.::A Haunting Love::. Ryan Buell -=Chapter 1=-

I was dead. Yep that’s right, six feet under, maggots eating my skin, no heart beat dead. Yet here I was standing in what use to be my room feeling totally pissed off. My family had moved after ‘the incident’ as I heard them call it. I’m not really sure why I’m still here, sure I joked around with my friends that if I died first I’d haunt them but I didn’t think I’d actually haunt my house after I died. Though I didn’t know I was going to die so young either. 20 years old, that’s how old I was when I died and that was a year ago. I would have turned 21 in a few days. I’m guessing your probably wondering why I said I was pissed off. Well, apparently the people that bought the house didn’t like the fact that I moved things around on them, and that their 4 year old could see me. I tried staying away from her but she had this attraction to me for some reason! I had even hidden in the closet and she found me! It was actually annoying to only have a 4 year old to talk too. Not too many intelligent conversations there! So, I heard the husband on the phone the other day, what was his name again? Oh yeah Hank. As I was saying, I heard Hank on the phone the other day talking to some paranormal investigator, seems they want me out of here. Saying their daughter is learning bad things from the ghost. Ok, ok so I taught her how to say some words that can replace swear words, sue me. It was funny hearing a 4 year old yell ‘Holy Shiznats’ and ‘What the fudge’ I don’t see why they don’t agree. So yeah, in a few days, a day before my birthday to be exact, this group is going to come in to try and ‘exorcise me’ or something of that nature, geeze I’m not a demon for crying out loud. Oh yeah we got one of those too. They don’t really know that though, they think it’s me throwing the dishes across the room and turning the crosses upside down. Ugh fine, that one time after they first moved in was me but I swear the other times weren’t my fault! Now in this seemingly very long year I’ve realized a few things about this demon, 1) we can see each other, 2) he doesn’t like me, 3) he can’t seem to touch me, and 4) I seem to be able to do this weird lighty thingy with my hands that makes him go away for awhile. No clue why though. I remember the stupid thing scaring the shit out of my when I was younger. No one every believed me when I told them about it though because nothing ever happened to them. Well look who’s laughing! Now I could care less that it’s here.

I walked down stairs and into the living room and fell onto the floor like a dead body, no pun intended and lay on my back. Lily, the 4 year old, sat down beside me and tried to poke me in the arm while their annoying dogs’ nose was in my face. Lily seemed amused that her hand could go through me but after 15 minutes of this I spazzed. “Oh my god! Can’t you guys just leave me a lone for 10 minutes?” I yelled. The dog ran off but Lily just pouted she had gotten use to my little spazz attacks. “Lily please, I need some time to think.” I begged as I put a hand over my face. She ‘hmphed’ and pouted a little more but went off to play on her own. I laid there a second and just enjoyed the peace and quiet when the air in the room started to change. I wanted to smack him at that point. Rest in peace my ass, I haven’t had rest or peace since I died. I looked up and in the doorway stood the demon. It’s glowing red eyes staring at me and I swore under my breath. “For crying out loud. What do you want now?” I asked as I sat up Indian style. “I told you I ain’t doing any ‘pact’ with you. I just want some peace and quiet!” I yelled starting to get angry. This damn demon had this thing with trying to get me to join him, talking about how I had powers and he could make them stronger. I simply told him to f*uck off. That sooo did not make him happy. I rolled my eyes and got tired of him just standing there just staring at me. He did that a lot. I put hands up to him and this light appeared and he disappeared and I fell back onto the floor again.

-Two days later-

Today was the day those investigators came and I was scared out of my mind. I had holed myself up in my old room, now Lily’s room, thinking maybe if I stayed there they wouldn’t find me. I heard the front door open and some voices of people greeting each other. I tried to calm myself down and then heard Lily’s mom Maria call her down. “Come on Ellie!” Lily said trying to get me to go down with her.

“I don’t know if that’s a good idea Lily I think your mommy and daddy called those people to get rid of me.” I said with a sad smile. Her eyes grew wide and teary.

“No! Come on! We gotta tell them you’re not bad!” She said as she ran over to me. I bit my lip and thought for a minute then nodded and followed her down to the family room. There sitting in the chair was the guy of my dreams, Ryan Buell. I use to watch Paranormal State faithfully. Of course my luck when I actually get to meet him, I’m dead! Death sucks. “Mommy, your not going to make them take Ellie away are you?!” Lily said as she jumped in her moms lap. I stood in the doorway between Sergey and Katrina

“Hi Lily, I’m Ryan, who’s Ellie?” He said in that deep voice that made me swoon. Then I heard Lily giggle and knew she caught me.

“Ellie is the girl that use to live here she stays in my room with me sometimes when I’m scared. I think she thinks you’re cute.” Lily told Ryan whispering the last part and giggled again. I swear if I had blood it would be rushing to my cheeks right now. He chuckled.

“Really? Is she here now?” He asked. Lily nodded and pointed right at me. Sergey and Katrina looked in between them quickly looking right at me but not seeing me. I stuck my tongue out at Sergey which made Lily laugh.

“Ha ha she stuck her tongue out at you.” Lily said and pointed at Sergey. He looked shocked and the others laughed. I got kinda bored after that. Ryan interviewed Hank and Maria while Katrina talked with Lily. I walked into the room Lily was in

“Hey Lily I’m going back upstairs.” I said and she looked over at me.

“Ok!” She replied with a smile. As I walked back out of the room I heard Katrina ask Lily if I had just been there. Later that night around 3 am I heard the investigators downstairs I walked down and found out they were doing what they called ‘dead time’ and tried to contact me. I stayed away from the cameras but I though it would be funny to mess with them.

“I’m speaking to the Entity in this house. Is your name Ellie?” Ryan asked

“Yes.”

“How old are you?”

“21” I said from behind him.

“Did you hear something?” Katrina asked.

“Yeah, mark the time down.” Ryan replied and she wrote in her notebook.

“Why are you still here? asked Elfie, haha I always thought that was an awesome name.

“To tell you the truth I have no clue.” I said feeling kinda stupid. I saw Heather turn a camera towards me and I ducked behind the couch.

“What do you want with Lily?” Maria asked and I raised a brow.

“Nothing, the twerp won’t leave me alone. I’ve tried staying away from her.” I replied from behind the couch.

“Will do something for us? Touch one of us? Move something?” Heather asked. I peaked out from behind the couch to see the camera wasn’t pointed towards me anymore so I

stood back up and poked Ryan’s shoulder. He twitched a bit.

“I just felt something poke me.” He said as he felt his shoulder making sure nothing fell on him. “Can you do that again?” I rolled my eyes and poked him again and again he twitched. I just laughed. “Did I just hear laughing?” Ryan asked puzzled. The others shrugged. I got bored and went to find Sergey. I had a little bit of a hard time avoiding cameras and not making the basement door creak but I finally got to the basement. I never got use to the whole ‘I can walk through walls thing’ so I still used doors. I know they heard me because I heard Ryan over the walkie talkie. “Hey Serg, did you just open and close the basement door?”

“No, and no one came down.” Sergey replied over the walkie talkie. I hung out in the basement till the next day when they came back. As I went back upstairs I heard something about another dead time, and that Chip was coming. Oh great another person to help kick me out.
You know if I wasn’t dead I’d so love these people. I was really into the paranormal when I was alive, and I even wanted to do what they’re doing. I never got the chance and now I’m on the other side of the investigation!