Eli: And I'm back!!! Thanks for all the reviews!! Now here's a chapter for
all the SPIN-ers who have all been so patiently lurking in the corner!
*evil gryn* Enjoy!!!!!
As the movie continued, the girls started to get restless in between the songs. They had stopped singing after 'Reflection' and were just sitting around, bored. Una grabbed her back pack and started looking through it.
She looked at all she had brought with her and kept shaking her head. "No. No. Nu uh. No. No...... Hm, Maybe. Eli?" The other little girl turned her head toward her. "I got bon bon's. Wanna play with them?"
She nodded. "Yeah, but I'm not good at putting them on." She told her.
"Don't worry, neither am I." She told her as she brought out a little make up bag and opened the zipper.
"What are bon bon's?" Sara asked them.
"These." Una answered as she then dumped the contents of the make up bag out onto the table. About two dozen tiny bottles of nail polish were scattered all over the table. The girls scooted together and started putting all the bottles up right.
Eli stopped to look at a neon green color that reminded her of frogs and those little cars she had seen people drive around. "Oh, pretty." She said quietly before she placed it back onto the table with the others.
Una arranged all of her bon bon's in a line, putting them in order by how colors go on a rainbow. She also has nail polish remover and some cotton balls that she put on either end of the line. "There, now we can choose the colors we want."
Eli immediately grabbed the neon green, and then also chose a dark forest green to go with it. Una picked Metallic purple and a light sky blue to put on her nails. Before they could start painting, Ian made them put napkins down over where they would paint just in case they spilled, which he knew would probably would happen.
Both girls were right handed, so they both painted their left hands one color, intending on making their right hands the other color they chose. They had used the sky blue and forest green first. They blew on their nails, trying to make the process of the nail polish drying go quicker.
"Oops!" Una said when she knocked the little canister of sky blue over, spilling some onto the napkins. When she picked it back up, she got nail polish onto her fingers, so she opened the bottle of nail polish remover and put some onto a cotton ball and wiped the nail polish off her hand, accidentally rubbing part of the nail polish on her nails off. She pouted and groaned.
Eli tried to help her from rubbing her nail polish off by trying to get the nail polish off Una's fingers for her. But then she accidentally put her elbow down onto the little pool of nail polish that had been on the napkin. They both groaned as they got out even more remover. By the time they were clean again, most of the nail polish on their left hands had smeared or had been accidentally removed.
Both girls were now very upset. Una looked over at he adults and pouted. "We can't do this. Auntie Sara, can you help us?"
She winced. "Sorry, kiddo. I don't know how to use that stuff any better than you two." She told her.
By now, the girls were ready to burst into full out water works. Eli was almost shaking form wanting to cry out of frustration. Ian had been watching them, hoping that it wouldn't come to this. He couldn't just let them cry. He sighed.
He got off the couch and sat by the girls. "All right, which colors do you two want to get put on?" He asked them quietly.
All three females looked at him confused. "Huh?" Sara mumbled out loud, trying to make sure she heard him right. He tried to keep the embarrassment level down, but was not succeeding. He repeated his sentence, just hoping that laughter would not follow.
"Ian, YOU know how to paint nails?" Eli asked, all most in shock. He nodded. She looked at him curiously, and he couldn't tell what she was thinking. Then she smiled. "Cool!" she said happily.
"Me first, me first!" Una said as she showed him the sky blue that she wanted put on.
Sara watched as he put the girl's nail polish on for them. 'No way! Ian Nottingham, assassin, cryptic stalker, bodyguard for one of the richest men in the world, paints nails? Too funny, calm down! Oh, thank God I didn't laugh, cause that would have set off the girl's and he would never hear the end of it, and he's been too.... Well, just too nice to have to deal with that. The girl's are really taken with him. I think Una might have a crush... Damn, Danny will kill me for that if she blurts it out to him. Well, it's not like he won't all ready kill me for brining Una here, but if he could only see how this guy is with them.' She thought to herself as he finished up Una and started on Eli.
Una blew on her nails hard to make them dry as fast as possible. When she was sure they were dry, she went over to Sara to show them off. "Auntie Sara, look look! He made them really pretty! Look look!" She said excitedly.
Sara nodded. "Yes, very pretty."
Eli did the same thing when Ian finished her nails as well. The girls were so happy to get their nails done that they were almost bouncing. Eli looked over at Sara. "Hey, Ian, why don't you paint Sara's nails? Make them look pretty, too!" She suggested as she tried to pull Sara down onto the floor.
"I don't think so, half pint." She said as she resisted Eli pulling her down to the floor.
"Oh, come on, Auntie Sara. It will look really pretty!" Una said encouragingly as she joined with Eli in trying to pull Sara off the couch. In the pulling, Eli accidentally came in contact with the bracelet on Sara's wrist. The witchblade quickly flashed and Eli let go.
"Ow!" Eli cried out as she kissed her index finger. "Sara, I think your bracelet bit me." She said matter of factly as she stared at the eye of the witchblade.
Sara glanced down at the bracelet, a confused and a bit scared as to why it had hurt the poor little one for simply coming in contact with it. The girls were getting scared, so she looked up and shook her head. "Nah, it didn't bite you, you just caught your finger on one of the rough edges." She explained to her. The girls only looked half convinced, so she changed the subject. "Hey, why don't you two pick out a color for me, and I'll get my nails painted too?"
Una smiled and started looking through her bon bon's. Eli looked at her a little bit longer before she quietly nodded and started looking through the bon bon's as well.
Sara sat down on the floor beside Ian. The girls handed him a deep, blood red color and he started to paint her nails. They then caught got the remote and rewound part of the movie so that they could watch it. They were too caught up in the movie to listen to the adults.
"Why did it bite her?" Sara asked.
"It is not fond of children, no matter how innocent. The witchblade believes in earning your right to live, and in its eye, children are yet to earn that right." He answered. "Joan of Arc acquired it as a child, and look what cruel tests and ordeals she had to go through because of it. I suggest you keep it out of the way of children." He explained. "There, your nails are done."
"Thanks, you should try to answer me like that all the time." She told him before she got up and sat on the couch with the girls for the rest of the movie.
-Later-
The movie had ended and they had had the girls get ready for bed. They had protested at first, and had ran off to hide, but after ten minutes of hunting, Ian had caught then. He had then dragged them down to the guest bathroom, and despite the fact that they both knocked over tables and pictures on the way, got them to get ready for bed. Though they had kicked his ankles, he had been lucky enough not to be the one to deal with them taking a bath.
When Sara herded them back into the living room, the girls were dressed in jammies, and she was dressed in wet clothing. He knew better than to laugh, though the image made him want to. The girls were frowning. "Ian, Sara says it's time for bed." Eli grumbled.
He smirked. "Well, then I guess it is time for bed." He told her. Her jaw dropped before she scowled.
"Not fair, you're double teaming us!" Una accused. The adults shrugged. The girls pouted even more and crossed their arms. "We're not going to bed! It's too early!" They said seriously. Ian walked over to them and stared down at them. Una trembled a little, but Eli stared back up with all the defiance of a teenager.
"Are you both quite sure you will not go to bed by yourselves?" They nodded. He sighed, which he found he was doing more and more these days, and with motion that was too fast for their eyes to see, he picked them up and started carrying them up stairs to Eli's bed room. Eli was flung over his shoulder and Una was tucked next to his side. Eli was moaning very loudly as Una kept trying to bite Ian's arm. He shook his head. "What happened to the sweet little girls who were here earlier?" He asked them as he pushed the door open and tossed the two little hellions onto the bed.
Eli stuck her tongue out at him. Sara shook her head. "I think if the demons are put to sleep now, we can see the better halves again in the morning. And hopefully, those little girls won't decide to make tidal waves in the middle of a bath, not that they'll have another chance to, not with me anyway." The girls giggled and smiled mischievously. "All right, half pints, you have had your fun. Now go to bed." She told them.
Eli sighed. "Do we halfta?" She asked in a whine.
"Yes." The answer was followed by whimpering. "No, none of that, go to bed."
"But we don't have our stuffies!" Una complained. Eli nodded. "Yeah, we won't sleep without our pokemon." She announced. Just as she had shut her mouth, pikachu and squirttle were thrown at them. They looked over at Ian. "How did you do that?" She asked.
He shrugged. She asked again five more times, and he finally said "If you go to sleep, I'll tell you in the morning." He offered. The girls looked at each other and leaned close to start to whisper. The words 'waterguns' and 'jello' could be heard, followed by some loud giggling. They turned back to the adults and smiled sweetly. "All right." They told them and obediently got under the covers.
The adults eyed them suspiciously. "Okay, don't you wanna a story or anything?" Sara asked them. They shook their heads, and she lifted an eye brow at them in that very Sara-ish way that she does. Something was definitely up. Cautiously, they shut off the lights and closed the door.
"Ssss, Una, are you awake?"
"Uh huh, of course. I don't hear them any more, let's go!"
Both girls kicked the covers off and went toward the door. Una got their face and turned the doorknob. "Eli, it's stuck!" She whispered.
Eli shook her head. "No way, let me try." She whispered back as she pulled on the doorknob and groaned. "It's locked! How can it be locked....?" She said, very shocked. She thought for a moment and then frowned. "Ian...." She said out loud in a grrrrrrrr like voice. "I'm gonna change him into a rat!" Eli declared.
"What?" Una asked her, confused. Eli shook her head. "Never mind." She told her. Una flicked on the ceiling lights. "So what are we gonna do all night?" She asked as she opened up the one pocket in her backpack that hadn't been opened yet. "Cause if we don't have nothin' to do, then all this soda we smuggled will go to waste."
Eli nodded as she went over to her bag and pulled out a couple of bags of candy. "I know, all the candy, too." They looked around the room. They went into the little half bathroom that was connected to Eli's room to look fro another door, but there was none. They looked behind the pictures and tapestries on the walls and after a fit of sneezing, they gave up. They sat down on the edge of the bed, very upset and disappointed.
Then, Eli noticed the cabinet that was against the wall opposite to them. They had looked behind it for a door, but had not checked inside it. Eli gave Una a boost and the little girl opened the two large cabinet doors, and they smiled. They had found a TV set complete with a remote control. They shut off the lights, put the candy and the soda near them, and turned on the TV. They flipped through the channels until they reached Nickelodeon. They lay on their stomachs under the covers as the credits to Space Cases finished up.
Just then, the TV screen went dark and erie. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" The TV screen asked them. "Uh huh!" They answered and hid under the covers. They scooted closer together and lifted the covers back up to munch on candy. They were regular watchers of this show, and they watched in anticipation to see who would tell tonight's story.
"Uh oh...." Una said outloud. "It's Betty Ann again."
"Oh no! I remember Tucker said she tells the scariest stories! Remember the one with the doll?" Eli asked her. Una nodded. "Well, maybe she won't tell a story like that tonight."
The story that was told was about two kids that got lost with their baby sitter on the ride home from a carnival, and had to stop at a huge, scary mansion that had walls that whispered to them. Una and Eli were shaking from fear as the show went to a quick commercial.
"Una?"
"Yes?"
"Walls don't REALLY say things, right?" Eli asked.
"Well, I'm not sure... I've never heard one talk" She answered.
"Oh, okay." She said as she sipped her soda. The show soon came on again and they munched on reeses pieces as the kids were swarmed by a household full of ghosts.
Una was about to ask Eli for some of her Twix when she was cut off by a loud moaning sound. "What was that?!" She asked Eli. "I don't know!! I've never heard it before!" The moaning was heard again, except louder. "That sounds like the lady ghost!"
They shut the TV off and huddled together under the blankets. Then the moaning stopped. "What was that?"
"I'm not sure." Eli answered.
"Do you think it was a whispering wall ghost?" Una asked. Eli shrugged, when the moaning started up again, this time with banging noises along with it.
"Yesssssssssssssss. Yessssssssssssssssssssss."
The girls looked at each other wide eyed. "Oh my God, it's talking, it's talking!" Eli whispered in pure horror as they tried to make themselves part of the bed. "Please don't kill us wall whisperers! Please don't hurt us! Okay?!" Una asked it, trying not to cry.
"Yesssssssssssssssss! Yessssssssssss! Iiiiiiaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnn!"
The girls were scared speechless. Eli started crying as the noise stopped. "It... it... got 'em!" She whimpered out as she hid her face in her hands. "It.... got'em!" She didn't care if she soaked up the whole bed with water, because the whispering walls had taken Ian away, and she was truly upset. 'Dear God, please make the whispering walls give him back alive. I take back wanting to turn him into a rat! I promise I will be the best little girl ever, just don't let him be hurt or nothin'!'
"Wait, Eli, listen!" Una whispered. They could hear adult voices! Not whispering walls, but adults voices. And not just any adults voices.....
"They're okay! They must have beat up the whispering walls!" Eli said happily. She wiped her tears away with the palms of her hands. She pushed the covers off and turned the TV back on. "It's all okay now!"
"Yeah!" Una agreed, though they did change the channel before the next story of Are you Afraid of the Dark could be heard.
-Next Morning-
Eli and Una woke up early. They had fallen asleep sometime in between Aladdin and The Little Mermaid the TV shows. They stretched their arms and legs and crawled out of the bed. Still in their froggy and powerpuff girl jammies (Eli in froggy, Una in powerpuff girl. Little girls know how to pack!) they tried to open the door again and found that it was still locked. They were about to scream for the adults when they noticed that they someone had slid the key underneath the door. They smiled and unlocked the door.
They peeked into the hallway and didn't see anyone, so they left the room. They looked down the hall and glanced at each other extremely confused.
"Why are there clothes on the hallway?" Una asked out loud.
They slowly went down the hall, picking up and dropping various things of clothes. A black shirt, a white under tank, a belt....
"What's this?" Eli asked as she picked up the black strappy thing that had what she thought were bowls attached to it. Una shrugged. "I'm not sure..."
The little girl looked at it carefully, holding it this way and that. She connected the parts that connected and nodded. "Oh, I think it's a broken mickey mouse hat!" Eli announced as she put it on her head an tried to arrange it into a hat again. at some point, she found a way to make it stay in place. "See, a hat!" She announced, even though it was a bit lopsided.
Una nodded. "I guess. Hey what's that sound?" She asked suddenly as a dull ringing could be heard, coming from some where on the ground. Eli picked up a long piece of clothing, that turned out to be a long pair of black pants, and dug into the pocket.
"It's Ian's cell phone. I'm gonna answer it." She announced as she flipped it open and put it up to her ear. Una watched curiously as Eli smiled at the funny voice over the phone. "Hi Iron man!"
As the movie continued, the girls started to get restless in between the songs. They had stopped singing after 'Reflection' and were just sitting around, bored. Una grabbed her back pack and started looking through it.
She looked at all she had brought with her and kept shaking her head. "No. No. Nu uh. No. No...... Hm, Maybe. Eli?" The other little girl turned her head toward her. "I got bon bon's. Wanna play with them?"
She nodded. "Yeah, but I'm not good at putting them on." She told her.
"Don't worry, neither am I." She told her as she brought out a little make up bag and opened the zipper.
"What are bon bon's?" Sara asked them.
"These." Una answered as she then dumped the contents of the make up bag out onto the table. About two dozen tiny bottles of nail polish were scattered all over the table. The girls scooted together and started putting all the bottles up right.
Eli stopped to look at a neon green color that reminded her of frogs and those little cars she had seen people drive around. "Oh, pretty." She said quietly before she placed it back onto the table with the others.
Una arranged all of her bon bon's in a line, putting them in order by how colors go on a rainbow. She also has nail polish remover and some cotton balls that she put on either end of the line. "There, now we can choose the colors we want."
Eli immediately grabbed the neon green, and then also chose a dark forest green to go with it. Una picked Metallic purple and a light sky blue to put on her nails. Before they could start painting, Ian made them put napkins down over where they would paint just in case they spilled, which he knew would probably would happen.
Both girls were right handed, so they both painted their left hands one color, intending on making their right hands the other color they chose. They had used the sky blue and forest green first. They blew on their nails, trying to make the process of the nail polish drying go quicker.
"Oops!" Una said when she knocked the little canister of sky blue over, spilling some onto the napkins. When she picked it back up, she got nail polish onto her fingers, so she opened the bottle of nail polish remover and put some onto a cotton ball and wiped the nail polish off her hand, accidentally rubbing part of the nail polish on her nails off. She pouted and groaned.
Eli tried to help her from rubbing her nail polish off by trying to get the nail polish off Una's fingers for her. But then she accidentally put her elbow down onto the little pool of nail polish that had been on the napkin. They both groaned as they got out even more remover. By the time they were clean again, most of the nail polish on their left hands had smeared or had been accidentally removed.
Both girls were now very upset. Una looked over at he adults and pouted. "We can't do this. Auntie Sara, can you help us?"
She winced. "Sorry, kiddo. I don't know how to use that stuff any better than you two." She told her.
By now, the girls were ready to burst into full out water works. Eli was almost shaking form wanting to cry out of frustration. Ian had been watching them, hoping that it wouldn't come to this. He couldn't just let them cry. He sighed.
He got off the couch and sat by the girls. "All right, which colors do you two want to get put on?" He asked them quietly.
All three females looked at him confused. "Huh?" Sara mumbled out loud, trying to make sure she heard him right. He tried to keep the embarrassment level down, but was not succeeding. He repeated his sentence, just hoping that laughter would not follow.
"Ian, YOU know how to paint nails?" Eli asked, all most in shock. He nodded. She looked at him curiously, and he couldn't tell what she was thinking. Then she smiled. "Cool!" she said happily.
"Me first, me first!" Una said as she showed him the sky blue that she wanted put on.
Sara watched as he put the girl's nail polish on for them. 'No way! Ian Nottingham, assassin, cryptic stalker, bodyguard for one of the richest men in the world, paints nails? Too funny, calm down! Oh, thank God I didn't laugh, cause that would have set off the girl's and he would never hear the end of it, and he's been too.... Well, just too nice to have to deal with that. The girl's are really taken with him. I think Una might have a crush... Damn, Danny will kill me for that if she blurts it out to him. Well, it's not like he won't all ready kill me for brining Una here, but if he could only see how this guy is with them.' She thought to herself as he finished up Una and started on Eli.
Una blew on her nails hard to make them dry as fast as possible. When she was sure they were dry, she went over to Sara to show them off. "Auntie Sara, look look! He made them really pretty! Look look!" She said excitedly.
Sara nodded. "Yes, very pretty."
Eli did the same thing when Ian finished her nails as well. The girls were so happy to get their nails done that they were almost bouncing. Eli looked over at Sara. "Hey, Ian, why don't you paint Sara's nails? Make them look pretty, too!" She suggested as she tried to pull Sara down onto the floor.
"I don't think so, half pint." She said as she resisted Eli pulling her down to the floor.
"Oh, come on, Auntie Sara. It will look really pretty!" Una said encouragingly as she joined with Eli in trying to pull Sara off the couch. In the pulling, Eli accidentally came in contact with the bracelet on Sara's wrist. The witchblade quickly flashed and Eli let go.
"Ow!" Eli cried out as she kissed her index finger. "Sara, I think your bracelet bit me." She said matter of factly as she stared at the eye of the witchblade.
Sara glanced down at the bracelet, a confused and a bit scared as to why it had hurt the poor little one for simply coming in contact with it. The girls were getting scared, so she looked up and shook her head. "Nah, it didn't bite you, you just caught your finger on one of the rough edges." She explained to her. The girls only looked half convinced, so she changed the subject. "Hey, why don't you two pick out a color for me, and I'll get my nails painted too?"
Una smiled and started looking through her bon bon's. Eli looked at her a little bit longer before she quietly nodded and started looking through the bon bon's as well.
Sara sat down on the floor beside Ian. The girls handed him a deep, blood red color and he started to paint her nails. They then caught got the remote and rewound part of the movie so that they could watch it. They were too caught up in the movie to listen to the adults.
"Why did it bite her?" Sara asked.
"It is not fond of children, no matter how innocent. The witchblade believes in earning your right to live, and in its eye, children are yet to earn that right." He answered. "Joan of Arc acquired it as a child, and look what cruel tests and ordeals she had to go through because of it. I suggest you keep it out of the way of children." He explained. "There, your nails are done."
"Thanks, you should try to answer me like that all the time." She told him before she got up and sat on the couch with the girls for the rest of the movie.
-Later-
The movie had ended and they had had the girls get ready for bed. They had protested at first, and had ran off to hide, but after ten minutes of hunting, Ian had caught then. He had then dragged them down to the guest bathroom, and despite the fact that they both knocked over tables and pictures on the way, got them to get ready for bed. Though they had kicked his ankles, he had been lucky enough not to be the one to deal with them taking a bath.
When Sara herded them back into the living room, the girls were dressed in jammies, and she was dressed in wet clothing. He knew better than to laugh, though the image made him want to. The girls were frowning. "Ian, Sara says it's time for bed." Eli grumbled.
He smirked. "Well, then I guess it is time for bed." He told her. Her jaw dropped before she scowled.
"Not fair, you're double teaming us!" Una accused. The adults shrugged. The girls pouted even more and crossed their arms. "We're not going to bed! It's too early!" They said seriously. Ian walked over to them and stared down at them. Una trembled a little, but Eli stared back up with all the defiance of a teenager.
"Are you both quite sure you will not go to bed by yourselves?" They nodded. He sighed, which he found he was doing more and more these days, and with motion that was too fast for their eyes to see, he picked them up and started carrying them up stairs to Eli's bed room. Eli was flung over his shoulder and Una was tucked next to his side. Eli was moaning very loudly as Una kept trying to bite Ian's arm. He shook his head. "What happened to the sweet little girls who were here earlier?" He asked them as he pushed the door open and tossed the two little hellions onto the bed.
Eli stuck her tongue out at him. Sara shook her head. "I think if the demons are put to sleep now, we can see the better halves again in the morning. And hopefully, those little girls won't decide to make tidal waves in the middle of a bath, not that they'll have another chance to, not with me anyway." The girls giggled and smiled mischievously. "All right, half pints, you have had your fun. Now go to bed." She told them.
Eli sighed. "Do we halfta?" She asked in a whine.
"Yes." The answer was followed by whimpering. "No, none of that, go to bed."
"But we don't have our stuffies!" Una complained. Eli nodded. "Yeah, we won't sleep without our pokemon." She announced. Just as she had shut her mouth, pikachu and squirttle were thrown at them. They looked over at Ian. "How did you do that?" She asked.
He shrugged. She asked again five more times, and he finally said "If you go to sleep, I'll tell you in the morning." He offered. The girls looked at each other and leaned close to start to whisper. The words 'waterguns' and 'jello' could be heard, followed by some loud giggling. They turned back to the adults and smiled sweetly. "All right." They told them and obediently got under the covers.
The adults eyed them suspiciously. "Okay, don't you wanna a story or anything?" Sara asked them. They shook their heads, and she lifted an eye brow at them in that very Sara-ish way that she does. Something was definitely up. Cautiously, they shut off the lights and closed the door.
"Ssss, Una, are you awake?"
"Uh huh, of course. I don't hear them any more, let's go!"
Both girls kicked the covers off and went toward the door. Una got their face and turned the doorknob. "Eli, it's stuck!" She whispered.
Eli shook her head. "No way, let me try." She whispered back as she pulled on the doorknob and groaned. "It's locked! How can it be locked....?" She said, very shocked. She thought for a moment and then frowned. "Ian...." She said out loud in a grrrrrrrr like voice. "I'm gonna change him into a rat!" Eli declared.
"What?" Una asked her, confused. Eli shook her head. "Never mind." She told her. Una flicked on the ceiling lights. "So what are we gonna do all night?" She asked as she opened up the one pocket in her backpack that hadn't been opened yet. "Cause if we don't have nothin' to do, then all this soda we smuggled will go to waste."
Eli nodded as she went over to her bag and pulled out a couple of bags of candy. "I know, all the candy, too." They looked around the room. They went into the little half bathroom that was connected to Eli's room to look fro another door, but there was none. They looked behind the pictures and tapestries on the walls and after a fit of sneezing, they gave up. They sat down on the edge of the bed, very upset and disappointed.
Then, Eli noticed the cabinet that was against the wall opposite to them. They had looked behind it for a door, but had not checked inside it. Eli gave Una a boost and the little girl opened the two large cabinet doors, and they smiled. They had found a TV set complete with a remote control. They shut off the lights, put the candy and the soda near them, and turned on the TV. They flipped through the channels until they reached Nickelodeon. They lay on their stomachs under the covers as the credits to Space Cases finished up.
Just then, the TV screen went dark and erie. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" The TV screen asked them. "Uh huh!" They answered and hid under the covers. They scooted closer together and lifted the covers back up to munch on candy. They were regular watchers of this show, and they watched in anticipation to see who would tell tonight's story.
"Uh oh...." Una said outloud. "It's Betty Ann again."
"Oh no! I remember Tucker said she tells the scariest stories! Remember the one with the doll?" Eli asked her. Una nodded. "Well, maybe she won't tell a story like that tonight."
The story that was told was about two kids that got lost with their baby sitter on the ride home from a carnival, and had to stop at a huge, scary mansion that had walls that whispered to them. Una and Eli were shaking from fear as the show went to a quick commercial.
"Una?"
"Yes?"
"Walls don't REALLY say things, right?" Eli asked.
"Well, I'm not sure... I've never heard one talk" She answered.
"Oh, okay." She said as she sipped her soda. The show soon came on again and they munched on reeses pieces as the kids were swarmed by a household full of ghosts.
Una was about to ask Eli for some of her Twix when she was cut off by a loud moaning sound. "What was that?!" She asked Eli. "I don't know!! I've never heard it before!" The moaning was heard again, except louder. "That sounds like the lady ghost!"
They shut the TV off and huddled together under the blankets. Then the moaning stopped. "What was that?"
"I'm not sure." Eli answered.
"Do you think it was a whispering wall ghost?" Una asked. Eli shrugged, when the moaning started up again, this time with banging noises along with it.
"Yesssssssssssssss. Yessssssssssssssssssssss."
The girls looked at each other wide eyed. "Oh my God, it's talking, it's talking!" Eli whispered in pure horror as they tried to make themselves part of the bed. "Please don't kill us wall whisperers! Please don't hurt us! Okay?!" Una asked it, trying not to cry.
"Yesssssssssssssssss! Yessssssssssss! Iiiiiiaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnn!"
The girls were scared speechless. Eli started crying as the noise stopped. "It... it... got 'em!" She whimpered out as she hid her face in her hands. "It.... got'em!" She didn't care if she soaked up the whole bed with water, because the whispering walls had taken Ian away, and she was truly upset. 'Dear God, please make the whispering walls give him back alive. I take back wanting to turn him into a rat! I promise I will be the best little girl ever, just don't let him be hurt or nothin'!'
"Wait, Eli, listen!" Una whispered. They could hear adult voices! Not whispering walls, but adults voices. And not just any adults voices.....
"They're okay! They must have beat up the whispering walls!" Eli said happily. She wiped her tears away with the palms of her hands. She pushed the covers off and turned the TV back on. "It's all okay now!"
"Yeah!" Una agreed, though they did change the channel before the next story of Are you Afraid of the Dark could be heard.
-Next Morning-
Eli and Una woke up early. They had fallen asleep sometime in between Aladdin and The Little Mermaid the TV shows. They stretched their arms and legs and crawled out of the bed. Still in their froggy and powerpuff girl jammies (Eli in froggy, Una in powerpuff girl. Little girls know how to pack!) they tried to open the door again and found that it was still locked. They were about to scream for the adults when they noticed that they someone had slid the key underneath the door. They smiled and unlocked the door.
They peeked into the hallway and didn't see anyone, so they left the room. They looked down the hall and glanced at each other extremely confused.
"Why are there clothes on the hallway?" Una asked out loud.
They slowly went down the hall, picking up and dropping various things of clothes. A black shirt, a white under tank, a belt....
"What's this?" Eli asked as she picked up the black strappy thing that had what she thought were bowls attached to it. Una shrugged. "I'm not sure..."
The little girl looked at it carefully, holding it this way and that. She connected the parts that connected and nodded. "Oh, I think it's a broken mickey mouse hat!" Eli announced as she put it on her head an tried to arrange it into a hat again. at some point, she found a way to make it stay in place. "See, a hat!" She announced, even though it was a bit lopsided.
Una nodded. "I guess. Hey what's that sound?" She asked suddenly as a dull ringing could be heard, coming from some where on the ground. Eli picked up a long piece of clothing, that turned out to be a long pair of black pants, and dug into the pocket.
"It's Ian's cell phone. I'm gonna answer it." She announced as she flipped it open and put it up to her ear. Una watched curiously as Eli smiled at the funny voice over the phone. "Hi Iron man!"