The Paranormal [Sam and Colby]

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I saw Cia leave with her easel and paints to go paint the landscape or the house maybe? I've been her biggest support with her art as soon as she started. It was her way to express whatever she goes through, just like music is mine. Corey had all kinds of guitars. Electric, Bass, Acoustic, Acoustic Electric. He always let me use them when I can over and I really needed to right now, it was how i got everything out. I turned up the amp all the way and just played. Played till my heart content.

"Hey Moor, come check out these clouds!" I heard Ciana call out to me. I turned off the amp and unplugged the guitar before heading outside to where she was. We had a tradition where when the clouds were interesting shapes we would lay outside and spot animals in them, it was something we had always done as little kids. I spotted her already laying on the ground in front of the house, across from the driveway. Next to her I saw the painting she had been working on; A landscape artwork of the house and the clear sky behind it.

"Are they any good?" I looked up to the clouds as I approached her before laying down and staring at the clouds.

"yeah, they're alright, not like the ones back in Seattle" She replied. I put my arms behind my head, starting to make shapes out of the clouds.

"You wanna listen to something?" I held out an earbud, School's In by J-live playing through it. She grabbed it without saying anything too focused on the clouds and what shapes they were morphing into. I slowly started to drift off into a state of almost asleep but still awake, just cherishing the cleansing feeling of the wind draft and clear skies. I loved these moments, when we were able to sit in comfortable silence. I glanced over at Ciana to see she her eyes closed and smiling.

"yo Ci, you awake?" I turned my head to face her.

"yeah, just enjoying the peace". I smiled, I loved seeing her genuinely happy.

"Wake me up later, hey?" I said as I turned back to face the sky with my eyes closed.

I heard a car pull up on the gravel driveway but chose to ignore it, leaving Ciana to deal with it. I then heard a car door close and Cia get up as she made her way over there.

"Hello? Are you Sam and Colby? I'm Ciana and we're looking after the house for Corey." I hear Ciana's familiar voice then another.

"Aren't you too pretty for this kinda stuff? Seem's a little too spooky for you"

"I'm just fine thankyou." I could hear in her voice that what he said made her frustrated. Ciana hated stereotypes. and especially with her gift people expected her to be this girl who gets scared easily when she's one of the strongest people I've ever come across.

I felt heavy footsteps walking towards me, still in my dazed state now turned up loud music I didn't pay much attention to them.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, she hates being woken up. I heard Cia shout. Ignoring her voice I opened my eyes to be met with another's, I shot up startled only to whack my forehead against the others.

"ow! fuck" I heard his voice, my head throbbed and I felt dizzy from getting up so fast. After a minute or so I opened my eyes again to see the man who was looking at me. He was blonde and held a filming camera in his hand.

"Shit, are you okay? I'm sorry if i startled you I was just going to wake you up because theres a storm on it's way and it's travelling pretty quickly and we're here and she was talking about how you both were looking after the house and-"

"shut up. Just give me a minute." I held my head before lifting myself up and grabbing onto a nearby tree, stabilising myself. I felt a strong pair of hands helping me gain my balance.

"fuck. iron deficiency and forehead bumps don't work together" I stated, I noticed him opening his mouth to speak again and I cut him off.

"Yes I am fine, I was startled but its fine, next time don't hang over someones face when you're waking them up, I didn't know there was a storm arriving so that'll be a treat, yes we're both looking after the house. My name is Moora, you can't call me Moor yet, now can we please go inside?" I answered all of his questions and more before pushing myself off the tree and walking towards the door, I felt his arms drop from me as I walked away.

We welcomed the boys into Corey's part of the house and they took a seat on the couch while I sat on the amp and Cia on a nearby chair.

"Sorry for the odd meeting. I'm Ciana, thats Moora, she's my step sister and Corey is basically her uncle." They both shook her hand and glanced at me.

"How often have you guys come here?" I heard the blonde speak up

"Ever since we were young. You'd think we'd become desensitised by now but it never freaks me out any less. I've always been able to see the spirits in this house and Moor can sense them whenever they're around. So we've gotten used to seeing and feeling them here."

"How about you Moora?" Blondie had turned the camera to me.

"Like about my feelings towards the house? I fucking hate this place. It's full of shit you don't want to meddle with and I only come back because Corey is family. And he's got cool guitars" I was brutally honest. There's no point in lying, Corey knows how we both hate this house.

"Ciana you said you see spirits, are you like a medium?" the other guy asked.

"I guess you could say that. Now shall we start with the tour?"

Author 2: thankyou so much for the recent reads we are so thankful for it. I hope you're enjoying because its 12:45am,

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