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A/N: OMG!! I'm back!! Who wanted to strangle me after I left the story in that spot? Anyone, anyone? Anyway! I had a wonderful trip but let me tell you. There is no place like home. Whew. I was so glad to get back to my house. Anywho, thanks to all the reviews I got while I was away. In fact, when I checked my email I had 155 messages. A lot huh? And thanks to those who reviewed on my OTHER OTHER story: SPR and its issues according to Yasuhara. They made me smile.

Oh and this story line was made possible by my friend Lisie. She sat on facebook with me, reviewing what to put in here and what to leave out. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to close this story at all if it weren't for her twists that will come in later. *evil laugh*

Oh again! For all of you who are reading/were reading: One Snowy Afternoon. IT WILL BE UPDATED. We apologize for the wait, it seems that SOME PEOPLE have decided not to write so I'll be taking over chapter five. Thank you for the reviews there.

Never Let Luella Choose the Amusement Park:

~ St. Patrick's Day Part Three:~

"MAI!" Naru yelled. "Just hang on!"

Then she fell.

.xXx.

Liz gaped as Mai fell. This was definitely an interesting turn of events. The frantic thoughts of her nephew snapped her out of her daze and she shoved Takigawa into the exact position that Alice had gone- well, splat. Naru gave her a stern look and moved to catch Mai but she was too close to the ground. The next seconds seemed to stretch on forever. Ayako and John were yelling, Naru was looking at Mai in horror, he wanted so badly to stop her from dying but he was rendered paralyzed at just the thought of Mai dying. Lin was looking intently at Liz, waiting for instructions and Takigawa had not moved from that spot.

Finally, time seemed to speed up.

"What the hell are we standing here for?!" Ayako's voice suddenly reached Liz's eardrums.

She snapped out of her weird daze and motioned for Takigawa to stay where he was as Mai was about two feet above him now. Liz gave Ayako a stern look.

"I saw this already." John and Ayako immediately quieted. Then they heard a loud thud. Liz spun around, her heart-rate racing, a smile spread on her face. Mai had indeed landed on Takigawa and was fine.

Mai looked down at him, wincing. "Thanks for breaking my fall Bou-san."

She moved off of him and leaned against the roller coaster. "No problem." He wheezed.

Naru, in turn, broke his paralysis. "What-"

Mai grabbed the cuff of his sleeve and motioned for him to sit down next to her. He did of course. She leaned on his shoulder and he rested his cheek on her head.

"What happened?" He said, getting right to the point. Liz wouldn't say anything but his voice had cracked slightly. He'd been afraid. Mai looked up at Liz.

"She was pushed. Definitely." Mai leaned in closer to Naru. "By her mother."

Naru gave Liz a stern look. "See?"

Liz shook her head. "The dream wasn't real then."

Everyone blinked. Naru frowned.

"She has more proof than you do now." He pointed out. Liz winced. Why was it her nephew was so cold sometimes? She looked away trying to find Mr. Collins' thoughts but nothing came up. She frowned, that wasn't normal. Where was that creepy guy?

"Is everything alright?" Mr. Collins himself appeared behind John, causing him to jump a little.

Liz spun around, catching the cold smile Mr. Collins directed at her. "Fine." She replied curtly.

Lin gave her a funny look and nodded towards Mr. Collins. "Everything is alright, Mai wasn't hurt as far as we know, and no one got hurt." He looked at Liz out of the corner of his eye. "Where were you just recently?"

He heard Liz let out a little sigh of relief.

"I was in the room with Mrs. and Mr. Davis." He smiled at Lin. "Was there anything else you needed?"

Liz suppressed the urge to strangle the little liar right there. She tried to listen to his thoughts but something was blocking it. Something wasn't quite right about this guy.

"No." She said through gritted teeth, causing Lin and everyone else to look at her surprised. "Nothing at all."

Mr. Collins nodded. "Oh, and Ms. Liz?" She cocked her head to the side, waiting for an answer. "I've laid out some drinks for everyone in the base, like an 'I'm sorry.' kind of thing."

Mai beamed at him. "Oh, that's very nice of you."

Liz raised her eyebrows, ready to make a point that he could very well poison those drinks but Lin squeezed her arm and shook his head. She wrinkled her nose. Why was it that no one believed her? She couldn't tell if Lin did, he was so impassive but everyone else seemed intent on the idea that Alice had been killed by her mother.

She lagged behind the others when walking back to base, there was something she wanted to do first.

.xXx.

Mai collapsed on the couch. She was incredibly exhausted, what with falling from a roller coaster and all. Naru had been unnaturally silent while walking back to the base.

Mai touched his arm. "I'm okay you know."

Naru frowned. "Maybe you should get another job Mai."

"What?!" She yelled. Ayako and Bou-san frowned at Naru and John looked away uneasily. "I'm not leaving you can't make me leave!"

Naru patted her arm. "It was just a suggestion."

Mai relaxed and sunk down on the couch. "Don't suggest like that anymore."

"Well technically the last time he said that it was an order." Ayako pointed out. Naru gave her a cold glare and sat down beside Mai. Luella and Martin were busy looking at the monitors, waiting for something good to happen. Naru noticed Lin was looking around the base, a confused expression on his face.

"What's wrong Lin?" Naru asked, only slightly concerned.

"I don't know where your Aunt went."

Naru swore under his breath. "You were supposed to watch her."

Lin glared at Naru. "I know that. She just disappeared."

Naru leaned out the window, looking for her on the roller coaster but she wasn't there. Naru shook his head.

"She's probably chasing that crazy story about how Mr. Collins was the one that killed Alice Crane." He muttered. Luella looked up at her son.

"You haven't been rude about it have you?" Luella asked, taking a sip of her tea. She looked at him critically. "Liz gets more determined to prove herself right when absolutely no one believes her."

Naru stared at his mother. Maybe he'd been a little disregarding of his aunt's theory. After all, Mai had had less than satisfactory theories and they almost always turned out to be correct. He, of course, always played it off as he knew what was happening already. Which successfully got on her nerves.

He turned to Lin, who looked weirdly unnerved. "Go find her would you?"

Lin nodded and walked out the door.

.xXx.

Liz ducked into another funhouse and took out her phone. She got an odd feeling from this one, different from the other tiny buildings she'd gone into. The small light from her phone lit up the face of a clown and she screamed. She took a deep breath, telling herself to get a hold on herself. It was just a clown face. She took a shaky breath and took a step forward.

"What are you doing?" Liz practically had a heart attack, she looked at Mr. Collins angrily.

"What are you doing?" She asked accusingly. She looked at him skeptically and took a step back. "I know you killed her. Why do you keep denying it?"

Mr. Collins laughed roughly. "Alice Crane was an obnoxious little twerp but you have no proof that I killed her."

Liz frowned, backing up when he took a step forward. "I'll find some."

He laughed. "You'd have to read my mind."

Liz raised an eyebrow and tried again to read the man's mind. She frowned, why couldn't she read his mind?

He turned to face the entrance. "Someone's coming."

Liz listened too and heard footsteps coming closer and closer. She wondered how he'd done that. She looked back at Mr. Collins and frowned. Now where had he gone? Maybe she'd been imagining things. She turned away again, taking another step into the maze type room, almost tripping on a loose floorboard. She wrapped her fingers around the door and opened it. A gust of air blew her hair out of her face and she watched in horror as Alice Crane stepped forward, her body broken from the fall. Liz's scream caught in her throat.

"Alice was pushed." She said hoarsely. "Alice fell. Alice broke."

Liz was gasping for breath now. A falling sensation engulfed her as the footsteps got louder, she watched as Alice Crane fell again and again. She slipped into unconsciousness but not before hearing Alice whisper in her ear.

"Under the floorboards." And two large hands pulled her upward.

.xXx.

She could hear people talking around her, she just couldn't get up. She noticed that she had an incredibly soft pillow that seemed to be breathing? Liz heard her pillow say something to someone and her eyes finally fluttered open. She was leaning on Lin's shoulder. He looked down at her and called for Mai to get a pillow. Liz's eyes opened even more when she saw Naru staring at her with cold eyes. She hadn't seen those in a while.

She laughed nervously. "You have a very soft arm Lin."

"Um, thank you?" He got up, handing her a pillow that Mai had gotten. Naru cleared his throat.

"What were you doing down there?" Naru asked. "You can't go wondering around unsupervised in a haunted amusement park."

Liz shrugged. "I just got an impulse to go look."

Naru narrowed his eyes. "And when Lin found you, you were unconscious and the door was open."

Liz paused. "I saw her." She rubbed her arms, trying to get warm. Just remembering the scene made her get goosebumps. "She said 'under the floorboards.' then she disappeared."

Mai came in with some tea and smiled at Liz. "Was that all? I guess something must be under some floorboards then."

Liz looked at her strangely. "How come she didn't tell you that?"

Mai shrugged. "I have no idea actually." She turned to Naru. "Mr. Collins sends his regards and he apologizes for Liz's accident in the funhouse."

"He was there you know!" She blurted out. Lin looked down at her, surprised. Naru frowned.

"No he wasn't." Naru argued. "He came into the room three minutes before you were found and he was on our cameras the entire time in his office."

Liz raised her eyebrows and he explained. "I wasn't going to completely write off your theory but now I am. He has an alibi."

Lin caught her frustrated look. Maybe she wasn't making things up. He decided he believed her, although he wouldn't admit it right now for lack of evidence.

Mr. Collins walked through the door. "Ah, there you are Liz. We were so worried you wouldn't come back. That would've been a real shame."

And this time Liz wasn't the only one that caught the double meaning in his words.

Conversations with Naru:

Naru: *whispers* I think she forgot to write the rest. Thank goodness.

Me: Oh! Thanks for reminding me Ollie-pop!

Naru: *groans*

Me: What's up with you wanting Mai to get another job?

Naru: It's too dangerous, she might get hurt and-

Me: Oh puh-leese. You just pulled, what we like to call, an Edward. Now get over yourself and let Mai stay!

Naru: *narrows eyes* And if I don't?

Me: You will promptly be hung by your toes and be forced to drink milk instead of tea while dangling over a pool of sharks for the rest of your life.

Naru: *gulp*

Me: Anyway, time for our Naru-ism!!

Naru: Oh good Lord.

Me: Nooo, that's not it! 'It is clearly the work of an earth spirit' is the correct answer.

Naru: But I didn't even say that.

Me: So? For all of you who haven't watched the anime or read the manga: Bou-san is mocking Ayako in the anime episode called: Ghost Stories in the Park!

Naru: I remember that. Mai got so worked up, she was cute. I had to be stuck with Masako.

Me: I knew you thought she was cute! And that's what you get for having so. many. aliases. Now back to recent events: I will reenact the scene from the anime.

Mai and John are sitting on a bench waiting for Ayako to show up to the case. Bou-san is standing right next to them and Naru and Masako are standing away because THEY think they're too cool for them. (Naru: I did not!)

"So, Bou-san, what do you think Ayako will say first when she gets here?" (Mai: I remember this. John: What made it funnier was the fact that she actually said it.)

Bou-san laughs. "This is clearly the work of an earth spirit!" (Bou-san: Hey, I was right wasn't I!)

Everyone doubles over laughing. (except our beloved narcissist and our hated medium) (Masako: Hated medium?!)

"Hey what's so funny!" Ayako yells. (Ayako: Bou-san!! How dare you mock me!! *Bou-san runs for his life*)

*Meanwhile, Lin is typing on his computer and is sick.* (Lin: ...)

Me: Awww, poor Lin!! Naru's so insensitive, he didn't let Lin take the day off.

Naru: He got over it didn't he? And wait- this isn't even part of the anime episode! Cut!!

That was a shortened condensed recap of the scene. If you want the real one it's Ghost Stories in the Park. I nearly fell off my chair laughing when Masako got possessed and the ghost told her story about how she was killed by a tiny cat.

This Naru-ism was given to me by darkwriter14. Anyone who has any other quotes from the anime/manga may review and tell me so.

But you were already going to do that weren't you?