Sooooo I've been gone awhile.
Jade
"What?!" I exclaim in shock as I think back to when I saw the little red headed girl last. She didn't look like what I pictured a ghost would be. Cat seemed no less alive than me. "Are you sure were talking bout the same person? There could be another Cat..." I ramble but the chances are unlikely. Even in California their can't be very many 16 year old red headed girls named Caterina Valentine.
"I know it's Cat." Beck says shaking his head. I watch him as he looks around the house in frustration. "Cat!" he yells out and I flinch slightly. "CAT! Are you here?!" he yells at seemingly nothing as he moves around the house.
I follow him and grab his shoulder. "I don't think thats going to work Beck." I say and he stops to looks at me.
"Well how exactly do you get a...ghost... to appear?" Beck says looking clearly confused and frustrated as he runs a hand through his hair.
I ponder on that for a moment and then smirk at him. "We have a seance."
"Are you sure this is going to work? I feel stupid." Beck says nervously as he stands in the large circle of white candles I have made on the open basement floor.
"Of course it will work. I read all about this stuff on google. Now sit down." I demand as I light the last candle and blow out the match. It's the middle of the day now but you can barely tell in this windowless basement. I sit across from Beck in the circle and smile excitedly. I've always wanted to try having a seance.
"Did you bring something of Cat's?" I ask raising my eyebrows. He nods and pulls out a little gold charm bracelet from his left pocket. "She wore it a lot and her parents gave it to me-uh.. at her funeral." he says awkwardly handing it to me. It has charms of a paw print, a ballerina, a musical note, a heart, and a dolphin on it. I set it in between us and hold out my hands for him to grab. Beck takes my hands and takes a deep breath. "What if their are no such things as ghosts?" Beck says clearly having second thoughts.
"Then we have nothing to loose. Now close your eyes and repeat after me." I say glancing down at the piece of paper on my lap that has the chant on it.
"In nobis spiritus Caterina Valentine." I say and Beck repeats after me.
"In nobis spiritus Caterina Valentine."
"In nobis spiritus Caterina Valentine."
"In nobis spiritus Caterina Valentine."
Suddenly a strong wind blows out the candles light and a high pitch scream pierces my ears. I gasp and dash for the basement light. To my relief it turns on with a flicker and I turn to see a girl in a yellow sundress screaming.
Cat
"NO!" I screech so loudly me ears start ringing.
I'm in the house.
Worse, I'm in the basement.
How did I get here? It's not safe. I have to get out before he gets me! I can hardly see anything because my vision is blurry with tears but I sprint towards the basement door to the backyard. I wiggle the nob repeatedly but it won't budge. "LET ME OUT!" I scream at whoever is preventing me from leaving. I hear voices but right now I don't are about that because I just want out of here. I'm banging on the door when a hand grabs my shoulder and I immediately scream before closing my eyes and shrinking down to the floor.
"I'm under my bead. I'm under my bed. I'm under my bed." I repeatedly whisper.
"Cat please stop. It's me! We won't hurt you." a concerned voice replies.
I hesitate but slowly open my eyes and gasp when I see the two deep brown eyes staring back at me. "Beck!" I say before hugging him tightly, burying my face in his shoulder. I feel so happy that my heart could just about explode. "You can see me!" I say relived. I can't believe he finally came for me. Maybe now I'll be safe. He can figure out a way to get me out.
After a few minutes I finally pull my self back to see Beck grinning. I missed seeing that everyday. I smile back and wipe tears from my eyes.
"Oh my God. It's really you. I missed you." Beck says happily shaking his head and he hugs me again. I giggle and squeeze him hard in my arms. "I missed you too Becky." I say and for once he doesn't get embarrassed when I call him that. "How is this even possible?" he mutters in my ear to himself.
"Jadey!" I yell when I spot the black haired girl in combat boots in the corner of the room and smile at her. I run over to her and hug her tightly. Jade hugs back with one hand awkwardly. I remember she doesn't know me very well but thats just how I am, I like hugs. "Are you okay Cat? What were you freaking out about?" Jade asks worriedly after I let go of her. I'm confused for a moment but I just smile and shrug until I remember something. I'm dead.
The feeling of dread washes over me again and my brief happiness is ruined when I remember why I'm dead. Someone killed me. And I have to get out of this house. Because my murderer is still here. "Oh no! We have to get out of here!" I say to them with furrowed brows.
"What? Why?" Beck asks concerned. I don't know how to explain it so I just blurt out, "The Rubber Man."
Jade
"Again with that?" I ask Cat as she clings to Beck's arm. I don't know why I feel jealous right now that they are really close. I shouldn't be because this is a totally appropriate response to having a friend come back to life. Well not back to life, Cat is still only a ghost. Dead is dead. But we can see her and feel her and its like a miracle that she is even here.
Beck looks back and forth between Cat and I. "Who is the Rubber Man?" he asks. I'm not really sure myself so in turn I look to Cat for an answer.
"He murdered me." she replied weekly. Cat sniffles looking up at the stairs. "He murdered them too." she says pointing.
I'm almost too scared to look but I do anyways. Looking back at all of us are three other ghosts.
Cat smiles kindly and grabs me and Becks hands. "Don't be rude! Come and meet them!"she says sounding chipper. Her moods tend to change very quickly.
Beck gives me look like 'Is this really happening right now?' but we both follow Cat up the stairs and into the living room.
"Beck & Jade, this is Tori!" Cat says pointing to a skinny Latino girl with dark brown hair and prominent cheek bones. Cat smiles and nudges Tori. "Tori say hiii." she says lightly.
"Uh, hi." Tori says awkwardly and shuffles her stance.
"And this is Andre!" Cat says gesturing to a dark skinned boy with dreads and a kind smile. "Haha hey, thats my name." he says awkwardly in a deep smooth voice.
"And thats Robbie!" Cat says poking the curly brown haired boy with thick glasses standing next to her. "Hi." he says nervously tapping his foot.
"This is all so weird. There are four ghosts in my living room." is all I can say as I massage my temples.
"Hey! We have been here longer than you." Tori whines and I roll my eyes.
"Believe me. If I would've known about YOU before, I would've never bought this place." I argue back angrily.
"Hey now. Let's not fight about this." Beck says calmly as he grabs my hand. I'm so shocked by this I just drop it all.
"How come we can see you guys?" Beck asks.
Cat looks at the others for a response. "We can make ourselves invisible or totally visible whenever we want." Andre says cooly. "I don't really know how. We just can." he adds.
"I'm still working on that..." Cat says in a confused tone.
I raise my head up at this. "Wait! Did any of you see me naked ever?!" I ask angrily.
"Ew! No." Tori replied. I look to Andre and he puts his hands up and shakes his head. "I'm outside usually." Cat says.
I glare at Robbie. "No..." he says. I grit my teeth. "Okay! Maybe once... But it was on accident! I swear!" he yells scared. I jump out of my seat to attack him but stop.
"How do I kill someone who is already dead?!" I yell with my hands in fists. Beck grabs my hand again and gives Robbie a stern glare. "Just don't do that again." he says in a voice that shocks me. I never heard him sound so seriously mad. Robbie just nodded in fear.
"What are all of you doing here? I mean your ... dead... don't you need to uh- 'go into the light'?" I ask.
"Were trapped or obviously I would have left years ago." Tori says as she plops down onto the couch. I crinkle my forehead confused.
"Trapped? Like you can't leave the house?" Beck asks.
Andre nods and sits across from us. "It's like there is some sort of invisible ghost barrier. Every time I try to go past the gates I end up in some part of the house. Like a never ending loop. The only time we get to leave is on Halloween. But as soon as the sun rises on Halloween, we just end up back here." he explains.
Thats insane but very interesting. "So how did you all die here anyways?" I ask out of curiosity.
"Jade!" Beck snaps at me like I'm a child. "I wanna know!" I argue.
"It's fine. I'll start." Andre says. "I died in 1992. I broke in this house one night with some friends. It was the stupidest thing I ever did. We had always heard rumors growing up that this house was haunted and we were just trying to impress some girls and well... someone or something came after us and they got away and I didn't. I was stabbed in the chest with a knife." he said shrugging. Cat looked saddened by this and she grabbed her friends hand. "Thanks Lil Red." Andre said chuckling. "Whats that supposed to mean?!" Cat said looking offended. "Well your little and you have red hair..." he says smiling. "Oh!" Cat says smiling again. "How creative! Now do Tori!" she says clapping.
I rolled my eyes.
"I died in 1985." Tori said bitterly. "I lived here with my family for two months when one night that sone of a b**** drowned me when I was taking a bath." She said angrily. "I was going to be a singer!" she yelled and suddenly the table in front of her flipped over without anyone touching it and Cat gasped. "Sorry." she said calmer and taking deep breaths.
I sighed and with Becks help propped the table back up. "Be more careful would ya!? That was my moms." I say annoyed.
"Now Robbie, how did this... Rubber Man, kill you?" I ask emotionlessly.
"It was in 1973. But I wasn't murdered." Robbie said awkwardly and I raise my eyebrows at him. Cat sighed. "I don't wanna talk about this anymore. It's sad." she said.
"Agreed." Beck added.
Ahh. Sorry for just kinda throwing that together.