There's a loud band in the apartment next door. Mal Wes and Del woke with a start but Snape continued to snore loudly.
"Damn what do you think that was?" Said Del sleepily.
"I'm not sure, maybe we should check it out?" Mal suggested.
"That's stupid," Said Wes, "We're way too tired too be dealing with this stuff right now."
The triplets were quiet for a moment, the only sound punctuating the air was Snape choking in his sleep occasionally.
Mal got up and made coffee and breakfast for everyone and Del tried to wake up Snape.
"Oi." She said as she prodded him with her crowbar. "Wake up or I'll hit you."
"Snnzzzz." Snape snored as he began to wake up. "Wha?"
"It's morning, get up." Said Wes as they began to eat a stack of pancakes that Mal made.
Snape got up and joined the others for coffee and breakfast.
"Damn these are some good pancakes." Said Snape.
"Thanks," Mal said. "When you have younger siblings to look after you sort of have to learn these things."
There was a pause while Del and Wes stared at Mal.
"Mal." Del said. "You do remember Wes is the oldest one of us right?"
"Ya." Mal rolled his eyes, "But what about Sol?"
Wes laughed, "Haha yeah I forgot about Sol, because he's not a triplet. He's just our younger brother."
"Wait wait wait," Snape raised his hands to physically show them to wait. "You have another sibling?"
Del shrugged, "Yeah but we don't really talk about it."
"Oh," Snape frowned, "I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it." Wes finished their pancakes and got dressed. So did the others.
Mal had a thought, "Hey guys I just thought, do you want to go and check out what that noise was that woke us up?"
"Huh?" Said Snape.
"Not you because you slept through the noise." Del explained.
"Oh."
"Yeah sure." Said Wes.
They left the motel room and went to the local library to research noises.
"Hey apparently it says here that sometimes ghosts and spirits try to communicate by making noises and such." Snape said, showing them the paragraph in the dusty old library book.
"Shhh!" The librarian said.
"Ugh, she's so annoying." Wes rolled their eyes and glared at the hot young librarian.
"Tell me about it." The others said in unison.
"Guys focus." Snape said. "What if the motel is haunted?"
Mal Wes and Del gasped, "It's our duty to exercise it!" They exclaimed, "We might be the only ones who know about it!"
They checked the book of ghosts out of the library with Snapes library card. Del was hiding her face the enitre time because once she stole a book from the library and still hadn't been caught by the authorities. Then they went to a recording shop and about video cameras and sound equiptment. They carried all of the stuff to the car but when they opened the car boot it was full of sand and seashells from their beach trip.
"Damn." Said Mal, "We're going to need to leave some things behind if we want to get everything back to the motel."
Wes thought for a solution and eventually shouted "You reek a!"
Everyone looked at Wes, waiting for them to explain their ingenius solution.
"All we have to do is make Snape walk back!"
Del and Mal slapped their forheads. "Of course! Why didn't we think of that?"
Snape nodded. "Okay."
So they all loaded the gear into the car and Mal Wes and Del drove back to the motel, leaving Snape to walk back.
"Damn." Said Mal as it started to rain heavily, "At least we don't have to drive for long, it's only another 20 miles before we get back."
They got back to the motel and unpacked all of their equiptment into the room. Eight hours later Snape arrived dripping with rainwater. They all sat down to set up the equiptment, placing cameras around the room and sound recorders. Eventually it got to midnight and Mal set up a luigi board and they all gathered around it.
"Is there anybody here?" Del asked.
The wood moved to yes and Mal began to scream.
"Mal stop screaming, obviously theres people here, us." Wes said.
"Are there any ghosts here?" Del asked insted and the wood moved to yes again so Mal and Del and Wes all screamed this time.
Snape choked on his spit as he woke up from his nap and asked "Why are you all screaming?"
"There's a ghost here." They all said calmly.
"Oh." Snape rolled over on the couch and began to snore and choke again.
"Why are you hear?" Del asked.
The board replied (not in real speak duh) "I was murdered by my husband."
Wes began to cry for the tragic end of the ghost they were speaking to.
"Can you make a noise for us?" Mal asked and then they heard a knock from somewhere outside the room.
"That came from the bathroom." Del said. "Wes go check it out."
"Ok." Wes went to the bathroom and opened the door and there was the figure of a woman in the doorway.
Wes screeched and sprinted from the motel room entirely, running out of the door and the others could hear their screams in the distance.
"My name is Alice." The ghost said, blood tears dripping from her eyes.
"How do we lay you to rest?" Mal asked.
Wes came back into the room because they didn't want to be seperated from Mal and Del.
"You must bring me the blood of my husband." The ghost cried before disappearing.
The triplets all got up and went back to the library.
"Hey." Wes said to the librarian. "We're looking for information on a woman called alice who was murdered at the motel at the edge of town."
The libriran looked sad and began to weep. "That's was my sister, I'm Elizabeth by the way."
Del was in a corner nearby hitting a bookcase with her crowbar because she was bored.
Wes put their arm around Elizabeth. "It's okay we just want to know what happened to it."
Mal raised his eyebrows. "It? Wes really?"
Wes shrugged. "It's a ghost innit."
Elizabeth blew her nose and dabbed her eyes with a tissues. "Alice was my sister, the police couldn't solve the murder. Me and her husband Richard did everything we could to try and find a lead but there wasn't one. Eventually me and Richard fell in love and got married. I hope she's not angry about that, but I think she'd want us to be happy."
Mal frowned. "We have reasonable reasons to believe it may have been Alice's husband at the time Richard who was the one to commit the murder.
"What!" Elizabeth gasped and sobbed.
"Your sisters ghost told us." Del said after she destroyed the bookshelf which had collapsed into a pile of wood and books. "You should call the police."
Elizabeth called the police. "Yes hello polise? Yes I have a new lead about my sisters murder please arrive as soon as you can."
She put the phone down and five minutes later they could hear sirens outside of the library. Two police officers walked in.
"Hey," They said, "What's the sitch?"
"We have reasonable reasons to believe it was Richard who murdered Alice at the motel." Wes said.
"WHat reasons?" The taller one asked as he chewed gum.
Mal Wes and Del looked at eachother and spoke in unison. "We contacted Alice's ghost and she said Richard killed her."
The two police officers looked stunned.
"Can't argue with that logic." Said the shorter one. "Come one, we have to go arrest him."
Everyone got into the police car and drove over to where Richard worked as a lawyer. The polize officers gave Mal Wes and Del bulletproof vests and a gun each.
"No thanks." Said Del. "I have a crowbar."
They stormed the building to find Richard and as soon as he saw them he began to run away.
"He's making a break for it!" Wes screamed.
Del dived to grab Richards legs and Mal shot Richard eighty times in the chest. Richard fell to the floor with a flump and Wes took his pulse.
"He's dead." Wes gasped.
They heard heard a voice and all turned around. The ghost of alice stood there smiling.
"Thank you." She whispered as she disappeared.
"Damn what a day." Said Del.
They all went back to the motel and Snape sat up. "Hey have a good time?"
"Yeah it was okay." They all shrugged. "It was whatever."
They all took a shower and went to bed early, they had to be up early tomorrow for the long drive.
thnx 4 readin -wet