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Chapter Two

I ran out the front door. I had to get away, it had gotten even louder. Sam and tucker were waiting for me covering one of their ears so that they could still hear each other.

"Hey guys," I said joining them.

"Hey, Danny," both Sam and tucker said at the same time.

When we reached the school Dash stopped us from entering. "Hey fen-turd I hear your parents are building some stupid ghost portal. Was it true or was it a lie?" I opened my mouth to answer but dash interrupted me. "I'll take that as a yes. I'll see it when it's finished so that I can laugh when it doesn't work." He walked away.

I didn't believe it. Dash's brain was so small that it would probably slip his mind. We walked into the school and split up to get to our separate classes. I had to go to Lancer's class, and could swear the guy hated me with a passion. If I was late no telling what my punishment would be.

After that Dash left us alone and no one else asked me about the ghost portal I had become pretty sure my parents were building behind Jazz and my backs the past week. They had never left the basement, I was surprised neither Jazz nor I noticed.

I ignored the voice in the back of my head that kept telling me to go down to the basement when they were asleep and check it out. But somehow I had a feeling that I wouldn't be able to ignore it for too much longer.

I met Sam and tucker outside of school, Jazz waited with them.

Sam's hair was just a long as Jazz's, but she planned to cut it short soon. About two months ago Sam got tired of all the colors in her wardrobe and chucked most of the clothed out her window. She went shopping and bought a new black wardrobe. She said she didn't want to conform with everyone else. She wanted to be her own person. Of course I didn't try to talk her out of it, she was still the same Sam I knew from before so what did it matter if she started wearing black clothes and purple lipstick.

We talked the most of the way home then fell silent as we drew nearer to "Fenton works". Everything was silent, no clanging metal, and no blow torch absolutely nothing. An eerie silence—and eerie deserved more than two or three Es it deserves more like six or seven. We walked into the house, it was still silent, not a sound could be heard. If we dropped a pin on the carpet we would have been able to hear it drop.

We walked into the kitchen… Nothing, no one.

I looked at the door to the basement. And heard a door close then some footsteps on the stairs. My parents' voices became clearer as the footsteps neared the door. My mother opened the door and looked at all four of us standing there. My father walked in behind her—my parents' really needed to get lives, or at least a new hobby and some normal jobs.

"We're not finished yet," my mother shrugged taking off the hood to her jump suit and slid the goggles off her head messing up the back of her hair a little. "We need to wait for something then we can finish." She looked at us as if reading my mind and seeing what the voice in the back of my mind kept telling me. "No one can go down there till it's completely finished" she said walking to the fridge. "I'll make dinner."

Everyone shrugged and went up stairs. Jazz to her room, Sam, Tucker, and I to mine.

Everyone was silent and pulled out their homework. No one had anything to say. For a minute down stairs I think everyone believed they were done with the portal. But as if reading our minds my mother assured us otherwise.

The house was quiet again, except for the noise coming from the outside street, cars coming and going, people walking on the sidewalks, talking about whatever. And I could hear Tucker as he tapped the screen of his PDA, and Sam as she worked on one of her homework worksheets. So I did what Sam was doing and pulled out Lancer's homework. I wondered to myself, what's going on?

Author's note:

Just so you know: this story has been published before, but at the time I had other things that needed to be done so I took it off. Now I have more time to write and have re-published it!

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