ghosted

4

i took a deep breath and felt a cold breeze flow past me.

"is this your friend?"

i put my hands in front of my face so i could open my eyes but not see around me.

"corey"

chills ran through my body, it felt like someone sat down next to me and when i looked i saw no one there.

"the underworld"

i looked up at the guys and they looked at me worriedly

"please leave"

i moved the headphones off of my ears, taking in the silence happily.

"is any of it making sense?"

"yeah, all of it is"

"you good to keep going?"

"yeah, im good"

i pulled the headphones back on and closed my eyes again. the feeling of someone sitting next me never left, if anything it felt like they got closer.

"lillith webber"

i yanked off the headphones and stood up, walking over to the wall and took deep breaths.

"what just happened?"

"are you ok lillith?"

"what did it say?"

i looked at them and felt tears swelling in my eyes.

"it said my full name. like first and last"

"we always get your name though"

"yeah, but it was dead silent before and after for about a second"

"its been about 20 minutes, we should be good to go downstairs and meet up with the others"

"sounds good, anything to just......leave this room"

we grabbed all of our equipment and went downstairs to meet linda and patti. when i finished grabbing my water from my bag linda, zacharia her spiritual bodyguard, and patti were waiting to pick people for their 'team'.

"patti, linda, this is lillith and this is matt. they're the new members"

"it's lovely to meet you, are you a medium by chance?"

"umm, i don't know"

"i just feel like you can sense other things. things that might not be visible to everyone else"

the guys looked at me and i shrugged my shoulders while taking a sip of my water. elton tossed a cat ball at linda who rolled it right back at him. patti chose corey, then corbin, and then me. linda picked brandon leaving josh and matt as the last two. matt once again took of his shirt to persuade someone to take him first.

"matt have you ever considered not going shirtless?"

"no, and don't bother picking me, i'll be at my desk"

patti tossed the catball at him and surprisingly he turned in time to catch it. after we grabbed our equipment, we all split up with our teams and walked into the elevators. after a bit patti decided on the 4th floor. as the doors opened we walked out and it instantly felt colder. evan walked over to the breaker box and turned off the lights despite me frowning at him the entire time. patti started walking to the end of the hall and we slowly followed her.

"yeah, theres someone here. its a male and hes walking the halls. hes kinda hunched over a little"

"like hes in pain?"

"no, not pain but like very hyperaware and paranoid"

"i just got itchy, like all over"

"thats a symptom of drug use, and there were lots of overdoses here"

"yes, lots of them. use the rods, lets see if we can get anything with that"

i held up the rods and so did matt. as soon as i did it started to spin.

"hes right behind you i think"

"thats nice, whats he doing there?"

"hes just watching, hes aware we're here but hes kind of out of it"

"can we know more about him?"

"lets see if we can get his name. spirit, can you tell us your name?"

"use this device to tell us what letter your name starts with"

"a...b...b....i keep getting the name bobby"

we walked down the hall a little more towards the window at the end of the hall and asked more questions.

"did you live here bobby?"

the rods crossed to say yes.

"did you die here?"

the rods stayed still. i looked at the window behind me and saw two upside down hand prints. i pointed it out, and for a while we tried to figure out how they could have gotten there. for a minute, it seemed like the spirit by the name of bobby had left. when patti and i both felt him come back, patti mentioned that she could channel him. we had no other ideas so we stood silent and watched as she started the process of channeling the spirit. when she had finally done it, she was incredibly quiet. she began to rock herself back and forth, her arms moving up and down each other as if she was trying to console herself. we tried to ask questions but all that happened was more and more noises from her. after a while she snapped out of it, as if he just disappeared. we decided to move onto the seance. as patti set it up, i sat down on the floor and couldn't shake the feeling that someone was standing right behind me. when she said we were ready, we sat in silence and i tried to focus on the person i felt was behind me. i envisioned a woman walking towards a window, climbing out onto the escape but suddenly the image was gone. as she began her seance, patti urged me to look deeper into the visions. the woman appeared again but this time she seemed to void of all emotion, not scared or angry, just blank. i opened my eyes and tried to stand but got super dizzy, using corey's arm for support.

"did you see something?"

"a woman, with black hair. she was walking in the halls and then she climbed out of a window and onto the fire escape"

"that sounds like elisa lam, almost exactly what she did"

"so, you saw her?"

"yeah, or at least some woman with black hair"

"we should go to her room, maybe we could get something there"

"sure"

i held onto matt as we walked down the hall, making sure i could move without falling over. i felt somewhat normal until i walked into her room, then i started to get nauseous and felt pressure around my neck. i sat down and closed my eyes once again.

"elisa lam, are you here with us? you can knock, move a cat ball, anything to let us know you're here"

silence filled the room, and the anticipation for something to happen made everyone paranoid. shortly after i stopped talking there was a knock and the cat ball went off.

"did you guys see that?!"

"yeah, so that means we're talking to elisa?"

"yes, shes here. she's very sad"

"elisa, what happened to you? you can tell me, lillith or use any of our equipment"

"she was forced to go to the roof"

"were you murdered?"

as soon as matt finished talking i heard a woman talking. i opened my eyes and looked up at the group.

"shes gone, all i know is that she was forced to go to the roof"

i heard the guys moving around me, picking up the equipment while patti helped me up. we made our way back down to the lobby, immediately feeling better as we got to the elevators.