Disclaimer: see chapter 1

'(words will be flashbacks)'

~Friday~

*Lizzie*

We all decided to go my house and let Gordo, Miranda, and Kate spend the night. (Gordo would sleep in a separate room) We rented "Enough" and "Spiderman". "I love how Jennifer Lopez learns to kick her husband's butt at the end of the movie!" Miranda exclaimed. She jumped up and started to do some of the moves. But she ran into the wall and fell. "Kate - if you don't mind me asking," I asked, "but do you remember how u got knocked out?"

*Kate*

When Lizzie asked me that dreadful question, I had to think really hard. I honestly didn't remember. I closed my eyes and thought back to that day...

'I went up to the treehouse to wait for someone. I leaned up against the wall and I heard a strange voice. I turned to see where it was coming from and a creature - mostly human, but I couldn't tell - smiled menacingly at me. I screamed, and it hit me with a branch that had fallen through the roof.'

Apparently, as I was thinking, I had been talking out loud. My friends just sat there with horrified looks on their faces. After moments of silence, Miranda jumped up. "Oh My GOD! DO YOU MEAN THERE IS A CREATURE ON THE LOOSE OUT THERE?! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" "Calm down!" Lizzie yelled. "Maybe we can just call a detective and maybe she can figure something out. I know a friend of mine who is a detective. Maybe she can help us out." She concluded. "But right now, let's get some sleep...if we can."

*Next morning*

BANG BANG BANG!!

Someone was pounding down the door at 6 in the morning. But that had no meaning to me as of this moment, I smelled bacon. I ran down the stairs with Miranda and met Lizzie and Gordo at the bottom. Lizzie said, "Last night before I went to bed, I called that detective friend of mine. Guys, meet Beth McKnight. She is a certified detective and she said she'll do what she can." "Hi," she said. "I can either go undercover, and find things, which would probably be the most effective, or I can tell people who I am, and they'd hide things and do weird stuff, but y'all can choose what I do." "I think," Gordo said in between bites of bacon, "that you should go undercover." "So do I," said the rest of us. "Then it's settled!" she said. "Now, I'll go and get started and I'll inform you as soon as I get some information." And with that, she walked out the door.

"Now - I don't know about y'all, but I am STARVED!" Gordo said as he reached for more bacon. We sat there for about 15 minutes talking about the movies last night, when Matt and his friend came running in. Lizzie said, "Kate - this is Lanny and you know Matt." "I know who they are. I talked to Lanny last night while y'all were asleep." "Wait a minute - do you mean that Lanny actually talked?" Lizzie asked. "Yeah..."

"But what was weird," I said, "was that right before I fell asleep, I kept hearing a voice say 'Kate...Kate' and I'd look and I'd see red eyes in the distance. I thought I was just fooling myself. But I can't get those eyes out of my face..."

But little did I know, someone was listening...closer than we thought they were...

I hope y'all liked that chapter. I'm sorry that my chapters are so short, but it takes me forever to type and by the time I'm finished typing, I'm too lazy to put it up. PLEASE R/R!!