"Kelly I'm fucking loosing my mind!" Addi groaned into the phone, gathering up her supplies from the bathroom and putting them into her suitcase, jerking the zipper closed.
"Are you sure that it's not just like a mechanical thing in the door hinges or something?" Kelly asked her adoptive cousin concerned.
"I looked, I could find anything. Granted I didn't take the thing apart. But what about what I saw? And the stuff that keeps moving? And the writing?" Addi sighed, hefting the suitcase off the bed and starting for door.
"I don't know Addi. Maybe there are doors and tunnels and shit in the house did you look for any?"
"No I didn't look for anything other then around the house. I couldn't find any doors or anything but I'll go look for anything like that." Addi sighed putting her suit case down by the door and climbed the steps again. She put the phone on speaker and pulled open the cabinet under the sink, finding it filled with various cleaning supplies.
"I don't see anything Kels." Addi said dropping to the floor and running her hand over the back of the sink before picking up all the supplies and putting them back down again so make sure they weren't attached to the floor under the sink which would have given away the presence of a trap door.
"I don't know Addi. Maybe you have ghosts."
"Kels there are no such…what the ever loving fuck!" Addi screamed as she went back into the bedroom.
"Addi? Are you ok? Ohh my god do I need to call the police what's wrong?"
"My suitcase that I just brought downstairs is on the bed again." Addisin grit out putting her hand on her hip.
"I'm pretty sure you have ghosts Addi. And apparently they want you to stay." Kelly laughed.
"There's no such fucking thing!" Addi shouted making Kelly laugh harder.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Kelly sing songed into the phone.
"You did not just shake that spear at me." Addi laughed. "But seriously Kels that thought is even worse then the one where strangers were coming into the house and trying to scare me." Addi said taking the suitcase off the bed and back down the stairs.
"Seriously think about it Addi. This shit is still happening even with the chains on the doors and the locks on the windows. Something stopped you from cracking your head on the bathroom floor so it doesn't really want you hurt." Kelly mused. "Maybe that's why they are doing the contest thing? Because they can't fucking sell a haunted house." Kelly laughed.
"I don't really want a haunted house either. Even if it has a great kitchen and a fucking amazing view!" Addi grit out and reached for her keys that she kept on the small table right next to the door. "Ohh come on!"
"What's wrong now?" Kelly asked and Addi could tell she was trying not to laugh.
"My fucking keys are gone." Addi grit out and hung up on her cousin when she started quoting Shakespeare again.
"I fucking quit." She mumbled, heading into the kitchen shaking her head at seeing the brownie pan almost half empty. She climbed up onto the counter to grab a pan to cook the beef for her lasagna and Kelly's voice floated into her head about ghosts when she felt goose bumps rise on her back again. She knew the windows were not open there was no draft.
"Could you please step back." She grit out and almost dropped the pan when the cold feeling went away. She shook her head and jumped down, her hand clenching around the handle of the pan when she felt the draft again as her feet hit the ground before it went away once more. She put the pan onto the cook top and turned the heat on, dumping the ground beef into it and breaking it up before adding some spices to it and letting it brown. Addi went into the pantry and grabbed a jar of sauce and some noodles, putting them in a dish to carry out when a bag of chocolate chips caught her eye.
"Do I really want to make cookies though?" She asked herself picking the bag up and looking at it for a minute before putting it back on the shelf and turning for the door. She pushed it open and jumped when something hit the floor behind her and she rolled her eyes at seeing the bag of chocolate chips on the floor.
"Maybe later. If you give me back my damn keys!" Addi yelled and left the pantry, shutting the door behind her and set out making her lasagna once the beef was browned, getting used to the cold feeling hovering around her shoulders. She put the finished product into the oven and decided she was going to sit near the water while her dinner cooked. She spent an hour along the beach watching the water thinking about all that had happened to her. The visions, the cold feelings, not cracking her skull, waking up naked in her bed after falling asleep on the couch.
Maybe Kelly was right, and whatever was in the house didn't want her hurt. She sighed turning to look back at the house, crossing her arms over her chest. Could she put up with what has been going on for a million dollars and a house with a view? She would have to think about it she decided before heading back up to the house, stopping closing her eyes and taking a deep breath as she came in the back door. Her keys were sitting on the island next to the bag of chocolate chips. Apparently her 'ghost' had a sweet tooth. This was going to take some serous getting used too.
Addi grabbed her keys and started to the front door, sighing at seeing her suit case no longer sitting near it. She figured she would find it upstairs again, so she tossed the keys onto the table, before going back to the kitchen and pulled the lasagna out of the oven before getting her bowl out of the dish washer and mixing up a batch of her double chocolate, chocolate chip cookies while it cooled enough for her to cut it. Addi slid the cookies into the oven and set the timer before grabbing a plate and a fork and talking a piece of the lasagna into the living room to watch TV while she ate.
She flipped though the guide and couldn't help notice a documentary on paranormal encounters and she flipped it on. She sat through the hour long program, goose bums rising on her skin even without being cold at the stuff these experts were saying. She kept pausing it to get her cookies out of the over and refill the tray but always came back and couldn't wait to turn the program back on each time. She was able to watch the last half hour all the way though and some of the stuff they were talking about were things she had encountered herself, and she took a little comfort in the fact that they kept repeating that not all entities' were evil. And if it's on TV it must be true. Just like the internet.
Addi sighed and gathered up the plate after shutting off the TV and went back into the kitchen to put the left over lasagna away, frowning when she didn't see the pan anywhere, the cookie sheets also gone and six of the cookies were missing. She opened the dishwasher and found three plates that she didn't use, the lasagna pan, the pan she had used to brown the meat, the cookie sheets, the bowls and measuring stuff form the cookies already in it. She set her own plate inside and shut the door, looking at it with her hands on her hips. Maybe she could handle one but fucking three? At least they were neat. And liked her cooking. Which was probably good because she was still in the mode where she cooked for Mr. Ambrose and she would be eating leftovers for weeks. What the fuck ghosts didn't exist!
She needed to talk to David, Addi decided as she shut the lights out and headed upstairs and found her suitcase sitting on the bed again. She dragged it down and stripped off her bra and jeans and slid under the covers, relaxing back against the pillows still thinking about what all was going on. She left the light on, listening for any sounds in the house.
"Roman had contact with her. Almost drove her out of the house, and can I tell you it was hard to not watch that unfold. One of them made a right mess of the kitchen too." Antonio told Hunter and Randy as they entered their control room. They had left the man here during the day to see if the three ghosts would come out at that time and they were right in doing so. "Roman gave her the sushi also. If she manages to stay out of the basement after dark she'll probably be the one." Antonio told them standing up.
"Why was it hard not to watch?" Randy asked confused as he scanned the monitors for any movement.
"Because she was in the bath tub and they would kill me if they knew I peaked a few times." Antonio laughed as he left.
"Yes they would." Hunter chuckled and pointed to the screen with the hall where the switchblade was moving up and down it rapidly while flipping open and shut repeatedly. "That's probably not good." He said and looked at Randy who nodded his agreement. "I guess we'll find out" He sighed as the door to the bedroom opened and the blade moved into the room.
They watched the covers pull back from the girl's body before the blade set down on the bed and her shirt lifted off and her panties slid down her body. "Holy shit he's phasing." Randy said standing so fast his chair fell over as he brought his face close to the screen where the outline of a man leaning over the girl's body was slowly coming into focus. They watched him tuck her hair behind her ear before running a finger over her shoulder and hip, his head turning to the doorway before he phased back out as the yorkie floated into the room. The switchblade lifted off the bed a moment later and then floated out of the room.
"I wonder what triggered that." Hunter asked watching the yorkie settle on the bed. The bed dipped toward the bottom like someone was laying on the lower half of it as the girls legs parted, her hips lifted and tilted slightly, and Randy slapped the power button on the monitor.
"Yeah we don't need to watch that." He chuckled crossing his arms. "And I don't know what triggered him." Randy said scratching his head. It was usually strong emotions that triggered phasing unless they were comfortable, and the fact that Dean had phased out again almost immediately pointed to emotions rather then comfort.