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Chapter 2

I met Ryan back at our house as he barged in the door. Of course, I only walked home, so I had just arrived at the suite. Ryan had ran, and I could tell by his panting. I threw him a water bottle and went upstairs to get my tablet. Ryan sat down and waited for me.

I went up the spiraling stairs and entered the lime green room; most of my walls were covered in papers, so the colour didn't matter. I shuffled around my nightstand, going through crumpled papers that read @#& and post-it's that had ideas scribbled over them. I finally fiddled around in my drawers to find my iPad, as I ran back downstairs to see Ryan slacking on the couch.

"Why did you run here?" I said chuckling at him, as his breath slowed down. He slid over to let me sit down and replied "you told me to"

"I said meet me here. We're is run in that sentence?" I said laughing, as I put in my password and opened up a app that lets me edit and write on notes or pictures.

"So-what's up" Ryan gently said, as he saw me scribbling on a specific note I wrote about 20 minutes ago. He slid over to me to see the note I was writing on. Many of the lines had scribbled of the symbols, and the other parts of the notes had ideas all over them.

"Do you think it's them?" Ryan said. His eyes were locked onto the paper now as he saw me pull up pictures and notes from..previous events. "Them?" I question. "We know it's something, but we don't know who it is, Ryan. Just classify it as... The Unknown. We actually don't even know if it's a person, or an entity, or just a force."

He laughed at me. "Relax, Luna. It's not gonna kill you."
"We don't know that either." I said, handing him the iPad. He 'nudged' me with his fist and looked at the notes I scribbled down.

Strange forces......repetitive symbols....school situations.....
.....
All of this seems so familiar.
@#&.
Why is this happening?
Who are they hunting down?
.....
They're searching for somebody. Perhaps somebody who's not here yet.
@#&.
They know he/she is coming.
They're looking for her.
Strange forces.....
@#&.......

Ryan looked at the strange notes as I tried to think more about the mystery. All of this seemed very...odd. This force is looking for someone. But who? Is it us?

Ryan knocked me out of my thoughts when he laughed a little bit. "Why are you writing like someone in the 16th century?" He laughed a bit again, but then stopped. "Most of these seem..true. I can't argue with them. The question does linger..why are they here? They have to be here for someone."

"I agree. Maybe it's someone who isn't here yet" I said to him.

"How is that possible? This force needs someone to go after" he took a breath. "We've seen it before"

I agreed and stood up to bring the iPad to the table. I sat back down on the couch and asked Ryan about his last thoughts.

"This force is looking for someone, and we need to find out who or what it is"

"Alright then" I said back to him. "The force is obviously going after something in the school. Tomorrow is Saturday, so we'll sneak in there and figure out what it is!" I said, getting up to go to my room.

"Hey Lu?" Ryan called. I turned my head to the sound of the old nickname, only one that me and Ryan knew.
"What if we're wrong?" He stuttered. "What if the school finds out, but were wrong? We're gonna look like the two biggest idiots in the school."

I walked towards the stairs and put my foot on the first step."Oh come on, Ryan. You- you know we're not wrong, we've..." I stood on the step and thought about it for a while. "We'll be okay" I put my hand on the railing and walked the full length of the spiraling stairs.I heard Ryan sigh and turn on the television.

I poked my head around the stairs, so that it was visible once again. "Ryan?" He turned his head towards me.
"I'll be upstairs, working on this case. If you need me, just yell" I gave him a warm smile as he nodded his head. I went up the stairs and entered the room.

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"Forces...forces..." I scream into the notebook filled with crumbled papers and random notes. "These.. Signs....."

Forces.... Spirits.... Haunting.... It's all so familiar.....

@#&.....

"Why does this seem familiar? This shouldn't be the second time this has happened. Our first case was only a month ago! All of this is stressing me out.." I grumble to myself. I then threw all the papers away and called it a night. I turned the television on. I watched Law and Order, which could help me out in the long run.

"LU???" I heard a faint scream from downstairs and a loud CRACK, a sound you hear when you see glass shatter. I quickly run downstairs to see a shattered television and my brother with a tiny shard of glass stuck in his arm. I stare at him with a shocked face, and then I run over to him and hold his arm up so u can see.

"Ryan are you bleeding?" I yell as I pluck the shard out of his arm; him giving a tiny screech as I continue with the procedure. I rolled up his sleeve to see a big circle of blood, but only a tiny puncture. I gag a little at the sight, but quickly get a wet paper towel in order to clean off the wound. I then got a band-aid and placed it over the puncture.

"I'm okay. It was really small" Ryan explained. "But I think the force went after us this time" he said, rolling his sleeve back down. I walk over to the television to examine the shattered glass. The 63 inch television was shattered into pieces, and there was no way to fix it.

I look at the crack in the glass and I find that these couldn't be human made. Even with the strongest jackhammer, an average human could not make that deep of a crack in the television.

"Ryan" I asked. "What happened"

He then explained that he was just sitting on the couch, watching television when he saw a tiny crack in the screen at the top-left corner. When he got up to examine it, the whole screen shattered into tiny pieces. At the attempt to run away, he got caught by one of the shards; but that's taken care of now.

I take a quick thought at what I should do. I then go upstairs and grab black outfits for me and Ryan.

"Get dressed" I say to him. He questions me and lays the outfit on the couch.

"We're leaving. Now"
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//Wow, a long chapter! I usually try to write as long of chapters as I can, without not uploading in a while. So this was kind of a filler chapter. More of the story is coming soon, I promise!

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