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The Wagners - Part V
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"Piper! You're finally here!" Grams yelled as she opened the manor door to find her Granddaughter and her male friend.
"Grams hi," Piper said as the two hugged.
"OH MY GOD! You're finally married Piper! Do you know how many years I have waited for this sweetheart!" Grams said looking at the rings on Piper's finger.
"Oh this Grams..." Piper started only to be cut of by her Grandmother.
"Oh and you must be her husband," Grams said has she grabbed Leo into a hug, "What a fine gentleman you have found yourself Piper," Grams she pulling away from Leo.
"Grams about that..."
"Oh do come inside children," Grams said heading inside.
Piper and Leo looked at each other, "Maybe we should have stayed at a hotel," Piper told Leo as he grabbed their bags and walked inside.
"Paige! Your sister is here... And with her husband!" Grams yelled from the stairs.
"Piper!" Paige yelled running down the stairs.
"Paige, hi," Piper said as the two sisters hugged.
"You got married?" Paige questioned.
"Umm about that..." Piper started.
"Hi, I'm Leo..." Leo then looked at Piper and then said to Paige, "Your brother-in-law," as he shook Paige's hand.
"It's nice to meet you Leo. So Piper when did you get married?"
"Married? Ah yes, Leo and I got married a week ago and we thought instead of telling you guys over the phone we would tell you in person. Right," Piper said looking at Leo.
"That's right honey," Leo said looking back at Piper.
"Well that's good because now I don't have to give Leo my room."
"Oh that's right, Leo and Piper can both sleep together in Piper's old room," Grams said.
"We can?" Piper said with a uneasy smile.
"Sure we can honey," Leo said as he grabbed their bags.
"I'll show you the way brother-in-law," Paige said heading upstairs.
Grams walked over to Piper and said, "He seems like a keeper sweetheart. I'm so happy for you."
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Piper made her way into her room to find Leo pulling clothes away into draws, "Hi," Leo said as soon has he saw Piper.
"I'm sorry about before."
"No, it's fine. We are married remember, it's our cover."
"But we told my Grandmother that. Don't worry I'll tell her in six months we're divorced." Leo laughed, "Anyway I came to tell you dinner is ready."
Piper and Leo walked down the stairs together and into the dinning room to find Grams and Paige setting the table. Leo quickly put his arm around Piper's waist as Paige looked up to notice the two were in the room. "Awww you two look so cute you should get married," Paige said. Leo and Piper looked at each other, "I was just kidding."
"Oh we knew that," Piper said.
"Oh Piper, Leo, I've set these two seats for both of you so you can sit together," Grams said patting the chairs.
"Thank you Grams," Leo said as him and Piper took their seats.
"Oh you're such a sweet boy. My Granddaughter found the perfect husband," Grams said that made Piper blush, Leo looked over and Piper and smiled at her laughing.
Dinner went on as dinner could, Grams bombarded Leo with questions about himself but it didn't bother him. "So how long have you known my sister for?" Paige asked Leo.
"Six months," Piper quickly butted in, "We met when I was on holiday in Queenstown."
"You mean that holiday you took to New Zealand?"
"Yes, we met there."
"That's right, we were in the ski fields," Leo added on.
"So when do I get Great Grandchildren?" Grams said out of the blue.
Piper choked on her food as she has she heard that come out of her Grandmother's mouth, "Are you O.K?" Leo asked rubbing Piper's back.
Piper took a deep breath, "I'm fine," she said as Leo handed her a glass of water.
"Are you all right sweetheart?" Grams asked.
"Yes Grams. I think I'm just going to go upstairs and rest for a while."
"Do you want me to come up with you?" Leo asked in case she need something.
"No I'll be fine Leo... On second thoughts maybe you should," Piper said grabbing his arm.
As the couple walked out Grams said to Paige, "Do you think Piper is pregnant?" Piper and Leo both heard what Grams said, Piper just rolled her eyes as her and Leo headed up the stairs.
"Welcome to my family Leo," Piper said as she unpacked her stuff in her room.
"I really like your Grandmother Piper," Leo said lying on the bed.
"Well you never grew up with her Leo, that's another story."
"Do you want some help Piper?" Leo asked.
"No! I don't want you looking at my bras."
Then there was a knock on their door, it was Grams, "Piper, Leo? Are you having sex in there?"
"Oh my god this is so embarrassing," Piper said heading for the door all Leo could do was laugh. "How may we help you Grams?" Piper said opening the door.
"Oh was I interrupting anything? Grams said with two bowls of Ice Cream in her hands.
"No we were just unpacking Grams."
"Oh well I brought you both some Ice Cream, your favorite Piper, Chocolate."
"Thank you Grams," Leo said from behind Piper.
Grams handed Leo and bowl and then Piper hers, "Well carry on your unpacking," Grams said leaving the two.
"So about what your Grams said before," Leo started to say as the two ate Ice Cream, Leo was sitting on Piper's bed and Piper was standing near the dresser.
"If we were having sex in here?"
"Yeah, did you ever bring any of your boyfriends home and on here?" Leo said pointing to the bed with his spoon.
"No, I never had sex during high school."
"Really?"
"Yeah well I didn't find the right person I wanted to with during high school. What about you?"
"I was 15 the first time to a women twice my age."
"You had sex with older women?"
"Yeah all the time, but it was just sex. Until I met my ex wife, she was just a couple of years younger than me."
"May I ask what happened?" Piper asked taking a seat next to Leo on her bed.
"I came back home early from a business trip, so I thought I would surprise my wife but I ended up getting the surprise when I found her in bed with someone else. She was the one who asked me for a divorce saying I was never around when she need me."
"Do you believe that?"
"Part of me does but then another part says it was just an excuse."
"Do you still love her?" Piper asked.
Leo looked at Piper, "I can honest say I don't anymore."
"It's past midnight," Piper said looking at the time, she took Leo's bowl and placed it on the dresser with hers.
"You can take your bed, I'll sleep on the floor," Leo said grabbing some blankets.
Piper and Leo where both changed and were in their beds when they hear a knock on the door, "Quickly get in," Piper whispered to Leo, he quickly got into bed next to Piper, "It's open," Piper yelled.
"You know you should get a lock on the door you don't want Grams walking into on you two while you're having sex," Paige said as she opened the door.
"Paige hello," Piper said.
Paige looked at Leo shirtless in bed, "You weren't in the middle of something?"
"No, No, we were't having sex if that's what you thought," Leo said laughing.
"True how can you with Grams around," Paige said sitting on the bed with a box. "Came to give you this," she said handing Piper the box. Piper looked at the box pulling out an old bridle magazines, "You were obsessed with the ideal of getting married. Now you can look at these books as in what is and not what you dreamed of even though you didn't have the fancy wedding and all. Anyway I though you might just want to look at them just to realize what you use to dream of you have now. So I guess Missy Campbell and the rest of her gang can stick it," Paige joked, "Nite nite," she said and then she left the room closing the door behind her.
Piper pulled out a magazine and flipped through the pages, then the rain hit very hard followed by thunder, Piper turned over and looked at Leo next to her. "It's better if you stay here the floor gets very cold on cold nights," Piper told him, she then placed the magazine in the box and put the box on the ground, she faced her back to Leo and went to bed.
Leo looked over at Piper, he felt sorry for her, he didn't know why. It's not like she had to be married to prove herself or anything, he just lay there and then fell asleep himself.
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The morning came Piper woke up and then looked next to her to find Leo gone. She had a quick shower and got dressed. She made her way to the kitchen to find her Grandmother talking to someone under the sink, "Oh you are so handy," Grams said to the body under the sink, then she noticed Piper in the room, "Good morning sweetheart."
"Good morning Grams," Piper said walking towards the sink.
Then the body under the sink got up, "Good morning," Leo said wiping his hands with a towel.
"Good morning," Piper said back.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Yes. What about you?"
"Good. I was just fixing the sink for Grams."
"Morning," Paige said walking into the kitchen.
"Breakfast is ready," Grams said taking plates of food into the dinning room
All four sat down to have breakfast, "Grams do you know anything about that mansion down in Palm drive?" Piper asked referring to the house Michael and Emmaline Wagner both died in.
"You mean that abandoned one?" Paige asked.
"It's abandoned?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, remember how when we were kids they would say a married couple lived there and the husband killed his wife and she came back from the dead and killed him."
"I don't remember that and that's not true."
"You never know Piper."
"Paige that was just a story the neighborhood kids made up," Grams said.
"Did you know the couple that lived there?" Leo asked Grams.
"No, I was away at collage when they lived in this neighborhood."
"The wife was murdered," Piper said.
"Yes, and a week later her husband committed suicide."
"Because of his wife right?" Piper asked.
"From what I've heard yes."
"What happened to their daughter Natalie?" Leo asked.
"After her parents death she was raised by her mother's older sister."
"What about the house?" Piper asked.
"I don't know it was never lived in after the couple died in that house. The wife was murdered in their bedroom and the husband was found dead on the living room floor by his sister-in-law, his wife's youngest sister."
Piper and Leo looked at each other, "Why are you guys interested in this house anyway?" Paige asked as she buttered her toast.
"Well I do Real Estate and it just a Real Estate interest," Leo covered up.
"So what are you both doing today?" Grams asked.
"Well I was going to show Leo around since he's new in town," Piper told Grams.
"If you're not to busy maybe can both meet me for lunch?" Paige asked.
"Sure, why not," Leo said drinking his tea.
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"Well according to the address this is the house," Leo said as they drove in front of the house Michael and Emmaline both lived and died in.
"You mean that white one?" Piper asked looking out the window.
"Yeah. It looks like nobody been living here for years."
Leo and Piper parked their car down the road and walk up to the house, "Piper come here," Leo said as she was heading for the front door, "We will try to get in from the back door in that way no one will see us." Leo said grabbing Piper's hand.
Leo and Piper made there way to the back, Leo tripped the lock, "Where did you learn that?" Piper asked.
"Something I picked up when I was a kid."
Leo and Piper walked into the house, they ended up in the kitchen, "It's dark in here Leo."
"Here grab my hand," Leo said pulling his hand out.
"I was just saying it was dark, I'm not scared," Piper told him.
"Well I am" Leo joked, Piper grabbed Leo's hand as they headed out of the kitchen and past the dinning room. They ended up in what looked like the living room. Piper looked over at the table were fresh red roses would sit every day in a clear vase, the clear vase was there but no red roses. The house was full of old things and paintings.
Leo noticed a table full of pictures in picture frames, he picked one up and went to wipe the dust until Piper called his name. He went out in the hallway to see Piper heading upstairs.
Piper entered what looking like the master bedroom. It was big with a big bed in the middle of the room, the furnishings looked a expensive, she walked over to the dresser and saw a silver hand mirror and silver brush. She brushed the dust off the silver mirror and then looked at herself in the mirror thinking Emmaline looked at her self in this mirror. "Leo? Leo is that you?" Piper said when she heard someone walking her way, she turned around, but nobody said anything. She saw a black figure come toward her and then grabbed her. She heard Leo call out her name, she tried to say something but nothing came out. Piper tried to put away and the next thing she knew something went through her stomach. Feeling a sharp pain and dropped to the ground.
"Piper, Piper, wake up," Leo said with Piper in his arms.
Piper opened her eyes "Leo!" she said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and started to cry
"It's O.K. Piper I'm here."
"Leo there was some one here, here in the room with me. They were trying to kill me or they did?"
"You just fainted Piper"
"No Leo," Piper said as she pulled away from Leo "I felt it" Piper placed her hand on her stomach.
"Piper?"
"I felt someone stabbed me with a knife."
"I think we should get out of here before someone finds us." Piper and Leo both got up and headed down stairs, just as they past the living room Leo remembered the picture in the frame.
"What it is?" Piper asked as Leo walked over and picked up the picture he was looking at before, it was a picture of Michael and Emmaline with Natalie. Piper took the picture frame out of Leo's hand and looked at it. Then they heard something, they walked over to the window and wiped the dust off and noticed a man working in the gardens.
"The house is abandoned but the gardens are still being looked after," Leo said.
"You don't think it's their gardener do you?"
"I don't know but why is he keeping the gardens if the house is abandoned?"
"Maybe he's crazy?"
"I remember reading Dan Gordon was the Wagner's gardener."
"Well he looks old enough to be him."
"We gotta get out of here before he see us and we get arrested for trespassing. We'll sneek out from the back and hope he doesn't see us," Leo said taking Piper's hand.
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The Wagners - Part V
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"Piper! You're finally here!" Grams yelled as she opened the manor door to find her Granddaughter and her male friend.
"Grams hi," Piper said as the two hugged.
"OH MY GOD! You're finally married Piper! Do you know how many years I have waited for this sweetheart!" Grams said looking at the rings on Piper's finger.
"Oh this Grams..." Piper started only to be cut of by her Grandmother.
"Oh and you must be her husband," Grams said has she grabbed Leo into a hug, "What a fine gentleman you have found yourself Piper," Grams she pulling away from Leo.
"Grams about that..."
"Oh do come inside children," Grams said heading inside.
Piper and Leo looked at each other, "Maybe we should have stayed at a hotel," Piper told Leo as he grabbed their bags and walked inside.
"Paige! Your sister is here... And with her husband!" Grams yelled from the stairs.
"Piper!" Paige yelled running down the stairs.
"Paige, hi," Piper said as the two sisters hugged.
"You got married?" Paige questioned.
"Umm about that..." Piper started.
"Hi, I'm Leo..." Leo then looked at Piper and then said to Paige, "Your brother-in-law," as he shook Paige's hand.
"It's nice to meet you Leo. So Piper when did you get married?"
"Married? Ah yes, Leo and I got married a week ago and we thought instead of telling you guys over the phone we would tell you in person. Right," Piper said looking at Leo.
"That's right honey," Leo said looking back at Piper.
"Well that's good because now I don't have to give Leo my room."
"Oh that's right, Leo and Piper can both sleep together in Piper's old room," Grams said.
"We can?" Piper said with a uneasy smile.
"Sure we can honey," Leo said as he grabbed their bags.
"I'll show you the way brother-in-law," Paige said heading upstairs.
Grams walked over to Piper and said, "He seems like a keeper sweetheart. I'm so happy for you."
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Piper made her way into her room to find Leo pulling clothes away into draws, "Hi," Leo said as soon has he saw Piper.
"I'm sorry about before."
"No, it's fine. We are married remember, it's our cover."
"But we told my Grandmother that. Don't worry I'll tell her in six months we're divorced." Leo laughed, "Anyway I came to tell you dinner is ready."
Piper and Leo walked down the stairs together and into the dinning room to find Grams and Paige setting the table. Leo quickly put his arm around Piper's waist as Paige looked up to notice the two were in the room. "Awww you two look so cute you should get married," Paige said. Leo and Piper looked at each other, "I was just kidding."
"Oh we knew that," Piper said.
"Oh Piper, Leo, I've set these two seats for both of you so you can sit together," Grams said patting the chairs.
"Thank you Grams," Leo said as him and Piper took their seats.
"Oh you're such a sweet boy. My Granddaughter found the perfect husband," Grams said that made Piper blush, Leo looked over and Piper and smiled at her laughing.
Dinner went on as dinner could, Grams bombarded Leo with questions about himself but it didn't bother him. "So how long have you known my sister for?" Paige asked Leo.
"Six months," Piper quickly butted in, "We met when I was on holiday in Queenstown."
"You mean that holiday you took to New Zealand?"
"Yes, we met there."
"That's right, we were in the ski fields," Leo added on.
"So when do I get Great Grandchildren?" Grams said out of the blue.
Piper choked on her food as she has she heard that come out of her Grandmother's mouth, "Are you O.K?" Leo asked rubbing Piper's back.
Piper took a deep breath, "I'm fine," she said as Leo handed her a glass of water.
"Are you all right sweetheart?" Grams asked.
"Yes Grams. I think I'm just going to go upstairs and rest for a while."
"Do you want me to come up with you?" Leo asked in case she need something.
"No I'll be fine Leo... On second thoughts maybe you should," Piper said grabbing his arm.
As the couple walked out Grams said to Paige, "Do you think Piper is pregnant?" Piper and Leo both heard what Grams said, Piper just rolled her eyes as her and Leo headed up the stairs.
"Welcome to my family Leo," Piper said as she unpacked her stuff in her room.
"I really like your Grandmother Piper," Leo said lying on the bed.
"Well you never grew up with her Leo, that's another story."
"Do you want some help Piper?" Leo asked.
"No! I don't want you looking at my bras."
Then there was a knock on their door, it was Grams, "Piper, Leo? Are you having sex in there?"
"Oh my god this is so embarrassing," Piper said heading for the door all Leo could do was laugh. "How may we help you Grams?" Piper said opening the door.
"Oh was I interrupting anything? Grams said with two bowls of Ice Cream in her hands.
"No we were just unpacking Grams."
"Oh well I brought you both some Ice Cream, your favorite Piper, Chocolate."
"Thank you Grams," Leo said from behind Piper.
Grams handed Leo and bowl and then Piper hers, "Well carry on your unpacking," Grams said leaving the two.
"So about what your Grams said before," Leo started to say as the two ate Ice Cream, Leo was sitting on Piper's bed and Piper was standing near the dresser.
"If we were having sex in here?"
"Yeah, did you ever bring any of your boyfriends home and on here?" Leo said pointing to the bed with his spoon.
"No, I never had sex during high school."
"Really?"
"Yeah well I didn't find the right person I wanted to with during high school. What about you?"
"I was 15 the first time to a women twice my age."
"You had sex with older women?"
"Yeah all the time, but it was just sex. Until I met my ex wife, she was just a couple of years younger than me."
"May I ask what happened?" Piper asked taking a seat next to Leo on her bed.
"I came back home early from a business trip, so I thought I would surprise my wife but I ended up getting the surprise when I found her in bed with someone else. She was the one who asked me for a divorce saying I was never around when she need me."
"Do you believe that?"
"Part of me does but then another part says it was just an excuse."
"Do you still love her?" Piper asked.
Leo looked at Piper, "I can honest say I don't anymore."
"It's past midnight," Piper said looking at the time, she took Leo's bowl and placed it on the dresser with hers.
"You can take your bed, I'll sleep on the floor," Leo said grabbing some blankets.
Piper and Leo where both changed and were in their beds when they hear a knock on the door, "Quickly get in," Piper whispered to Leo, he quickly got into bed next to Piper, "It's open," Piper yelled.
"You know you should get a lock on the door you don't want Grams walking into on you two while you're having sex," Paige said as she opened the door.
"Paige hello," Piper said.
Paige looked at Leo shirtless in bed, "You weren't in the middle of something?"
"No, No, we were't having sex if that's what you thought," Leo said laughing.
"True how can you with Grams around," Paige said sitting on the bed with a box. "Came to give you this," she said handing Piper the box. Piper looked at the box pulling out an old bridle magazines, "You were obsessed with the ideal of getting married. Now you can look at these books as in what is and not what you dreamed of even though you didn't have the fancy wedding and all. Anyway I though you might just want to look at them just to realize what you use to dream of you have now. So I guess Missy Campbell and the rest of her gang can stick it," Paige joked, "Nite nite," she said and then she left the room closing the door behind her.
Piper pulled out a magazine and flipped through the pages, then the rain hit very hard followed by thunder, Piper turned over and looked at Leo next to her. "It's better if you stay here the floor gets very cold on cold nights," Piper told him, she then placed the magazine in the box and put the box on the ground, she faced her back to Leo and went to bed.
Leo looked over at Piper, he felt sorry for her, he didn't know why. It's not like she had to be married to prove herself or anything, he just lay there and then fell asleep himself.
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The morning came Piper woke up and then looked next to her to find Leo gone. She had a quick shower and got dressed. She made her way to the kitchen to find her Grandmother talking to someone under the sink, "Oh you are so handy," Grams said to the body under the sink, then she noticed Piper in the room, "Good morning sweetheart."
"Good morning Grams," Piper said walking towards the sink.
Then the body under the sink got up, "Good morning," Leo said wiping his hands with a towel.
"Good morning," Piper said back.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Yes. What about you?"
"Good. I was just fixing the sink for Grams."
"Morning," Paige said walking into the kitchen.
"Breakfast is ready," Grams said taking plates of food into the dinning room
All four sat down to have breakfast, "Grams do you know anything about that mansion down in Palm drive?" Piper asked referring to the house Michael and Emmaline Wagner both died in.
"You mean that abandoned one?" Paige asked.
"It's abandoned?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, remember how when we were kids they would say a married couple lived there and the husband killed his wife and she came back from the dead and killed him."
"I don't remember that and that's not true."
"You never know Piper."
"Paige that was just a story the neighborhood kids made up," Grams said.
"Did you know the couple that lived there?" Leo asked Grams.
"No, I was away at collage when they lived in this neighborhood."
"The wife was murdered," Piper said.
"Yes, and a week later her husband committed suicide."
"Because of his wife right?" Piper asked.
"From what I've heard yes."
"What happened to their daughter Natalie?" Leo asked.
"After her parents death she was raised by her mother's older sister."
"What about the house?" Piper asked.
"I don't know it was never lived in after the couple died in that house. The wife was murdered in their bedroom and the husband was found dead on the living room floor by his sister-in-law, his wife's youngest sister."
Piper and Leo looked at each other, "Why are you guys interested in this house anyway?" Paige asked as she buttered her toast.
"Well I do Real Estate and it just a Real Estate interest," Leo covered up.
"So what are you both doing today?" Grams asked.
"Well I was going to show Leo around since he's new in town," Piper told Grams.
"If you're not to busy maybe can both meet me for lunch?" Paige asked.
"Sure, why not," Leo said drinking his tea.
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"Well according to the address this is the house," Leo said as they drove in front of the house Michael and Emmaline both lived and died in.
"You mean that white one?" Piper asked looking out the window.
"Yeah. It looks like nobody been living here for years."
Leo and Piper parked their car down the road and walk up to the house, "Piper come here," Leo said as she was heading for the front door, "We will try to get in from the back door in that way no one will see us." Leo said grabbing Piper's hand.
Leo and Piper made there way to the back, Leo tripped the lock, "Where did you learn that?" Piper asked.
"Something I picked up when I was a kid."
Leo and Piper walked into the house, they ended up in the kitchen, "It's dark in here Leo."
"Here grab my hand," Leo said pulling his hand out.
"I was just saying it was dark, I'm not scared," Piper told him.
"Well I am" Leo joked, Piper grabbed Leo's hand as they headed out of the kitchen and past the dinning room. They ended up in what looked like the living room. Piper looked over at the table were fresh red roses would sit every day in a clear vase, the clear vase was there but no red roses. The house was full of old things and paintings.
Leo noticed a table full of pictures in picture frames, he picked one up and went to wipe the dust until Piper called his name. He went out in the hallway to see Piper heading upstairs.
Piper entered what looking like the master bedroom. It was big with a big bed in the middle of the room, the furnishings looked a expensive, she walked over to the dresser and saw a silver hand mirror and silver brush. She brushed the dust off the silver mirror and then looked at herself in the mirror thinking Emmaline looked at her self in this mirror. "Leo? Leo is that you?" Piper said when she heard someone walking her way, she turned around, but nobody said anything. She saw a black figure come toward her and then grabbed her. She heard Leo call out her name, she tried to say something but nothing came out. Piper tried to put away and the next thing she knew something went through her stomach. Feeling a sharp pain and dropped to the ground.
"Piper, Piper, wake up," Leo said with Piper in his arms.
Piper opened her eyes "Leo!" she said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and started to cry
"It's O.K. Piper I'm here."
"Leo there was some one here, here in the room with me. They were trying to kill me or they did?"
"You just fainted Piper"
"No Leo," Piper said as she pulled away from Leo "I felt it" Piper placed her hand on her stomach.
"Piper?"
"I felt someone stabbed me with a knife."
"I think we should get out of here before someone finds us." Piper and Leo both got up and headed down stairs, just as they past the living room Leo remembered the picture in the frame.
"What it is?" Piper asked as Leo walked over and picked up the picture he was looking at before, it was a picture of Michael and Emmaline with Natalie. Piper took the picture frame out of Leo's hand and looked at it. Then they heard something, they walked over to the window and wiped the dust off and noticed a man working in the gardens.
"The house is abandoned but the gardens are still being looked after," Leo said.
"You don't think it's their gardener do you?"
"I don't know but why is he keeping the gardens if the house is abandoned?"
"Maybe he's crazy?"
"I remember reading Dan Gordon was the Wagner's gardener."
"Well he looks old enough to be him."
"We gotta get out of here before he see us and we get arrested for trespassing. We'll sneek out from the back and hope he doesn't see us," Leo said taking Piper's hand.
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