Sorry about the really long pause. I've been really busy. On the plus side, I finally got the update on Word. IT'S AWESOME!!

Girl's speech pattern

Italics - ringing voice; normal face
Bold Italics - angry; distorted face
Bold - not angry; distorted face

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt.

The scene changed and Mai found herself staring up at a crumbling ceiling. Realizing she was laying down on a floor, Mai got up and looked around. The sudden change in altitude made her head hurt.

"Rise and shine," Mai heard the girl say.

Mai whipped around. The girl was sitting on the chair where the old woman should have been, dead but the old woman was nowhere to be seen.

"How was the adventure?" the girl asked conversationally, "I thought it was fun. Did you think it was fun?"

"Who are you?" Mai glared at her.

The girl laughed, grabbed Mai's shoulders and said, "I'm you."

Mai slapped the girl's arms off which instead of the transparent but cold nothing she expected, were solid. Solid but still cold.

"Don't mess with me!" Mai backed up, "WHO ARE YOU?!"

The girl laughed. "You still don't know?!" she twirled and looked Mai in the eye, "Make sure to stay in school, Mai."

"... Joanna?"

"Bingo!" Joanna laughed, "We have a winner!"

"What do you want with me?"

"Why do you assume that everything's about you?" Joanna rolled her eyes. "Maybe I just chose you randomly out of some random candidates."

"DON'T MESS WITH ME!" Mai screamed.

"My, my, what a temper..." Joanna smiled.

"WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU?!" Mai continued screaming. "IF ANYTHING, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DID SOMETHING TO ME!"

"So she says," Joanna rolled her eyes.

"Just because you're dead, doesn't mean you have the right to pick on me," Mai lowered her voice but kept it angry.

"Oh cut the dramatics!"

"Why are you so mean?!"

"Why are you so mean?" Joanna mocked Mai.

"Answer me!"

" 'Answer me!' "

"Just because you can't move on...!"

"What an idiot. Just because you still don't have the memories, you think you're the victim."

"I am the victim."

" 'I am the victim.' " Joanna rolled her eyes again, "Will you listen to yourself? You don't even know what happened that day."

"I know enough to know I'm the victim." Mai's voice was firm.

"Oh really?" Joanna stepped forward. "Do enlighten me, Mai. What did happen that day? What did I do to make you the victim?"

Mai didn't say anything. She couldn't say anything. What could she say? She remembered nothing except for a memory shown by Joanna and she wasn't sure that was real. In a way, Joanna had told her the truth. Mai was a murderer. Albeit a forced murderer but a murderer nonetheless.

"What? Cat got your tongue?"

"What do you want?"

"Wow. A sentence not about you. Well, okay." Joanna walked forward until she was really close to Mai. "There's nothing I want more than to see. you. suffer."

Mai glared at Joanna. Joanna glared back.

"I'm out of here," Mai turned away.

"Ah, don't you want to know the truth?"

Mai turned back. "What truth?"

"The truth of what happened that night."

"What night?"

"The night I died."

"How do I know that's the truth?" Mai glared at Joanna.

"You just have to trust me as much as I trusted you," Joanna shrugged.

"You're lying."

"Sure wish I was."

Mai examined Joanna's face to try and find at least one small sign of lying.

"You're lying."

"And what do you suppose happened? If that wasn't the truth, why would I haunt you? If that wasn't what happened, why would I try so hard to make your life miserable? What reason would I have to bother you? Why wouldn't I just haunt the real murderer?"

Mai shook her head.

"I didn't kill you," she insisted, "You made it all up."

"You did kill me. It's the truth. I died from your hands."

"Mai?" Bou-san waved a hand in front of Mai's face.

Mai had been unresponsive the whole drive back to the hospital. She didn't say a word or even look anyone in the eyes as the doctors scolded her and as everyone did their best to get a word out of her.

"What happened in there?" Ayako asked her.

"Nothing," Mai replied.

"Then why are you so quiet?"

"I'm just... tired, I guess."

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fantastic." Mai's voice was monotone.

"... Okay then, I guess. Get well."

Okay, that's probably the shortest chapter I've done except for the first chapter. Sorry. Oh and there's no part missing. What Joanna showed her is still a mystery and I'm not going to reveal the truth just yet... lol. It sucks, I know but I'm starting to get really tired lately. We were assigned to do these 13 orthographic pictures in graphics and it's due by the end of next class. It sucks because I have to go during lunch to finish it. Geez, why does the border have to be 10mm and the drawings 20mm from the border?