Wow, sorry that took a million years, we moved to a new house, and them computers died...it was horrible, although I liket he house. Anyway, heres chapter two, enjoy.
Emily had been haunting the house for a few weeks, and Nny had yet to notice. For awhile she amused herself my narrating everything that happened around her, but soon grew bored of that too, but not before driving Meat completely insane.
She had now taken to drifting through the house and getting to know her new abode, but she had yet to discover all of the rooms in the basement. A few times she messed with the prisoners, once letting a few of them go, just to see what happened. She followed them around as they scrambled through the house, but they only ended up getting lost deeper in the basement and falling victim to dehydration and hunger, one man actually tried to eat another, but only succeeded in getting his head bashed in. Emily laughed at that, by now she had been totally desensitized to the whole dead people thing.
So far, she had not run into any other ghosts, as far as she could tell, she was the only one haunting this particular residence.
Today, she was exploring a new floor of the basement, it was pretty much empty, a few boxes, filled with various metal pointy things, a painting or two and some bone fragments. As she continued her way through the floor, she came across a door that was boarded up on the out side; naturally Emily decided to go in. She poked her head through that wall and what she saw there shocked and horrified her, and if she had still been alive, she would have died all over again. It was a shrine, dedicated to none other than Nny.
A old wooden table sat against the wall, a detailed painting of Nny's face in the middle, to the sides, some dead flowers, a few shirts , photographs , Noodle Boy pictures, candles, and some rusty hooks and a blood encrusted mallet.
"What the hell is this…?" Emily whispered as she drifted through the wall to inspect the room more thoroughly. She then saw that the walls had inscriptions of love and devotion scraped into them. Some of them being "MMY&NNY" or "Jimmy and Johnny 4ever!"
"What are you doing here!?" There was a harsh whisper behind her, Emily whipped around to find an ugly Nny look-alike, and he was crouched down in a corner, scrawling another love note into the wall. Emily glanced at the other walls, all of them were covered, even the ceiling, some letters overlapping. This guy had been here for awhile. She looked back to the corner, but instead of being crouched in a ball with an animal look in his eyes, he was an inch from her face.
"You shouldn't be heeeeeere, this is not a place for you, ONLY THE PURE CAN ENTER THIS PLACE! THE HOLY TEMPLE!" He screamed, flailing like he was being attacked by a squid, then suddenly he was still again. "You should leave now."
Emily's stomach was a tight knot, she sort of wanted to leave, but then again, this could turn out to be a fun situation.
"And why should I leave? I live here, I have the right to go where I want in my own house." She replied curtly.
"Ah, ah ahahaha but I live here too." A grin spread across his face, looking like a cat who just caught a mouse.
"I haven't seen you around here."
"I know how to stay hidden, out of the way. I'm learning the art you know, I can't get in the way, no, not in the way. Johnny and I are cleansing the world." His gaze flickered lovingly toward the painting.
"Umm…Yeah. I see. So you like Johnny eh?" This was fun.
"Oh yes, we're soul mates, that's why I stay, I don't get on the bus. He needs me. He needs his Jimmy." He was nodding his head rapidly.
"Jimmy? He's never mentioned you, and what bus?"
"He doesn't know I watch over him, doesn't know I am there watching every move he makes…..The bus driver keeps asking me to come with him, but I always say no. No no no."
"WHAT BUS!!??"
"The bus that takes the dead people away, after they die, one comes by every month." Jimmy cocked his head to the left.
"My God, you are completely insane. This isn't fun anymore, I leave now." As Emily walked through the wall, Jimmy poked his head out and called after her
"You should get on that bus, I don't like competition." His tone was dark.
When Emily got back to the main floor, she saw Meat sitting on the arm of the couch, Nny appeared to be out.
"Hey Meat, guess what I saw."
"A corpse?"
"Yes, but that's normal."
"Hmm...was it a..."
"You don't actually have to guess. Just say 'what?' jeez."
"Oh fine, kill my fun. what?"
"I met a freaky kid named Jimmy."
"Oh yes, I know him, lurks in the shadows allot, stalks, nice guy, I like him."
"I thought you might, what's his story anyway?" Emily sat crossed legged on the floor, looking like a child awaiting a bed time story.
"Ah well, let me see here..." Meat took on a grandfatherly tone and began to tell a wonderful tale, about one sided love.
"It all began a little bit after Nny came back to life." Meats voice implied that he was thoughtfully looking off into the distance.
"He died?" Emily asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, but that's another story, for another time, anyway Nny has come back to life, and his mind is filled with all sorts of questions, one of which was about hair, but there was a great knocking on the door! And when Nny went to opened it, there was Jimmy, bright and full of sunshine and eager to learn the beautiful craft of mass murder, he had even made his own tools and everything, I myself would have called him the perfect pupil. But things were not to be good." Meat said gravely "Although he admired Nny greatly and was willing to do anything he was told, Nny knew that any one who wanted to be what he had become, had to be worse off that he was to begin with. Young Jimmy had practiced to kill people, who may very well have been assholes, but killed people who were innocent of the crimes he accused them of. His methods were also those that Nny disagreed with strongly. And so he was asked to leave! But Jimmy was so head strong that he refused and even followed Nny into that basement!"
"Oh my God, the BASEMENT?!?!? Death wiiiiiishhhh!!!"
"...You just shattered the story telling mood, you bitch."
"Oh well sooorryyy."
"You should be."
"Get on with it."
"Fine, SO, Jimmy followed Nny into the basement, and Nny stabbed him with a knife in the shoulder, then ripped his torso open with hooks, Nny then kindly explained to him why he was being murdered and why in his own opinion, he was the scum of the earth. Jimmy used his last breaths to cough out something like "But I'm just like youuuuu", then Nny smashed his head in with a hammer."
Emily was wide eyed.
"BUT IT DOES NOT END THERE!!"
She gasped.
"Jimmy was so persistent, that he stayed after death, and followed Nny's every move, silently learning the art in the shadows, although he can never use it. Finally, after years of ghostliness, he was driven over the brink of insanity, and is now something that resembles Golem. The End."
"You make me sound so e-vile. If you had been there, you would have known that that girl deserved what I gave her." Jimmy appeared from around the corner, narrowing his eyes.
Emily jumped, and Meat squeaked in surprise, which made both Jimmy and Emily spin around and stare at him in horror, he had sounded like a little mouse.
"Well you must have done something really horrible if Johnny thought it was bad." Emily said returning to Jimmy.
"That doesn't matter anymore" Jimmy shrugged "He's about to come home, be quiet." He clung to the side of the couch and stared at the door in anticipation, reminding Emily of a dog waiting for its master to come home.
"Not to far from the truth I guess." Emily laughed in her head.
Suddenly the door burst open, and in came none other than Nny, covered from head to foot in mud.
"PEOPLE AND THER GODDAMN CARS GOING THROUGH THE GODDAMN PUDDLES DON'T EVEN CARE IF SOMEONE GETS SPLASHED THEY JUST KEEP GODDAMN FUCKING GOING!!!" He stormed through the house and walked through the hall and into the bathroom, all the while still yelling and ranting.
Jimmy gave a happy sigh and watched him go down the hall.
"How come you're not hiding from me anymore?" asked Emily.
"You already know I'm here, I don't think it matters if I hide or not."
In the bathroom, you could here the shower start; Jimmy stared at the door with wide eyes.
There was a long awkward moment as every one just sat and stared at each other. Them Emily suddenly had a bright idea.
"I know how to exercise my ghostly abilities!" She gasped, and got up and ran down the hall.
"What are you doing?!" Screeched Jimmy, sprinting after her "The shadows! The shadows! We need to stay in the shadows!"
But Emily had already disappeared behind the bathroom door, and the toilet flushing could be heard (accompanied with a pain filled shriek from the basement) and Emily popped out of the door again, just as another high pitch shriek came from the bathroom. Emily and Meat burst out laughing, Emily fell down and was holding her sides, while in the other room, you could hear Meat fall off the couch and roll around, gasping with laughter.
"Oh God, oh God, well played my girl, that was amazing." Meat choked out in-between laughs.
Jimmy looked like he was absolutely ready to tear Emily apart, she had caused pain to his idol, but before he could advance, Nny burst out of the door, wrapped up in a towel, with a furious expression, mud still smudged on his person. Jimmy became red in the face and ran through the wall. Meat and Emily laughed even more. Nny stalked down the hall way.
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS TH-...WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!???!" He pointed an accusing finger at Emily, she stopped laughing, but a broad smile still clung to her face.
"You can see me." She stood up and danced a bit.
"Yeah and I can fucking see you, get out of my house before I crush you head with my boot." He growled.
"What boot?" Emily said with a smug expression. Just then Nny seemed to realize he was just wearing a towel and ran down the hall.
"WHEN I GET BACK YOU BETTER BE GONE!" He yelled in a panicked voice.
"Now that he can see me, I can annoy him with more efficiency!" An evil look seemed to spread across her face, all the possibilities spread out before her, being seen opened so many doors! A few minutes later Nny peeked out from around the corner of the room, fully clothed, and when he saw Emily still sitting on the floor, a little smile twitched at his mouth.
"I see you have decided to stay, I think you are going to regret your decision." He advanced with a knife clutched in his right hand.
"It's not like I have a choice about leaving, you don't think I have already tried?" She seemed quite calm which confused Nny.
"Well I hope you like being stabbed repeatedly in the torso, because that's what's coming for you." He leapt at her and stuck the knife in her stomach, but it just passed right through, and she just stood there looking amused. Nny stood back and tried to stab her again, nothing was happening; his hand was passing right through her.
"I...said...stabbed in the torso!!" nothing "STABBED IN THE TORSO! TORSO! Stabbed in the head? GAH WHY DON"T YOU DIE?!?!" He flailed his arms around in frustration.
"You don't recognize me? You should, you shoved wrist watches in my eyes and cut off my hands."
"Then why are you here." He whined, disappointed that he couldn't kill her again. (He now remembered killing her the first time, because that was the first time he had done the wrist watch thing.)
"Is it safe...?" Jimmy whispered from inside the wall, he poked his head out, still red in the face; his voice was shaking a bit. Seeing that much of his hero all at once was a shock that he was not ready for.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" Johnny screamed spinning around and pointing at Jimmy, this was just too much for him, too many dead people who weren't dead.
"You...you don't know who I am?" Jimmy's eyes widened pathetically. "I'm your biggest fan!" He wailed, and actually started crying.
"Yeah Nny you should know who your biggest fan is!" snickered Meat. It was obvious he was enjoying this.
Johnny turned on Meat "You knew about them?! How long?? Why didn't you tell me there were freaky ghost things!?!?!?"
"Hey, I tried to tell you, you thought that I was full of shit." He shrugged.
"Maybe that's because you are."
Soon the two were enveloped in a huge argument, and had completely forgotten the two specters that sat watching them, one amused, one afraid and depressed. Finally after about fifteen minutes of incoherent yelling, Nny blurted something out about visiting the neighbor kid and stormed out the door, slamming it for good measure.
"Don't worry kids; Mommy and Daddy were just having a disagreement, every thing is ok." Meat smiled sarcastically.
What did ya think? I was a bit disapointed with the ending myself... hopefully the next chapter wont take so long, I still have to figure out what I am going to do. Reviews?