The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Chapter 74

Sunshine sits in front of the camera.

"I, have, uh...something I'd like to tell all of you," she begins, scratching her chin. "Uh. Me and Colin. We're dating." She becomes more confident. "We're dating! Yes. Okay. That's all. Blah."

Yeah. They're...dating.
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Thirty minutes after her confession, there's a rapid knock on the door.

"Sunshine?!" Nolan calls. "Sunshine, I know you're in there, come on, I gotta talk to you—"

Sunshine, who has carefully made her way out the back door in wait of Nolan, growls and springs on to the porch. The next thing she knows, she's shoving him against the wall. "Are you freaking kidding me?! You're kidding me, right?!"

"No, I'm not—" Nolan backs away as she continues to hit him. She goes on a verbal rave and he gasps out a breath at a particularly hard hit. "I'm not kidding you about anything, calm down."

She smacks his arm. And continues to.

"Stop—stop it! Listen—ow, ow! Ow! Why are you hurting me?"

"Cause!" She growls as she thumps her hands against his red jacket. "You waited until I had to say I was fake dating your brother you little—!"
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The next thing she knows, they're both sitting on the couch. Sunshine has her brows raised and Nolan is staring forward, clearly annoyed.

"So why were you dating my brother," he says, emotionless, not looking at her.

"Oh my goodness," she grumbles, "I'm not dating your brother."

"I know you're not dating my brother. Why did you put up a YouTube video saying that you were dating my brother?"

"Because clearly it worked, you came running." Sunshine rolls her eyes. "It was Victoria's idea, okay?"

He looks at her. "It was mean."

"Oh my gosh!"

"It was mean!"

"You're dramatic."

"It was mean to me and my brother. Especially my brother."

"Oh my—whatever."

Silence.

"Well, now I'm here," Nolan remarks.

"Yeah, you're here, why'd you go away, hm?"

"Why do you want me back?"

"Why were you missing?" she shoots back.

"I wasn't missing! I was just somewhere else, is that such a big deal?"

"Yeah, well, you just kinda disappeared."

Nolan throws his arms in the air. "I went to—" He clears his throat. "I don't know, I just...went around a little while."

"Why?"

He looks at his gloved hands. He really is bundled up too tightly for cloudy weather, wearing a hideous plaid scarf and an equally hideous jacket. "I don't know!" Nolan finally says. "I went to Chicago."

"Okay."

"I've never been to Chicago."

"Whatever. Why?"

"It was great, it was a good time," he tries.

Sunshine blinks. "Why?"

"Because not everybody just wants to stay here, looking at dead people be crazy all the time. There's other stuff out there," he explains shortly. At Sunshine's look, he frowns. "There is. There are things to see."