The New House

Chapter 2

I quickly spun around to see that there was no one behind me..”what the hell..I’m probably just tired..right?” I go to the sink and wash my face, making up excuses for what just happened “There must be a logical reason for this..I’m just hearing things because of how sleepy I am” I turn off the sink water and turn around to see a little girl in white 2 feet away from me. *what do I do..what SHOULD I do? Who is this, was she the one who was whispering?* A million thoughts were running through my head while I was frozen in shock, while my vision was blurry I could barely see how she looked. All I could see is that she has blond-ish hair and brown-green-ish eyes “Hailey?” I heard the little girl say “Hailey what are you doing here” the little girl said in a sleepy voice *Who is this and how does she know my name?* “Hailey? What's wrong?”  the little girl asked inching closer *What does she want? How does she know my name? What should I do?!* I was still frozen in shock questioning what I should do. The little girl is inching closer and closer.. “Hailey! What is wrong with you?! Answer me! It’s me Abigail!” the little girl said “Abigail..?” I said unsure “yes dummy! Are you okay?” Abigail said walking to the fridge “Um, yeah I’m okay, I just..mm never mind” I said turning on the faucet, I heard Abigail open the fridge, heard the wrinkles of a water bottle. My mind was everywhere *How did I not realize that was my own sister? Was she the one that was whispering? Should I ask her about it? Should I tell mom? Will she think I’m crazy?* “Hey Hailey, are you sure you’re okay?” Abigail asked, walking over “Yeah, I’m fine” I said washing my face once more “Okaay, if you say so” Abigail shrugs while she opens her water bottle “You should go back to bed soon, Abby” I said turning off the faucet and grabbing a rag to dry my face while dry my face I hear chuckling, slow chuckling..I keep drying my face “What's so funny, Abby?” I say muffled “Huh? What are you talking about? I wasn’t laughing?” Abby said, confused. I quickly put down the rag and turned to look at her but..she wasn’t there “Abby..?” I called looking around “Abby?!” I said louder but not too loud so my mother or brother doesn’t hear me yelling and wake up “Abigail!” I go to a halfway filled water bottle on the counter then look back to see my water bottle “if her water bottle is here then she must be as well..?” I mumble to myself as I look to the hallway, as soon as I look towards the hall I see Abigail looking back giggling then walking towards the stairs *What is she trying to do?* I quickly follow after and see her walking up the stairs, I follow behind and see her stare at me from up the stairs. She points behind me, giggling. I turn around to see a little girl smiling up at me, a sweet, kind, smile “Abigail..go get mom..” I say stepping up slowly, still looking at the little girl “Abigail? I don’t hear you going to mom..?!” I say stopping in my tracks “Abby..?” I turn around and the little girl that was once downstairs is right in front of my face, screaming, making me fall back down the stairs, causing me to hit my head and blackout. I wake up in my room, in broad daylight “what the..?” I quickly get up and run out of my bedroom, heading straight to the stairs “but the little girl?! She was right here!” I yell running down the stairs “MOM?!” I yell running back up the stairs running into mom’s room “Mom?!” I look around but I don’t see mom “MOM?!” I ran out into my brother's room “ALAN?!” I look around and don’t see anyone. I turn around and see someone walk past, giggling “oh hell no..” I quickly the nearest thing, gripping hard, I look at out the door of both side and slowly get out of the room walking towards the stairs, with the object in my hands, I keep walking slowly towards the stairs and see that the little girl is down the stairs, looking up at me with no reaction, no emotions, nothing. I look down at her “what do you want?!” I yell down the stairs, she smiles and looks up at me, this time she was not giggling, but smiling, not happy but more confused. She steps up slowly “What do you want?!” I yell down at her, with my object pointed at her, she stops in her tracks, her mouth opens as if she wants to say something, a couple of seconds later she  manages to speak“watch out..they..-” the little girl says then looks behind me and suddenly disappears. As soon as she disappeared I felt a hand on my shoulder, I quickly turned around and hit the person with the object “OW, HAILEY WHAT THE HELL!?” Alan yelled with his hand on his cheek “OMG ALAN I'M SORRY I THOUGHT-” I said dropping the object removing his hand from his cheek “It’s fine but what is wrong with you? You were yelling down the stairs?” He says looking to the side so I can examine his cheek, I touch his cheek softly “ow..” he whispers under his breath “Sorry, I’ve been seeing things..” I say to him "like what? Ghost~?" He teases me "No! Well..I don’t think so..I think I'm just having trouble sleeping so maybe I'm hallucinating" I say walking down the stairs “Well you mind telling me what you are seeing?” Alan says following me down the stairs “Well..a little girl keeps coming out of nowhere  and then she heads to the bottom of the stairs..” I say whilst walking to the kitchen “A little girl?” My brother says following behind “Yeah, last time I saw her she was trying to speak.” I look at my brother with a concerned face on “Huh, that’s a bit concerning..” he says sitting down at the dining table “It is..” I say, grabbing a fruit cup “What does she look like?” my brother asked as I sat down "Well..she might be younger than Abby, she has balck hair, green eyes, she always has a yellow-pink-ish gown that is dirty and ripped up '' I say opening the fruit cup and taking a piece of the fruit and eating it. “Oh..ask her what her name is next time you see her, haha” Alan said, making fun of me "yeah yeah whatever" I say rolling my eyes playfully "where's mom and Abby?" I ask with a mouth full "they went to get things to fix the treehouse" Alan said "oh, okay" I look up at Alan and see that he looks behind me in fear "Hailey..behind you.." he says pointing behind me. I quickly spin around and there is nothing "HA!" Alan yells yanking my fruit cup out of my hand before I got the chance to turn around "ALAN! MY FRUIT CUP!" I yell at him as he quickly eats the rest of the fruit “HAHA” Alan laughs with his mouth full causing him to choke on the fruit “HAHA JOKES ON YOU!!” I yell, laughing at him while getting up from my chair. Alen finally stopped choking while I’m dying of laughter “IT'S NOT THA-” Alen says before coughing, I start laughing more “It’s not that funny!” Alan says “Sure sure, pfft..” I whisper under my breath as I sit back down on the chair and keep making fun of Alan until we hear the front door open “WE’RE HOME!!” mom yelled walking to the dining table “Welcome back!” Alan yelled back as he got up and started heading to mom “Hailey, go get the bags inside” mom said as she put the bags on the dining table  “Okay mom” I say back heading to the front door, walking out the front door I see Alan and Abby talking “Is there any more bags?” I say walking to them “No, we didn’t get much” Abby said walking past me “Oh, okay” I follow behind Abby and Alen, I turn to look to the side and see the little girl smiling, and giggling. I just ignored her and kept on walking, after we got inside I saw mom looking through the items “Alan I think this is all you need correct?” Mom said looking at Alan as he was walking to her “Yeah mom this is all, thank you” Alan said “I’ll get straight to it” Alan said, grabbing the items and heading to the backyard as we all followed behind. As soon as I got outside I saw the little girl looking at me with a straight face then disappears “mmm..” I look back at Alan as he puts the items down “let’s get started” he says. 2 hours later the tree house stairs are replaced with new wood, there's a swing added to the tree, and mom thought it would be nice to have a chair in the back so he built that as well “It’s almost dark we should go inside” Mom said as Alan grabs everything that should go inside. Once we were inside mom ordered take-out (chinese food) “yay!” Abby's eyes lit up as soon as she saw the food, we all sat down and took our portion, after we were done eating mom sent us to bed. Once Again I woke up to someone in the kitchen so I went to check and see that it was Alan once again “Alan? What are you doing up so late..?” I say yawning, Alan turns around and his eyes..are green? But his eyes are brown…and his hair is a light brunette? Wait..that’s not Alan..!