Disclaimer: I don't own 13 Ghosts but I wouldn't mind!
Authors Note: thank you all for your suggestions and I would very much like to have a beta reader since half the time I never finish a story...my bad.
Chapter 2
In a small apartment in Showantza, Nevada a family was trying to get ready for the upcoming day.
"Kathy, have you seen my briefcase?" Arthur Krittikos yelled from his bedroom, where he was trying to get ready for his first day as a math teacher at the new high school. (math is evil and should drop off the face of the earth!!!!!)
"No, ask Maggie, I think she put it on one of the counters." Kathy yelled back grabbing her younger brother Bobby by the neck.
As the household settled down a knock sounded at the door and Kathy stood up to answer it. Standing on the doorstep was a young girl around the age of seventeen with long brown hair and dark blue eyes.
"Hey Joann, I didn't think you would be able to make it this time." Kathy said obviously relieved that her friend had managed to come by before they set off to school.
"Don't worry about it, my mom and dad are glad that I finally have someone around my age to talk to." Joann assured her as they walked on into the kitchen.
Arthur looked up from his newspaper in time to see his daughter bring in a stranger girl and try and sneak her past him.
"Who is your new friend Kathy?"
"I'm Joann Newman, I help Kathy on her homework sometimes and she asked me to come by early this morning to help her with Biology." Joann explained flashing him a large smile.
Arthur returned the smile and stood up to shake her hand when Bobby sent one of his toy trucks careening into his father's path, causing him to spill coffee all over his pants.
"Bobby, what have I told you about playing in the kitchen when we have visitors?" Arthur yelled as everyone got really quite and the doorbell rang once more.
"You just get lots of people over don't you." Joann muttered out of the side of her mouth causing Kathy to start giggling.
Arthur left the kitchen and left the three girls to clean up the mess and console Bobby, before he returned with a fancy dressed lawyer.
"Guys this is my late uncle Cyrus and he has some rather interesting news for us that he says the entire family would probably need to hear."
Joann and Kathy shared a look before settling down to hear what the lawyer had to say and what he was giving Arthur.
"Your late uncle Cyrus has asked me to give you some of his possessions as you are his only living relative aside from your children and they are much too young for a gift such as this." the lawyer said getting right down to business as he took a laptop out of his briefcase along with an oddly shaped key which he inserted into the laptop.
An image of the deceased man popped up on the screen and explained to Arthur that since he was his only relative that could inherit his fortune he was leaving Arthur with a large house twenty miles from Showantza and a substantial fortune if he was willing to bring his family to the house to settle the rest of the will.
"Well Arthur would you and your family be willing to go and look at the house and sign a few papers?" the lawyer asked standing up.
"Sure and my daughter will be bringing along her friend Joann as company for the long trip and wait." Arthur said pointing to Joann who was standing off to the side talking with Kathy and Maggie.
"That will be quite alright Arthur." the lawyer assured the man, all the while starring at Joann and smiling a cold smile at the thought of what the ghosts were going to do to her once she was inside the house.