Craig and Ashley were both disturbed by their nightmares from the night before. But Craig had snuck out of the house and ran to school where he found and pulled Terri aside. "Terri," he replied. "You're the only one that I know that would believe in all the life after death stuff."
"Yeah," she said. "I do believe there is life after death. So?"
"So," he said. "I think I'm starting to believe that, too."
"And?" she asked, brushing her hair back over her shoulder.
"I think we should have a séance," seeing her shocked face he went on, "for Manny. Find out what happened to her that night she was murdered, so she can rest in peace and go to the afterlife." It wasn't cold outside but they could both see his breath as he spoke.
"You think she's still here?" she asked, pulling her jacket tightly around her as cold chills went straight up her spine.
"Yeah," he said. "I think I do."
"Alright," she said. "We'll get some other people together and come over to my house tonight."
"Ok," he replied.
The bell rang from inside the school. "You coming?" she asked.
He shook his head. "I'm taking some personal days," he replied.
She nodded and turned and walked up to the school. Craig waited for everyone to go inside and then he took off back to Joey's.
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Craig and Terri were the first ones at Terri's house later that night. "Who else is coming?" Craig asked as Terri set up the Ouija (A/N: Is that spelled right?) Board and Craig lit the candles.
"I had a couple of volunteers when I was talking to Ashley," Craig's body stiffened at the sound of her name but Terri didn't see, "and Emma and JT said that they'd come. Toby seemed a little freaked out about it, but that's normal. Oh, and Ellie's going to videotape it."
The doorbell rang and Terri disappeared to answer it.
"Craig, this is so sweet, what you're doing for me," Manny said, sitting next to him. She reached up and brushed his cheek with her hand and he shivered.
Terri returned with Emma and JT in front of her and Ashley and Ellie tagging along behind. Ellie had her camera in hand ready to shoot. "I think everybody's here," she said.
A couple of minutes later they were all sitting around the board, Terri, Craig, and Ashley all put their hands on the pointer. Terri had her eyes closed. "Manny are you here?" she asked.
Manny reached down and learned how to focus her hands so that she could move things. She put her hand on the pointer and moved it to "YES".
Emma and JT stared with wide eyes and they all had goose bumps on their arms. Ellie tried not to shiver making the camera move.
"Craig, ask a question," Terri said, opening her eyes and looking at him.
Craig closed his eyes and jumped to the point. "Manny, tell us who murdered you," he replied. He was scared if the dream would be real.
Ashley looked around with her eyes, nervous. Please, don't, she thought. I don't want to lose Craig…again!
Manny glared at Ashley and reached down and started to move the pointer around.
"Emma, write it down," Terri said and Emma uncapped her pen and picked up a notebook that Terri had set aside. Ellie zoomed in to get a close up of it.
"A," Craig read aloud. Oh no, he thought.
"S," Terri read.
"H."
"L."
"E."
"Y."
"Ashley," Emma said, turning and looking at Ashley.
"It's still moving!" JT said, pointing to the pointer. They looked down. Ellie caught it on tape and then returned to Emma's pad as she wrote.
"D," Terri picked up.
"I," Craig followed.
"E."
"S."
"L."
"U."
"T."
"'Die slut'?" Emma read from the notebook, raising an eyebrow. Ellie caught Emma's expression on camera and then turned to Ashley, who looked freaked out.
Manny looked at Terri and then remembering the movie "Ghost" she decided to experiment so she jumped inside of Terri's body, sending Terri flying backwards.
"Terri?" Craig asked.
Terri/Manny looked at Ashley. "Die slut!" she exclaimed, then Terri/Manny attacked Ashley, her hands around Ashley's throat. Ashley kicked the board to the side. Emma and JT jumped up and tried to pull Terri off. Ellie put down her camera and tried to help.
"It's no use!" JT exclaimed, after a moment of struggle. Ashley's face was changing colors.
"CRAIG DIDN'T WANT TO BE WITH YOU!" Terri/Manny exclaimed. "HE WANTED TO BE WITH ME! ME! DO YOU HEAR ME?"
Craig had to do something and he had to act fast. He jumped up. "Manny!" he exclaimed. "Leave her alone!"
Manny pulled out of Terri's body and Terri fell limp on top of Ashley before coming back to reality. Manny turned to Craig and looked at him. "Can you see me?" she asked.
"I know you're here," Craig said. "Show yourself to us!"
Manny focused hard on her energy and soon she appeared to them. She knew she had when she saw Craig, Emma, JT, Terri, Ellie, and Ashley's eyes all widen.
"Manny," Craig whispered.
Manny nodded, smiling at him.
"We know now," he said. "You can go on."
"I don't want to leave you, Craig."
"I'll be fine," he replied.
Manny looked at Ellie. "Show the police the tape," she said. Ellie nodded, freaked out by the whole experience.
Manny blew Craig a kiss and then disappeared from them and from this world.
"Wow," Emma said. "That was scary."
JT nodded in agreement and rubbed his arms to get rid of the goose bumps. They all looked at Ashley who was heading to the door. "This is bull shit!" she exclaimed, before opening the door and leaving.
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