Then a giant scary looking ghost like thing came swooping through the set and set and everyone started running and screaming. Ghostly moans rang through the building. Then the ghost knocked into the fake plane on the set and knocked it over. It fell to and was lying lifeless on top of the plane.
Then it started to get up and Carlos pulled the mask off.
"Um, hi?" Camille ran out from behind the set.
"Did it work?" she asked.
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(one month later)
Lavonne laid in her bed across the room from Katie's bed and tried to fall asleep. It was a week from Halloween and she was getting excited. As she looked at the alarm clock she and Katie shared she heard a ghostly moan. She got up and walked out.
"Very funny, guys. You can't trick me with that old trick." She whispered. Then she heard it again. "Guys?"
"Lavonne?" she jumped and turned to see Katie.
"Sorry, did I wake you up?" she asked.
"No, it sounds like Stephanie was back to her movie." Katie said as she rubbed her eye.
The moan echoed from the living room to the hall.
"What is that?" they walked into the living room and found Carlos asleep in the swirly slide.
"Carlos, wake up." Lavonne whispered in Carlos's ear. He shifted and opened his eyes.
"What time is it?" he asked.
"That doesn't matter. Did you hear that noise?" she asked.
"What noise?" the moan rang through the apartment.
"That noise." They all walked into the hallway and Carlos put his helmet firmly on his head. They followed it down to the lobby and heard the moan turn to a screech and fade away.
"What was that?" Katie said.
"What are you guys doing here?" Carlos, Lavonne, and Katie screamed and turned to see Logan, James, and Kendal.
"Did you guys hear that?"
"What?" Kendal said sleepily.
"Dude, there's a ghost in the Palm Woods."
"There is no such thing as ghosts." Logan said.
"Yeah there is, I've had a paranormal experience." Lavonne said. "I might have been four but it was a ghost, my cousin played with him too."
"Over active imagination." Logan said.
"Bill was a real ghost."
"You named it?"
"My cousin did, it's a long story." Lavonne crossed her arms.
"There is no such thing as ghosts."
"Skeptic."
"Guys," Kendal interrupted. "What ever that was that was making that noise was real, so let's just try and figure it out."
"Have you guys forgotten that I have cameras set up around the hotel?" Katie asked.
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Everyone surrounded Katie and her laptop and watched the cameras. It popped to the lobby minutes before they walked in. a white mist flew into the frame and then disappeared as Katie, Lavonne, and Carlos walked in.
"That doesn't prove anything." Logan said.
"Yes it does. It proves that we need to investigate." Lavonne told him. "And I know where I can get the basic equipment."
"Ecto-net." Carlos held up a fishing net.
"You can't actually trap a ghost; they're pure energy and can go through solid matter." Lavonne pointed out.
"Oh,"
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"Hey, Mr. Bitters." Kendal said as he and the rest of the band stood at the front desk. "Any mail?"
"As a matter a fact," he pulled out a tall stack of boxes of different sizes that was twice the size of James. "You do have mail."
"Wow, that's a lot." Lavonne said. They all divided the load five ways and when Lavonne wasn't looking Carlos took half of her stack.
They started walking back to the apartment with their packages.
"Are you sure you don't need help?" Lavonne asked Carlos.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
As soon as they got in the set all of the packages in the living room and started going through the boxes.
"Hey Logan, I found one from your parents." Lavonne handed a box to Logan and he handed her one.
"Oh sweet, they sent me those new medical text books!" he squealed like a kid on Christmas.
"What's yours?" Kendal asked Lavonne. She opened her box and started giggling.
"It's from a friend from back home." She held up a framed picture of her and a boy with dark hair like James's cut standing on a trail in the woods smiling.
"Who's that?" Carlos asked.
"My old friend, Dylan. We met at school in the eighth grade. He was my Comic-Con buddy."
"You go to Comic-Con?"
"Don't judge, its fun." She threw a package at Carlos and it bounced off his helmet.
"Hey," he grabbed it off the floor and opened it. "Sweet, dad sent me a new helmet." He pulled off the scratched up on he was wearing and put on a shiny new black helmet.
"Dork," Lavonne said as she opened her next package. "Oh crap, she didn't."
"Who didn't?" James asked.
"My BFF, nosey." She shook her head at the box. "She sent me my old mermaid tail." She pulled out a shimmery blue mermaid tail.
"Whoa," the guys said at the same time.
"Yeah, I haven't seen this thing in a long, long, long time." She laughed to herself. "I don't even know if I can still swim in a monofin."