"Hey, Grandma", Denise said as she came into her apartment.
"Hi, honey", Grandma Irene greeted.
"I was just at Dana's apartment. Have you been hearing any noises lately?"
"Not from her apartment", she answered.
"I don't know what you do when I sleep", Denise said. "Did you go into her apartment and see anything?"
"No! I don't do anything like that."
"I'm sorry. I was just asking. I'm just worried about her."
"I know, dear", Grandma Irene said. "What happened with Dana anyway?"
"There might be a ghost in her apartment. She got a Ghostbuster to come and check everything out."
"Ghostbuster?" she asked. "I've never heard of such a thing. What are they?"
"It's just these guys who capture ghosts", Denise said. "Don't worry, Grandma. I won't let anything happen to you."
She smiled and walked to the bedroom and picked up the phone. She dialed a number and waited for someone to answer.
"Ghostbusters", Janine answered sounding bored.
"Hi Janine", she said. "Is Ray there?"
"Yeah, just a minute."
"Hello?" Ray answered.
"Hey, it's me", Denise said. "How are things going?"
"Denise!" Ray said nearly dropping the phone. "Hi, I didn't expect to hear from you."
"What did you find on the building?" she asked.
"Amazing things", he answered. "Since you live in the same building, I want to talk to you about it."
"Well, how about we talk about it over dinner?"
"Dinner?" Ray asked.
"Sure", Denise said. "Why not?"
"Well, I'd like to, but I'm broke."
"Oh", she said. "Well, don't worry about it. Why don't you come over? I could make a home-cooked meal. How does that sound?"
She smiled as she heard Ray chuckle over the phone.
"You're something you know that?" he asked. "I'll think it over. Maybe I'll come over."
"Alright."
"Got to go", Ray said. "Peter just got back."
Peter walked in carrying bags of Chinese food and a box of beer. Ray hung up the phone and ran to the door taking the bag of food.
"Well, what did you find?" he asked.
"I found out that Miss Barrett is single", Peter said. "She has a nice apartment. Nothing's ever happened in the bedroom so I may have a chance."
"I'm talking about the ghost", Ray said. "Did you find anything?"
"There was nothing there."
Ray sighed as he looked down. He carried the food upstairs feeling let down. He thought they finally got their first real job hoping they'd be able to earn some money. Now it looked like they might go out of business before they even started. Not to mention Ray would be homeless. He put up his house as collateral for the bank. Now he was going to lose it for sure.
"To our first customer!" Peter said raising his can of soda.
"To our first and only customer", Ray added.
The group ate in silence until Peter spoke again.
"I got to take out some petty cash. We should take her out to dinner. We don't want to lose her."
Ray looked at him disappointed.
"Uh…this magnificent feast here represents the last of the petty cash."
Peter looked at Egon and Ray unsure of what was going to happen for them in the future. He didn't know what they were going to do, but they had to do something fast.
Janine downstairs was getting ready to leave for the night. The phone rang just as she put her shoes on and got up from her desk.
"Hello, Ghostbusters", she answered. "Yes, of course they're serious."
She slowly sat back down as the person on the phone gave her a description of what was happening in the area. Janine quickly picked up a pencil and wrote down the address of the place.
"You do? You have? No kidding? Uh-huh. Well, just give me the address. Yes, of course. Oh, they'll be totally discreet. Thank you."
She hung up the phone with a smile on her face.
"WE GOT ONE!"
Janine sounded the alarm for the first time ever. Upstairs Peter, Ray and Egon heard the alarm and looked at each other in disbelief.
"It's a call!" Ray said as he got up.
btw, thanks to purenonsense and Peter. now finishing this fic will be a lot easier