After we ate breakfast I decided to look through the house. Yesterday I saw a staircase leading down, so I decided to head there first. The staircase was in the office that I had browsed through the day before so it didn't take me long to find it.
The basement was badly lit and the lights flicked on and off. Great next there'll be a body. I headed down the first couple steps and felt pounding in the back of my head.
Of course. I continued walking down the steps hesitantly just waiting for the lights to go out. When I reached the landing it looked like a regular basement carpeted with couches and a television. I noticed though the throb in the back of my head got worse with each tentative step.
I stood in the middle of the room and took a deep breath. The air was heavy and damp. That's when I noticed the closet. Without thinking I stepped to the closet and opened the door something heavy fell on me making me tumble to the ground. I yelped and smacked my head of the ground.
My head was throbbing when Derek and Simon came to my rescue again. Tori lagged behind and stood on the landing her arms crossed and a smirk on her face. "G g get it off p p please." It had my arms and legs pinned so I could barley move.
"Hang on." Derek grumbled and slowly lifted the dead body off enough so I could scuttle out. I got up slowly brushing myself off and looked at the dead body of a woman on the ground. I gasped.
"What?" Simon asked who was next to me running his hands over my knuckles trying to soothe me. It took me a minute before I even comprehended it.
When I could I told them. "That's the ghost who visits every night." Truthfully I was still in shock over having a dead body on top of me again.
"Didn't you say the ghost was killed by the Edison Group?" Simon asked looking at me. I nodded.
"I thought Andrew didn't work for the Edison Group anymore." Tori said looking at Derek.
He mumbled something to low for me to hear. "What does this mean?" I asked looking at him while the pit of my stomach filled with dread. I quickly did what I do best making it into a movie.
The stupid protagonist asks a question she already knows the awnser to. The lights dim making our protagonist jump. Her heroic crush soothes her quietly. They all look and turn to the genius of the group. He goes speechless and inside the protagonists mind she starts panicking.
But that's not really how real life happens. Because in the movie we would all be out of harms way by now. But since this is not a film that is not how it happens.
Derek looked at the body for a second before proposing a mind wrenching question. "What if Andrew didn't know about it?" Tori snorted.
"Being a little bit optimistic aren't we?"
"It's a good possibility. The rest of this closet is empty. If you know there's nothing in it there's no point of going through it is there?" We stood in silence for a moment the same question going through all our heads.
But what if he really did know? I shook the thought off. "I think we have more investigating to do." I told them still staring at the body of my ghost. I shuttered just the thought of that thing on me was entirely disgusting.
"Not you." Derek said looking at me.
"Why not?" I demanded my voice firm.
"Because I said so."
"I don't care if you say so or not I'm going to help."
"You need to go to sleep."
"I'm fine!"
"God Dammit Chloe! Could you do what I ask for once?" He thundered.
"You didn't ask me! You demanded me to do what you wanted me to do!"
"Bro let her help if she wants." Simon said to his brother still holding my hand.
He grumbled something and started for the stairs. I hate when we do this. "Are you coming or what?" He yelled from the office.
"Yeah." Simon said sighing. This was just one headache I didn't want.
When we got upstairs Derek had half of the office torn apart. It looked as if it were hit with 2 cyclones. "Whoa what happened?" Tori asked looking at the mess that laid in front of us.
"We have to figure out this before we can get up and leave." Derek mumbled while under the desk.
"We're going to get up and leave?" I asked incredusley.
Derek jumped when I said that and smacked his head off the desk and set off a long line of curses. He looked at me. "Yeah if we have to."
My mind started to scream. "What? We can't leave this would be our one chance to defeat the Edison Group without going into headquarters."
"Or get killed." Derek said looking up at me. Oh didn't think of that.
It turned out to be a really long day and we didn't find anything to conclude that Andrew was in fact with the Edison Group.
