Dancing With Your Ghost

Ch.8

Ch.8

Doing research had always been interesting for Lisa, but it was especially exciting when the information she found started to lead to a breakthrough. She'd thrown herself back into the research on the Order, looking back over old leads, trying to find anything good.

Lisa had come close to screaming after multiple sources led to dead ends, but then, one Sunday night when she was at home, she'd found something. It seemed like nothing at first, just an offhand mention of the Order in a 2009 post, but then Lisa had done some digging and found out something very interesting.

The Order was still very much in operation. No one could say for sure where, or what they were doing, but it was clear that they hadn't disbanded after they'd lost the Light ring. When she looked into the supposed disbanding, she found that in fact, they'd changed leadership. No one knew who the current leader was, but the fact that the Order still existed was definitely promising.

Perhaps Lisa could find them, ask first-hand about the Light, and how it affected people, what it had done to those who had previously had it. It was a long shot, but anything to help Jennie was worth it. She deserved to live her life.
"Lisa!" Rose called up the stairs, just as Lisa clicked onto a post about possible sponsors for the Order. She sighed.

"What?"

"Jisoo broke the television."

"I did not!"

Lisa groaned and stood up, leaving her laptop open. Hopefully this was just a quick little thing, and she could get straight back into her research.

However, when she reached downstairs to find the television smoking, Lisa lost that hope. Jisoo at least looked a little bit sheepish about this.
"What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything! I was just trying to hook up the speakers so that Rose and I could watch that new HBO show."

Jennie chose this moment to poke her head out of the spare room.

"Why does everything smell like smoke?"

"Jisoo," Rose answered. Jisoo rolled her eyes. Lisa stepped forwards to examine the television.

"Alright, stand back. I'm going to see if I can figure it out."

The other three gathered behind Lisa as she examined the state of the television. She wasn't sure what Jisoo had managed to do, but she'd definitely messed up some wires that shouldn't have been.

"We're going to need to get someone in here to look at this," Lisa told them. Rose groaned.

"This is why you should always let me handle technology."

"Why weren't you?" Jennie asked, clearly amused.

"I was making popcorn, and I didn't think Jisoo would be able to break everything." Rose threw up her hands. Jisoo sighed.

"Okay, I apologise. But seriously, I was looking forwards to watching that. I did all of my work, and I cleared my schedule for this." Jisoo didn't often get sad about things, but Lisa could tell that she was about this. Her schedule was always so packed, and Lisa knew she had been looking forward to her time with Rose.

"Can't you just watch it on your tablet?" Jennie asked. Rose shook her head.

"I was using mine for work today, it's all out
of battery."

Lisa sighed. "Alright fine, I'll go grab my tablet. The big one, with all the streaming accounts on it, the one you're always stealing."

Jennie, who was closest to the stairs, started moving first. "I'll grab it."