One day

CHAPTER 16

"Hey Danielle!" I opened the door to a beautiful skinny black hair girl wearing a mayday parade shirt and ripped jeans.

"Hey Lil!"

"Come in"

She stepped in and looked around "wow. Beautiful house."

"Haha thank you" I smiled "follow me"

She followed close behind

"Mom this is Danielle. We have a project to work on so she came over."

"Okay" she was texting Rick and didn't even bother to look up. "Dinner will be done in about an hour we are having spaghetti. Now go upstairs"

I turned around and Danielle followed me

"Sorry about her." I said annoyed by my mom.

"It's cool, she seems nicer than my mom." She giggled.

Memories of my dad with the bat ran threw my head as I shook it out.

"Yah" I smiled.

"Nice room!" She said walking in. "I really like the posters. You have a good taste in music."

"Yah you 2." I put in a mayday parade cd and played it kinda low. "Ready to get started?"

"Sure!" She seemed energetic.

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20 min later

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"So Zach's pretty cute. Right? I saw him staring at you in class."

"Yah" I smiled looking down at my paper. "Wait he was really looking at me?"

"Of course! He stared at you like you were an egg and was gonna hatch!" She set her pencil down. "You to would be so cute together."

"No he's too, popular he would never date a girl like me."

"What are you talking about! Like you? Your beautiful Lilly! That's why people bully you."

"Your funny Danielle."

"I'm not lying. Anyway" she said changing the subject. "Have you been in the cellular in the back yard?"

"Wait how do you know about the cellular?" I replied confused.

"Uhm I read it. Silly." She pulled out her iphone and after tapping the screen a few times she showed me the screen. "See read." Her voice was so soft and delicate. Unlike my scratchy voice.

There. My house. I read it and the top said "Doxson house" there was a picture of my house and everything.

"Please don't tell anyone." I looked at her and handed her phone back.

"Relax. Can I see the cellular?"

"Uhm I don't know."

"Please. I've read about your house lots and I'm so interested. I like doing stuff with ghosts. When I'm older I'm making a career out of it. My old best friend lived in a haunted house and got killed from the ghost, they say it was suicide but I know her. She got possessed and sorry I'm rambling."

"Oh. Can I tell you something without you thinking I'm crazy."

"I won't think your crazy I promise."

I told her everything. Liam. Derrick. Tyler. Everything.

"Now I gotta see the cellular."

"Cmon" I got up and went downstairs into the kitchen.

"Where do you think your going?" My mom snapped.

"It's for our science project, we need to see something."

She just waved her hand as if she was saying whatever.

I pulled the big door open and pulled out my flashlight out of my sleeve then handed it to Danielle.

"Go quick I don't want my mom to see." She grabbed the flashlight and hoped down the stairs. I followed behind shutting the door. I pulled out another flashlight. "Careful I broke a step before." Before I could even warn her she was out of sight. "Danielle?"

"Right here." Her soft voice filled my ears.

I carefully went down the steps and walked over to her

"Told you it's creepy down here."

Both of our flashlights started flickering.

"Oh no." I looked at her. "We have to get out. Now."

She didn't question me but we both ran over to the stairs. We both stopped as our hearts dropped at the sight. A black figure with a knife. Vanessa.

"Cmon!" Danielle tugged on me and we ran the other direction. We got behind a big table.

"Okay. When she comes over here run up the stairs."

"She'll close the doors." My voice was shaky.

"Trust me." Danielle sounded brave.

"What did I tell you." Vanessa's voice filled our ears as she was right in front of us. We both quickly ran up the stairs and the door slammed shut. We pushed our back up against the door as Vanessa came up.

"Say goodbye Danielle."

How did she know her name?

Suddenly Vanessa started saying something I didn't understand and Vanessa's knife was all the way across the room. She turned around and kicked the door and bright light flooded the room as we ran out slamming the door behind us.

"She knew your name?" I looked over at Danielle. I had so many questions but that was the first to leave my mouth.

"Yah she must of heard you say it."

"Why did she go after you? How did you know what to do? How where you so brave?" All the questions left my mouth bombarding her as my mom called for dinner.

"One of us had to be brave." She turned towards the house. Saying nothing else. Me and her barely touched our dinner and then went upstairs.

"I'm so sorry Danielle." Was the first thing I said walking into my room as she grabbed her bag. "I understand if next time you don't wanna come-"

She cut me off

"Tomorrow? Let's do this again. And relax. That was nothing."

"Tomorrow. Ok. Want me to walk you home?"

"No it's only a few houses down."

I followed her out of the house and down to the end of our driveway.

"Thanks for coming over."

She just waved and I watched her disappear into the distance. I looked at my house not even wanting to go back I just walked slowly back. Thousands of thoughts and questions went threw my head.