There (Haunted)

Chapter twenty

"Wait, wait, HOLD IT!" Harry yells making all of us stare at him. "Who took him?"

"Um." The nurse nervously looks at the piece of paper again. "A John and Mary-Alice Thomas?"

"Give it here!" Harry says and yanks it out of the nurses hand.

He reads it. And mouths the words several times.

"This has got to be a trick, a frickin' frickin' trick!" He whispers still reading the paper over and over again.

I look over his should and in the middle of the page it really does say they're names. But thats impossible, how? Just how?

"What did they look like?" I ask the nurse.

I look at her name tag and see her name is 'Emily'.

"Um, tall, around their early 30's, maybe?" Emily says.

"Did they look quite pale?" Harry asks and finally looks up from the piece of paper and hands it to Emily.

"Yes, very. I was going to ask if they wanted a check up."

"Well don't you won't get anything." Ben says.

She looks extremely confused and we walk off. I look down the hall and I see a tall blonde familiar woman with two twins boys by her side. Layla. The estate agent who sold us the house, the haunted house. And with her its Jacob and Oliver. I didn't realise that was their mother. Well, you learn something new everyday! I look twice then walk over to them who are looking through windows obviously looking for someone.

"Hey Layla. Hey Oliver and Jacob." I say and walk up to them with my hands in my pocket.

"Oh hey, Rebecca. How are you?" She asks me.

"I'm good thanks, you?" I ask.

"We're good. How's your new house, liking it?"

I feels like my body fails completely, I hate lying but i'm going to have to.

"Good. Its really nice!" I lie.

"Have you unpacked?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Who are you here for. Its not Amy is it?"

"Oh no, she didn't want to come. She doesn't really like the person we are visiting. His name is William."

"William Thomas?" I'm a little shocked.

"Yes. Do you know him?"

"Yeah, I do. A lot more than you think. He's gone missing now but when we fine him I say you came." I turn round and she grabs my arm.

"Oh, we can help you. Oops. Sorry!" She says and follows me to Ben and Harry.

When Ben see's her his face drops.

"Layla." He says.

"Hello, grandfather."

Harry and I stare at each other. I didn't expect that.

"where is he then?" She asks.

Obviously William is her brother. A little younger though. She's got to be 30.

"I don't know. They took him." He tells her.

Me and Harry look back and forth between Layla and Ben. What happened between them? And why doesn't Amy like her uncle?

"Those sick sons of b-" she covers her mouth and looks at her sons. "Sorry boys." She grabs their hands and walks past us towards the lift.

"Come on then." She turns round and waits for us. "Where are we going?"

"Floor 2, the canteen." I say and push the button on the lift as we get in.

I get my phone out and as i'm already connected to the internet I go and look on that website. I feel someone breathing on my shoulder and I look up its only Harry. I wait till my phones loaded and re-read the whole thing. I spot all the mistakes. For starters it says the second name is Smith, not Thomas. How would they get that wrong? And they said Mary-Alice died of childbirth when she didn't. I don't even know who she died. But I will find out. Another thing is they said they found Tom's body hanging from a tree when he died 20 years ago from cancer. And the last thing is that it said Ben ran away then they found his dead body. But he is defiantly alive. He may of ran away, i'm going to have to ask him that.

The lift stops, the doors slide open and we all get out. We walk into the large canteen and see a man sitting at a table by himself, William. Harry rushes in front and and kneels down by Williams chair.

"Where are they?" He asks.

"I don't know. You ask me." William replys.

"I just did." Harry rolls his eyes.

To be honest William looks brainwashed and a little dead. By this time we have all catch up and standing around William.

"Hey uncle William!" Jacob says and William lifts him onto his lap.

"Hey bud." William replys.

"You feeling better?" I ask and Harry gets up and walks away from us.

"A little." William stops and watches Harry.

"Harry?" I look back.

He doesn't reply. But carry's on walking to the lift and gets in. He looks back at us and waves a little. I begin to walk towards him but the doors close and he leaves. I look back at the others and they are looking at William who is looking away from them and out of the large windows.

"William?" Layla asks him, and waves her hand in front of his face. He doesn't even blink.

"They're all around me." He says.

"What? William, what are you on about?" She asks him.