Nightmares

The Request

I opened the door for her and we both walked in. She cringed at the loud sounds of the men in our  room hard at work. I hung up my bag with my computer and walked to the kitchen. Caleb was sleeping at the kitchen table, his head resting on the table. He was drooling all over the place. I rolled my eyes and shook him awake.

"Huh, What?" He sat up groggily. I walked over to the other side of the kitchen and got a paper towel. Then I walked back over to the kitchen table and helped him onto his feet while wiping up the drool on the table, cause i'm just that awesome.

"What is so important that you had to wake me up?" He asked me. 

"We have a new client" As soon as i said that, his eyes brightened and he straightened up.

"w-what really"?! "you mean to say that we actually have a client and you are not just lying to me so i won't go back to sleep?"

"No, we actually have a client" 

"yes!" He said and knocked his book of the study of psychology off the table. He ran off into the hall screaming "yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!" He was really happy I guess.

I picked up the book and walked into the hall. Caleb was running off to his room presumably to get his coat and bag. I walked over to the women standing in the entry hall of our house. She had stayed there covering her ears. 

"Surely we are not doing our interview in here are we?" She said. It was a brutal conversation after that considering we both had to yell at each other. 

"No of course not" I yelled back.

"Alright" Caleb said as he was running down the stairs.

He had his coat in his hand and his bag, just like i thought he would. He ran to the kitchen and came out with a tub of donuts and a canister of tea and some cups. 

"Where did my book go?" He asked me.

I held it up and put it into his bag. Then we walked out the door and walked accross the street to the park. I had my sachel with my computer and my notepad and Caleb had his notepad, his book, his laptop, and his donuts and tea. We walked to the nearest set of tables and sat down underneath the shade area in the garden of the park far away from the little kid area where all the little kids from the neighborhood would play after school was out.

We pulled out our computers and Caleb set out the donuts and poured the tea into the little teacups he had stored in his bag. Despite all the dust in our house the tea was clean and still hot. I took a powdered doughnut and drank some tea. the woman just sat there looking around her. For a while we all just sat there looking at each other and munching on donuts and sipping our tea. At last I decided that i should do something to break the silence somehow.

Ahem. They all looked at me and i then decided it was too embarrassing and stared off into space looking around. They went back to their own business. I looked down again and stared at my doughnut. I took another sip of tea and cleared my throat. They all looked at me again and I decided to act upon that this time. 

"so miss, uh..." 

"Juniper" 

"Juniper right, Miss juniper has come to us with a new case Caleb"  I told him

"oh Really?" 

"yup, what was your case?"

"so at my house i was walking downstairs to make some breakfast and the cabinet kept opening and closing and it freaked me out so i went upstairs. A little while later i went back down. My kids were down there this time eating cereal. I asked them if they saw anything but they said that they didn't. That confused me so i decided i would do more experiments the next day. I went to the library and my kids had no school that day because it was a Saturday so I was at the library studying for one of my big reports for the news and ji recieved this phone call. It wsa from my kids and i was so confuzed and so i answered it and they said that the dishes were washiong themselbes and i freajed out and told them to get out of the house. They got a taxi and met me in the library and i had them do research on ghosts. I don't have andything super serious but it freaks me out so i came to you to help me."

"well you came to the right place" I said smiling, I leaned against the wall of the park eating my apple and trrying to sound cool. "I am glad our reputation has made its way around London"
"Oh actually, I just came here because you guys were the closest people to our house and we were pressed for time" She said looking at one of the nearby roses.
My elbow slipped and I nearly fell, I caught myself and brushed of my clothes looking around to see if anyone had noticed. I leaned against the wall again and looked at Caleb who was evidently tyring not to laugh. He failed.
I glared at him and quickly cahnged my expression when I saw the woman looking over at us. I smiled and said, "Um, yes I think we will be able to take the case"
"good" she said "When can you guys get there?" She asked us.
"oh, well..." I looked at Caleb. I was not used to being able to set up our own time normally we were told when to be there for the appointment and we noprmally have a few days to get ready and whatnot. "Well I-I am not quite sure actually, Caleb what do you think?" I asked.
"I think late tomorrow will be fine for us, I mean if that works for you?" Caleb said. I raised an eyebrow wondering if that was enough time.
"Yes that works just perfectly" She said smiling. " Then I will see you around 5:00 pm?"
"Yes that is about right" Caleb said
And with that she left the park with us waving at her back.
"So what now?" I said still waving
"Now we get ready" He said