Sherlock Minter vol. 3

Landon

"So, what was it?" I asked Josh as he came down the stairs. He just smiled and shrugged.
"It was nothing there" he said, smiling. But I doubt that he was telling the truth. Sofia always used to point out to me when people lied, telling me to look properly. The most common way to see if someone was lying was the blushing. Then it was the blinking, or if they fiddled with their hands. The last one, that matched Josh right now, was not focusing the eyes on anything. He was looking everywhere at once.
"Alright" I still said, wondering why he lied. What was upstairs? Or maybe it was who...

Josh then sat down and the big chat began, I don't know when Melody disappeared to her room but she did. We just chatted the night away. It was always fun catching up with the guys, especially Simon. He was like a brother to me. If it wasn't for the accident maybe he would be my brother in law even, but sadly he isn't. Oh how much I missed Sofia, I can't believe it had been 5 whole years.

Around midnight Simon stood up.
"I'm just going to go check up on Melody, I must put her to sleep" he explained and then began walking away. I yawned before he left.
"I'm off to sleep" I told the rest of the guys and stood up as well.

Me and Simon walked up the stairs side by side. We heard laughter from Melody's room when we reached the top of the stairs. And it wasn't just the little girl's. It was another laugh too. Both me and Simon stopped dead in our tracks.
"Did you hear that too?" Simon asked me and I nodded slowly staring to the white door just a few feet from where we were standing. Simon nor I moved, we were terrified. The owner of that other laugh, this house must be haunted. It was impossible.
"It can't be" I told him and he agreed by shaking his head.

We stood there for a few minutes, the two laughters didn't stop. Instead it increased into small voices too, they were playing with Melody's pet shops, weren't they?

"Shouldn't you check if your daughter is hanging out with a ghost?" I asked Simon and he nodded, slowly taking a step towards the door. I followed him. Taking a step as well. Simon reached for the handle, his hand shaking as he did so. He was looking really worried. He turned it and slowly opened the door...