The drive to the hotel was a boring one, at least, it was for Jessie. After being stuck inside a plane for almost seven hours, she was about ready to jump out of the car's window. With headphones in her ears, she had quickly gone off into a daydream as Nick drove the van back to the hotel.

When she felt a shove on her arm, Jessie pulled one headphone out of her ears and turned around in the front passenger's seat to look behind her. "What's up?" she asked Zak, who was the one who grabbed her attention.

Zak handed her a file before saying, "This is everything we got on the Myrtles Plantation. How much do you know about this place?"

With a shrug, Jessie replied honestly, "Not that much. I know about the ghost Chloe who had her ear cut off and how she steals earrings right out of people's ears, but other than that, nothing."

"Look," Zak said, reaching over and opening the folder, flipping through a couple of the files. "Supposedly Chloe died because she poisoned the Judge's wife, Sara Woodruff, and their two daughters." Page flip. "A French woman wanders around the place looking for something." Page flip. "A young girl who practices voodoo on people who sleep in her room." A final page flip. "And this guy, William Winter, was the only reported murder in the house. He was shot on the porch, and his ghost will crawl up the steps before disappearing at the seventeenth step."

"Jesus," Jessie whispered as she flipped through the pages on her own. Then, she slapped Nick in the arm. "Why the hell you didn't tell me how active this place is?" Even though her voice was sharp, Jessie wasn't angry about this. If anything, her excitement had just jumped up a notch.

"Don't slap the driver!" Aaron said from the far back of the van, where he sat playing with one of his camera's. "Okay, Vlog time!"

With a groan, Zak turned around and faced the camera, and when Aaron motioned at Zak, he said, "Aaron's Vlog. We just picked up Nick's cousin, Jessie, a fellow paranormal investigator, up from the airport and now we're going back to the hotel. Say 'hi,' Jess."

Startled, Jessie turned around in her seat and stared at the camera. "Um… Hi," she laughed, giving a half-hearted wave at the camera before turning back around. Her eyes caught Nick's as she sat forward and she saw that he was trying as hard as he could not to laugh.

"Anyway," Zak continued, "Jessie's here with us while we investigate the Myrtles Plantation because a lot of the activity happens to women, and I'm pretty sure she's a girl… Hey, Jessie, you are a girl, right?"

"Last time I checked, I was," she laughed as she pulled her feet up onto the seat, continuing to flip through the file. Aaron and Zak finished the vlog with some witty banter between the two. After it was finished, the car fell back into silence, except for the occasional conversation between the guys.

The hotel room that Jessie was staying in was basic; bed, television, bathroom, desk. She placed her carry-on bag onto the table and slid her luggage bag against the wall before she pulled her iPod out of her bag and the radio that went with it. The first thing that needed to be done was to start playing music.

Hitting the 'shuffle' button on her iPod, the first thing that started to play was "Take It Off" by Ke$ha. With the music playing, Jessie picked her bag up and pulled out her sneakers that sat above a pair of comfy sweatpants, a sweatshirt, a pair of boot-cut jeans, and a couple other camisoles. Finally, under all the clothes, sat her investigating equipment: EMF detector, digital recorder, her film camera, and a full-spectrum camcorder.

Jessie began checking everything to see how well they managed on the flight. She couldn't bring her cases for the equipment, so she had to hope that they'd be safe wrapped up in her clothes. The first piece she checked was her film camera, an EOS Rebel, and everything checked out to be normal.

Actually, three out of the four pieces equipment seemed to be fine. When Jessie got to her camcorder, a full-spectrum camera, wouldn't turn on."Come on," she groaned as she changed the battery for a third time. No changes. Defeated, Jessie got up and slipped on her sneakers before walking out of her hotel room.

Down the hall from her room was Nick's, so she decided to bag on his door to see if he had the reason, but there was no answer. "Nick?" she called through the door, puzzled as to how far he could have gotten in 10 minutes.

Quickly, she dialed Nick's number, fumbling with the camera in her hand as she waited for the answer. "Hey, Jess," he said, casually when he answered. "Is everything okay?"

"My video camera won't work," she explained. "Where the hell are you?"

"Aaron and I went to grab a pizza. Listen, I'll have Aaron take a look at it when we get back. Should be back it twenty minutes."

With a heavy sigh, Jessie agreed and hung up her phone. As she made her way back to her room, she saw Zak walk out of his. "Hey," she smiled as he walked down the hall in her direction.

"Hey," he smiled back. "Is Nick in his room?"

"Nope," Jessie huffed with a heavy roll of her eyes. "He and Aaron went to grab pizza without telling anyone."

"Yeah, they do that a lot," Zak sighed as he placed his hands in his pockets. "So… Are you getting ready for tomorrow?"

Jessie laughed and replied, "I'm trying to. My camera won't turn on." She handed Zak the camcorder, and he flipped it around in his hands. "I've even replaced the battery a couple times to see if-" Before she couldn't finish her sentence, Zak had gotten the camera on, the LCD screen a light green to show that the night vision, and not the full-spectrum, was on. "How the hell you get that to work?"

Zak flipped the camera around to the back and showed her. "You didn't have the battery in all the way. Something got stuck in between the battery and the camera."

"Wow. Now I feel like an idiot," she laughed as Jessie took the camera back and pushed some stray hairs out of her face.

The two stood awkwardly in the middle of the hallway, the silence pressing on Jessie like a weight. "Want to go grab coffee or something downstairs?" Zak asked pointing toward the elevators. "That's one of the main reasons I'm out here, actually."

Shaking her head and laughing, Jessie replied, "Okay, sure."