Chapter 14

It was afternoon when we got to the roadhouse the next day. The place was basically an old bar with a few rooms in the back and a kitchen. Ellen came out to meet us when we got there along with her daughter, Jo. They helped us unload our stuff and took it to the house next door. Jo took Heaven to her room and Racheal took Laura and me to hers.

We met a lot of interesting people that summer. We even helped them out on some of their cases. Jo and I didn't get along very well. She acted too much like a spoiled brat most of the time. She saw Laura and me as a threat. Pushing in on her territory. I think she was just jealous that we got along with everyone so well.

My favorite person that we met that summer was Racheal's dad, Bobby. He even took the 3 of us out on a hunt with him the last week we were there. Ellen got a little mad at him for it, but we didn't care. It was just a simple ghost in Broken Bow, Nebraska. We weren't even that far away from the roadhouse and Caleb said we could go.

A woman named Kelly Micheals was murdered by her husband in the late 40's. He'd bashed her head in with hammer cause she'd found out about his mistress. After he'd killed her, he buried her body in the basement. A couple with 2 small children had bought the house about a month before we got there and had started remodeling the house.

The remodeling made Kelly a little mad. She started killing off the construction workers the same way her husband had killed her. Of course the local cops had no clue what was going on, so they ordered all work on the house to be stopped until they could figure it out.

Bobby had us to the research while he talked to the owners of the house and the rest of the crew. We spent most of the day in the city library digging things up. We found a newspaper article about Kelly going "missing" and figured it had to be her. She was the first person who died in the house. There were several other accidental deaths, but hers was the only unsolved.

We went to the house that night to look around, all 4 of us. Bobby and I went to check out the basement while Laura and Racheal went to see if they could find her buried in the back yard. While Bobby and I were searching the basement, Kelly made an appearance. She was actually kinda pretty cept for the huge holes in the back of her head. She had long black hair and sharp green eyes. She was holding a blood stained hammer and was getting ready to whack Bobby with it.

Good thing Laura and Racheal chose that moment to check in with us. Racheal yelled for Bobby to look out and he rolled out of the way just in time. Kelly didn't like that too much and she screamed. I guess it was more of a howl than a scream. Anyway, he fired the shot gun on her and she disappeared. We spent the rest of the night searching the basement for her body without incident.

We got back to our motel just after sun up and went straight to bed. Bobby was gonna go talk to her husband later in the afternoon. It took a little convincing, and a couple punches from Bobby, but the guy told us every he'd done to his wife. We went back to the house that night. While we were digging her body up, Kelly appeared again. This time she actually got a couple whacks in on Bobby and Laura before Racheal and I dusted her bones.

Bobby took us all to the hospital to get checked out and then he took us back to the road house. We were only gone for 2 days. Ellen went ballistic on him when we got back. Something about a hunt was no place for three 13 year old girls. Racheal and I just told her to shut up and mind her own business. She started yelling at us then. I asked her what she thought Caleb was teaching us while we were with him and she shut up.

I decided right then that I loved the job. I didn't want to do anything else. It was fun and I was pretty sure that it was never gonna be boring. I told Dean all about it as soon as I got to my room. I also decided I wasn't spending next summer at the roadhouse. I liked meeting all the other hunters, but Jo was a brat and Ellen was trying to be our mom and we didn't need one.

Caleb called and wanted to know what we had done to make Ellen so mad, so Laura told him the whole story. He told us that she was just looking out for us and we shouldn't be so hard on her. I flat told him I didn't care what she was doing, I didn't like her. If she actually did the job, then she could say what ever she wanted, but she just stayed in her little bar and tried to push everyone around. Caleb just let it go. He came and got us the next day and we went home.