𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ; 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝

TWO

Frances sat on her bed while reading Sherlock Holmes, she paused when she heard footsteps in front of her door, she shrugged before reading her book again. While she read her book, she heard a clink coming from her kitchen, someone was inside her room. She slowly put her large book down on the white bed and carefully got up, she didn't want to alert the intruder.

She looked over her left shoulder and saw a baseball bat leaning against the wall, it was by her bed In case someone broke in, just like now. She picked it up and walked over to her kitchen, her grip tightened when she saw a curly headed boy "who the hell are you and why are you looking in my refrigerator!" Frances shouted causing the boy to jump in the air, like when you touch a cat when its not looking.

"Jesus!" The boy put his veiny hand on top of his chest, his face turned scared into confusion "wait- how can you see me?" The thick British accent asked "What do you mean? You're right in front of me!" She raised the wooden bat higher in a threatening way "right..." Frances took a step closer, her hands turning more pale as she held on the bat "Leave or I will hit you" She gritted her teeth, the boy just laughed in response "you can't hit me" He had a smile on his face, an annoying on at that. "Why can't I?" The British boy hummed "I'm a ghost!" Frances laughed loudly "You? a ghost? Why don't you prove it then." With the bat still raised in the air, the boy who had curls went thought a wall and turned into a light blue shade "shit he is a ghost" She lowered her bat down, knowing the ghost couldn't do any damage to her, he didn't seem scary.

"Taa daa!" He was while doing jazz hands "impressive." She dropped the bat on the floor, making a loud sound "why are you in my room? Are you some pervert?" 

"pervert?! No! I was just checking my neighbors" He explained why he was in the girls room "Wait- you live here now?" Frances got more confused, why was a ghost living in an small apartment on top of a butcher shop? "Technically" Her eyebrows furrowed "Charles we need to go" Another boy around the same age went inside the door to grab the curly headed one "Who are you?" The one with straight hair looked at the human direction "you can see us?" he asked the same question Charles said previously "Yeah, let me guess you're a ghost too" Frances let out a loud sigh "jeez are there others?"

"Edwin, shes our new neighbor" Charles put his hand on top of Edwin's shoulder, who looked confused "well, since we're introducing ourselves.." She stood in front of the two ghost boys "Hi, I'm Frances." She held her hand out, Charles put his hand in hers, Frances Head threw back and her eyes turned into a white shade

A mother looked down at her newborn baby boy, the white blanket wrapped around his warm body "welcome to the family Charles.." She smiled widely "Charles Rowland has a good ring to it" The man said, most likely the father..

Frances eyes turned back to her regular color "she's like crystal" Charles eyes got wide  "Your name is Charles Rowland, correct?" Edwin looked over at the brunette "How did you know his name?" Frances removed her hand from Charles grip "I can read minds" She told them, it was one of her many talents "that's so cool! We need to introduce her to Crystal!" Edwin shook his head and rolled his blue eyes "no. We do not need anymore problems."  With that, he went thought the white doors "Ignore him, follow me to meet crystal" He gave her a cheery smile, Frances shrugged her shoulder, she had nothing better to do.

Frances opened the door and followed the ghost boy to an empty room, its been empty for a couple of years "so this is the girl you kept yelling to me about" A dark girl with very curly hair turned around at the door, staring at the brunette "she read my mind" Charles put his hand in his hair "my mind! It's so cool!" 

"Hi, I'm Crystal" She introduced herself with her hand out "don't shake her hand, she'll read your mind next." Crystal smiled at Edwin's comment "Unlike you Edwin, I don't mind." Frances put her hands in her pockets, she surely didn't want to add anymore problems "so... you're new here right?" Frances stayed near the door "Yup, just moved here." Crystal responded while she dug through the white refrigerator, looking for something she could snack on.

Frances eyes trailed down to Edwin's hand, he held onto a white piece of paper "what's in your hand?" Frances asked Edwin, he looked down at his hand before hiding it behind his back "none of your concern." Charles rolled his eyes "a missing poster of a girl" Edwin looked at Charles with an annoyed expression "what? She could help us" Edwin scoffed "there's no way i'm letting two alive girls help us- the Dead Boy Detectives." 

Charles secretly got the missing poster from Edwin's grip and gave it to Frances "there ya go, have you seen her?" Frances looked down at the paper, the picture was a little girl with the name of Becky Aspen "I've seen these throughout the streets" She admitted "I've tried to do psychic abilities on this picture but my powers aren't that great" She looked up at Charles, she handed him back the paper "Well our friend Crystal here had some visions, isn't that right?" Crystal flicked the bird at Charles while she took a large bite of a sandwich "that's a yes" 

Frances hummed with a nod "I suppose I should go back to my room" Edwin quickly responded "yes you should, mind your business." He crossed his arms over his coat "Oi! She doesn't have to go anywhere, she can be useful" Edwin got mad at his ghost buddy "We already have Crystal, that's good enough. In fact, Crystal shouldn't even be with us" He snapped with anger "And yet here I am, in the same room with you two annoying boys" Crystal took a step to the side of Edwin "how about this, how long have you had these abilities?" The curly haired girl asked "Ever since I was a young lad" Crystal glanced at Edwin before continuing "Have you ever helped someone before?" 

Frances nodded her head "I solved my brothers murder and others. In fact, I met up with the family of a girl who got burned alive and they were happy they finally got closure. I have a news article about it."  She informed the group in a professional way "That's impressive!" Charles complimented her "And where is this article?" Edwin spoke up "in my bedroom." 

Frances soon walked out of the small room that Crystal owned, she went to her bedroom and took off the article that was taped on her bed "Woah this room is sick" Charles analyzed the whole room and read a few articles "See?" Frances gave Edwin the paper, his eyes read pass the headline "very well." 

"So, she's going to join our team?" Crystal asked the two boys, her hands in her purple coat pocket as she looked at the taped up articles "No. And this is not your team, stop acting like it." With that, Edwin walked away from her room "why is he such a twat?" Frances questioned while she put the article back on the wall "Because he's jealous that two girls are joining the team" Frances looked up at the slightly taller boy "Two girls?" Charles smiled "welcome, I invite you to join, whether he likes it or not."

A/N 

Eh chapter tbh