"Indiana!" Nina screamed and bent down next to the girl's body.
Trudy gasped and hid her face. Jasper stared in horror at the girl's body. Victor was repulsed, but he wanted to get them all out of there safely.
He said "Everyone out. I will call the funeral directors and have them get this girl's body out. Go on."
Nina was still sobbing, she didn't hear Victor.
"Trudy, get this girl up. Get her out of here now."
Trudy obediently bent down and picked Nina up, murmuring "Come on, sweetheart, you don't need to be here. Come on."
Nina cried insanely. Trudy tried to soothe her, buts he was having serious trouble holding her. Jasper took the crying girl from Trudy and carried her as easily as he carried Trudy about.
Downstairs, Trudy made some hot chocolate for everyone and comforted Nina. Jasper was watching them all, paying particular attention to Trudy. Nobody else seemed to notice that, but he wanted to make sure she wasn't going to be hurt. Everyone, even Victor was downstairs.
Trudy knew that there was a new ghost. The ghost of Indiana Marie Dean. She would be haunting that attic, searching for the vengeful ghost children who had ended her life and disappeared forever.
Now this girl would be looking for her own victim. That did it, she was putting a lock that nobody could get through on that door. It'd be fool-proof. Or in this case, it'd be Anubis house-proof. Even Victor wouldn't get up there.
She just didn't want anyone else hurt.
"Nina, darling, don't worry. She's going to be-" Trudy started
"In the attic, searching for another victim of a gruesome death to put her at rest?" Alfie finished.
Trudy glared at him, while Nina wailed.
"No, Alfie, she is not! She'll be in a better place than that, Nina. She'll be watching you from up in heaven and you know that." Trudy tried to comfort her.
Nina wailed "Alfie's ri-i-i-i-i-gh-h-h-t-t-t-t!"
Trudy gave Alfie another glare. "No, he isn't, lovely, she's happily watching you now, playing with all her special new things."
Nina wailed more. The volume almost broke a mirror.
"OK, sweetheart, you just relax a little. Come on, cuddle up to me and relax a little." Trudy told Nina, allowing her to rub her dark-blonde hair on her shoulder.
Nina closed her eyes and fell asleep. She was warm and comfortable and happy. She remembered being a baby, snuggled against her mother. The soft, warm hand rubbing her back and the maternal voice singing softly.
It was all just a dream, but it somehow felt so real, so happy.
In reality, there was a ghost story being told by Patricia.
"Four years ago, in my sister's boarding school, there was a group of girls. My sister, Piper, was one of them and she knew this story, recounting it to me first hand.
One of the girls, Sophie, had just been dumped. She got really depressed, she'd been hopeless for hi. When he left her, she turned into a zombie like Bella in New Moon. She wouldn't eat, move, drink or sleep, she sat in the same chair until she fell asleep.
One night, after she fell asleep, she went walking around the building. Her eyes were open and she was talking like the halls were full and as if to her boyfriend. When a teacher asked her what she was doing up, she told her she was going to class.
The teacher was stunned. Sophie started talking again. The school caretaker came up and put Sophie in her room.
The next day, news arrived at the school. Sophie had claimed she was still seeing this boyfriend of hers, so they told her. He'd been found dead in the streets. He'd been shot and run over.
Sophie went into hysterics and nobody could get her out. Then she roamed the school every single night, talking to this dead boy.
Piper followed her, consciously, one night and saw her go to the roof. It was icy cold and it'd been raining. She watched Sophie sleepwalk up to the roof. Without really noticing, Sophie took one step forward, laughing. She stepped on ice. She slipped and fell.
The next day, Piper announced what had happened and Sophie's body was found, 18 meters from where she'd fallen.
Ever since then, Sophie and the boy have been seen walking around the school and grounds together, then going up to the roof and disappearing."
Everyone stared at Patricia, except Eddie, who had heard Piper tell this story himself, and a school friend who had confirmed it.
It looked like they had a summer mystery to solve, too.
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OK, maybe not up to scratch, but I'm at a dead end. Does anyone have any awesome ideas? PM me if you do, review if you enjoyed. Until next update, Random Dizzy. :)