.::A Haunting Love::. Ryan Buell -=Chapter 2=-
Sorry it took so long to get this out. I had it done and tried to post it a few times but quizilla was being stupid. Anyway, chapter one was viewed 55 times and I only got one message and rate...come on...that's kinda sad. I just want a simple message please? Anyway, enjoy.--Ryan POV--
When I got up this morning Sergey had come running in all excited about the EVP’s but he was talking so fast I couldn’t understand him. “Sergey, calm down. What about the EVP’s?” I asked as I tried not to yawn.
“Dude, you gotta come listen to them. You can hear a girls voice reply to the questions perfectly!” He yelled and I was instantly awake.
“Whoa seriously?” I asked and he nodded franticly. I quickly got up and we went to listen to them. When we finished I was shocked. We had never gotten any this good before. I had to get Chip in here. Grabbing my cell phone I quickly dialed his number.
Ring.Ring.Ring.
“Hello?”
“Hey Chip, it’s Ryan.”
“Oh hey Ryan what’s up?”
“Are you busy at the moment?”
“No why?”
“Well could you come and check out a house for us?”
“Sure I’ll catch the red eye and be there this afternoon, give me the address.”
I gave him the address and we said our goodbyes. By that time Sergey was gone so I went and got ready for the day, I thought I wouldn’t have to use Chip for this one but it’ll be easier if he’s here. When I was done the girls were back from doing their research. “Hey, what did you find out?” I asked as I walked out of the bathroom. I had taken my clothes in there knowing everyone would come in here when they got back.
“Well, we found out there was only one previous owner of the house, the Potts family. They built the house 23 years ago and lived there with their granddaughter Elizabeth, or Ellie. Her mom and step-father live next door to the house. The Grandparents moved a year ago after Ellie died in an accident at school. She went to the community college and while in one of the computer labs there was a short and it caught on fire. She was the only one in the lab at the time.” Katrina said reading from her notes.
“We also found out she was planning on transferring out to Penn State, main campus.” Heather added. Wow, this is a girl that we could have met. Most cases it’s the spirit of a person that died years ago, this girl only died a year ago, and she wasn’t much younger then us. I could see the others were thinking the same thing by the look on their faces.
“Does the mother still live next door?” I asked still in thought.
“Yeah, her and the step-father.” Elfie replied. I’d have to go talk to them.
After the fairly short drive back we stopped at the mother’s house. I walked up to the door and knocked a few times. Soon a man, that was very intimidating looking, answered. “Hi, I’m Ryan from PRS. We’re doing an investigation next door and I was wondering if I could ask Mrs. Cochran a few questions if it’s alright.” I asked timidly. I don’t usually get nervous around people like that but this guy made me nervous.
“Yeah sure, come on in.” He said and opened the door more so I could come in. He told me to sit at the kitchen table and he walked away. A minute later a woman enter the room she didn’t really look old enough to be the daughter of 21 year old girl.
“Mrs. Cochran?” I asked.
“Please just call me Lisa.” She said as she sat down with a smile. She has this air about her that just made you feel comfortable and welcome. Totally unlike her husband.
“Hi, I’m Ryan Buell with PRS. We’re investigating next door and we think the spirit may be your daughter. The little girl calls the spirit Ellie.” I said carefully not to upset her. It’s probably still a sore subject.
“It probably is, Ellie was really into the paranormal. You know she always said she wanted to join your group. She intended on trying to when she transferred to Penn State.” She said with a sad smile. I was shocked even more then I was before. I would have definitely met this girl. We could have been friends at this point. “You know it’s weird you’re here today.”
“Why is that?” I asked.
“Today would have been her birthday, 21 years old. She had been counting the days till this birthday.” She replied and I could see tears forming in her eyes. I wrote down that is was her birthday, was it a coincidence that we were here today?
“Do have a picture we could borrow? We want to see it Lily can identify Elizabeth.”
“Sure, and if that is her don’t let her hear you calling her Elizabeth or she may follow you home and haunt you.” She said with a laugh then walked out of the room to get the picture. She came back in a minute or so later and handed it to me.
“Wow.” It was all I could say. She was beautiful, a little different, but beautiful.
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Her mother smiled at me with that knowing look. “Thanks, I’ll uh, bring it back when we’re done.” I said still looking at the picture. I cleared my throat and looked back up at Lisa. “Now what was Ellie like?” I asked putting the picture in my notebook and picking my pen back up.
“Ellie was carefree, easiest person to get along with, and she was one of those people that could always act goofy and make you laugh at any time but could be serious when it was needed. Everyone always loved her.” She replied with a smile and a distant look in her eye. “You know, she use to tell me things that she saw it that house. I never believed her, but how could you? The one story she told me was just too shocking.”
“She saw things? What kind of thing?” I asked looking up from my notebook. Was there more to this case then just Ellie’s spirit?
“Well she didn’t just see things, she heard voices calling her name as well, and again I ignored it. The story she told me one day was she had been up late one night in her room working on a school project. She said about 3 in the morning she had gotten up to get a drink and when she went to open her door, something just told her to look out first. She did, and at the top of the steps was a black figure with glowing red eyes. She said it was looking right at her, then, it disappeared and reappeared in front of the bathroom, disappeared again and reappeared right in front of her face. She said she quickly closed her door and wouldn’t leave her room at night for a month.” She said then put a hand over her face. Could it be there’s a demon in the house as well? I’d have to tell Chip about this. Here I thought this was going to be an easy investigation, man was I wrong.
“Well, thank you for the information, and the picture I should be heading back out to the group.” I said then stood up. Lisa stood up as well.
“Oh it’s no problem. Would you please let me know how that investigation goes?” She asked as we walked to the door. We said goodbye and I walked back out to the van. When I got in and sat down I put my head back and sighed.
“What’s wrong Ryan?” Heather asked from behind me.
“We underestimated this case. Now there might be a demon.” I replied as I ran a hand over my face.
“No one said anything that would point to a demon.” Sergey said as we drove to the other house.
“Yeah, well when Ellie was alive, she saw it and it acknowledged her. Maybe she’s keeping it from doing anything. What Lisa described to me could either be a shadow person or a demon, but it came toward her, shadow people don’t do that. Plus it was 3 in the morning when it happened. Hopefully Chip can sort this out.” I said then got out of the van and headed into the house. We told the clients that we were going to perform another dead time, and that we were having Chip come out to look around the house. We were just walking into the living room when we heard the basement door open and close. I looked over and saw no one. “Was there someone in the basement or going into the basement?” I asked the clients.
“No, we’re the only ones in the house.” Maria replied then sat down on the couch and pulled Lily into her lap. I looked at Lily and she was looking to my right and smiling.
“What is it Lily?” I asked.
“Ellie’s right beside you.” Lily replied as she looked at me then looking to my right again. Activity during the day, that was odd, though it happened yesterday too. Looking at my watch it read 12:37 pm hopefully Chip will be here soon.
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