Ghastly Familiar
By BeckyLynnetteCohen
Disclaimer: I own Anna Maria, Samantha, Jean Claude, Sydney, and Savannah. That is it.
Chapter 2: 88 years later…
"I don't understand why the hell we have to go here! This is just your sick fetish about us getting asbestos poisoning!" said a woman with red hair and green eyes driving a blue toyota prius.
"Now darling, you know refurbishing old houses is my job." Said the green-eyed bald man next to her.
"Yeah, but dragging your wife and daughter along….."
"Anna Maria doesn't seem to mind."
"I don't." said a blonde girl in the back seat. "We're in Paris, France, I don't have school, and I can help dad with the house!"
"What you both see in renovating a useless house is completely beyond me." Said the woman driving, adjusting her sunglasses.
"Savannah, this house was built on an old opera house! An infamous opera house in fact!" said the man.
"Who cares, Sydney?! No one in this car knows the damn story besides your fat ass and you're being very secretive. What if there's ghosts?" said Savannah.
"Mom, be reasonable! Dad'll tell us eventually." Said Anna Maria.
"Anna Maria, don't bother. Your mother'll never change her mind. But my question is, if she didn't want to do this then why the hell did she agree to come here in the first place?" said Sydney.
"I wanted to come to Paris, ok?" said Savannah. "And I will help you guys with this damn house, but I won't like it. And it's the last one I'm taking part in."
Anna Maria high-fived her dad and settled back into the back seat of the Prius. An hour later, the family arrived at the house.
"Wow, it's huge." Said Savannah, getting out of the car.
"Uh, yeah!" said Anna Maria. "I get first dibs on rooms!"
Anna Maria began running into the house and was pulled back by her father. Sydney had pulled Anna Maria's shirt back so that she landed on her back on the ground. Sydney smiled and pulled out a sheet of paper.
"According to the paperwork I received, the house has never been sold." Said Sydney.
"That explains the rusty piece of shit sign over here." Said Savannah. "This shouldn't take us very long right?"
"You'd be surprised." Said Sydney.
Anna Maria stood up, glared at her father, picked up her stuff and walked over to the front door. She turned the door knob but it came off in her hand. She looked back at her dad and held up the door knob.
"Anna Maria!" said Sydney.
"I turned it and it broke. That's it!" said Anna Maria.
"Fabulous…" said Sydney.
Anna Maria smirked. She turned to the door and kicked it open. With a loud creak, it swung open, unharmed. Sydney shook his head while Savannah was dying with laughter.
"Hey, we had to find some way to get in did we not?" said Anna Maria.
"Just go inside and make a list of what needs to be done!" said Sydney, throwing Anna Maria a notebook with a pen attached to it.
"Lists, lists, lists. I hate making lists…" mumbled Anna Maria, walking inside.
Anna Maria looked around the enormous foyer of the house. It was painted a royal blue and it was starting to fade. There were 2 hallways, one to the left and one to the right, and a stair case. Anna Mariaclicked the pen and opened the notebook. She wrote 'paint foyer' in cursive and walked around the first floor to her left. The first room she walked into was the kitchen.
The first thing she noticed about the kitchen was that it reeked like no other. Covering her nose with her shirt, she walked over to the still working refrigerator and opened it. The smell of rancid food wafted out. 'Lovely…' she thought. She searched the surrounding area for a garbage can of some kind and spotted one over in a corner. She put the notebook on the table and ran over and got it. Using her jacket as a glove, she pushed the rancid food out of the refrigerator and into the garbage can. She walked back over to the notebook and picked it up. She wrote 'buy food that isn't bad' and 'buy new refrigerator', then closed it. Spotting a door, she opened it and found that it lead outside where 2 trash cans were sitting. She walked back into the kitchen, tied up the garbage bag and took it to one of the garbage cans outside. 'Back to the nasty ass kitchen.' She thought.
A/N: Love it? Hate it? Want to murder me for writing it? R & R! Third Chapter'll be posted soon.