Okay, finally an update! I know I've been gone for a while, but it's my first year of college and it has been tough adjusting. I had a major meltdown for the first week. Then I had to adjust to classes then midterms. Now I finally have a break. I actually should be working on and essay that's due on Friday, but oh well. So here is the next chapter where the paranormal start of the story is introduced. And I think I will hold off on the casting lists, because I assume the whole ghost storyline will be really long, but I dunno. So enjoy!! Don't forget to R&R with your comments!

Thinking About You Lately

Chapter 6

The Curse

Fi was pacing in front of room 425 waiting for Clu and his source to arrive. She checked her watch again and sighed, she had been waiting for fifteen minutes. She stopped pacing and sat on the floor next to the door. Suddenly she heard someone running then saw Clu rush around a corner almost slipping by his rush. He turned to see her and smiled,

"Hey, sorry we're late she took forever packing up her books." She could sense that the girl stuck her tongue out at him since he returned it. He then turned back to Fi, "Oh yeah, Fi, I'd like you to meet my source." Then Fi saw the last person she suspected come around the corner.

"Julie?" Fi asked in shock. Julie smiled,

"Yeah, I know. You probably didn't think I was into all that paranormal stuff." Clu and Julie had been walking towards her and now were standing in front of her as she stood up. Clu smiled,

"Yeah, Fi she knows SO much, possibly even more than you." Fi fake smile on her face was wavering. This girl has gone too far, first she steals her best friend and now she has to steal her thunder in the paranormal area. Julie blushed,

"Don't listen to him, I barely know anything, I'm just really into ghosts, curses, stuff like that. I'm not into the little green men area." Fi relaxed, 'good' she was still the queen of the paranormal. Julie then turned to the door,

"Okay now we got to get this thing open," she started digging in her pockets, "Now where did I put that...Ah ha!" She pulled out a key and stuck it into the lock jiggled it slightly as she turned it. The door creaked open and they all entered closing the door behind them. Fi stared around the empty classroom. It looked like no one had been in there for decades. There was a visible layer of dust on every surface. All the plants had disintegrated all that was left were some black wood from on of the trunks of the plants. 'Something really bad must have happened in this room if they were in this much of a rush to get out of here and lock it up for good.' She then thought about it and looked at Julie who was looking out a window on the far side of the room.

"Julie," Julie turned to her, "if this room is always locked up, how did you get a key?" Clu turned to Julie also wondering that. Julie smiled,

"Well, you know all the ambassadors for our school. The ones who know way too much about our school and its history," Clu and Fi nodded as Julie smirked, " Well I'm one of them, I'm actually the leader of the group and we aren't just recruiters for our school. After the incident that happened in this room the ambassadors have been dedicated to finding out what exactly happened in this room on the day Katie Anderson fell to her death," Clu and Fi were in shock as Julie continued, "we hope that when we finally figure it out the curse will be ended." She then realized that she hadn't answered their question, "Well soon after the death was claimed to be an accident or suicide, the ambassadors decided to make the solving of her death became part of their activities. When the room was first locked up the president of the ambassadors stole this key off the janitor. All other keys were destroyed. This key has been handed down to each president of the ambassadors, as you can see the key is very old and is close to breaking. If we do not solve this mystery before the key finally breaks, the ambassadors decided that we would give up."

"Okay so that explains about the key, but what is this about a girl falling to her death and a curse? And Clu told me this room was haunted." Fi questioned as Julie stepped away from the window. Julie sat down on the floor and motioned for Fi and Clu to join her,

"You guys should sit down this is a long story." Clu and Fi looked around the room noticing the dust and Julie smiled, "Don't worry I've been in here so much the floor is the cleanest surface in this dust museum." Clu and Fi then sat down anxious to hear the story. Julie cleared her throat, "Well the hundred year anniversary of her death is approaching. In the year 1905 there was a girl named Katie Anderson, she was a sophomore at this school, which was an all girl school at that time, along with her best friend Jessica Martin. Katie was completely and totally in love with a boy named Alex McKay who went to their brother school. He loved her in return. One day before the last day of school Katie Anderson fell from that window to her death. No one knew what happened. The police assumed suicide, but there was no reason for Katie to kill herself. She was extremely happy in her life and had so much to live for. Apparently earlier that day Alex had given her a promise ring to say that when she was old enough he wanted to marry her. Alex fell into deep depression and Jessica became strangely distant, she got extremely nervous whenever the subject came up. Well, ten years later Jessica visited this room in remembrance of Katie and she fell from the same window, but this time there was an old woman who lived across the street and she said she saw someone push Jessica out of the window. She couldn't see who since the room was so dark, but she saw someone push her. Alex committed suicide not long after that. Nine years after Jessica's death another girl fell, and ten years after that another one. I assume you can see the pattern, every time on the ten-year intervals of the day of Katie's death someone falls to their death. So in 1955 they decided to lock up the room permanently, but as you know we got the key and someone must have been careless because the curse hasn't stopped. So far we have determined that it was Jessica Martin who pushed Katie Anderson out of that window, because she was also in love with Alex and wanted him for herself. Her jealousy had probably been building up for years and the promise ring was the last straw. After Katie's death Jessica probably assumed that she and Alex could finally be together. But Alex was so depressed he said he could never love again. Jessica probably returned ten years later to pay her respects to Katie and probably beg for her forgiveness. We believe that she wasn't the only one who visited that room. We assume that she must have slipped that she killed Katie while in that room. We think that Alex heard her and was so angry he wanted her to die the same way Katie did. Then finally Alex couldn't take the grief anymore so he killed himself as well. But we have no idea why girls kept falling after that, we see no connection between the girls and Katie, Alex, and Jessica. That is the final piece of the puzzle."

"But what about the room being haunted?" Clu asked. Julie smiled softly,

"Well we assume it must be the ghost of one or all three of the people involved in the deaths. We think it is the ghost of Alex, Jessica, or Katie, or all of them who are pushing these girls to their death. But we don't know what they want." Everyone looked very discouraged. The Fi raised her eyes to the window,

"Julie," Julie looked up to see Fi's profile, "you said that the hundred year anniversary of her death is coming up."

"Yeah," Julie replied. Fi turned back to face her,

"That means that very soon someone is going to fall from that window."

"I know," Julie looked back at the floor, "But I don't know what we can do to prevent it, even with the room being locked up the curse has continued."

"There has to be some way," Fi said as she stood up angry, "I'm not gonna stand idly by and let an innocent girl die." Julie stood up,

"What do you think our group has been doing for the past hundred years? We have being doing everything in our power to prevent it but it still happens."

"There has to be a way," Fi stated.

"The only way that it will stop is if we solve this mystery," Julie paused letting her frustration quiet down, "At least that's what we think." Clu stood up reminding the two girls that he was there too,

"Then let's get cracking." The girls looked at each other and nodded.

"But it will have to wait until tomorrow," Julie added. I think the best source we can use is the school library, they have newspaper archives which could help us a lot." Fi nodded, upset that they couldn't start right away. "Good," Julie continued, "so lets all meet in the library tomorrow same time. I'll ask Sister Mary Francis if we can stay after. I'll tell her that I'll lock up for her." Fi nodded again

"K, we'll meet you there. I'll search online tonight to see if I can find anything out." Julie smiled,

"Good idea. I think I'll do that too." Fi grabbed Clu's arm and started pulling him out of the room. "Oh wait up guys," Julie yelled, "I'll give you a ride." Clu's face brightened up with a smile,

"That's be great, thanks Jules." Julie smiled and blushed,

"You are very welcome Clu." Fi resisted the urge to scream, she had opened her mouth to say it wasn't necessary when Clu jumped in immediately accepting "Jules's" offer. Sure Julie was into the paranormal stuff but she still was not on Fi's favorite people list, she wasn't even on Fi's okay people list, she was on Fi's I can only take so much of these people list. Fi forced a smile as the three of them walked to her car. Fi jumped into the front seat, the last thing she needed was to be sitting in the back like a child while Julie and Clu flirted with each other. God she hated that girl, did she have any idea what she was doing to her and the people she cared about. She no longer thought taking a year off of the tour was such a great idea. If they were still traveling around on the bus everything would be the same as it was. Clu and her would be best friends, Clu and Carey would be as close as brothers can be and, well, they would still have to deal with Jack and Annie pretending like they didn't like each other, but she could deal with that. They finally got to Fi's house and she jumped out of the car. Grabbing Clu's arm and pulling him out of the car before he and Julie could share any intimate goodbye. Fi didn't think she would be able to deal with seeing them hug like that again. "Bye guys," Julie shouted from the car. Clu attempted to turn back to wave at her,

"Bye Julie, thanks for the ride." Fi shouted back extremely annoyed,

"Yeah bye!" Then Julie drove off as Fi pulled Clu into the house. Clu pulled his arm out of Fi's grasp and turned her to face him,

"We need to talk." This time it was him pulling Fi towards his room (FYI: In my story the Bells and the Phillips live in the same house). He pushed her into his room as he shut the door and locked it behind him, "Now no one will barge in and interrupt us." (he doesn't mean it in that way!!) Fi looked at him a little afraid she had never seen Clu so serious. He then sat down on his bed and motioned for Fi to sit next to him. She did, the expression on Clu's face said he wasn't going to let this go. Fi tried to act like she was confused about what he wanted to talk about,

"So you said we needed to talk Clu?" Clu's expression didn't change,

"Yeah. Fi, why do you hate Julie so much?" His expression softened slightly as he asked her a look of slight concern on his face.

"Hate Julie?" Fi kept pretending to be clueless, "I don't hate Julie." Clu laughed slightly,

"Fi, I'm not stupid or blind, I noticed the glares and the tone of voice you spoke to her in. So what did she say to make you hate her so much?" Fi decided to drop the act, and said under her breath,

"It's more what she's done." Clu heard her,

"What she's done? Fi what are you talking about?" Fi looked at him and all those feeling of confusion and pain came out as she looked into his caring eyes. She burst into tears and clung to him. He was a little surprised but hugged her back, stroking her hair and rocking her slightly while whispering soothing words to her. He was really concerned now. Fi wasn't one who regularly cried; at least that's what he thought. That's when it hit him. This reminded him of all the time he and Fi would talk when something was bugging them and when they shared secrets, when they would do best friend things. They hadn't been doing that anymore, something was bugging Fi and he didn't know immediately what it was. He knew now what it was and why she hated Julie so much. She thought Julie was coming between them, she thought she was going to lose him. He pulled her away from him slightly as he looked into her cloudy eyes. He stroked the tears off her face with his thumb and he moved pieces of her hair out of her face. He stroked her cheek again, "It's okay Fi, I know." Fi looked up at him a little scared. "But you don't need to worry about that, you will always be my best friend, my number one girl, no one could ever take your place in my heart, and no one ever will. I know things haven't been the same as they were when we were all on the bus, but there is no way that they could be, we're in high school now, and when you're in high school, things change. Things like normal routines, sometimes even feelings, but Fi, my feelings for you have never changed. I'm sorry I haven't been there for you. I haven't been a very good best friend, but from now on I swear that I am here for you. If you ever want to talk I'm here, if you want to yell about how Jack is bugging you or how annoying Annie is," Fi laughed as he smiled, "I'm here, and if you need a shoulder to cry on I'm here. You won't lose me to Julie, Fi. Julie's a great friend, but what you and I share is different, very different." Fi was looking into Clu's eyes and she realized that some of the things he said seemed to have a deeper meaning than just friendship.

"What do you mean by different Clu?" She looked at him with a glimmer on longing as she covered the hands cupping her cheeks with her own and she saw a glimmer of longing in his own expression as well. He started leaning towards her slightly,

"What I mean is Fi, I..." he trailed off as they shut their eyes and moved closer.

"CLU!!!" Banging on the door broke the spell of the moment. The jumped away from each other as they heard the elder Bell boy shouting, "CLU OPEN UP THE DOOR MY GUITAR IS IN THERE!! I NEED IT!!" Clu stood up to let his brother in. Fi took that chance to dash out of the room, not wanting to face what the would say after their second almost kiss.

"Fi," Clu said after her as she ran up the stairs to her room. Carey went over to the corner of the room to get his beloved guitar. Clu slammed the door and glared at his brother, "You have the worst timing you know!" Carey looked at him really confused.

"What? Were you an Fi making out?" He said the last part as a joke as he laughed slightly then he saw Clu's eyes widen slightly and a light blush stain his cheeks. "Oh my God you were!"

"No!" Clu shouted, "We were just talking!" Carey had a huge teasing grin on his face,

"If you guys were just talking then why was the door locked and why were you so pissed when I interrupted you?"

"Something has been bothering Fi for a while and she finally started telling me about it and you interrupted her telling me about it," Clu said quickly. Carey didn't believe him for a second, he could tell Clu was lying because he couldn't look Carey in the eye.

"Whatever bro," Carey went to the door, "Just be happy it was me who came to the door and not Jack, I don't think he would be to pleased about you having a make out session with his baby sister." He opened the door to leave.

"We were not making out!" Clu exclaimed. The Carey started softly saying in a sing-songy voice,

"Clu and Fi were making out, Clu and Fi were making out..." Clu stood up from his bed and started approaching Carey,

"Carey, shut up, we were not making out!" Then Carey started singing when Clu started chasing him around the room,

"Clu and Fi, sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G..." That went on for the majority of the night.

Okay that's all, that ended up a lot longer than I planned. I didn't even thing about the whole Clu and Fi talk thing, but I think it was a good place to put it. Cause Clu may be clueless (no pun intended) but since he and Fi are such good friend he would have had to notice her animosity towards Julie. Also some feeling possibly emerging. "Damn you Carey! You and your stupid guitar!" But it was good that Jack wasn't around to hear Carey claiming about Clu and Fi making out. I was imagining that he was upstairs, cause his room (in my story) is upstairs (I dunno where it is in the series). But I dunno when I'll be able to update again, maybe around Christmas. Well R&R and tell me what you think!

PR