Chapter 3: Feeling Curious

Emily began to grow a bit more curious now about her new home and took a peek out her door, seeing the hallway was empty. Vee was at school at the time, but as it was coming up the weekend, she'd be home soon and Oxana and Boris had decided to have Emily start her first day of school on Monday to give her time to get settled and to give them time to get all the paperwork ready for the school.

The young girl knew she'd be starting in a new school soon, but was nervous about it. Then, deciding that she wasn't going to think about it right then, she stepped out of her room for the first time in a few days and moved towards the staircase, walking down slowly.

She was halfway down when a something blue came out from the wall and stretched. "Oh, that was a good nap," he said before spying the young girl, who jumped and looked very frightened, backing up on the stairs as if to get far away from him. "Oh, hello. You must be Emily," he said, tampering down his excitement that he was meeting his best friend's new little sister, but his voice was friendly and he floated down to be level with her, but didn't come closer as he saw she was a bit spooked.

Emily looked at him unsurely, wondering what he was. "I guess you're wondering what I am," he said and she nodded, still looking afraid. "Well, I'm a ghost, but don't be afraid. I'm a nice ghost."

She gave him an unsure look and he smiled as the incident reminded him of when he had first met Poppy and Bridget and how they had at first been afraid of him, but now were friends with him. "Really, I won't hurt you," he said. "I've heard so much about you from Vee and have been wanting to meet you ever since you came to live here a few days ago, but Vee felt it might be a bit too much for you to see vampires and a ghost all at once."

Emily began to calm down as she saw he was acting friendly, but Demi had a thought as to how to help her not be afraid. He had been watching hilarious human videos and one of his favorites was of human babies laughing at some of the silliest things, like one little girl laughed because she thought her father tripping and belly flopping on a bunch of pillows was funny. He could see the father had done it on purpose to make his daughter laugh and he decided to see if Emily would have a similar reaction.

He did a spin until he zoomed up in the air. "Hey, watch this!" He said excitedly and flew downward, intending to go through the floor, but instead, he did a hilarious belly flop, his lower body looking flat as a pancake. Emily looked a bit startled, but he then floated upwards again. "It's okay. See? I'm good," he said before jumping with a start and belly flopping again with a comical 'OOF!'

This time, he heard a very faint giggle and saw Emily's mouth was twitching at the corners and that made him smile, seeing his idea was working and flew upwards again before doing a backflip in the air and belly flopping again, his eyes rolling in circles as if he was dizzy.

This time, the young girl couldn't held back her laughter and giggled louder, clapping a hand to her mouth, but Demi just smiled and continued belly flopping, making her giggles fill the hallway. Seeing she wasn't scared now, the blue ghost came closer to her and held out a hand. "My name is Demi," he said. "I'm one of Vee's friends, which makes you my friend too."

Emily indicated to herself, looking confused. Demi's face fell. "Do you…have friends?" He asked gently.

She shook her head. "Well, now you do," he said with a smile as he flew around her. Hearing her giggle again, he smiled and noticed her long black hair. "Hey, is it okay if I braid your hair?"

She cocked her head puzzledly, which told him she didn't know what a braid was. "Oh, wait a second, I'll be right back," he said, flying off but was back in an instant, holding up a book about hairstyles and showing her what a braid looked like. He had been studying the book and Poppy and Bridget had let him practice on their hair and he was pretty good at the styles. Emily looked curious and pointed to the picture of a girl with two French-braided pigtails and touched her own hair, looking curious. "Oh, you'd look so cute with French-braided pigtails," Demi said in excitement. "Would you like me to do your hair like that?"

The four-year-old nodded and followed Demi down into the living room where she sat down on an ottoman and the blue ghost began gently brushing her black hair and neatly parted it in the middle and began working his magic and it wasn't long before he had finished and Emily saw her new hairdo in the mirror and she smiled, instantly liking it. "Oh, you just look adorable," Demi said with a smile, spinning around happily. Emily giggled as the ghost's happiness was contagious.

Oxana was coming back upstairs from the basement when she heard giggling and found it to be Emily. A bit surprised, she also saw that the little girl's hair was in two French braids. Her surprise turned into relief that her new daughter had ventured out of her room and had met Demi. Seeing her mother in the doorway to the living room, Emily went up to her and indicated to her hair. "You do look cute with French braids," Oxana said with a smile.

Emily then pointed to Demi and giggled again, especially when the ghost did another belly flop, which made Oxana chuckle in amusement. "Demi can be silly sometimes," she said, winking at the ghost, who winked back.

Inwardly, Oxana took Emily's giggling and braided hair as a good sign that the little girl was now becoming more comfortable in her new home and slowly opening up to where she now trusted Demi to be near her. "Well, if she can handle being around a ghost, then perhaps she'll be alright when she meets the rest of the family," the vampire woman said to herself.

She at least hoped that would be the case.

So, Emily is slowly opening up and is now friends with Demi. She will meet the rest of the family in later chapters. :)

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