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“The kiss or Carrie Ann?”
“Both.”
“I don’t know, but it was way too good… the kiss, not Carrie Ann.”
She reached up and brushed her lips against mine one more time, and heat raced through my body like fire following a path of gasoline. I didn’t know what the hell was happening between us, but we were racing past friendship and into unknown territory, and I wasn’t about to stop it.
When we parted, she said, “I feel the same way.”
Then we turned and walked into the brightly lit kitchen, still holding hands. Freddie had worked his magic in the kitchen and brought it up to date, with white cabinets, gray and black granite countertops, stainless appliances, and a large island covered in butcherblock with four stools on one side. Our bags of groceries still sat on one end of the island, while Vince and Freddie sat on two of the barstools on the opposite end.
Luna and I stood across from them.
“You two look like you’ve seen a ghost,” Vince said as we entered the room. “Carrie Ann?”
“Not exactly, but the rocking horse moved all on its own,” Luna said, her voice a bit shaky. “And the door to the playroom swung open again, and this time, it was lit up like there was a spotlight inside. Scared the shit out of us!”
I was all for leaving… like right now. My body was still shaking from everything that had just happened.Crazy shit!
“I don’t know if we should spend the night here,” I told them once again. “It’s way too intense.”
“I know one thing for certain; if we do, none of us will be sleeping alone,” Luna said as she grabbed a bottle of beer from the sixpack on the counter, twisted off the cap, and downed at least a quarter of the bottle.
I grabbed a bottle and did the same. Vince and Freddie already had their own. Fortunately, we’d brought at least three sixpacks, knowing that a night like this might require some liquid courage.
“I think we should try to talk to her. Ask her what she wants. See if she’ll tell us,” Vince said as if getting her to talk without her pulling some scary stunts would be an easy task. “If I can’t get her to back off on the scary shit, nobody will stay here, and I’ll lose all the money I put into this place. It’ll break me.”
“She’s a ghost, not one of your ex-girlfriends,” I told him between discreet burbs. “Where does it say you can reason with a ghost?”
“What the hell do my ex-girlfriends have to do with anything?” Vince asked, looking miffed.
“Wow, touchy much?”
Vince let out a breath. “Sorry, but I didn’t think anything about spending the night in this place. I thought what we saw when we were kids had to be in our imaginations. I’ve been in and out of this place for the past six months, and if Carrie Ann were here, she didn’t make herself known to me. Okay, so I never went near her playroom. Yes, there were a few weird things that happened but nothing like this. No white lights, no laughing voices in the hallway, no gusts of wind, and no moving rocking horses. This shit is over the top, and it’s got to all go away, or I just dropped the last of my savings into a fucking dark hole.”
The windows lit up, and thunder rolled over us like some sort of ghostly bulldozer.
Then the lights went out once again.
“Okay. Enough of this shit. Let’s get the fuck out of here,” Freddie said.
“I’m staying,” Vince countered. “You guys can go, but it’s time I confront Carrie Ann.”
“You can’t stay here alone,” I told him. “You don’t know what she might pull next.”
Luna walked over to Vince and swung her arms around his shoulders from behind. “I’m not leaving you, Vince. We’ll fight this thing together.”
I held up my beer. “Fine. I’m not leaving you two alone. I’m staying as well.”
We all stared at Freddie. He hesitated for a bit more. “You’re all nuts, you know that? Certifiably nuts. What if she goes off the deep end and tries to physically hurt you? Then what?”
“Then we’ll fight her off,” Vince said. “There’s three of us and one of her, and from what I’ve seen, she’s a puny little thing.”
“Don’t tell me you’re scared of some little girly ghost?” I teased.
“No, I’m not scared of her. I’m scared of all her friends. How do we know she hasn’t gotten half of hell behind her antics?”
“We don’t, but so far, it’s only been her, sooo…” Luna told him, looking both frightened and confident at the same time.
