The Paranormal [Sam and Colby]

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Sam was holding the camera in his right hand, following us as we walked into the living room starting the investigation. I wasn't really sure what to do so I just sat to the side, doing what they asked. I gave Ciana her notebook so she could right down anything she heard.

"Okay so first we'll be using some of our equipment then we'll try the estes method in a few rooms before heading downstairs into the basement" Sam pointed the camera towards himself as he was speaking before turning it back towards us. I felt a searing pain in my head and stumbled a little bit

"Somethings definitely here" I said holding the side of my head

"are you okay?" Colby asked

"yeah, yeah i'm fine. just a headache" I tried to compose myself, this was probably the lady in white walking past.

"There's multiple spirits here, the lady in white and two little kids" Cia spoke and the rem pod started to beep.

"Fuck. This is the quickest anything's ever happened" Colby breathed as it stopped and the music box started.

"Can you turn that off for us?" I stated and it stopped. I stared in shock, I had never really experienced something like this.

"okay, we're going to ask you a couple questions, if you stand in front of the box again it'll play some music for you, can you do that?" Sam asked, being as respectful as possible. It took a second before the creepy music started playing again.

"Thank you" I said and the music stopped again.

"Are you stuck here?" Colby asked and the music started playing once again. It then stopped.

"do you like it here?" Sam asked and it didn't play. This was a crazy experience, we had communicated with knocks and things but never using these kinds of motion devices. We were all standing back from the devices by at least 5 feet.

"Are you still here?" I asked and the music didn't play. Well, shall we move on?

"You know what would be sick?" Colby asked looking at Sam

"What?"

"We could do a double estes method, you know? write down some questions to ask and see if they have similar answers. Would you girls be down to do that?" Colby looked at us and I gave Ciana a questioning look. I was down, it seemed like fun and it'd be pretty cool to see the answers.

"Sure" Ciana replied.

"Okay how about we do the girls on the box and we'll sit with them. One pair can stay down here and sit in the library while the other sits upstairs in the middle bedroom" Sam suggested.

"Maybe one of you guys can do it and i'll write down what I hear in my notebook as well?" Ciana said, I liked that idea, maybe that meant we could be paired together so I didn't have to go with one of the boys. Of course they were cool, I just wasn't very comfortable with them yet.

"Okay let's do Cia and I and Sam and Moor?" Colby spoke out. I didn't want to argue with them so I just went with it.

"Moora. That title isn't for you to use yet." Colby gave me a look before leaving to head to the library with Cia. Sam and I made our way up the stairs when I was hit with another pounding headache.

"Oh for fucks sake" I was really getting sick of them.

"are you okay??" Sam asked as I leaned against the railing of the stairs.

"Yeah. Another headache" I sighed

"come on let's get you up these stairs so you don't accidentally fall or something. They're steep as fuck." He placed his hand on the small of my back leading me up as I held onto my head. We made it to the bed and I sat down.

"I think I have some tylenol in my backpack downstairs i'll grab some for you. I'll only be a second" I nodded towards him as he ran downstairs, the walkie went off beside me, frightening me.

"Are you guys ready?" I heard Ciana's voice and picked it up.

"Almost, Sam ran down to grab me some tylenol, another headache." I replied as I heard Sam walking back up. I appreciated that he went and got me something for my headache, it was kind of him. He was a nice guy, I liked that about him.

"Here you are" he said holding out two pills and a bottle of water.

"Thank you so much" I said before throwing the pills back and gulping down some water. I gave him the water bottle again and put on the blindfold and grabbed the noise cancelling headphones.

"They're ready to start when we are" I handed Sam the walkie and put the headphones on, turning the spirit box up, all I heard was static. I focused as words started coming through.

"Down." It sounded so clear. I repeated the words it was saying

"Leave" This voice was aggressive and sounded mad, it was an old man. There was definitely multiple spirits here.

"Colby." I couldn't help but let out a little gasp, that was so fucking weird.

"Window. Guitar. Smoke." this was followed by a loud scream. I gasped and threw the headphones off of my head and onto the bed. Sam jumped up from his seat and instinctively put a hand on my shoulder.

"are you okay?!" He looked me in the eyes, his were full of worry while i'm sure mine were full of fear.

"It said. um. fuck, it said my band name.. and g- guitar in between window and smoke." fuck my head was throbbing again. I felt like I was going to cry. I looked over to see the camera in the corner of the room. I couldn't cry on camera, that's embarrassing.
I shook my head and grabbed the water bottle, finishing it and just took deep breaths. I felt Sam rubbing my shoulder as I calmed down.

"Would you like me to turn off the camera while you chill out a bit?" I nodded and he got up to turn off the camera before returning to his seat. He grabbed the walkie, checking in and letting Ciana know we discontinued.

"I feel for you. That's gotta be some heavy shit"

"It's fine, I'm fine, everything's fine." I took deep breaths as rain started to patter on the windows.

"I feel so in shock and just, I don't know. That was so fucking scary. It said Colbys name and that was weird enough let alone saying my fucking band name and not only that. The instrument I play and then it just screamed. This loud ass fucking scream. This place is so fucked up. I hate it." I just ranted, tears stung my eyes but I couldn't cry. It was such a stupid thing, and I was tough. Tough people don't cry over stupid things.

"It's okay, it can't hurt you, it probably just heard you introducing yourself in the intro. Don't overthink it." He gave me a little hug before standing up and heading downstairs to meet Ciana and Colby.

Word count: 1180

Author 2: Hey all, I hope you're enjoying the story. Maybe a double update? We'll see ;)