight ahead and her expression was unreadable. The doors of Ecto-1 opened by themselves and I just stared at it for a second.

"Hey where'd the statue go?" I asked as I looked at the northern side of Times Square where the Statue of George M. Cohan once stood. We all got out of the car slowly and stood next it. As I looked at everyone else I noticed we were all wearing khaki jumpsuits, the Ghostbusters' uniform.

"No!" Jo yelled from next to me and she looked extremely terrified.

"Jo what's wrong?" I asked her. She didn't respond but looked struck with fear. I grabbed her by her shoulders and shook her and she looked straight at me.

"They got him Ellen." Jo said quietly.

"Got who?" I asked and held onto her. Jo went limp and she collapsed in my arms. I managed to get her to the ground and by the time I turned around it seemed like half of Times Square was gone.

"Is that what I think it is?" Sadie asked.

"Yeah." Manny said and I turned around to find him but he seemed to be gone. The next thing I knew I was standing next to Kelle firing a proton stream at some distant circle.

"Sydney, that's not a ghost is it?" I asked unsure of myself.

"It's a portal." Sydney said.

"Wait to where?" Kelle asked as we all continued to fire.

"To K dimension." Sydney said in a normal tone.

"And you guys aren't scared?" I asked and I started to feel myself sweat. Manny looked at me and shrugged. Jo was standing again and looked very scared but she ignored me and fired at the thing. Kelle and Delilah looked as calm as if we were at lunch or something. Sydney looked at me then looked back at the portal. "This isn't right." I mumbled to myself and turned off my proton pack. Once I did so the whole place went dark and the next thing I see is the portal growing bigger and getting closer to us.

"Cross the streams!" Sydney yelled.

"Why?" I yelled back. "This isn't right Sydney, think it out." She ignored me and they all proceeded to cross the streams. There was a huge explosion which caused me to fall back onto the ground landing on my pack. When I looked up everyone seemed to be getting sucked into the portal. "Wait." I said at a normal tone and undid the pack and stood up leaving the pack on the ground. Kelle disappeared. Buster was gone. "What's going on?" Delilah and Jo were gone. Sydney and Manny looked at me. "No, where are you going?" I yelled and started running towards them.

"Stop." Sydney said.

"No." I said back to her and I tripped and fell then felt myself being pulled by someone.

"Just come with us alright?" Manny said and I realized he was the one pulling me.

"No." I said again. He managed to get me off the ground. "I'm not going through there." I was yelling by now. "Manny, let me go." I started screaming and tried to escape. I closed my eyes as we got closer to the portal and I felt a hand come over my mouth.

"Ellen? Ellen, wake up." Oscar said. I opened my eyes and saw my room in the darkness and saw the shadowy figure of Oscar standing next to my bed holding my mouth shut. I gasped at first then managed to pull myself together.

"What?" I managed to mumble through his hand.

"You were screaming." Oscar said. "Manny said it would be bad." He moved his hand and wiped it on his dark jacket.

"Manny?" I asked and thought back quickly to what I just dreamt. "What did he do?"

"He didn't do anything. He just asked if I could check on you really."

"Well why couldn't he do that? What time is it anyways?"

"Like 3 in the morning. You got back here at like 12 and went immediately to bed." He smelled the air. "You should have taken that shower."

"Um, are you stalking me?" I asked slowly as I sat up against the wall near the head of my bed.

"No, I just know these things."

"Well that makes me feel better." I said.

"Oh yeah, it always does."

"Manny is here isn't he?" I asked and I got out of the bed.

"Yeah." Manny said quietly and popped his head into my window which was strategically placed next to the fire escape. I sighed; this was the last thing I needed on my graduation day.

"We have to be quiet remember guys." I said. "My dad is still up I think."

"Don't worry about him. He's still trying to reconfigure that trap." Manny said. I shook my head; dad has been working on that since we got home.

"Then how did you two get in here?" I asked.

"The window Einstein." Manny said.

"Yeah, but I closed it and locked it." I said and Oscar looked away. "No, you broke into my room? What did you do, seriously? Or do now, Mr. Odd Jobs?"

"You really want to know?" Oscar asked quietly and quickly. Manny and I looked at each other and we both sat down on the floor and Oscar did too and we formed a small circle. "When I was possessed, Belas only did it halfway so I could remember past experiences from what happened, but not immediately." Manny and I both nodded. "His spirit told me that the world would go out with a bang. I'm not sure exactly when, but it's going to go down then."

"What's going down?" I asked still half asleep.

"The end of the world." Manny said slowly.

"This isn't good, we have to do something." Oscar said.

"Do what though?" I asked. They both stayed silent. "Hey you never told me what you did before anyways, what did you do?" Oscar looked at me and his brown eyes stared straight at me.

"You asked me." Oscar said. "I lied to Jo before because I can't get her too worked up."

"Oh she's gonna hate you even more because you lied to her now." I said. "But moving on."

"She was kind of right about the mafia or something." He air quoted 'something.' Oscar said. "I work for the CIA as an operative."

"No, you can't be serious." I said. "Manny, is he serious?" Manny looked at Oscar then nodded slowly at first then quicker.

"It's legit." Manny said.
"Well, I'm glad that's over then." I said.

"It's not over though." Oscar said. "This is why I haven't talked to Jo or my mom in years, no one knows about this but you guys right now. And you can never tell. I have a gun and I will use it." That sounded like a big enough threat to me. Point taken.

"So what are you both doing here? In my bedroom, at 3 in the morning, on our graduation day?" I asked both of them.

"I saw that you would have a dream about Ghostbusters and a portal to K and it would end with you screaming." Manny said. "So I called Oscar because I know what he really does and I knew that we could get to you before you cause a bigger problem."

"Yeah, what if my dad walks in here?" I asked. "How am I going to explain not one, but two guys in my room at 3:00 in the morning?" I asked them and they looked at each other.

"We could do that." Manny said out loud. "Oh come on, you're sick." Oscar was giving him his ideas, mentally of course. "No, that would never work out." I looked at my open window then at the guys. "Jump off the fire escape? You're insane. Never let him be a team leader." They continued to toss ideas to each other. I stood up and started to pace then eventually sat down on my bed when he stopped talking.

"Ok." I said slowly. "Getting back on topic. We need to prevent the end of the world on the fourth. The portal is open and we need to close it for good. Right?" I asked. Manny stayed silent and appeared to be listening to something. He stood up suddenly.

"Oscar get out of the room." Manny said quietly. "Go up two flights." Oscar seemed to fly out of the window and he disappeared around the corner.

"What was that abou-" I started to ask but I felt something press against my lips. Or someone. Come on Manny, dad is going to notice this. My bed creaked because Manny sat down next to me. "Ok, if this is the plan." Manny pulled off t shirt and threw it into the corner. Then kissed me again, we were acting even though we weren't. A voice in my head told me to hug Manny, or at least touch him. So I put my left hand around his neck. His smile gleamed in the dim, almost dark room.

"Don't say anything. It'll be fine." Manny whispered directly into my right ear and I felt his head pressed against my shoulder. My bedroom door opened slowly.

"Hey Ellen, do you want to see if this works now?" I heard dad ask from the doorway and my head whipped around to look at him. The burning end of a cigarette glowed orange as his eyes darted from me to Manny, who was now shirtless, and had his arms wrapped around me. "I'll leave now." He closed my door and his footsteps echoed down the hallway.

"All clear." Manny said quietly as he squeezed me tight then let go completely. Oscar was back at the window in less than two seconds.

"I don't want to know what's going on between you two." Oscar said as he walked into my room and saw us sitting next to each other like nothing just happened. "Teenagers."

"Guys, what are we going to do though?" I asked.

"We'll all talk about this another time. We have graduation tonight then I'll bring you somewhere special for dinner." Manny said as he stood up to pick up his t-shirt.

"No Ghostbusters talk allowed?" Oscar said. Manny and I both nodded.

"That sounds like a plan guys." I said.

"I'll see you guys later." Oscar said and he disappeared out the window.

"How'd he hear you from two flights up the escape?" I asked Manny.

"He let me borrow a comms unit." Manny said.

"Comms?"

"Yeah." He pulled his shirt on. "Communication unit, it's an earpiece that whatever you or someone else says gets transmitted to the other units." I shrugged and just shook my head.

"Is everything gonna be ok?" I asked.

"As of this point, I can't be sure. But someone, or maybe someones, is going to be stuck there in K for awhile, I can't tell who yet." Manny started to walk to the window then turned around. "But I will tell you this, I thought that your dad was going to ask me at least why I was here, but no, he just leaves us alone." He laughed and I hugged him.

"I wouldn't want another psychic to be friends with Manny."

I kept it PG. I tried. Its hard. Especially when you have a friend who reads romance novels where they, go.. And then she talks to me about it... I don't know where her mind is sometimes.

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