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CHAPTER 9

I seriously thought I was going to go insane for accepting his stupid question. Joe came into the room and told me that my mom was on the phone and that she wanted to talk with me. I picked up the phone and held it to my ear.

"Hey mom", I said.
"Hey sweetie", she said, cheerfully. "I'm sorry I didn't call when you first arrived there, how are you settling in?". Terrible.
"Great", I lied. "Just fine. How about you?".
"Oh", she sighed. "So much business meetings to attend to, I'm not sure when me and your father will go back home. You might have to stay there after your summer vacation, probably".

I must have gone deaf after that last sentence. "Stay here… after my summer vacation?", I stammered to ask. "But… what about school and my friends?".
"I'm sure you can make new friends, sweetie", she encouraged. "You can go to the same school as Joseph. What was it called?".
"Junipera Serra Mission Academy", I automatically answered.
"Yes, that's right", she replied. "Heard from Joe that it is a good school and I know how much you will miss your old school and friends but this is only temporary. How hard can it be?".

Mom, you have no idea, I thought with a sigh. I couldn't really argue with her about it because she was too busy with her clients hanging in the background. With that said and done, I was doomed. Doomed to the fact that I had to spend a school year here in a new school and even worse, doomed because Ethan Wolf goes there. Not good, at all.

I glanced in his direction waiting by the door with a grin and poked my tongue out at him just for the sake of it which just made him chuckle at his expense.

"Oh must go, sweetie", my mom said as I can hear people in the background. "Meeting is about to begin, I'll call you soon. I miss you and take care", she said, quickly.
"Miss you too, mom", I replied and hung up.

I sighed and walked up the stairs when Ethan said, "Where are you going?".
"If you must know", I said, narrowing my eyes at him. "I'm taking my clothes off to go have a shower". The reaction on his face was just so ridiculous, his eyebrow raised in surprise by my response.
"Wow", he said. "I think I'm gonna have a good sleep tonight". I shook my head and continued my way upstairs to my room. He got humiliated in public and he has the nerve to show his smug face to me.

As my door slid closed, I sighed and walked towards the bathroom when Troy stood in the doorway which gave me a fright. "What the- what are you doing?".
"Are you seriously going to that house with that idiot downstairs?", he asked, glaring at me.
"Um", I looked away from his piercing eyes. "Yeah?". I looked back up at him and rolled my eyes. "Look, I know I don't like him at all, it's just this thing about the house. He probably knows something about it".
"Oh and I suppose he had a dream like you did and went there too, right?", he asked, in a serious voice. This was going nowhere that's for sure.
"Troy", I said with a sigh. "Would you cut me some slack, here? I'm going and I really want to figure this out and why Susannah or whoever she is wants me to go to her room".

I kept looking at him with my pleading eyes and he gave in and I went for a quick shower and got changed into something comfortable. Jeans and a light pink blouse, simple yet cute.

Just when I was about to leave my room, Troy materialized. "You look good to be going to an abandoned house", he said.
"Well, my Grandma and Joe think we're going out on a date but we're not", I explained. "So don't get so worked up about it".
"Call for me when your in trouble", he said and leaned in to kiss me when Joe knocked on the door. "Please, be careful".
"I will", I smiled, apologetically. I gave him a quick kiss on his lips and left off with Ethan.

When Ethan opened my door to get in his car, it was like none other car I have seen before. My dad had always wanted to get a BMW 360 Ultra but it was way too expensive to get but if my dad saw me with Ethan in his car, my dad would want him to come over to our house, anytime and I mean any chance for my dad to get to have a test drive with Ethan's car.

On the way to the abandoned house, Ethan just wouldn't stop smiling. Honestly, it was like, he had like brain damage. "Er… could you stop smiling? I don't see anything to smile about?".
"Is that so?", he chuckled as we turned into Pine Crest Road. "Look Cass, just enjoy our little moment while it lasts". Hmph, just when I was beginning to think he was thinking something so perverted.

His car automatically stopped in front of the abandoned house and turned off. I glanced at the house and it seemed as if time had gone by so quickly that it was already dark out. I got out and waited for Ethan to come round to where I was.

"Want me to hold your hand?", he asked, looking at me with a grin.
"As if", I rolled my eyes. "Look, can we cut the crap and get this done with. How much do you know about the house and why did you ask me about it?".

I let out a small sigh whereas he put his hands in the pocket of his dark blue jeans. "I don't know much, but I've been coming here every so often just to check out the force field aura. I even tried doing a ritual to get rid of any bad spirits within the house".
"Haven't you tried getting a Priest to do it?", I asked.
"Yeah, I did", he replied, looking up at the house. When I looked at him, I had a flash vision of him, remembering the dream. "But… the aura is too strong to break. There's no paranormal things inside, not even a ghost. It's so strange".
"I've seen stranger things", I muttered under my breath.

"Oh well, let's go", he said, walking up the driveway.
"Um, you said you found nothing in there, what's the point of us going in there?", I asked. Though I had a point of going in there.
"We're just checking for anything suspicious", he replied turning his head sideways like he were fish. "I haven't been to the house in a while when Joe told me you guys went there and when you touched the house, you had a headache". My eyes widened in surprise about what he just said, I wanted to say something but he had already continued walking towards the back of the house. I was beginning to think that he thought I had something to do with the house.

I managed to catch up with him and saw him waiting for me at the back door. I really didn't know why I had to be with this guy who only wants to find out things for himself. Is it any coincidence that we're both mediators who've just so happened to find out on the beach?

"'Bout time", he sighed and opened the door without hesitation. It obviously did look like he had been coming here every so often to scope the place out. I don't know how boys do it, go in without a hint of fear. Oh I got it, they're wannabes. Always trying to save the damsel in distress, though for most girls, they won't mind but it all depends on the guy who is saving them. And if it were Ethan saving me in the end, oh that'd be something not to live happily ever after.

We both walked in and the door suddenly closed, more faster than the last time I was here, which was not too long ago. I gasped at the sound it made as it banged closed.
"Still want me to hold your hand?", Ethan offered.
"Don't even think about it", I snapped and clasped my hands together.

I looked around and it wasn't as dark as last time. Though it was really late, like really early in the morning when Troy and I went, but I still couldn't understand why Troy's memory was different to what I had in mind. It didn't make sense. The inside of the house was very twenty-first century but everything was so rusted, broken and creepy altogether.

"This way", he whispered grabbing my wrist and taking me upstairs. "Watch your step". Every step we took made a creaking sound on each step. My stomach did not feel good at all. We finally made it to the second story of the house. "Now what?", I nervously asked. He didn't say anything because he just took me towards a door.

"Whatever happens even though I said there's nothing here", he whispered, glancing back at me. "Stick close to me". Pfft, yeah, that's exactly what he wants.

He clicked open the door and gently pushed it open, making a creepy sound as it opened. As he walked in, I followed close behind. I took a moment to take in the scene of the room and then a flash vision came into my head that this was the room that was in my dream, the first day I came here.

There was the bed, all worn out and almost ripped in half and the window which also had a window seat. I glanced at Ethan who was looking into the bathroom which gave me a chance to walk towards the window and expect the things I had seen in my dream to be there.

I was right, there was the chess set and the stack of books but one caught my eye that looked familiar. I walked towards the stack of books and bent down to pick it up. That's when I remembered the book Christian was reading in the library. It was the poetry book he had been reading… so many questions started forming inside my head.

"Find anything?", Ethan asked when he came out of the bathroom and gave me a fright.
"Uh, nope", I replied. I know I lied but I couldn't really tell him about the book thing. Otherwise he'd really kill Christian, though I wasn't sure if he really would kill him. It still doesn't make sense. Is Christian, really a vampire?

One thing was for sure, was that I had to come back here, tomorrow. During the day of course. I just wasn't sure if Christian would be here or… he lived here all this time. I put the book back and stood up slowly when I heard something downstairs.

"Stay here!", Ethan said, quickly looking at me and then ran out the room. That's when I really felt scared, yeah, I know. A mediator who is afraid of darkness and an abandoned house that keeps haunting me.

I stood there timidly thinking what the heck just happened? My knees were shaking and I couldn't help but glance around the room, it was stupid to think there was someone watching me when there was no one else in the room, Ethan checked around. But I couldn't get why the feeling I had, felt like someone was actually watching me.

"Troy?", I said a bit quietly my voice was faint and hesitant. "Troy!", I called out. Damn it Troy, you said you'd be here for me when I needed you, I thought. I really couldn't stand there waiting for Ethan. "I've gotta find him", I said under my breath making my way to the door. "Ethan?".

No response.

"Ethan!", I called out. "Are you okay?".

Still nothing.

That's when I saw something bolting for the door though it went through the door which was when I saw an out of breath Ethan, limping towards the staircase. His clothes had been torn in some places, not that much though. I couldn't really see properly from the dark so I ran downstairs and told him to lean on me and we went out of the house.

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