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Chapter 37

Phineas woke up to the sound of 'Gitchee gictee goo' ringing out full blast from his phone. He quickly picked it up hoping not to wake Ferb but of course no avail.

Ferb raised an eyebrow then just rolled over deciding to ignore the call at 12:32 at night.

'What?' Phineas whispered into his phone. 'Ghosts?'

A pause.

'Alright I'll be there in two minutes.'

Phineas hung up the phone and hopped out of bed.

'What's going on she misses you to much to wait until the suns comes up?'

'Oh ha ha. There was some scary stories and now they might think there's a ghost in Ginger's house. Of course I'm going to go help. Hey maybe you should come help. Maybe Alice is scared to.'

Ferb blushed. 'She's there?'

'I don't know maybe…. Izzie didn't say. Are you coming?' Phineas asked zipping up a pair of jeans. He turned around to see Ferb completely dressed and waiting for him. Phineas smiled.

'I guess that's a yes then. '

'So now we're all calling our boyfriends huh? Are you trying to make me feel bad?' Gretchen asked as her fellow Fireside Girls dialed their boyfriend's phone numbers and begged them in the middle of the night to come help bust a ghost.

'You mean us right?' Milly asked. 'I'm single to.'

'Oh we'll play match maker later alright.' Ginger snapped over her shoulder while she was talking to Baljeet on her cell phone. 'Oh no not you…'

Isabella walked over to them. 'Well Phineas is coming and that probably means Ferb is coming to.'

Ginger came over to them. 'Well Baljeet's coming to.'

'How'd you mange that one?' Isabella asked.

'It was easy.' She blushed. 'I will not tell you my methods.'

'Ginger's love life aside we still haven't figured out how we're going to do this.' Gretchen pointed out.

'I say we ditch the boys and just go investigate. 'Adyson whispered as if scared that the ghost or whatever it is would hear her.

'I agree with this.' Holly said. 'It's not like Baljeet would be any help anyway in this situation.'

'Hey!'

'I mean sure he will.' Holly muttered.

'Guys, focus I guess we can go investigate before they get here. I see no harm in it.' Izzie said standing up and motioning for the others to do the same. Since they had all been crouching down. 'We can do this!'

The girls grinned. They whispered their theme song.

We're Fireside girls

One and all

And together we belong.

We wear our patches upon our sashes

And stand cute small and strong.

This is the Fireside Girls song…

And it's not so terribly long!

They giggled but then their faces grew serious as they turned to face Ginger's house. Nothing had changed but they couldn't hear the wolf howl anymore. Isabella looked over to her friends hoping the far wasn't showing on her face. The troop gave her a reassuring smile as they headed back across the street.

Phineas and Ferb rode up to Ginger's house on their bikes nearly five minutes later. They stared open mouthed at the house. All the lights were blinking and the windows were blown in.

This is either a ghost or a really good prankster. Phineas thought.

Seconds later Baljeet dropped his bike next to theirs. He took off his helmet and walked over to them.

'What happened?' He asked but his question was cut off by a death chilling scream coming from inside the house.

His question wasn't answered as they all rushed towards the house and hopped in through the front window.

'Ouch!' Ginger yelled as she nursed her new stumped toe that she had hit on who knows what in the nearly dark house.

'Shh.' Holly hissed back to her. They walked in single file down Ginger's upstairs hallway. Ginger took up the rear with Holly in front of her and Adyson in front of her…And Milly in front of her…Katie in front of her…Ginger in front of her… And Isabella leading.

'You know that sound is louder than my cries of pain over here!' She snapped.

'Girls we need to be quiet.' Isabella whispered back to them.

They passed Ginger's bedroom. The door was open so was the window. It sent a chill of cool air in at them. Holly noticed something on Ginger's floor and leaned over to pick it up. She giggled.

'Hey Ginger isn't this Baljeet's shirt?'

Ginger turned beet red. 'Give me that!' She snatched it out of her hand and tossed it back into her room. Luckily the others hadn't heard this exchange and they were capable of moving forward without to much teasing.

The boys maneuvered their way through the mess of the sleepover and headed towards the stairs at record pace. They raced down the now empty hallway and found a ladder at the end of it that lead up to the attic. Phineas took the lead and climbed up the ladder.

Isabella didn't much like Ginger's attic. It was just like any other attic. Piled high with boxes and random things that have nowhere else to go. But normal attics didn't have a dead woman simply sitting on the window seat. She was looking out the window- innocent.

She was transparent but not. She wore a long dress adorned in bright black dots on the white fabric. Her hair was done up in an early sixties style. The girls remained frozen as they heard footsteps on the ladder. Isabella tried not to flitch when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to head and was glad to find that it was Phineas.

The woman turned around and frowned. 'I've know you were there for a while. She offered a weak smile. No need to be so frightened I'm not going to hurt you. '

Despite this promise Holly fainted.

'Then why have you been trying to scare us?' Ginger asked in forced calm tone. She welcomed Baljeet as she asked this after he wrapped an arm around her waist. She was glad to have his support.

'Wasn't trying to.' She turned to look back out at the window and sighed. 'When one returned to a place she has known her entire life and finds it so terribly different… It is only human to feel regretful I suppose.' She looked back at them.

'You are angry that the world has changed so much since you were…'

Ferb didn't want to say the word.

'Alive?' She laughed a little. 'Yes the world has changed. But that is not all. I heard you telling my story. You left out a little detail. My husband didn't die. Well at least not at the time.'

It didn't feel like she was talking to them anymore. More like she was talking to herself. Like retelling her own story would reassure her that it did indeed happen.

'He joined the military after I was deemed dead. He climbed the ranks. I was very proud of him and watched him while he fought. He was a great solider. She smiled at the memory. Then he went out for a larger battle. That's when he was deemed MIA. At first I didn't believe it. I searched the world trying to find him. I couldn't. I thought returning here would help. It hasn't.'

Ferb whipped out a small handheld device and began pressing buttons at an inhuman speed.

'A ghost finder? Why didn't I think of that?' Phineas said.

'Ghost finder?' The ghost asked.

'Yes it can locate any ghost anywhere on the planet.'

A beep signaled the end of the search. Your husband is in a sunken ship off the coast of southern Europe. Shouldn't be to hard to find. Ferb explained.

'Oh thank you thank you!' The ghost squealed and jumped up. 'Thank you kind children. But if he is not there then… '

'Feel free to come back and haunt us.' Ginger reasoned.

The ghost drifted towards the window and flew right through it. Then she was gone.

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