Hello everyone! Ok, so I personally don't like this chapter but it's the only thing I have right now. So, do please tell me if this part is perfectly horrible or not. ;-D Thanx for reading!
Right as they reached the front door it blasted open. Two burly men came striding in; one with a enormous moustache and the other with a very round pudgy nose.
Leslie motioned for Jess to run up the stairs but he was too late.
"You, kid! Whatchu doin' down 'ere?" the man with the moustache asked angrily.
"I'm…..er…nothing. I'm just…hanging out," Jess said nervously.
"This 'ere is private property, this is. Whatchu think yer doin' trespassing'?"
Jess quickly said, "Mr. Burke, the previous owner, said I could use whatever I found up here."
"Yah, well Mr. Burke, the previous owner," the pudgy nosed man said mockingly, " 'as given us orders to tear the place up." Jess stared at him for a moment, quite puzzled.
"They can't rip down this place!" Leslie said, sounding quite annoyed.
"You can't rip down this place," Jess said copying Leslie.
"We gots the papers right 'ere," the moustache man said waving them in front of Jess's face.
"Tell them to get out of here before they get caught trespassing," Leslie said angrily. Jess opened his mouth to say something to that effect but then said, "They'd kill me for that and they'd probably call the cops on me."
"I'll bet they're just some no good robbers who don't-" Leslie started out but was cut off by Pudgy Nose.
"Who you talkin' to, boy?" he asked Jess suspiciously. Jess cast around hopelessly for an answer.
"The ghosts. You're talking to the ghosts," Leslie said bouncing up and down on the soles of her feet.
"They won't go for that," Jess said, ignoring the looks of incredibility on the two men's faces.
"Trust me. These are the kind of folks who'll go for anything."
"I'm talking to the ghosts who inhabit the place," Jess said.
"There ain't no such things as ghosts," Moustache Man said scathingly.
"Can't you hear them?" Jess asked with a look of believable pity on his face. He had timed it perfectly. At that moment there was a huge gust of wind that slammed the door shut.
Jess looked over at Leslie who had a slight look of shock on her face. Pudgy Nose quickly crossed himself as Jess had seen all the nuns do. Then Moustache Man said fearfully, "We is sorry to disturb your ghostly presences. We'll be leavin' now."
Quietly the men turned and walked frightfully out. Jess could hear them saying,
"We can't blow it up now, and for sure it won't never sell for nothing'……."
"Jess, you're brilliant!" Leslie exclaimed.
"You're the one that thought up the whole ghost thing," Jess said sheepishly.
"But you're the one that made it believable!" Leslie exclaimed proudly. Jess grinned and held the door open for her, which had closed again.