"Sissy?"
Amethyst blinked open her eyes.
Steven, Citrine, Garnet, and Pearl were hovering over her.
"Wh-what happened?" Amethyst asked, clearing her vision.
"You fainted." Garnet said.
"Oh, Amethyst, I was SO WORRIED!" Pearl yelled, hugging her tightly.
Amethyst sat up and looked around for Erudite, Moss Agate, and Amazonite. They were gone.
"I chased all the others away." Citrine said.
"Thanks, girl." Amethyst murmured, feeling her brain going fuzzy again.
"Go back to bed, dear." Whispered Garnet.
"Okay." Amethyst said.
Citrine followed the girl up to her room, who face-planted on her bed as soon as she got there.
"Look, I'm really sorry Ame. They snuck in, I didn't notice…"
Amethyst surrounded herself with her long unkempt black hair, hiding behind it like a shower curtain. "I really don't know how I'm gonna deal with this, Ci. I mean, they're all over the place. There's no escape."
"There aren't many ghosts at school."
"But they're all over the nurse's office. If I'm sick, how am I supposed to get better if those filthy fear machines are around?"
"Hey now." Citrine said warningly, holding up a hand.
"Oh. Sorry." Amethyst said.
"Amethyst?" called Pearl from the middle stairs.
"Yes, Pearl?"
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
Pearl paused. "I'm coming up there."
A minute later Pearl was standing up out of the trap door. Amethyst's room wasn't exactly originally a bedroom…it was mostly an old wooden attic that was masked with carpeting and wallpaper to make it look like a bedroom.
"Pearl." Whispered Amethyst, a slight blush growing on her cheeks.
"Again, I must ask. Are you alright?"
"I'm fine."
Citrine crossed her arms. "Um, Ame, I thought we were talking…?"
"Shut up."
Pearl looked appalled. "What?"
"Sorry. I was talking to Citrine." Amethyst said, her blush growing, making her tan cheeks red and blotchy.
"Mhm." Pearl said, her face calming down.
She sat down beside her, one arm around her waist. "What exactly did you see?"
"Erudite was trying to touch me…Amazonite was trying to make me focus on her…Moss Agate wasn't really doing anything but floating around looking creepy…" Amethyst trailed off.
"Touch you HOW?!" Pearl said loudly.
"Oh, no no no, Pearl, not like THAT! She was trying to scare me…or…something…"
"I'm sorry. Now I feel bad that I got the better power. You should've been the twin stuck with the soul-seeing power."
"I couldn't live with myself if you'd had gotten that power instead of me, Pearl! Don't EVER wish for that curse!"
Pearl sighed and tightened her grip around her sister. "It's-"
Out of the corner of her eye, Amethyst could see her parents through the window, getting out of the car with someone else, someone who was punching and kicking and fighting against their grip.
"Well, then." She said thoughtfully. "I DO think that we have a visitor."
"ANOTHER ghost?"
"No." Amethyst said, smirking. "Another team member."
Pearl's eyes widened as she realized what Amethyst meant.
Another sister.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THAT'S RIGHT YOU CLODS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S COMING!
(hint hint)
-Ace
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AGAIN
