Chapter 4

Ghostie With the Mostie

Spencer's eyes slowly crept open as he shook the feeling of sleep from his head. His senses slowly returned to normal and he instantly shot up to see if the spirit had come back.

"Ahhh!" Spencer shouted as he took a look at his room.

All of his junk that had previously blanketed the floor was now neatly set up and arranged around the room. His horror movie posters were all hung up on the walls and his figurines and collectibles were placed on the shelves. His stereo, amp, and other electronics were all plugged into the walls. He couldn't see any of his clothes and shoes on the floor, but he guessed they were probably packed up in his dresser and closet.

Spencer was about to get up from the bed when he felt something on top of him. He looked on top of his sheets and saw a large, weird-looking blue pendant placed on his bed.

"What the heck?" Spencer picked it up and examined it. "Where did this come from?"

Ding.

The elevators opened up and his mother stepped out.

"Spencer sweetie, is everything okay? Did you scream?" Jane stepped into the room and smiled. "Heeey, the room looks fantastic." She walked around the clean room and admired it. "Honey, it must have taken you all night to do all this."

"Mom! The mansion is haunted!" Spencer leaped out of bed smiling. "And I've got it all on camera."

"Haunted?" Jane laughed. "Is this for another of your scary movies?"

"No no, this is for real!" Spencer frantically stated, grabbing his camera. "Haven't you noticed anything weird going on since we got here?"

"No, not particularly." Jane tried to think. "Although you have been screaming more than usual."

"Mom I'm serious." Spencer said, looking around the room for any sign of the ghost. "I'll show you and Dad as soon as I upload the video."

"Okay sweetheart, but hurry on down. I've already made breakfast."

Jane ruffled Spencer's hair playfully and then reentered the elevator. The doors closed and she rode back down to the foyer, leaving Spencer alone.

Spencer, clearly annoyed, fixed his hair and then grabbed his laptop. He connected his camera and pulled up the footage that it had captured while he was sleeping. Sure enough, there were hours of video showing his things being picked up by an invisible force and placed around the room.

"Jackpot." Spencer grinned onto his screen. "'Haunting in the Heights' is going to be Spencer Wright's magnum opus."

Just then, before Spencer had time to react, the laptop quickly shut close on its own. Spencer's heart nearly skipped a beat as he jumped from the bed in surprise. The laptop then began to rise into the air where it stayed, floating high above the ground.

"What the- Hey give me that!" Spencer repeatedly tried to jump and grab it, but every time he got close the laptop was raised higher. Almost like the poltergeist was messing with him. "I'm warning you! Give me my computer back or your butt is so exorcized!"

The laptop floated toward a shelve holding a dozen of Spencer's collectible horror figurines. One of the figurines rose into the air alongside the laptop.

"Wait, what are you doing?" Spencer's voice rattled a bit in fear. "Those are really rare!"

The figurine bounced once in the air and was then tossed away.

"Ahh!" Spencer ran to catch it as the miniature was quickly falling toward the ground. He dove on the carpet and just barely caught it before it had a chance to smash into pieces.

Spencer didn't even have a chance to sigh in relief as another of his figurines was picked up and tossed. He had to run, but he miraculously saved it in time. One by one, all of his collectibles were thrown around the room, with Spencer having to dive each time in order to keep them from shattering.

The teen, out of breath, put the last miniature down onto the floor before looking back at his floating laptop. "Okay, please. No more. I'm sorry." Spencer panted. He tried to think of something. He had seen so many ghost movies that he thought he had become an expert by now. "Um, maybe we could just talk?"

Spencer waited for a reply but got no answer. The laptop moved around a little, but otherwise nothing happened.

"Is-Is there any way you can talk to me?" Spencer tried asking the floating laptop.

The laptop floated toward the bed. Spencer watched as it lowered onto the sheets. The blue pendant that was lying on the bed from when he woke up began to float into the air and quickly moved towards him.

"The necklace?" Spencer asked aloud, grabbing it from midair. "Can I, like, communicate with you through this thing?"

Spencer then felt something grab the pendant out of his hands and it once again returned to levitating in the air. This time, the pendant was lowered directly over his head and around his neck. Spencer felt the smooth, oddly-shaped pendant before looking back at the laptop on his bed. He couldn't see or hear anything coming from it.

"…Hello?" Spencer asked aloud, looking around.

Suddenly, Spencer heard someone whistle. He looked up.

"Hey there."

"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Spencer screamed like a small girl and dove toward a corner of the room. He stood up and clung against the wall, his heart beating like a drum.

There, floating in the air and smiling at him, was the glowing-blue body of world-renowned pop star Billy Joe Cobra. His entire body was transparent and he didn't seem to show any signs of decomposition, other than his bright blue skin.

"AAAHHHHH!" Spencer shouted again, still trying to grasp what was happening.

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" Billy shouted along with him, smiling and laughing as he glided in the air.

Spencer regained his composure but still had his back against the corner of the wall. "Are-Are you really—"

"The one and only." Billy grinned, smoothing his blue hair back.

Spencer's tense body eased a little. "Well what are you doing here?"

Billy laughed. "Uh I live here." The ghost flew over and knocked on Spencer's head. "Ah duh."

Ding.

The elevator opened up and Spencer's little sister stepped into the room.

"Spencer! Would you stop screaming?!" Jessica threatened, rubbing her ears. "And who are you talking to anyway?" She asked, seeing her brother backed up in the corner of the room.

Spencer looked at his sister and then back at Billy, who was still floating and smiling at him.

"Him!" Spencer frantically pointed to Billy.

Jessica looked in the direction Spencer was pointing too, and then turned her head around the room. "There's nobody here idiot."

"What?" Spencer was staring straight at Billy this time. "There! Right there! Tall blue ghost, spiky hair, glowing." The teen gestured exhaustedly toward the ghost. "Are you seriously not seeing him?!"

Jessica scowled and took another look where Spencer was pointing. "Haha very funny." Jessica turned and started walking back toward the elevator. "Mom says you need to come eat breakfast. So quit talking to yourself and get your butt downstairs!"

Jessica reentered the elevator and made a face at Spencer right before the doors closed and she descended.

"Man, isn't she a little ray of sunshine?" Billy laughed before flying over to Spencer.

"Hey why did you do that?" Spencer gave an angry frown toward the floating specter.

"Do what?"

"Make yourself invisible in front of my sister."

Billy laughed. "I didn't." The ghost went up to Spencer and pulled the pendant off of his neck. The instant it was off, Billy's body disappeared in front of his eyes. The pendant appeared to be floating in midair.

"It's the necklace?" Spencer took the floating pendant and put it back over his neck. Billy's body instantly reappeared in front of him. "Is it magic?"

"Pffft, the only magic that thing has is sweet, sweet Cobra magic." Billy flew over to Spencer's bed and began bouncing on it. "It's simple ghost stuff dude. People can't see me unless they're packin' my gear."

Spencer took another look at the pendant. He could now see that it was supposed to be shaped after Billy Joe's head. He tucked it under his shirt and walked over to the bouncing ghost.

"Uh, Mr. Cobra?"

"Whoa, whoa Broletariat." Billy stopped bouncing and returned to resting in the air. "Mr. Cobra was my old man's name. Bros call me Billy."

"Billy. You're a friendly ghost right?"

"For sure Broseph." Billy pulled out a pair of sunglasses and started doing a floating backstroke around the room.

The anxiety Spencer was feeling had basically vanished by now. "Then why did you totally trash my room?"

"Hey I didn't trash it! I was helping you unpack." Billy flipped upside down and crossed his arms.

"You call throwing all my stuff on the floor 'unpacking'?"

Billy shrugged. "Okay fine. Maybe I wasn't unpacking per-say. I kinda just wanted to check out your stuff." Billy flew over to a section of the room with some of Spencer's horror movie posters. "You must really be into zombies, huh?"

"You could've just asked me if you really wanted to see all my junk you know."

"Chill dude. I cleaned it up for you, didn't I?" Billy stretched and rubbed his back. "I can't believe how much work it was too. Now I know why I always hired people to do that for me."

"Thanks. You saved me a lot of work." Spencer said. There was a few seconds of awkward silence before Spencer spoke up again. "Soooo, is there uh, any particular reason why you're haunting us?"

"Huh? What's that?" Billy wasn't paying attention. "Who's haunting you?"

"You are dude!"

"No way Spencation. I'm an entertainer, not a haunter." Billy flew back over to Spencer's bed and cannonballed onto it. "I've just been crazy bored for the past couple weeks."

"Do you need me to help you, you know, move on?"

"What does that mean?" The pop star got comfy on the bed and put his feet up.

"You know, like, when a ghost stays in the world of the living it's usually because they have some unfinished business or something."

"Dude, I'm here because I want to be. The afterlife's probably a total death-fest. The Cobra stays where the action is."

"Oh." Spencer put his hands in his pockets, a little disappointed. Other than being in a zombie invasion or directing the perfect horror movie, helping a ghost fulfill its last wishes was always a dream of his. "So, do you wanna meet my family?"

"Nah, I've already seen them." Billy dismissed. "Nice folks. The little dudette is pretty feisty."

"Yeah that's Jessica." Spencer chuckled before dawning on something. "Hey wait a sec. If you don't even want to meet my parents or my sister, then why did you let me see you?"