LWP 4

Chapter 1

"Come on Toast!" I heard Ghost say from in front of me. Max was right behind me with her hands on my back as we all ran. We couldn't handle what all Ghost thought we could.

"Johnny I know you're faster than this," Max told me. "Why'd you have to wear those new shoes?"

Everything was happening at once. I almost couldn't answer, "Sorry!"

Max was somehow able to sigh and shake her head even as she was turning me down a corner. She was amazing. But then she tripped.

She was pulled off into darkness and I was powerless to help.

"Johnnyyyyy!"

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I woke up in my room. She was lying next to me, cuddled up to my chest. Her wings weren't tight against her back anymore. She was asleep and knew it was safe to. She needed me.

But I needed her too. Now that we've met, I couldn't live without her.

Though after that dream, I didn't know how I felt. I wondered if I'd been better off with my grandmother. For the first time, I wished I knew how it would have been back in England.

There was laughing heard in the living room and I got up to check it out.

Max stirred and turned over but was still asleep. I could have sworn I heard her say something, but passed it off to go investigate the noise.

I knew it wasn't Ghost. And it didn't sound like Jimmy Casket. I tried anyway, "Sir?... Casket?"

Much to my surprise, there was no one there. "What? But I heard..."

Then the eerie laughing turned into words, "You wish to know what would happen? Well let me show you!"