I woke in the middle of the night to a crash. My eyes jolted awake. I stood up and crept out of the red box I called home. I walked around the lookout and saw everyone asleep. I entered the lookout and saw a pile of treats on the floor. I walked up to the computer screen and spoke.

"Scan for intruders." This was part of a security system ryder had added to the Lookout after Chase's death. It took a piece of your DNA and used that to scan for intruders. If unknow DNA was found it would tell you where it was.

"No unknown DNA found!" The screen said in a robotic female voice.

"That's odd. Camera recordings for 12:42 till present time."

"No recording data found past 4:05 PM."

"Who all is in the building?"

"Scanning… Scan found 3 individuals."

"3? But only me and Ryder are in here… List of people present."

"Ryder in top bedroom. Firefly in downstairs TV room. Skye in downstairs TV room." My eyes went wide.

"Zoom in on downstairs TV room." It zoomed in and showed two red dots. One up against the TV and one directly behind the other dot.

"Identify!" The dot closest to the tv turned green.

"Firefly Marshall daughter of Marshall Ryder and Skyler Jackson." then the dot bind the first one glowed green.

"Skyler Jackson daughter of Jackson and Honey." I froze. According to this computer, my mother was right behind me. I slowly turned around and saw the pink dish I ate out of earlier.

"So that's what confused the computer." I turned back towards the screen and saw the second dot moving towards the door. I turned back around to see the door open and then close. I turned back to the screen to see the red dot sit just inside the door.

"Zoom on entrance one and do another DNA scan." The computer did another scan and this time two dots were at the door.

"Identify."

"Skyler Jackson daughter of Jackson and Honey. Marshall son of Flame and Ash." My eyes fell to the floor. No it couldn't be. Yes I knew my father was alive but my mother was dead.

"Papi watched her die! This can't be right there's gotta be something wrong! Scan for defects!"

"No defects found. System is operational."

"Status of Marshall and Skye."

"Deceased." I punched the floor.

"Then how are they standing right there?"

"Demand not understood."

"It's not them! There's no one there!"

"System offline." a dark voice from behind me said.

"System shutting down." The screen went black. I jolted around but there was no one there.

"Lights." I heard from somewhere in the room. The room went black.

"H-hello?" I asked looking around the dark room.

"Sleep." I heard the voice say. I instantly became tired.

"Who who's there?" I questioned almost falling over.

"Sleep." My eyes slowly closed as I felt the energy drain from my body. The last thing I heard was.

"I'm sorry." My eyes opened to light. I stood up and stretched. I was in the Lookout. The previous night's events were fresh in my mind.

"System online! Camera history 12:42-1:00 am."

"Data not found."

"System offline" 'Was that really my parents and if so what were they doing here? Were they… ghosts? No there's no such thing as ghosts. Right?' I needed someone smart to help me out here.

"Hey Rocky." I said half heartedly walking up to where he was fixing Grits cruiser. He gave me a funny look.

"Something on your mind?" he asked

"Do you believe in ghosts?" He shook his head.

"No why?" I began to explain last night's events to him while he sat in front of me listening to what I said.

"...so right now I'm confused. It wasn't a technical detail else the computer would have picked it up but there's also no such thing as ghosts. What do you think?" he looked up at the ceiling deep in thought. Rocky was one of the smartest pups I knew. Only Ryder surpassed his knowledge.

"Have you considered sleepwalking?"

"Couldn't be the data from the computer is actually missing." He looked up at the sky, deep in thought.

"It's probably just a glitch in the system. I'll check it out later. Don't lose any sleep on it."

"Rocky do you think there is any chance of my parents being alive?" He froze as a dark look crossed his face.

"No!" He replied coldly.

"Are you okay Rocky?"

"Just fine." He said just a little too quickly.

"What's eatin' ya?" He sighed and went back to his work.

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Then why did you bring it up?" Rocky glared at me and sighed.

"I've wondered before if maybe Chase or Marshall would come back. I did research upon research but it all came out dead. There was no real proof that ghosts existed. I believe in a heaven and a hell but no I don't think ghosts are real."

"What if they aren't dead?"