And that's exactly what it turned out to be. After dessert we all piled onto the wrap around porch in the front yard. The woods that surrounded the house seemed extra dark and gloomy in the dark.
Out of nowhere my ghost appeared. Jade looked up but ignored it like nothing was there. I slipped inside unnoticed and turned around. "What do you want?" I asked sighing and plopping down on the couch.
"Something's not right." She said sitting down next to me.
"L l like w w what?" I knew where she was taking this.
"Those people, they just don't seem. Hum how to put this, they don't seem right. "
"R r r right?"
"Do I have to spell it out for you? There is something strange about them."
I nodded my head a little bit. It was strange like how Andrew just got them here now.
"Well, I guess I'll leave because of the other necromancer here." She faded out of sight and left me there alone with my reeling thoughts.
"Hey." A voice said awakening me from the trance I laid in, making me jump. I looked up to see who was talking. It was, Taylor.
"Uh, hi." I said.
"So where you just like talking to a ghost?" He asked his voice low and sweet.
"Uh well yeah."
"I didn't know there were ghosts here! That is really cool!" I had to try really hard not to roll my eyes because he sounded six.
"There was also a body." I muttered under my breath as I sat there uncomfortably.
"Now that's just freaky." Tyler said shaking his head.
"Yeah, well I'm going to take a shower and go to bed. I've had a really long day." I said getting up.
"Oh okay." He said. As I started to head for the stairs he muttered "Not as bad as mine."
I turned abruptly. "You really don't want to start I am not in a good mood." He chuckled making me fume.
"I noticed."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked crossing my arms and slowly walking back over. Oh no I'm turning into Tori. She must have rubbed off on me.
"You haven't said much and the little you've said to me has been snappy."
I sighed. "Listen normally I'm not like this at all. I'm the peppy girl who's all over the place, goes looking for danger, basically your typical damsel in distress." I sat back down and sat Indian-style.
"Wow." He laughed. "What happened I never did get the whole story." I looked at him. Is he crazy?
"From the beginning?" He nodded and so I told him my story, how I ended up here, and how I felt about it. It was nice confiding in somebody but weird because he was a complete stranger. He just sat there as I went through the story (minus Derek's changes. I made up an excuse about those) and paid complete attention even at the rare boring parts. I told him about how I hated that everyone thought I couldn't take care of myself and that I was this 5 foot nothing girl who had to be helped with everything. After I started it wouldn't stop and it felt good to let someone know how I felt.
After I was done he looked at me holding my gaze before I looked away. "Yeah you did have a bad day, not just a bad day but a bad couple weeks."
I nodded "something that was nice though was that it was consistent." He laughed and shook his head.
"DO you always look on the bright side?"
"Well yeah when you travel with Tori and Derek and Simon you have to stay optimistic. I mean it's not hard with Simon, I try to pretend Derek doesn't think I'm a blonde little twit, and I pretend Tori's words don't hurt." I said with a shrug."You fall into routine."
He shook his head again and nonchalantly scooted over so our shoulders were touching and I tried to pretend I didn't care. "Well,' I said getting up hurriedly " I should go get a shower before Tori gets in and uses all the hot water." Without waiting for him to say anything I rushed to the stairs.
I blasted the water to hot and stepped into the shower putting my head to the cool tile and sighed running a shaky hand through me hair. There is something so strange about him; he makes me feel so unnatural. You are unnatural. You know what I mean! He's so strange he gives me bad feeling, he and the rest of our "guests" do.
I sighed again and grabbed the shampoo bottle. I'll talk to Derek about it later. After I stepped out of the shower with a towel tightly wrapped around me I cleaned the fogged up mirror off with my hand and grabbed my brush, running it through my hair until there were no knots. The little bit of black that was still in my hair had disappeared for good. My blue eyes stared back at me, the same ones I had since I was born, never changing.
There was a knock on the door making me jump. It was a soft knock so it had to be Simon. "Hey, Chloe I was just wondering when you'd be out."
"Like five minuets." I called back throwing on my clothes and towel drying my hair before running a brush through it again.
When I stepped through the door I was almost run over by Tori and Simon each barreling through the door trying to get in first. I jumped back as they tried to force each other back away from the open door.
At the first sight of a small opening I took it and slipped away to my room unscathed. I threw my towel on the chair and went looking for Derek because he has a tendency to disappear.