Page 14 of Chasing Ghosts
“Can you read minds, too? Did you realize right from the start how I felt about you?”
“I don’t have to read minds to know that. You made it very clear you can’t stand me, you…prick.” I go toe to toe with him, just as mad at him as he seems to be at me.
“You…I can’t do this with you with your tits right there.”
Oh my God! The humiliation never ends. I gasp and bring my arms up to cross over myself before I spin around, only to come face to face with a dead girl.
I can’t stop the scream that comes out as I stumble back and quickly shut my eyes. I’m in arms before I realize my feet aren’t on the ground anymore.
“What the fuck?! What did you see?!”
“I…I just want to leave. I don’t want…” Thunder shakes the ground, and there is an electric current buzzing around the room that makes my hair stand up on the back of my neck. I still haven’t opened my eyes, so I can’t tell if it’s because something has touched me or we’re about to get hit by lightning.
“Tell me what happened so I can help, damn it.”
When I open my eyes, we’re back on the floor in our little spot in between crates and boxes with the blanket over us.
“I…I saw her again. I saw the same woman from the house. From my room.”
Chapter Eleven
Mac
“Isaw the same woman from my room.”
“You see them too.” It’s not a question. I already know she does. When she went pale as death and screamed, I realized she was seeing something I wasn’t able to. “Is she still there, Cori?”
I work to repress the shiver that wants to skate down my back at the idea that something is here with us that I can’t see or hear.
“I…I don’t know.”
“I need you to open your eyes, baby, and tell me so I can…” What? Protect us against something already dead that I have no concept of where it is? “So, I can help you?”
She slowly blinks her eyes open and looks behind her at a spot right in front of the rickety old boat docked in one of the bays. She shakes her head no, but the death grip she has on my hand doesn’t ease up just because she can’t see anything anymore.
“You said she was in your room.”
She nods. “She…I was brushing my teeth and…”
“She’s the reason you ran out into the hall.”
She slowly shakes her head again. “No. That was the other one.”
What the shit? How many has she seen here already?
“The other one?”
“The man. He…he was big and dark and I couldn’t see him clearly. I don’t like it when I can’t see them. It means they’re trying to hide from me. When she came to me in the bathroom, I ran out and…he was on the other side of the room. Standing there looking at me. He’s what sent me running.”
“Did you see something in Room Twelve?”
She gives me another head shake, “No. I just felt…do you think…do you think it’s the same person?”
“I do.”
“Do you know who?”
“I have a good idea, but I want to gather more information before I say anything.”
