Sorry I haven't updated for a while and…thank you for reading my story! You should all give yourselves a pat on the back! It's my first fanfic, so I really appreciate your reviews and comments. I am suffering from a rather bad case of writers block…any ideas would be appreciated and you will get a shout out, if that means anything to you. PLEASE review and comment! It's a nice feeling when I get an email telling me that somebody has commented :') Sorry this chapter is so short. The next chapter should be up soon, and it should be longer…hopefully *insert evil laugh here*
When Mai awoke, the first thing she noticed was the ceiling. It wasn't anything special, but it was the first thing she saw when she opened her eyes. The second thing she noticed was that it was quite dark, meaning that it had been quite some time since her rendezvous with the ghost. She shoved the warm duvet that was covering her to the end of the bed, swung her legs over the side and looked around. She was in the boys' room, but she was the only one there.
She stood up and cringed in pain, having forgotten all about her ankle. Sitting back on the bed, she took a look at her newly bandaged ankle, recalling the events of the previous afternoon. She stood up again, this time being careful not to put too much pressure on her injured ankle. She smoothed down her skirt and fixed her hair, before limping towards the door.
She walked into the base and saw everyone sat around the room, talking. They heard the door creak open and all turned their heads to look at her.
"Mai! You're awake!" Bou yelled, jumping up from the sofa and pulling the girl into yet another bear hug.
"Bou-can't-breathe." Mai gasped breathlessly.
"Let go of her you stupid Monk." Ayako shouted, hitting him yet again on his head with her purse.
"Mai." Naru said.
"Yes Naru?"
"Tea." The young girl had to restrain herself from yelling some kind of crude insult at Naru, and instead walked out of the room to the kitchen, fuming. "John, go with her." Naru demanded. John did as he was told and went to accompany Mai to the kitchen, smiling to himself as he left the room.
John and Mai were walking to the kitchen, when Mai stopped and began to stare at an old picture on the wall. That particular picture was a photograph of the previous owners of the house.
"Mai, what is it?" John asked the motionless girl. He walked over to her and looked at the picture, his eyes widening at what he saw. There were three people in the picture. A man and two women, one of which looked scarily similar to Mai, although she was obviously quite a few years older.
"That's…me." Mai mumble quietly.
"No, that would be impossible Mai. That is just someone who looks very much like you." John reassured her. "Now let's go make Naru his tea before he gets in one of his moods."
John POV (I've decided that I don't like writing in the third person.)
As I observed Mai making tea, I realised that she was looking a little pale. Even though her skin was rather pale in general, it somehow looked paler than normal.
"Mai, are you feeling okay?" She turned around to look at me.
"Well how would you feel john if you'd just seen a picture of…" she trailed off and went silent. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it John."
"It's okay. We'll tell Naru when we get back to the base." She smiled at me and went back to making the tea.
When she'd finished, she picked up the tea and walked out of the room, back to the base. After handing Naru his tea, she went and sat on the sofa between Bou and Ayako, snuggling into Bou's shoulder. He put his arm around her and smiled. She looked at me.
"Naru, there's something you need to see." I told him.
"What is it?" He questioned.
"I think it's best if I show you." I walked out of the room and into the corridor with Naru following, and lead him to the picture.
When we reached it, he just stood there and looked at it for a few minutes. He then took a step closer to get a better look at it.
"Well, it can't be Mai." He muttered to himself quietly. "It obviously isn't Mai. That would be impossible, but it could explain why the ghost is targeting her. The ghost must be a violent one, otherwise she wouldn't have attacked Mai so early on in the case, so it could be a good thing we found it. It could help us with finding some information about the previous owners of this property."
He then unhooked it from the wall and silently walked back to the base with it, not saying a word.