chapter one

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M e g a n

"Okay, so Maggie already had dinner and her bath, you just need to make sure she brushes her teeth and you can put her to bed, Jack is upstairs in his crib, just check up on him every once in a while." Mrs. Hood said sweetly. I nodded and smiled as Maggie came over towards me.

"Is there like a bedtime? Or does she just fall asleep?" I ask.

"Oh, her bedtime is 11:30, she can't be awake past that time, at all." Her mom said sternly. I nodded,

"You guys go ahead and have fun, everything is under control." I smiled. They both smiled and nodded, they both gave Maggie a kiss on the forehead and then left.

I closed the door and turned to Maggie, I smiled at her.

"So, Maggs, what so you wanna do?" I ask.

"Let's do a puzzle!" She squealed. I nodded,

"Is there somewhere that you keep them?" I ask.

"Yea, upstairs..in the guest room." She says quietly. I nodded,

"It's in the cabinet under the bed, just don't go in the closet." She warns.

"Why not?" I ask.

"Because..you can't!"

"Okay, okay." I said and walked towards the staircase.

"Are you going to come with me?" I ask and she quickly shakes her head.

"Why not?" I ask.

"Mom doesn't like me going in that room..ever." She mumbled. She seemed very secretive for a ten year old.

"Okay, while I grab the puzzle can you go check on Jack?" I ask and she nods. We both make our way towards the stairs.

At the top we both went different directions. As I walked towards the guest room, it felt weird, it was cold, very cold.

I opened the door, the room was empty. Well, not completely, there was a bed and a cabinet with a bunch of pictures on them.

I walked towards the cabinet and opened it, I pulled out a puzzle and then looked at the picture frame. There was Mr. And Mrs. Hood with a tall and handsome guy, Maggie was being held by him. Maybe it could be her brother? They did look alike..a lot. No..they would've told me, they said only Maggie and Jack. That's it, well they also had an older sister, Mali..but she's married.

"Megan!" I heard Maggie yell.

"Yea?!" I yell back and make way towards the door.

"Jack is awake!" She yells and I walked out of the room. I walked towards Jack's nursery.

I handed Maggie the puzzle and picked up Jack.

"Go downstairs, I'll be down in a minute." I say and she nodded, she made her way downstairs and I looked at Jack.

He had brown hair, brown eyes, just like the boy in the picture. I shrugged, maybe just a family member. After changing Jack I walked downstairs, half way down the stairs I could hear Maggie talking in a hushed voice.

"No." I was confused, maybe she was on the phone?

"Please don't! She didn't do anything." She said, she sounded scared. I finally walked down the stairs.

"Maggie? Who were you talking to?" I ask as I set Jack on the couch.

"Uh, no one!" She says rather quickly. I raise my eyebrow at her.

"Maggie.." She sighed.

"I was talking to Luke.."

"Luke?"

"Luke Hemmings, he's tall, he's blonde, he has black eyes which used to be blue and he's dead." I was taken back for a moment. Maybe just an imaginary friend? No, she's ten.

"W-What?" I ask and she shrugs.

"Don't worry, he doesn't hurt anyone, it's Calum and Ashton who you. Have to worry about."

"Me?" I ask and she nodded.

"They're angry, they don't like strangers in the house."

"But sweetie..I'm your babysitter.."

"They don't like you, Calum doesn't like you at all."

"Why not?"

"He said you hurt him."

"Where is he?"

"Behind you."

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